Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[SimpleJenn]

The chick-nick table is here!

Girls patiently waiting

They love it!

Fat Ash on the table

Barest ever hint of wattles on the one I'm tentatively calling "Bab Ross"

Beautiful bars


"Are you done?"

Took a while but I caught the sebright!

"You fool!"

Look at how perky it is!

This brooder is nearly impossible to get into currently. When I remove the brooder plate and cardboard in a couple weeks it'll be easier to catch chickys. I had one of the butterbirds out with me while cleaning and filling the water jug and she did well.

 

[RoyalChick]

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The chick-nick table is here!
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Girls patiently waiting
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They love it!
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Fat Ash on the table
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Barest ever hint of wattles on the one I'm tentatively calling "Barb Ross"
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Beautiful bars
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"Are you done?"
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Took a while but I caught the sebright!
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"You fool!"
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Look at how perky it is!
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This brooder is nearly impossible to get into currently. When I remove the brooder plate and cardboard in a couple weeks it'll be easier to catch chickys. I had one of the butterbirds out with me while cleaning and filling the water jug and she did well.

Adorable and I love the chick-nic table. It looks big enough for sharing.

 

[Ponypoor]

Need to treasure those chick days.

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Gosh what a pretty chickie

Betty!

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I forgot how beautiful she was

Whisper the word Capon to him.......

Hahaha if only we could ‘geld’ the little brats! Truth be told he is actually a good boy - and he still likes to snuggle

Vaccinated chickens only pass on Marek’s if they are exposed to the disease. They don’t get symptoms but can be contagious. If they don’t contract Marek’s they aren’t a risk to other chickens.

Good to know! I am always so paranoid with these kiddos, they are just so small and fragile. Not like the horses (who also are stressful!) but at least I don’t have to worry about dropping them on their head! Or something…..

I don't know about Canadian laws but private reputable breeders and USA hatcheries here can vaccinate for Marek's ~ with my local breeder it is standard. And spread of vaccine infections don't happen with safety measures and separation/quarantine of vaccinated chicks ~ vaccinated 1-day old chicks are shipped from USA hatcheries when a customer requests vaccinated chicks.

Authorities would be down all over breeders or hatcheries if they weren't certified here. And as always good breeders and hatcheries recommend separation/quarantine at least for 1 month for illness observation before integrating new chicks/birds into existing flocks. We personally keep our new birds separated at least 2-3 months before mingling.

With a limit of 5 hens/no roos we have the luxury of being extra solicitous "helicopter" chicken parents in watching quarantined new birds. Years ago on my folks farm (1940's) there wasn't the proximity of farm flocks to spread infection but in this crowded world of chicken owners and industrial poultry businesses with billions of chickens worldwide it's a whole different environment for disease spread today and I'm personally grateful for vaccinations.

A more spreadable chicken vaccination IMO is the live fowl pox virus under-wing scratch. Reminds me of the 1950's live polio scratch vaccines they gave us school kids. It wasn't till decades later a dead polio virus developed. Ah! We older generation kids were the guinea pigs of govt-mandated experiments!

Tx ~ CROOKED WATTLES WEDNESDAY

Uneven as a juvenile and still uneven now
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yea I remember that small pix vaccine as a kid - and still have the mark on my arm. I get asked about it from medical personnel sometimes. The younger set don’t know what it is!!!!! Thank god!

My grandfather had polio, my good friend had polio, he has long term respiratory issues from it; as a nurse I cared for people who had polio as kids (oh I am not old enough to have to worry about it I just cared for the elderly who had it as a child), I doubt nurses this day and age would see a patient who had polio as a child, most would be passed on now. Diphtheria - rarely see it these days thanks goodness. And many other diseases, next to antibiotics, vaccines are the next greatest discovery for childhood diseases.

I get my horses done every year for rabies, tetanus (very prevalent with horses), west Nile, Potomac fever, equine encephalitis, and equine influenza. Cheaper than spending 1000’s if they get sick - or die.

Poultry hatcheries here are govt regulated, but there are not that many of them. We just don’t have to same population to support the hatchery industry like you do in the US. The main birds sold at commercial hatcheries are meat and layers; there are no large hatcheries where one can get the variety of more exotic breeds.

Which is why I am thrilled Peavy brings them up from Hoovers

 

[Ponypoor]

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The chick-nick table is here!
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Girls patiently waiting
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They love it!
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Fat Ash on the table
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Barest ever hint of wattles on the one I'm tentatively calling "Barb Ross"
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Beautiful bars
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"Are you done?"
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Took a while but I caught the sebright!
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"You fool!"
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Look at how perky it is!
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This brooder is nearly impossible to get into currently. When I remove the brooder plate and cardboard in a couple weeks it'll be easier to catch chickys. I had one of the butterbirds out with me while cleaning and filling the water jug and she did well.

Gosh they are lovely and that sebright is a darling! I hope it’s a pullet

 

[Sally PB]

I set up the broody breaker crate for Miss Widget. Again. Third time this year.

 

[Ponypoor]

I am home! All chickens are accounted for and laid their eggs in the nest boxes as a treat for me!
One of my steps seems to have been destroyed by dust bathing, and my little chicken paths are definitely overgrown!
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Welcome home! I bet they missed you! When I came home from my last time out west they birds went wild following me around - I think they figured if they kept me in their sight I couldn’t escape again haha!

Chickens are very smart don’t you know

 

[Ponypoor]

Everyone seems to have grown accustomed to the hippy curtains and happily barge through or under it.
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And I just discovered the flight I missed actually left late. Because the pilot was stuck in the same mess I was stuck in, so in the end I landed only 30mins later than if I had taken the flight they wouldn’t let me on.

Too funny! But regulations must be followed no matter how ridiculous!

‘hippy curtain’ - I was going to ask if you had bamboo growing, did you buy that here or there? I bet it’s a good sun break and wind screen.

 

[Ponypoor]

I set up the broody breaker crate for Miss Widget. Again. Third time this year.

She’s determined! I gave mine orders - no more broody old bats!

 

[Sally PB]

As I was setting up the crate, she was in the nest box behind me. I said, "Widget, you know what this is, right? This is for you, Broody Butt!"

 

[Ponypoor]

Well one cat is very happy to see me and is head butting me very hard at every opportunity and one cat hasn’t even come to say hello yet!
The chickens were all happy to be let out and definitely crowded around my legs for treats.
I am of course the one that is pleased to see all of them!

Gosh so good to have you back in NA safe and sound you sound very happy to be home with your brood.