Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Hey fuentemoon, stop reading for a minute and have a nice cup of Coco with me!
This is Coco:

 

[notabitail]

Those little sparrows outside found out the chicken waterer makes a great bathtub. Too bad they're too fast for me to get a video of.

 

[featherhead007]

Hey fuentemoon, stop reading for a minute and have a nice cup of Coco with me!
This is Coco:View attachment 3925662

I don’t share my cup of Coco with just anybody!
Never mind. I’m taking her back. I won’t share my Coco with anyone!!

 

[fuentemoon]

These girls have such pretty feathers ❤

working up the courage to follow mom inside to raid the cat food.

 

[fuentemoon]

A few more from yesterday
Rosie and Lumi eating sprouted wheat, Brenna hiding in the back.

Lumi

Cassia wondering if i have more seeds for her.

 

[Sylvester017]

@CCsGarden ~ you probably already have done it but you simply MUST enter your photos for the BYC calendar contest -- especially BRAHMS POW photo as one of them! Up to 4 photo entries allowed (landscape only).

 

[CCsGarden]

@CCsGarden ~ you probably already have done it but you simply MUST enter your photos for the BYC calendar contest -- especially BRAHMS POW photo as one of them! Up to 4 photo entries allowed (landscape only).

Yes! I will! I might not enter my Brahma since I have 4 I like better but can post them all here and see which ones you all like and go from there

 

[Sylvester017]

I soaked his legs in warm water and opened the skin a bit with a pointy tweezer. It turns out there was a tiny feather completely curled up underneath the layer of skin, and underneath the feather, some pus. I pulled it all out. Good thing he is so tiny because he struggled like crazy ! I'm not sure if he felt humiliated or if it hurt- probably a bit of both. I could manage him because he is only 1kg. If it was Kara or Gaston my heavier chickens I couldn't have done that on my own.

I don't have betaine scrub, just plain betadine. Would it be worth it to get some ? My mum and I were just discussing this the other day, she found it strange that they cleaned her up prior to surgery with betadine scrub and put some betadine afterwards, and that they ask her to do the same at home on her scar. Isn't betadine scrub just soap to which iodine is added ?

Big and sweetie.
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That made me think about it, but no, his feathers are actually too thin and small, I think that is why they don't manage to pierce the skin. Like girls who wax their leg hair off and it grows back too thin to come through the skin. If he didn't hate me so much maybe it would help to soak him more often during his molt, but as it is, it's such a stress for him that I'll just check him regularly and do it only if it happens again.
He isn't a sweetie unfortunately. He can be a real little brat. But he has some good in him too...sometimes..I like him a lot otherwise he would have certainly become one of our neighbour's dinner !
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So glad Theo's leg issue could be fixed! Don"t you just love ALL chickens? even the obnoxious ones? It killed me to rehome our 7.5-lb Breda hen who bullied our 2-lb Silkie. I only felt better knowing she went to a caring rescue friend.

This is CHAR feeling at home in our friend's place. Char was ok w/people ~ she just bullied our bantam Silkie too much & the Silkie was way too little to defend herself.

 

[Sylvester017]

Yes! I will! I might not enter my Brahma since I have 4 I like better but can post them all here and see which ones you all like and go from there

We can offer opinions but ultimately it has to fit contest rules. A pretty picture may not have other required specifications but that never stopped me from entering teehee!

 

[Sylvester017]

@rural mouse ~ you should look up the BYC Calendar contest too. & any of you others w/good cameras that fit the photo contest parameters!