Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[fuentemoon]

Some late fluffy butts

Coast adventure

Found a fist size chunk of agate at this last beach! I will take rock pics later.

 

[Ponypoor]

Bedtime

Glynda had started teaching the littles to roost at night last weekend. Lady Featherington had been roosting on her own with Sydney.

I was worried what might happen tonight as we all know Aurora does not leave others alone at roosting time.

Would Aurora chase them around?

Would they wind up in the Cluckle Hut with Hattie?

Here is how roosting played out tonight.
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Lady Featherington is roosting with them. Looks like she stepped up to help them out.

Awwww so wonderful to see this! What a grand mama.

 

[Ponypoor]

It was not heat related. It was not hot yesterday. The heat had broken overnight.

We all know how good chickens are at hiding things, I bet she was brewing something for a bit. Even Sophia threw me for a loop! She has been so good and bam! One day gasping for breath runny eyes, sniffly, swollen abdomen….. wth?!

Like Glynda totally unexpected.

 

[Sylvester017]

Probably the victim C and acid that helps to clear the mucus with chest infections in human beings, is toxic to animals.
Strangely enough my dog and cat has survived, my cat loves the odd squirt of clementine in his dinner and my dogs been known to mug me for them .
Try taking princesses off her, I double dare you .

Princess probably likes the sweet taste of sugar in oranges. Our little hooligans would love to eat a whole jar of jam if we let them as sugar is very addictive to animals in general. We gave them just a taste of strawberry jam & they went into a frenzy jumping up & crawling on our shoes to get more. Experiment over!

I got curious as to why citrus was not recommended for chickens. I needed a refresher research as couldn't remember why.

From articles & youtube videos it's said the acidic orange interferes w/chicken's pH digestive systems, has high sugar content, plus causes egg shell deficiencies by blocking calcium formation. If chickens don't have the proper foods to eat they will eat whatever is available if hungry including food/plants toxic to them.

Some references I found:

https://www.getstronganimals.com/post/foodsyoushouldn-tfeedyourchickens

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/can-chickens-eat-oranges.1459435/

Some chicken owners know of the dubious affects of oranges but still give their chickens oranges mixed into chicken treats but advise no more than one orange per 10 birds & no more than once a week.

W/ the proposed health risks & most chicken food articles debunking citrus/oranges for chickens we stayed away from it. We have both a lemon & grapefruit tree in the yard & none of our hens have ever pecked at them ~ probably not as sweet-smelling as oranges so we never planted an orange tree. Most animals are naturally turned off to citrus. Even rodents & most insects steer clear of our citrus trees. However the low-hanging split-open pomegranate fruit is a chicken treasure!

 

[Sylvester017]

Glorious! Both the peaches and Piglet

I am already planning for next year. I have the tree marked where I will give it a severe pruning, and I want to put some electric strands around it next spring to keep the vermin away, and also some netting for those evil beetles.

Do peach blossoms need pollinators? Will the netting hinder the bees/butterfly pollenators? Our tomatoes can be fine-netted cuz they are self-pollinating but we have to use wider holes bird-netting to allow pollinators into the squash/cucumber bed. Our bird netting is to keep out the chickens but let in the bees.

 

[Marie2020]

Princess probably likes the sweet taste of sugar in oranges. Our little hooligans would love to eat a whole jar of jam if we let them as sugar is very addictive to animals in general. We gave them just a taste of strawberry jam & they went into a frenzy jumping up & crawling on our shoes to get more. Experiment over!

I got curious as to why citrus was not recommended for chickens. I needed a refresher research as couldn't remember why.

From articles & youtube videos it's said the acidic orange interferes w/chicken's pH digestive systems, has high sugar content, plus causes egg shell deficiencies by blocking calcium formation. If chickens don't have the proper foods to eat they will eat whatever is available if hungry including food/plants toxic to them.

Some references I found:

https://www.getstronganimals.com/post/foodsyoushouldn-tfeedyourchickens

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/can-chickens-eat-oranges.1459435/

Some chicken owners know of the dubious affects of oranges but still give their chickens oranges mixed into chicken treats but advise no more than one orange per 10 birds & no more than once a week.

I'd lay bets that very small amounts would have bennifits, especially with cinnamon added on their food when bird flu and breathing problems is a threat.

My birds loved cinnamon. I'd throw it around to keep ants away from my walls but my little peckers would eat it and the cayenne pepper

W/ the proposed health risks & most chicken food articles debunking citrus/oranges for chickens we stayed away from it. We have both a lemon & grapefruit tree in the yard & none of our hens have ever pecked at them ~ probably not as sweet-smelling as oranges so we never planted an orange tree. Most animals are naturally turned off to citrus. Even rodents & most insects steer clear of our citrus trees. However the low-hanging split-open pomegranate fruit is a chicken treasure!

Since I have had chickens I've learned so much about what foods our animals can actually have and us for that matter
The lack of it has probably resulted in shortening their life span.

 

[BDutch]

Probably the victim C and acid that helps to clear the mucus with chest infections in human beings, is toxic to animals.
Strangely enough my dog and cat has survived, my cat loves the odd squirt of clementine in his dinner and my dogs been known to mug me for them .
Try taking princesses off her, I double dare you .

Chickens, if given enough divers food know best what they can eat.
There is a lot of nonsense on the internet about food that is/is not poisonous for chickens.

I tend to believe only the citrus peels are poisonous, because my chickens eat the soft, inner part of oranges and such. The peels are not eaten.

FYI: I have one 10 years old without any health issues ever.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

I know that it's a Saturday, but I couldn't wait, so here's an extremely early Twofer Tuesday.

"It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you.
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
I bless the rains down in Africa."

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Caturday Saturday
You might have to turn your brightness up because my camera doesn't have auto brightness. If you can't see, I'll try to explain to the best of my ability.
Two cats, gray and gray tiger striped. Gray tiger striped has paw on gray.

The gray and gray tiger striped again.

The larger older cat wants to go in.

Here's the same photo with better lighting.

More soon. I'm not done yet.

 

[Ponypoor]

Do peach blossoms need pollinators? Will the netting hinder the bees/butterfly pollenators? Our tomatoes can be fine-netted cuz they are self-pollinating but we have to use wider holes bird-netting to allow pollinators into the squash/cucumber bed. Our bird netting is to keep out the chickens but let in the bees.

Peaches are self pollinators, my plums are also self pollinating but they will produce more if you have a cross pollinator.

Apples pears cherries need to be pollinated - there are specific breeds for cherries to pollinate.
( https://treefruit.wsu.edu/web-article/sweet-cherry-pollination/ )

I never had a pollinator for my cherries until this year - my neighbour planted a bunch of cherrie trees and taadaa! Cherries!

The birds and squirrels loved them!

The chickens enjoyed most of them, the heavy rains kept knocking them off the trees - I am glad one of us enjoyed them!

Today I will grab the Asian Pears and see how they are. I have high expectations!