Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Here’s the first dozen of eggs, which the new hens have laid! I feel proud of them. View attachment 3959442

Tooty and Aero laid them. No eggs from the EE’s yet

 

[featherhead007]

My church has also been working with Samaritan’s Purse to get help for the damage caused by the hurricane. I spoke to the congregation today about how lucky we were not to have such a devastating tragedy. We should give, as we can afford.

In my opinion, Franklin Graham has done a wonderful job with this organization.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Hi all! Everybody here is overall well, three one-year-old Buff Orps Tedi, Annie, Diane Ida-Biter, and two four-year-old Buckeyes Hazel and Popcorn.

Hazel is okay, but seems to want to rest more often than anyone else, a few times every day more than the others. She is molting right now and is extra cautious, maybe she doesn't feel great. But she's eating well, eats the feed (20% protein layer). Though today I saw her eat a fluff feather, so I gave her a salt-free sardine in water and she ate most of it. So at least this isn't a starvation molt if that's all that's going on.

All Popcorn wants to do is forage for worms and frogs and go sit in the nestbox without laying every day. She’s on a slow molt. Her keel shows her to be fit, while usually she is "over-conditioned", as they say, in other words nice and fat is normal for her. I'm having worried thoughts, as how she's behaving is different for her. Could she be semi-broody? Is she laying internally, has something growing or pressing in there that makes her feel as if she needs to lay? She had been laying infrequently, but now she wants to get out of the run and forage like crazy, or at times she's very intent on getting in the nestbox and gathering eggs under her, making a cooing bok-bok sound. But she doesn't lay anything. Sometimes she even lets out a blood curdling scream, a high pitch that comes down, which she used to do when her egg passed, but then she emerges and there's no egg from her. Her belly feels normal, nothing hard in there and no swelling that I can tell.

Here are the Spuds. Having been very interested in the Summer Olympics, they are now performing Synchronized Sunbathing.

Big Boy doing a sunbath of sorts also, took this on Saturday

 

[Ponypoor]

Here’s the first dozen of eggs, which the new hens have laid! I feel proud of them. View attachment 3959442

Beautiful! Nice colour there.

I wonder what colour your CeeCee will lay? Green maybe?

 

[Ponypoor]

Hi all! Everybody here is overall well, three one-year-old Buff Orps Tedi, Annie, Diane Ida-Biter, and two four-year-old Buckeyes Hazel and Popcorn.

Hazel is okay, but seems to want to rest more often than anyone else, a few times every day more than the others. She is molting right now and is extra cautious, maybe she doesn't feel great. But she's eating well, eats the feed (20% protein layer). Though today I saw her eat a fluff feather, so I gave her a salt-free sardine in water and she ate most of it. So at least this isn't a starvation molt if that's all that's going on.

All Popcorn wants to do is forage for worms and frogs and go sit in the nestbox without laying every day. She’s on a slow molt. Her keel shows her to be fit, while usually she is "over-conditioned", as they say, in other words nice and fat is normal for her. I'm having worried thoughts, as how she's behaving is different for her. Could she be semi-broody? Is she laying internally, has something growing or pressing in there that makes her feel as if she needs to lay? She had been laying infrequently, but now she wants to get out of the run and forage like crazy, or at times she's very intent on getting in the nestbox and gathering eggs under her, making a cooing bok-bok sound. But she doesn't lay anything. Sometimes she even lets out a blood curdling scream, a high pitch that comes down, which she used to do when her egg passed, but then she emerges and there's no egg from her. Her belly feels normal, nothing hard in there and no swelling that I can tell.

Here are the Spuds. Having been very interested in the Summer Olympics, they are now performing Synchronized Sunbathing.
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Big Boy doing a sunbath of sorts also, took this on Saturday
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The laugh is for your swimmers - I give them a 9.6 good for gold!

Popcorn could be thinking about being broody. I had a bunch this year, full on broody and a couple that would go around bok bok bok sit in the box never lay an egg, and beat the crap out of anyone who looked at them.

Their hormones were likely acting up. I still have two silkies broody.

Now everyone wants to moult, of course why not! Winter is on the way.

Well I guess not really much you can do with Popcorn other than keep an eye on her.

 

[featherhead007]

Beautiful! Nice colour there.

I wonder what colour your CeeCee will lay? Green maybe?

I have never seen their parents.

 

[Ponypoor]

I may have to go up the mountain to check on my property. I haven’t heard from the association since last June. I need to check on snow damage, or theft of my property.
(I usually rent a car for this purpose) the road to the property is way up high and sometimes blocked by landslides. I could fly over, but the wind is not healthy for a single engine aircraft.
Off road topic tax: View attachment 3959410

Drive safe, watch the weather.

 

[featherhead007]

Drive safe, watch the weather.

Tomorrow morning maybe. . But I’m not taking my new car up that road!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m holding my rooster Rudy, and I can’t figure out how he keeps his head up with such a large comb?

 

[featherhead007]

I need to clean up that room. Sorry about the mess