Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I take that back, he just bit my beak!

 

[Ponypoor]

I take that back, he just bit my beak!

I was just gonna say ‘looks like he is thinking that looks tasty’ while looking at your face!

 

[featherhead007]

I take that back, he just bit my beak!

He says “yeah I am a loving rooster, but only on my terms!”

 

[featherhead007]

Notice that I am wearing my safety glasses when handling my chooks. They love to get very close to my face

 

[Ponypoor]

Notice that I am wearing my safety glasses when handling my chooks. They love to get very close to my face

Yep I am ultra cautious with handling them now. I don’t let them near my face at all now.

 

[featherhead007]

I finally figured out who was in total control of the tribe.
It’s not the roosters but the “Godfeather” CeeCee. She’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse! Or she will attack mercilessly! There’s Rudy the roo being attacked by Aero, but then Aero attacked by CeeCee
Remember that rabbit in Monty Pythons Holy Grail:

 

[Ducking_dallas]

Those of us who have had chickens a long time are accustomed to dealing w/poop if we want chickens to visit us indoors.

We limit our birds to the kitchen (ceramic tile floor) where poop is easy to pick up w/ a paper napkin. Chickens poop every 15-20 minutes so their visits are short! But at least they feel special getting to visit.

Years ago one new Silkie pullet we bought was too little to integrate w/ the flock immediately so we kept her inhouse for a few weeks. I made her a couple chicken diapers but we had to change them out if there was a smelly cecal poop & washed her fluffy tush w/ no tears baby shampoo & blow-dried her tush before putting on a new diaper. It's easy using diapers on smaller birds but messier w/ fluffy Silkies or bigger birds. Just depends on whether someone is around all day to monitor the diaper condition to change when necessary. A plastic poop catcher in the diaper keeps it easier to change out.

It takes some time for a chicken to walk in a diaper. We had a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana who refused to eat or drink or walk in her diaper so we had to stop using it.

MINI & her little red hen diaper - hard to see w/all that fluff.
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MINI the Silkie escaped out the kitchen door & went running in her diaper towards the lawn!
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I’m having the same problem with my silkies where it just gets stuck to their butt so easy and I have to leave for an eight hour school day. Do you think a larger pouch would help?

 

[featherhead007]

I’m having the same problem with my silkies where it just gets stuck to their butt so easy and I have to leave for an eight hour school day. Do you think a larger pouch would help?

Trim and bikini wax would help maybe

 

[featherhead007]

I finally figured out who was in total control of the tribe.
It’s not the roosters but the “Godfeather” CeeCee. She’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse! Or she will attack mercilessly! There’s Rudy the roo being attacked by Aero, but then Aero attacked by CeeCee
Remember that rabbit in Monty Pythons Holy Grail:View attachment 3968729

I had no idea that she had mafia connections in the family. She gets extra meally worms from now on. I should have figured that CeeCee was from Assisi Italian family heritage. You don’t want to mess with those Sicilian people or their chickens, they never forget!(I happen to be from a Sicilian family myself.) FYI
It’s no wonder she squawks with an accent.

 

[rural mouse]

Well that sounds interesting. She is a cross between a BCM and a black Ameraucana. At least I think so.

So the copper is coming through. Could be interesting to see if she ends up with a copper head and black beard or copper beard and mostly black head or some sort of mix between