Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValerieJ]

I'm not

Happy all her hens are laying.

 

[Ponypoor]

It's hard when we sacrifice for others but it is the best thing we can do. You have my respect for making such a hard decision. And here are some hugs to warm your heart.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thing is, you are allowed mistakes. You are a Brit. Since WW2 all British people have free access. Your men worked hard and so many died, to save this world and we US will never forget that sacrifice!

You are a wonderful person to remember. It’s what Remembrance Day is all about.

 

[Ponypoor]

Money, mostly. We'll end up getting whatever they have at the Family Farm & Home or TSC because that's cheap and all we can afford.

I would love to get some dark Brahma but way too eggspensive to get them from the hatchery here in eastern Ontario. It’s over 4 hr drive each way, and you have get a min of 5 of them at something like $10/ chick. That’s a lot of money in fuel and chicks.

This why I was eggcited when Peavey ordered chicks up from Hoovers. I am thrilled I was able to get some Orps, esp Laverne

Won’t be getting any more any time soon.

 

[Ponypoor]

Laverne bandage is still doing good, she hasn’t managed to tear it off!

She hardly has a limp at all, and the bandage doesn’t seem to be bothering her.

 

[featherhead007]

You are a wonderful person to remember. It’s what Remembrance Day is all about.

I haven’t forgotten the valor of the Canadian military. It’s all in the books. Kids, stop playing games on your phones and read a book or two, before some tyrannical government takes those freedoms away! I’m at the airport now so I’ll be back in a bit

 

[Sylvester017]

Did it work? Did he grow back his feathers? Or did he continue with the plucking?

PeeWee the rescue Cockatiel came to us about 30 yrs ago w/chest bald & some belly & body feathers gone. His senior owner passed & the granddaughter took possession of PeeWee in his cage & kept him in her enclosed laundry room w/no windows, lights off, plus she kept a cover over the cage 24/7 & lifted it only a few seconds to sprinkle seed into his feeder & add water to his waterer. How the poor little guy survived for weeks in the dark is remarkable.

My DD saw his pathetic existence & pleaded w/me to adopt him (cuz we raised Cockatiels before) if she could convince the granddaughter to give him up. The granddaughter was happy to get PeeWee out of her laundry room so he came to us in a bald mess. His senior owners never kept him caged & he was accustomed to a lot of interaction w/his senior owners. PeeWee went on car rides w/them, motorhome camping sitting on the back of front seats, went into showers w/humans, & he spoke some words.

Once we got PeeWee we let him come out of his cage & he was so happy chirping & exploring but he was still picking his feathers. We made a cone for him & kept it on him till he grew out new feathers ~ several weeks he wore that cone like a champ. He learned to share our bigger cage w/our 2 English Budgerigars & they would grab his cone & drag him around but he would break loose from them when he wanted. After we removed the cone w/ his new feathers all grown in he never picked again. We expanded his & the budgies diet to fresh fruit & veggies. We took him on car rides ~ he would wolf whistle at pedestrians in the crosswalks, not anything we taught him so must've been learned from his previous owners.

We taught him the Andy Griffith Show whistle tune, & he loved the Sit N Sleep Mattress commercials! We were his 4th owners but we think we did right w/him. His senior owners were smokers so he came to us wheezing. After a clean air home w/us he gradually lost the wheezing. The vet said he was small for a Cockatiel but otherwise healthy. He lived to 23-1/2 before his little heart stopped. We never got a picture of our PeeWee w/his dog cone.

New type of bird cones on Amazon

Here's a parrot cone on Amazon but bird cones were not a thing we could find 30 yrs ago & I made one out of milk gallon plastic shaped like this parrot cone which should work for chickens just as well if it's an adjustable closure!

 

[featherhead007]

Arizona and Dakota were thrown over the fence by a group of kids. They wanted to see if my girls would kill them. That was almost three years ago. Arizona was poisoned, but Dakota is still with us, and a respected member of the tribe. She’s quite a character

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm thinking about breeds I'd love to have but likely won't get...

Swedish Flowers
Crested Cream Legbars
Jubilee Orp roo


We'll probably end up with more Wyandottes (I love Wyandottes), but I'll also look for Chanteclers.

Chanteclers are at Cackle Hatchery Missouri but not till April.

 

[Sylvester017]

Update on princess from deans farm but no new pictures.

She's doing really well and very happy with all of her friends
This girl has years in her yet. I definitely did the right thing for her.
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She is so pretty in that almost Wheaten color & w/a jaunty comb