Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I love Silkie pics Especially the juveniles which I think are at their cutest with facial/crest fuzziness ~ before they discover how to trim each other's eyebrows. We have used rounded end scissors before to trim Silkie faces till we saw them stick their heads into another Silkie's beak to trim each other. Boy, that saves us a lot of stress & time when they do their own trims! Violet taught them well...
2013 VIOLET
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MINI & VIOLET would trim each other
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Yes they are cute little munchkins.

The ones I have right now are super friendly, likely because Georgie is very friendly. Wee snuggle bums.

 

[Sally PB]

@TOMTE, this is what I did when I had to wash a not-used-to-being-handled hen.

I took her off the roost at night and washed her in the sink. I kept the lights low, and used the red light on my headlamp to help me see what I was doing. I also draped a washcloth over her head. When chickens can't see, they don't move around much.

I used a short pair of scissors for the trimming. Your hand is closer in there, and you have more control of the scissors. I did blow dry her, as it was around 50 degrees outside. Then I took her back to the coop and put her back on the roost.

I used a tupperware style container with a lid for the transport. I wanted her totally enclosed for the trip. I wasn't worried about her suffocating, as it was less than a minute each way.

 

[Ponypoor]

What is Nellie again?

I have a pullet that looks like her: Coloring of a brown leghorn/welsummer, body build of a leghorn, large white earlobes, large single comb (not floppy), and I think she is laying white eggs, but haven't caught her yet and I have 14 just coming into lay...so hers could be white or pale brown. That group was a special 'colorful egg layers' (the colorful was clearly stated it would be the flock that is colorful, no guarantees of what the eggs would look like)

I'm thinking she is a leggy, but not sure. I think I got 3 different leghorns in that group - her, a white one, and an exchequer. (My husband calls the one I think is exchequer 'Indian Chicken', he thinks she looks like the paint ponies in all the old Indian movies!). I think one is also a Speckled Sussex ( i don't think they are heavy enough for Jubilee Orpingtons - but I really have to spend some time looking up the differences) And I now have 4 Wyandottes (I think!) 3 silver laced and one gold laced!! A few are still a mystery (I thought 2 might be white rocks, but I don't think so anymore - they don't have the 'rock' build. I was weak last August when I was recuperating from surgery, and there was a sale on them...they hatched the Tuesday after labor day...

Don’t say weakness - tell everyone you were hijacked by little velociraptors!

 

[Sylvester017]

Wattle and Way-back Wednesday

Mr P - March 2023
His glory days, when he had ‘hair’

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Gorgeous For several of Mr P's photos I've noticed how long & flowing his tail feathers are. Polish do have long feathers but Mr P's resembles the exotic Sumatra or Phoenix style of longer flowing tail feathers. His "hair" also seems thicker, full-bodied compared to the very wild sparser crests of most Polish roos. Before his harem plucked his feathers would you say you notice a more fuller thicker exotic appearance in his feathering? He is so handsome

 

[Ponypoor]

Gorgeous For several of Mr P's photos I've noticed how long & flowing his tail feathers are. Polish do have long feathers but Mr P's resembles the exotic Sumatra or Phoenix style of longer flowing tail feathers. His "hair" also seems thicker, full-bodied compared to the very wild sparser crests of most Polish roos. Before his harem plucked his feathers would you say you notice a more fuller thicker exotic appearance in his feathering? He is so handsome

July 2023

Before he moulted and became the subject to the young ladies desire for blood feathers.

I did trim his feathers in the front so he could see.

The only good thing about his not having feathers now is he can see!

When he moulted in that Autumn he became the subject of their desire. It’s been a full on battle for a year and a half now, trying to get his feathers to grow back.

 

[SimpleJenn]

We lost a chick. Hubby convinced me to go to the store (I masked up) and while we were gone the waterer tipped. I'm not blaming him, just saying we weren't home when it happened.
One of the little penguin chicks got wet and cold, and passed in the cup carrier thing. I thought it broke it's neck at first but I guess that's just the position it went down in.

I cleaned the brooder, put the waterer where each leg was settled on the canvas, no bedding underneath. Hopefully it doesn't tip again.
I want to cry but my throat hurts so bad right now it would be too painful.

Rest in peace lil penguin...

 

[ValerieJ]

We lost a chick. Hubby convinced me to go to the store (I masked up) and while we were gone the waterer tipped. One of the little penguin chicks got wet and cold, and passed in the cup carrier thing. I thought it broke it's neck at first but I guess that's just the position it went down in.

I cleaned the brooder, put the waterer where each leg was settled on the canvas, no bedding underneath. Hopefully it doesn't tip again.
I want to cry but my throat hurts so bad right now it would be too painful.

Rest in peace lil penguin...

I'm so sorry!!!

I've been a little concerned for the watering dish I'm using with these chicks. Just a very small ramekin atm. We didn't realize we didn't have a proper water dish for chicks. After 9 years, where could they have gone??? Anyway, I put rocks in the dish, so I know it can't tip, and I don't think they can fall in deep enough to get wet. I did change out the feed dish from a ramekin to a regular chick feeder because they were standing in it. They only have to make it in here for a day or two and then they'll be in a much better brooder in the coop. Sigh...not used to chicks in one of the bathrooms. Have to keep them in there with the door closed so there are no mishaps with the cat.

 

[notabitail]

We lost a chick. Hubby convinced me to go to the store (I masked up) and while we were gone the waterer tipped. I'm not blaming him, just saying we weren't home when it happened.
One of the little penguin chicks got wet and cold, and passed in the cup carrier thing. I thought it broke it's neck at first but I guess that's just the position it went down in.

I cleaned the brooder, put the waterer where each leg was settled on the canvas, no bedding underneath. Hopefully it doesn't tip again.
I want to cry but my throat hurts so bad right now it would be too painful.

Rest in peace lil penguin...

 

[rural mouse]

What is Nellie again?

I have a pullet that looks like her: Coloring of a brown leghorn/welsummer, body build of a leghorn, large white earlobes, large single comb (not floppy), and I think she is laying white eggs, but haven't caught her yet and I have 14 just coming into lay...so hers could be white or pale brown. That group was a special 'colorful egg layers' (the colorful was clearly stated it would be the flock that is colorful, no guarantees of what the eggs would look like)

I'm thinking she is a leggy, but not sure. I think I got 3 different leghorns in that group - her, a white one, and an exchequer. (My husband calls the one I think is exchequer 'Indian Chicken', he thinks she looks like the paint ponies in all the old Indian movies!). I think one is also a Speckled Sussex ( i don't think they are heavy enough for Jubilee Orpingtons - but I really have to spend some time looking up the differences) And I now have 4 Wyandottes (I think!) 3 silver laced and one gold laced!! A few are still a mystery (I thought 2 might be white rocks, but I don't think so anymore - they don't have the 'rock' build. I was weak last August when I was recuperating from surgery, and there was a sale on them...they hatched the Tuesday after labor day...

Nellie is a brown leghorn. White eggs, screams for an hour when someone is occupying her desired nest box and can't be thrown out. Throws everyone else entirely out of the coop so she can lay an egg.....total drama queen.


Pics!!! We love pics! (I love the what breed is this game too)

Wyandottes and orpingtons come in white too. Rocks and wyandottes have yellow legs, orps white...

 

[Sylvester017]

Put a locker shelf in so they can perch. Was worried it would be too narrow for Yeti but she managed.
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Whatchya feedin' 'em? They're growin' fast like weeds