Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

The sun looks very alien today
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I can hear the rooster I gave to my neighbor crowing, his brothers here are returning his calls.

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Periwinkle is very impressed with all of these beards and muffs! "I have a lot of growing to do!"

Periwinkle is already a beauty... how much more could she do any better!?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

New arrivals! 5 Buckeyes. More than I ordered (3) but that's fine, was secretly hoping for extras. All are appearing healthy. One has a strange spot over her eye (see picture). Mostly okay with being held in my hand, these guys are pretty chill relatively, and took drops of warm water from a syringe, then warmed up nicely under the heat plate for a short time. Scooted back out soon enough. Then the nipple waterer wasn't working, so before I figured out it was a bubble airlock I hand-syringed more water to all of them by holding the 1ml syringe like a waterer and slowly pushing the plunger. They took 10 refills before they had enough! They are eating tiny bits of crumbled crumble and doing wing flap calisthenics now with short runs and jumps about the brooder.

Waterer's working now

Here below is the little one with the spot. Even from a photo blown up it's hard to tell if this is thin feathering with skin discoloration, or what. At first glance she looked like an Easter egger.
Anyone ever see this kind of thing before?

 

[RoyalChick]

New arrivals! 5 Buckeyes. More than I ordered (3) but that's fine, was secretly hoping for extras. All are appearing healthy. One has a strange spot over her eye (see picture). Mostly okay with being held in my hand, these guys are pretty chill relatively, and took drops of warm water from a syringe, then warmed up nicely under the heat plate for a short time. Scooted back out soon enough. Then the nipple waterer wasn't working, so before I figured out it was a bubble airlock I hand-syringed more water to all of them by holding the 1ml syringe like a waterer and slowly pushing the plunger. They took 10 refills before they had enough! They are eating tiny bits of crumbled crumble and doing wing flap calisthenics now with short runs and jumps about the brooder.
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Waterer's working now
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Here below is the little one with the spot. Even from a photo blown up it's hard to tell if this is thin feathering with skin discoloration, or what. At first glance she looked like an Easter egger.
Anyone ever see this kind of thing before?
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I love their coloring.

 

[Sylvester017]

Our power was out all night. I don’t know what Edison is doing, but I’m afraid to look into my freezer to see the amount of food that was wasted. Power was out from 9:30 last night until 3:00 this morning. If it was a scheduled maintenance, they didn’t notify anyone about it. I could have had my generator turned on but I didn’t want to get out of bed.
Rant over:

I hear you! I was an Edison employee eons ago & once had a storm outage on our street for 5 days... but the Edison VP's had their power on within the hour!

Tx ~ BFTP 2016

A shiny black Silkie...Mini

Violet missing a leg? No, she ran from cameras!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Twofer, two Marans girls wanting snacks

They got the soft shelled egg Blue laid today. Poor girl was very uncomfortable with it being squishy.

 

[Sylvester017]

Happy Tuesday everyone.
Here are some 2fers.

Piglet and Pooh
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Pooh and Calypso
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Pooh and ….? Oh sorry, it is a rock. Just Pooh the jungle chicken. She loves snoozing in the deep cover there.
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Wonderful chicken haven property ~ exactly what chickens love

 

[Sylvester017]

New arrivals! 5 Buckeyes. More than I ordered (3) but that's fine, was secretly hoping for extras. All are appearing healthy. One has a strange spot over her eye (see picture). Mostly okay with being held in my hand, these guys are pretty chill relatively, and took drops of warm water from a syringe, then warmed up nicely under the heat plate for a short time. Scooted back out soon enough. Then the nipple waterer wasn't working, so before I figured out it was a bubble airlock I hand-syringed more water to all of them by holding the 1ml syringe like a waterer and slowly pushing the plunger. They took 10 refills before they had enough! They are eating tiny bits of crumbled crumble and doing wing flap calisthenics now with short runs and jumps about the brooder.
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Waterer's working now
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Here below is the little one with the spot. Even from a photo blown up it's hard to tell if this is thin feathering with skin discoloration, or what. At first glance she looked like an Easter egger.
Anyone ever see this kind of thing before?
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Her anomaly may be why they sent you a couple extra chicks in case she turns out not quite right. The only way I could tell anything would be ask a vet or wait it out to see if all other behavior is normal. Such a bunch of cuties & rare Buckeyes too

We have your chick nipple waterer made by Premier ~ we ordered a half dozen for replacements but so far the original is still working great after moving it from the chick brooder to the outdoors a year-&-a-half ago.

 

[Ponypoor]

Good morning everyone.

This is not chicken related but Rosie wanted me to show off her new "babies". She has been wanting to set up a tank for a while. I have drug my feet and refused to let her. Do not get me wrong, I love aquariums, before the chickens I took pride in my fish tanks. I'm still a little salty over the last one I had that Rosie and grandma wrecked. 20 gallon going on 3 years with a established colony of swordtails and mollies. Livebearers are my thing when it comes to fish. Grandma takes Rosie fishing when she is around 4 and they come home and put in a bluegill she had caught. I was at work and come home to this thing having eaten everything in the tank. I was both devastated and angry. "Bluegill" the bluegill grew huge and was the bane of my existence for 5 years. I actively tried to accidentally kill him for the last 3 years as he would eat every tank mate including snails and my pleco. He destroyed any real plants I had. I hated him. He finally met his maker when he got stuck in the castle that was left in the tank. When he was finally gone I noticed the tank was developing a small leak so I just scraped it all and sold the equipment and well, hello chickens.

The last year me and rosie have went back and forth over her wanting fish. I told her I was not sinking money, and time into something for her to go catch another "creek" fish and throw it in. Well she finally came to her senses and came to me wanting livebearers and she found cory cats. She then got my brother on board and he drug out his old 5 gallon he had stored that when he got could go either salt or freshwater. It was clean when he stored it but she spent 3 hours scrubbing it 3 weeks ago. Spent her birthday money buying a new filter, heater, and the start up chemicals. She learned the cycling process from Michael and did all the water tests herself. She also saw just how quickly one can sink a $100 into something and not have a single fish yet.

Sunday it was time, we took her to petco. Seeing how it was a 5 gallon I told her her options were limited. She is my child after all and headed straight to the fancy guppies. They actually for once had females and not just males. She picked out 4 females and 2 males. Well, no, the pretty snakeskin male is mine and I spotted the female that had the snakeskin tail pattern. The other male is orange and she got 2 yellow females and a orange one to go with him. Then she goes off looking for some shrimp for the clean up crew. I head off looking at plants and their other tanks. I spotted my next tank. Why hello you gorgeous 35 gallon cube that I can have so much fun with. I also scoped out and very much approved of their selection of swordtails, mollies and platy's. Oh do I ever have ideas now. Rosie then comes and excitedly drags me to another tank. They were sold out of shrimp but they had cory's. Pygmy cory's at that. They only had 2 left which had to come home with us. They are cute little devils I will admit.

After they were acclimated and released into the tank it is not even a hour later and Rosie drags me into her room. One of her guppies was doing what guppies do. 3 fry already. She ended up dropping 10 that we know of. Now, there is plenty of hiding spaces in the tank and a live plant just for them. I purposefully did not buy a breeder box. I told her the strongest and smartest will survive, we would not try to save everyone of them or she would be overrun in a month. The next day my brother comes home with a fake plant that is like a ball just for them at her request. They have found it and most if not all are happily swimming inside and the adults cannot get to them.

Here are 2 video's I took Sunday. You think taking pictures of chickens is hard, I forgot just how hard it was to take a picture or a video of fish. I think I used to use the nano settings on my camera I just do not remember which ones I used. It will for sure be about 2 weeks before I even attempt to take a video or picture of the fry, they are tiny. I also admit after a few days I like the cory's. Rosie may be onto something there and now when I set up the big tank I want a school of 5 or more of them.

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Hahaha LOVE IT!

My BIL had a huge aquarium and when he and sister moved in looong ago when they were first married having a house built the aquarium was set up with his beloved African Ciclids. Those are some seriously aggressive fish! Mums keep babies in their mouths

But alas one by one they died off over many yrs. and we’re not replaced. I’d love to get a nice big tank, but not now I am too old to start new adventures.

This is my adventure now….

Taking a break from stalls, it a lovely 29C and a good breeze, if it was for the hazy smokey sky it would be perfect - but it 99% perfect

 

[Ponypoor]

New arrivals! 5 Buckeyes. More than I ordered (3) but that's fine, was secretly hoping for extras. All are appearing healthy. One has a strange spot over her eye (see picture). Mostly okay with being held in my hand, these guys are pretty chill relatively, and took drops of warm water from a syringe, then warmed up nicely under the heat plate for a short time. Scooted back out soon enough. Then the nipple waterer wasn't working, so before I figured out it was a bubble airlock I hand-syringed more water to all of them by holding the 1ml syringe like a waterer and slowly pushing the plunger. They took 10 refills before they had enough! They are eating tiny bits of crumbled crumble and doing wing flap calisthenics now with short runs and jumps about the brooder.
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Waterer's working now
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Here below is the little one with the spot. Even from a photo blown up it's hard to tell if this is thin feathering with skin discoloration, or what. At first glance she looked like an Easter egger.
Anyone ever see this kind of thing before?
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Oh gosh they are gorgeous! They will be real beauties when grown.

As for the spot give it a couple weeks and then see. Likely just the feather colouring.

 

[Ponypoor]

Twofer, two Marans girls wanting snacks
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Poor wee kiddo - hard being a chicken!