Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

She grew overnight! She is perky and energetic. I think the prolapse is still marginally better after I treated it last night, but still not normal.
Poor little thing!

Is she pooping ok? As long as she is pooping ok and eating I just take a watch and see approach.


Poor Twister had a retained soft egg this morning, I went to lift her down from the roost ledge and noted her butt was wet, looked and she had egg membrane partially dispelled.

She was working at spitting it out, so a bit of tension to stop it from getting sucked back in, helped it along.

Never ever pull on a partially expelled egg, you can prolapse the hens cloaca. Best to just let them work at it. Away from other hens who might also want to pull at it. Anyways she finally expelled it, and I gave her some Sulphatrim to help combat any infections. Made me late for work….

She’s one of my favourite ladies. Even if she did try to remove a chunk of my forearm a few times!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Haven't you raised enough this year!?

I will not buy any more birds or eggs.
However, once the test group hatches, I am being GIVEN Marble eggs. They don't count, obviously

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Hi everyone.

My boss covered for me today so I could get some last minute things done before I have surgery next week. 8 days away. I'm looking forward to it and terrified of it at the same time. Word has got out to my regulars, who are mostly older. Their new favorite past time and topic of conversation is telling me their experiences with rotator cuff surgery. It is worse then going down the rabbit hole of a google search. One of my favorites looked me in the eye and told me she would rather give birth unmedicated 5 times in a row then have that surgery again. She's also had hip and knee surgery to boot. Hahaha.....help. I managed to get my pre-op bloodwork in, stocked up on some new icepacks which will apparently be my best friends for the next few weeks and got the shirts the nurse told me to get. She told me to go buy a pack of t-shirts 2 sizes too big for me because for the first week or so I will no be allowed to put my arm through the affected sides shirt sleeve. I also picked up a couple new pairs of pajama bottoms so I can live in them the first 2 weeks.

Now for a chicken update. We had a incident a week and a half ago that has stripped my chickens of any free range time for the foreseeable future. Dad and Rosie were out front finishing up mowing the lawn about 4. They heard a commotion and ran out back and something had gotten Goose. It has now hit in broad daylight and at night. The first week was rough, they were not happy but have settled into coop life. Rosie has employed lots of treats inside the coop and has even hung up a cabbage for them which they are devouring. Poor Homer was orphaned though and he was not ready to leave his momma. Rosie has taken him under her wing for me and he buddied up with the silkie chicks. I combined the silkies with their parents Sunday and I put Homer in with them. It went great. No picking on them and both Davy and Barbosa immediately took to calling them over to show them the food. Heaven forbid you make one of the chicks panic by trying to pet them. Barbosa is on you, do NOT touch those babies. Last night when I did my nightly check he had them all on the roost and he was in the middle of them. I hate that they are no longer allowed to free range, but, now I'm thinking fox. No one has seen anything come into the yard so it is a complete mystery.

 

[Ikslo]

Sorry about Goose

 

[Ikslo]

I am on a work trip this week. Will also be away next week. I miss my chickens! I will have just a short time to see them this weekend before my next trip. I am fortunate enough to work mostly remote, but work trips really suck for the lack of chicken time. The occasional pic is not enough!

 

[RoyalChick]

I will not buy any more birds or eggs.
However, once the test group hatches, I am being GIVEN Marble eggs. They don't count, obviously

Nope. They don't count.

 

[rural mouse]

Hi everyone.

My boss covered for me today so I could get some last minute things done before I have surgery next week. 8 days away. I'm looking forward to it and terrified of it at the same time. Word has got out to my regulars, who are mostly older. Their new favorite past time and topic of conversation is telling me their experiences with rotator cuff surgery. It is worse then going down the rabbit hole of a google search. One of my favorites looked me in the eye and told me she would rather give birth unmedicated 5 times in a row then have that surgery again. She's also had hip and knee surgery to boot. Hahaha.....help. I managed to get my pre-op bloodwork in, stocked up on some new icepacks which will apparently be my best friends for the next few weeks and got the shirts the nurse told me to get. She told me to go buy a pack of t-shirts 2 sizes too big for me because for the first week or so I will no be allowed to put my arm through the affected sides shirt sleeve. I also picked up a couple new pairs of pajama bottoms so I can live in them the first 2 weeks.

Now for a chicken update. We had a incident a week and a half ago that has stripped my chickens of any free range time for the foreseeable future. Dad and Rosie were out front finishing up mowing the lawn about 4. They heard a commotion and ran out back and something had gotten Goose. It has now hit in broad daylight and at night. The first week was rough, they were not happy but have settled into coop life. Rosie has employed lots of treats inside the coop and has even hung up a cabbage for them which they are devouring. Poor Homer was orphaned though and he was not ready to leave his momma. Rosie has taken him under her wing for me and he buddied up with the silkie chicks. I combined the silkies with their parents Sunday and I put Homer in with them. It went great. No picking on them and both Davy and Barbosa immediately took to calling them over to show them the food. Heaven forbid you make one of the chicks panic by trying to pet them. Barbosa is on you, do NOT touch those babies. Last night when I did my nightly check he had them all on the roost and he was in the middle of them. I hate that they are no longer allowed to free range, but, now I'm thinking fox. No one has seen anything come into the yard so it is a complete mystery.

 

[rural mouse]

Nope. They don't count.

Chicken maths: gifted birds (I believe this includes hatching eggs) don't count.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Chicken maths: gifted birds (I believe this includes hatching eggs) don't count.

Oh well then I only have a few chickens!!!

 

[rural mouse]

Oh well then I only have a few chickens!!!

Named birds don't count either and neither does the 1st of a breed (mixes then on a unique basis). Bantams count on a 2:1 ratio and chicks 3:1