Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Not all my memories are good ones & hard to salvage something out of the bad ones... so yeah, enjoy the present... TG for pets... especially birds

I enjoy you too, even if you’re a nutter!
Kidding

 

[featherhead007]

I enjoy you too, even if you’re a nutter!
Kidding

You know perfectly well that God removes those bad experiences from memory. What remains is experience and enlightenment. Tonight, I feel lonely, but enlightened

 

[TX Chick Noob]

Well, I had a big long post typed up, including quotes, and lost it all.


Someone, I don’t remember who, talked about a coop scoop they use with sand in their coop. I need to know what it looks like and where they got it. I desperately need a better scoop for my jumbo 10’x12’ coop.

Also, on the discussion of feeders, I have used most of the types posted here. My current favorite for chicks is one I got at Murdochs. It comes in two sizes, I have the small one but it is still pretty big. Has removable legs. When babies are really small I set it flat, sometimes with small blocks next to it for them to jump on. When they are bigger I use the legs and it also hangs. And it has a lid, which I love because I hate open top feeders.

Can’t remember what else I had written about. Hopefully I will recall it later.

 

[Sylvester017]

Lost Jet today.

I keep waiting to post until I am caught up, and then keep getting behind again. Finally caught up today, and before I post all ten other things I have been saving I have to start by saying that Jet, one of my “blue” laced Wyandottes died today. Her lacing was so dark it looked black. I have no idea what happened. Went out after work to check everyone and she was already stiff and cold. It has been really hot and humid, but still cooler than we have had many times. We have been keeping ice in the insulated water jugs. It had all melted but the water really wasn’t that hot. And I found her in the coop, which has four fans blowing in it. Still trying to look over cameras to see if she was acting weird. All I have found so far is when she walked into the corner where I found her, which is in a blind spot. She doesn’t have any peckmarks or any apparent injuries.

I will post more about other things later today. But needed to get this out first.

Farewell Jet. I will miss you.

I can’t find any recent photos of her as an adult. But here are some of her growing up.
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[Mother of Chaos]

Thirsty Thursday
Happy Thursday everyone. Clean water for the littles is proving a challenge. Anything low enough for them to reach gets buried by Tassels and her energetic excavations.
They like the vertical nipple one so I am going with that for now. They don’t seem interested in the horizontal nipples. I really wish I had introduced them to horizontal nipples earlier. I know the usual story is they aren’t strong enough to use them, but @rural mouse (if I am remembering correctly) had hers using them by day 2.
I am sure mine will learn eventually. Hope it is soon.
The missing pot was re-excavated by Tassels and her crew. I am impressed how far she can fling it. Tassels it seems doesn’t approve of feed in a pot because she is trying to teach the little ones to dig. So she empties the pots onto the ground, and all I can think of is rats!
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My Littles are not as little as yours, but they still have some challenges.

I have bricks arranged around the feeder and waterer, with a second level. The Littles seem to be able to reach the watering cups and the feeder with the second layer of bricks to stand on, and the feeders-waterers don’t get filthy.

 

[bgmathteach]

Farewell Jet. I will miss you.

 

[Sylvester017]

Good heavens! Be careful.

I live in eternal fear the chooks will eat nails, bolts, fence staples…. Hardware disease we call it to n cattle

Nowadays it's micro-plastics we have to worry about in humans & animals

 

[TX Chick Noob]

OMG, my post reappeared.

Here are the parts I couldn’t remember.

Important side note: Two things make sand easier for me - First Saturday Lime (helps ensure dryness) and The Coop Scoop (it actually does what one would hope and picks up the poop and feathers leaves the sand) I am not sure I would like it without these two things.

It was you I wanted to ask what your coop scoop look like, and where did you get it?

Looks like you have your next 'rafter chicken' in the making!!!
you go, Geronimo!!!!

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In my humble opinion, no flock is complete without a rafter chicken!!!

@RebeccaBoyd 's was Momma Hen, @Ponypoor has a couple, I have lots...we all need a rafter chicken - or two, or three...... we don't all need 2 dozen, though!

Don’t have any rafter chickens because I don’t have any rafters. But they sure have found plenty of other high places to roost that they should not. These pics are my first batch of chicks when they got big enough to turn loose in the coop.

And they are so quick to warm up to you - unlike chicks, they don't scream when you pick them up - instead they immediately snuggle in and start nibbling curiously on everything, LOL.

Ours definitely nibble on us. But there has also been some loud peeping and quacking when we pick them up.
So they are just curious when they nibble? We were never sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing.