Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

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House bums!

No going back now.

 

[rural mouse]

Tassels explaining how to behave in the jungle. Oh. Geronimo didn’t hang about for Mom’s lesson! She is already off exploring deep in the undergrowth!
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That is Bucky bottom/left and Chippy in the middle. Do I see spots on Chippy or is that my imagination?
Tassels has taught them to eat grown-up pellets already. So not only did I buy too much chick feed but I needn’t have switched to All Flock crumbles when I restocked feed last week!

SS first feather out in red with light blonde tips. Next round gets the more chestnut with white tips and the black divider. Each adult moult seems to come through with more white. Wing feathers can throw a spanner into everything.

 

[RoyalChick]

SS first feather out in red with light blonde tips. Next round gets the more chestnut with white tips and the black divider. Each adult moult seems to come through with more white. Wing feathers can throw a spanner into everything.

I will try to get individual photo shoots. It isn't that easy because although Tassels wouldn't prevent me picking them up, she clearly prefers that I not do so.
And then she draws herself up and gives me ‘the look’!

 

[Ponypoor]

Are you sure you aren’t pushing it too fast? You need sleep in order to heal. I find myself constantly dropping off during the day!
Tax: little chickens!
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I could quite happily go out to my truck and take a nap - but then I run a sleep deficit every day.


Hahaha Cookie has the look of a little minx doesn’t she

Some fluffing fluffy butts tax

Might be some heads in there too….

 

[Ponypoor]

I have one like this atm. This Fayoumi hatched early and with the energy and coordination of a two day old - it was jumping (not flopping or lurching, I mean JUMPING) around the incubator while it was still wet!
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Took it to work with me the same day it hatched and it happily tore around the little enclosure I set up inside the polycrub (temp was about 28-29C tbf) while completely ignoring the heat plate. I think it only goes under now because that's where the others are, and it mostly sleeps sprawled out with just a foot or its bum under the plate.

I bet not much work was done that day! I for one would have been watching the wee one instead of working!

 

[Ponypoor]

I will try to get individual photo shoots. It isn't that easy because although Tassels wouldn't prevent me picking them up, she clearly prefers that I not do so.
And then she draws herself up and gives me ‘the look’!
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Holly flat out attacks me! Georgie is happy for me to just take over hahaha - I think she is rethinking this whole baby thing.

Holly seems to be the one calling the shots with these babies! She takes her roll as mama extremely seriously!

Georgie though has ‘been there done that’ and is happy to let the wee ones just run amok! They bounce all over her and use her as a spring board!

Holly is more a disciplinarian - bet that only lasts with the first brood! Hahaha!

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy Friday!View attachment 4202297

House bums!

You may as well just leave that door open in the evening and let them roost in there all night!

 

[Sylvester017]

Like I said, I've only dealt with the Black Copper variety and mixes from those. Truly lovely birds all of them with calm, friendly temperaments. Even the hens are nice when broody. The roosters, well, mine strictly speaking, gentle giants. A true pleasure to be around. Sweet little homer, let me tell you, he is not going to stay little for long, he has some giant feet to grow into. I predict now he will have Grandpa Bubba and Great-Grandpa Drumsticks nature.

I have nothing against a spicy natured chicken. If I had a chance to try out a cuckoo Marans, I probably would. You want to talk about spicy, right now my silkie pen is spicy. 5 momma's who have recruited the roosters to join them in the charge if I even think of looking at their little one. If I avoid Ducky and their momma's and focus on the teens, I had better not make them let out a panicked shriek. My boys have also taken them under their wing. It is pure chaos at the moment walking in that pen. Not going to lie, I love it.

Yep, sweet Marans ~ so owners told me... but sadly our Cuckoo never was. Your arm surgery is bringing back so many memories to me... the pain, discomfort, sleeplessness, frustration, boredom, helplessness. Then comes therapy where I told the therapist no pain, no gain & he said that philosophy has changed recently... that therapy should not cause excessive pain as that defeats the therapy exercises which should start out gentle & only increase gradually each day sometimes taking a day off if exercise was overdone & there's nerve/muscle pain. It feels so weird w/a plate in my arm & the discomfort or occasional pain doesn't go completely away but the muscle exercises are strengthening. Hurray for your Rosie!

Well, I cannot sleep tonight. It's almost 4 am and I'm still wide awake. I made it 23 hours today with only 1 tylenol in-between meds. I actually washed the dishes today. I stuck to my 1lb weight limit and did not touch any of the cast iron skillets, but I got everything else done. I had Rosie put it all away for me as I have not even attempted to lift my arm up yet. They told me I could start moving it some. Right now the best I can do is to move it about a inch and a half away from my body without causing any pain. I'm waiting for that first physical therapy appointment for them to show me how to move it at home without hurting myself. I also want to assure @Ponypoor on physical therapy days I'm not going to be stupid, I will take those meds. I can feel them start working after about 30 minutes. I figure to be able to really do what I need to do in those sessions I need to take one around a hour before hand, and probably another at that 6 hour interval if the stories I've heard are true. All in all besides the occasional bee sting feeling around the incisions which I believe is caused by the stitches and the bandages on them loosening up I feel good a week out. I want to take the tiny bandages off over the incisions they left on. I was told not to, to let them fall off on their own. They have really started to annoy me this evening.

I'm also using my weight restrictions based on my chickens. I can lift up the silkie's with my right arm. Everyone else, left arm is needed. When I can lift 5lbs I can pack over half of the girls around with my right arm. Squirrel, Raven and Mrs. E, it will be a while. They are heavy girls.

I once took a Tylenol before a therapy visit but found the therapist couldn't tell where my pain was to give the proper treatment exercise. It didn't matter if I took a Tylenol cuz I still felt enough pain anyway when he started the therapy! The ice packs are comforting.

I'm surprised how soon they took off your bandage ~ they kept mine on for weeks... but then my arm was sliced from the clavicle to the elbow. It took a good 3 months before I slept thru a restful 6 hrs. Are you & I having fun yet? However, TG for modern surgeons today... how did pioneers in the old days survive w/o our medical technology!?



Pioneer tx
2022 ~ Ginny & Suzu on the garage threshhold waiting for a grape toll before letting us pass

 

[Sylvester017]

It went from scorching hot and dry to cool and dry in a day here. The animals are enjoying the cooler weather, the heat is hard on them.

We still need a lot of rain, the ground moisture is seriously lacking. Not much in the way of bugs for the chooks to scare up, but they have been enjoying chasing down grasshoppers.

Can’t wait for the babies to be confronted with one of those huge locusts that fly! That will be a good meal for them!

Locusts? Your flock can catch them? I have to use something heavy to catch & smash one cuz locust bodies are hard as armor plate & legs as sharp & cutting as razor blades. I have to chop up the dead or stunned body so the little Silkie beaks can eat the juicy innards. I throw away the sharp legs since alive locust legs will slice thru my fingers ~ which is probably why our hens don't chase alive 'hoppers to avoid those dangerous legs! Nasty brutes to fowl or human!

 

[Sylvester017]

It was cooler this last week, only 90 yesterday. But it's heating up again.
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Crazy weather year!
Over 100F today so we're running the sprinkler water for the flock
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