Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Ummmm I hope you don’t have poisonous spiders or scorpions…?

I would imagine though that the chooks will kill and eat them…? Mine eat spiders here all the time. No scorpion species here so cant
Speak to those.

Visitor to the office on Wednesday.

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No idea what type of spider but about 1.5” leg span.

Edit - thinking Cellar Spider

I think we have had a lot of these in my area. They're so many different species of spiders.
Where I live used too be farmland so loads of different kinds of insects

 

[Marie2020]

We have them around here. As a kid my family nicknamed them Daddy Long Legs spiders cuz they are all legs w/ a tiny body. Don't know what they're really called but they're fairly harmless.

We never see them outside (probably easy for the hens to catch) but once in a while we find one in the house. The webs are so fine they are barely visible.

Our daddy longlegs (cranefly) have long legs and wings. Or they are known as Jackie longlegs. I think they have different names depending on the area you live.

Yours are cellar spiders. I'm confused why we get them. There's no cellars around here

 

[Sylvester017]

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So C-U-T-E!!!

 

[Marie2020]

Flexi and Amber

Nosey parkers. Princess and Tina

 

[Marie2020]

Sadly, I must report when I went to close the coop, Nacho was out in the yard in a panic. Her little one was nowhere to be found. No trace of chick feathers, or blood trails. Just a very sad mama, crying for her child.

Missing again??
Are these chick's being bullied so maybe they are hiding.

 

[RoyalChick]

@RoyalChick it looks like you’ve had a hen raise chicks and I missed the whole thing. So sorry to have missed!

Well if Tassels (mother hen) has anything to say on the subject you haven’t missed much. They are 9 or is it now 10 weeks old and she treats them like little babies.
She was a determined broody and now she is a committed mother!

 

[Ponypoor]

Well if Tassels (mother hen) has anything to say on the subject you haven’t missed much. They are 9 or is it now 10 weeks old and she treats them like little babies.
She was a determined broody and now she is a committed mother!

Meanwhile Marty had taken on the mothering of the Noirans! Georgie and Holly have decided they like this.

They are at the ‘bucket sitting’ stage of growth. Any bucket is be sat upon, this includes the water bowls and water dispensers. And ultimately pooped on/into. Laughs to be had when they all sit on an empty bucket and it tips over. They are learning to spread out so the bucket/bowl doesn’t tip over.

All the things to learn when your a chicken growing up!

Even the Polish Typhoid Mary Twins are learning the bucket sit. They need a hair trim though.

 

[RoyalChick]

Meanwhile Marty had taken on the mothering of the Noirans! Georgie and Holly have decided they like this.

They are at the ‘bucket sitting’ stage of growth. Any bucket is be sat upon, this includes the water bowls and water dispensers. And ultimately pooped on/into. Laughs to be had when they all sit on an empty bucket and it tips over. They are learning to spread out so the bucket/bowl doesn’t tip over.

All the things to learn when your a chicken growing up!

Even the Polish Typhoid Mary Twins are learning the bucket sit. They need a hair trim though.

I know what you mean. I have cat litter buckets to block the sides of the second rat proof feeder but too much hilarity has been had tipping over the buckets.
Cookie fell into the bucket and helicoptered out.
I think she sees fine with her poof - she wears it in a sort of ‘up swoop’ which helps. But do worry about it as I have never had a really crested chicken before - only the Legbars who really just wear fascinators.
Does it look like she needs a trim to you guys?

 

[BY Bob]

Thirsty Thursday

 

[BY Bob]

Cough update

I now have 6 I am actively treating, cayenne’s breathing is hopefully better, I don’t hear the strident respirations she was having.

Clyde was coughing and wheezing so he immediately was started on a treatment course.

Everyone has been going to bed when I tell them - of course it’s easy when it’s getting darker earlier. Once everyone was settled I went around listening to everyone’s breathing to see if anyone else was starting to get wheezy. I’ll check Mr P and his gang when I head out now to do evening chores.

It’s time consuming to treat one let alone 6. But it what one must do when one has livestock otherwise one would quickly have non-livestock!

Edit:

Now have 3 more
Goldie, Butters, and poor Mr P

Full on doses for all of them. Sheesh! Wish I had the injectable Tylosin, I’d just jab the whole darn flock and be done with it.

Hmmmm another rabbit hole to fall down. But not at the moment - need sleep…

Ok all have a lovely evening/night/day!

Oh and the rat came back….

There it is beside the water bowl. Grrrrrr!
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A two for
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I'm so sorry your good deed has caused you so much trouble. It still was a good deed.