Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

You can also put them on hormones. I think Manue has one of her hens on some.

As an inexperienced backyard flock owner I had no idea what was even ailing Mini. Hindsight w/ experience gives us 20/20 vision but just too late at times

 

[bgmathteach]

Someone enable talk some sense into me, please?

I would put them in the incubator. Since he is no longer, you can't wait too long before doing so. Remember, inaction is a decision, too; one you may regret if you really are thinking you would like their offspring!

Might not be the 'sense' you were hoping to be talked into, but in my mind, this is the logical thing to do if you have the set-up.

Besides, it gives you 3 weeks to 'tinker' with the electrical set -up of the brooder.

 

[Sylvester017]

I came this close to picking up a few my last big project I worked out west. There is a place in Manitoba that raises them. But alas their hatch scheduled and my travel schedule didn’t match.

Pavlovskaya like landrace Hedemora are snow birds. A BYCer had a white Hedemora chick to give away to me but w/my luck it would've been a male!

White Pavlovskaya's

Hedemora ~ interesting mix of colors & body shapes w/ some feathers soft like Silkies, some w/feathered feet & some smooth legs, some tall, some short... yet all snow-hardy Swedish landrace birds

 

[Ponypoor]

Too many Roos

Yep living the good life, on my dime! Not laying eggs to help pay their way…. All they will be is like Chippendale dancers…. Prancing around, fancy eye candy…. I’ll have to name one Magic and the other Mike….

 

[Sylvester017]

Leftovers for Breakfast

Some leftover chick food Hattie?

Why I don't mind if I do!

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She's no dummy... chick food is nutritious

 

[Ponypoor]

An article I read on toenail trims is to cut at an angle while facing the cutter towards the toenail end rather than cutting the nail straight across the nail grain/blood vessels. I've also trimmed a little at a time daily rather than take a lot of nail off all at once.

Anyone else have experience?

This was my toenail girl Mini ~ she had so many health issues & we realized at her 6-1/2 yrs upon her vet euthanization it was all due to her reproductive issues over her lifetime. Her health issues were mainly due to low immunity & she ultimately had to be put down for a bleeding ovarian tumor otherwise she would have bled to death anyway. A hysterectomy early in her lifetime would have prolonged quality life if I had any idea such operations were possible. Every egg she layed agitated her since her 1st pullet egg but I never knew why. Here she is w/ one toe missing on one foot & half a toe missing on the other foot from her scratching so violently in a wooden nestbox that she tore off toes/toenails she was so agitated whenever laying eggs. We switched to plexiglass liners so she wouldn't splinter the wood & tear off toes/toenails. This girl's health issues caused us more vet visits than all our other chicken vet visits combined!
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Re: toe nail trimming- I just snip them off and hope not to lop off a toe while doing it

The more birds... the more work... & more poop!

Then again cheaper by the dozen do they say!

She's so beautiful

Naughty, naughty! Where's your goggles?!

I was cleaning water bowls (or something) and the brat hopped up on my back and walked up onto my shoulder! And wouldn’t get down! This is the abuse I deal with here all the time for these ducks!

As an inexperienced backyard flock owner I had no idea what was even ailing Mini. Hindsight w/ experience gives us 20/20 vision but just too late at times

Yes, it’s always easy when you now how. But even with hormones the likelihood of her having a good quality of life may not have been in the cards.

Pavlovskaya like landrace Hedemora are snow birds. A BYCer had a white Hedemora chick to give away to me but w/my luck it would've been a male!

White Pavlovskaya's

Hedemora ~ interesting mix of colors & body shapes w/ some feathers soft like Silkies, some w/feathered feet & some smooth legs, some tall, some short... yet all snow-hardy Swedish landrace birds

Yep I’ll take 4 of those also.

The warehouse barn is being started as soon as the lottery money arrives!

I would put them in the incubator. Since he is no longer, you can't wait too long before doing so. Remember, inaction is a decision, too; one you may regret if you really are thinking you would like their offspring!

Might not be the 'sense' you were hoping to be talked into, but in my mind, this is the logical thing to do if you have the set-up.

Besides, it gives you 3 weeks to 'tinker' with the electrical set -up of the brooder.

This is what the people who har Sir Shirley did and they have 3 lovely chicks - whom I am praying are all pullets!

I am amazed we got any chicks due to the fact it was over three weeks since he passed before the eggs were put in the incubator.

 

[BY Bob]

From the Run....

Deploying mealworms

Keeping watch on us....

 

[Labsandchickens8]

From the Run....

Deploying mealworms

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Keeping watch on us....

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What a gorgeous little flock of Polish

 

[Ponypoor]

Keeping me company, it’s getting chilly though, I may bring them inside.

They are sitting beside me while I sit on my lawn chair.

 

[Ponypoor]

From the Run....

Deploying mealworms

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Keeping watch on us....

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Her Majesty seem very interested in them, so will you eventually have them all run out together?