Life With The Flock: Lacy Duckwing's Flock Thread

[Lacy Duckwing]

Here's Beth the day I got her. Zoom into her eye and observe the color:

This picture here is better at showing the detail, but is around a month after the first picture:

A picture of Beth the other day:

See how her eyes have gotten darker? And if you also notice, Beth's beak also looks better in the recent picture. She showed signs of a temporary debeak as well and was growing it back. Her beak looks better than it did when I first got her.

 

[Bakbuk]

Here's Beth the day I got her. Zoom into her eye and observe the color:
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This picture here is better at showing the detail, but is around a month after the first picture:
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A picture of Beth the other day:
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See how her eyes have gotten darker? And if you also notice, Beth's beak also looks better in the recent picture. She showed signs of a temporary debeak as well and was growing it back. Her beak looks better than it did when I first got her.

Neat.

Whoa, love your new pfp! It looks really cool.

 

[cherrynberry]

Life with the Flock:
Lacy Duckwing's Flock Thread​

Hello, fellow BYCers and friends! Welcome to my flock thread! Here, I will tell some of my life stories with my birds, post occasional updates, and most likely, tons of pictures! I hope you will all enjoy it, and all are welcome!



My Current Birds:


Nightfall; 2021-2022 Rooster of the Year:

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Nightfall is an EE/Rhode Island Blue rooster. He hatched on July 13, 2021. He was the youngest of his hatch, and even being my current only rooster, he's not very dominant. The hens often like to bully him, though he is finally coming around. He's slightly skittish and is very delayed.

Aundria; Queen of the Flock:

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Aundria is a Blue Rock hen. I got her in September 2020, and she had hatched earlier that year. Aundria is the queen of her flock, and what I call my 'Showbird'. (A Showbirds is a bird that is very photo genetic, very pretty, and one that I like to show off to everyone.)

Princess; Everyone's Favorite:

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Princess is a Buff Brahma hen. I got her at the same time I got Aundria, and she's the same age. She is often everyone's favorite whenever I show off my birds. She's my largest hen.

Penny II; The Bully:

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Penny is a Sliver-Laced Wyandotte hen, who's the same as Aundria. She is a mean hen and has even gotten in trouble for being a bully.

Maisy; An Interesting Bird:

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Maisy is a Cukoo Maran (mix?) hen. Again, she's the same as Aundria. Just, I got her six days after I got my five hens with Aundria. Maisy is a different type of hen. She has a very high tolerance for anything. Earlier this year, she went broody. She was the broodiest hen I ever owned, which makes it hard for her being my smallest hen. She loves raw deer meat, especially when it's served to her on a fork. Though she's my smallest hen, and probably my ugliest, she's intelligent, and feisty and can easily stand her ground.

Rocky II; Special, No Doubt:

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Rocky is a Golden Comet hen. She's the same age as Aundria, with me getting her at the same time. Of the original six hens that I got in September, she was my favorite. She comes to her own name, and she helped me train the rest of my flock to come to the treat call. I don't have many recent pictures of her, because she's currently my Bald Butt Society bird. Penny, in particular, thought it'd be a nice thing to do, by plucking her rear end bald. Rocky skipped out on this year's molt, so she is still bald back there.

Jewels; My Problem Chicken:

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Jewels is a Speckled Sussex and the same as Aundria. She is a beautiful hen with an outstanding tail. (Sorry you don't see that tail in any of those pictures. She's finishing up her molt.) She is my 'problem' chicken. Within the first few months of owning her, I discovered she had a crop issue. With treatment looking to complicated, with no real answers, I bought her a crop bra. Her crop appear to have healed after several months of wearing the bra, so I decided to take it off. Bad idea. After a couple of days, she got a bad case of impacted crop, so back with the crop bra. After some more time with the bra, and frustrated that she had to wear it, I finally got some help from @Wyorp Rock, and she now appears to be doing well; crop bra free!

Beth II; The Amazing Rescue:

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Beth is an Isa Brown hen. She was rescued, by my Mom, on a busy highway earlier this year. Beth took a deep liking to me and will follow me ANYWHERE. She's very special to me because of that and got a special place in my heart.

Shiloh II; Much Different From the First:

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Shiloh is an EE/Rhode Island Blue pullet. She's Nightfall's sister, and hatched a day before him. She's a solid Blue hen, and is friendly. I've been training her to come to her name, which she is learning, just she needs some improvement still. She loves adventures, and if I'm not paying attention, she'll get a little too far away.


Well, I hope everyone enjoys my flock thread! Everyone is welcome to follow!

Special thanks to my best friend, @cluckmecoop7, for the title, and for motivating me to decide to do this.

If anyone want to, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel Lacy Duckwing, here.

Your photos are always stunning. I can tell you spend a lot of time out with the flock.

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Wow! So interesting!

 

[The-White-Elephant]

Any updates with your flock?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Any updates with your flock?

I actually just came in from taking care of them. Tonight, there was three of Rocky's feathers under her perch tonight, so I'm being hopeful for a molt... She might be molting, but maybe she's doing a soft molt which will take 6 months. Nightfall was on the bottom perch with Beth tonight, so she wasn't all alone. Shiloh was creeped out by my pink mittens, and I had to straighten out Aundria's saddle. She works all day, everyday, trying to get it off, so I'm always finding it out of place. I got three eggs tonight: An Aundria egg, a Shiloh egg, and a Beth egg. They wasn't frozen, thankfully, but my heated waterer had some ice on it.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I actually just came in from taking care of them. Tonight, there was three of Rocky's feathers under her perch tonight, so I'm being hopeful for a molt... She might be molting, but maybe she's doing a soft molt which will take 6 months. Nightfall was on the bottom perch with Beth tonight, so she wasn't all alone. Shiloh was creeped out by my pink mittens, and I had to straighten out Aundria's saddle. She works all day, everyday, trying to get it off, so I'm always finding it out of place. I got three eggs tonight: An Aundria egg, a Shiloh egg, and a Beth egg. They wasn't frozen, thankfully, but my heated waterer had some ice on it.

Amazing! Glad they are all well and healthy!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Update:

Rocky is officially molting!! She's gone into a hard molt, which is good and bad, but at least she should get over it quickly.

Beth is also growing a couple of feathers on her neck, which is good. Looking at her tonight, makes me think I'll probably have to give her a bath once the weather gets warmer out. She doesn't appear to be a hen who takes care of herself.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Update:

On Rocky:

Today has been crazy warm after this cold stretch we just had. Because of the warmth, I figured it would be good to separate Rocky, with no fear of it being too cold for her. I took her saddle off and put her in a cage by herself. She seemed fine with that at first, until she wanted out. She started pacing and getting her frostbitten comb caught on the bars.

I moved her cage to a different spot in the coop where I could easily block off the outside, so she couldn't see out. That would be better for her comb, and stop her from pacing. Due to her having so many painful pin feathers, she actually is ok being by herself. The other hens kept running into them, pecking them, and everything. She even got a couple of them broke.

Here's Rocky's setup:

I also put a perch in there for her, and she was roosting on it. I think she's going to be ok now. I hope it doesn't get cold enough that I have to put her back with her flock. I want to see her feathers come in first.

On the other birds:

This morning I let them out to their big run, and lead them to a feeding spot. Unfortunately, all the food was gone. The flock still wanted to hang out there anyways. The squirrels cleared the spot getting to the food, so that was still good.

Come this afternoon, I let the birds out to free-range while I worked on moving Rocky's cage. After Rocky was all settled in, I lead the flock on what was a long walk to them. There is a spot that the snow has melted off of, and there's some grass. This is where I was leading the flock. While I was giving the flock a break, I picked up Princess who was being slow, and brought her to the spot.

After the flock's break, I lead them to that spot. Shiloh spotted Princess first, and knew they were coming up upon something good. Jewels wanted to go the wrong way, but I was able to stop her. Soon I got the flock to where they were supposed to go, and they realized it was paradise. As they foraged and took dust-baths, I worked on clearing the spot better of small trees. Beth occasionally tried helping me.

After my lunch, which Beth begged for and got a couple of bites of, I got out my camera to take pictures of them. Some people walked by, and I brought Maisy over for them to see up close. She wasn't happy about that but wanted to go back to foraging. After that slight distraction, I went back to the flock with Maisy.

I wanted to take this certain picture of one of my hens. I tried getting Shiloh, but she didn't want to, so I picked Princess instead. I picked her up and found Nightfall a little too close. He didn't attack, but he acted like that was on his mind. I brought Princess to the log I wanted to take pictures of her on and got a couple of good pictures of her.

The once terrified of snow, Nightfall, figured Princess still needed to be rescued, so he went through the snow to her. Once he realized she was safe, he decided to take the flock on an adventure. First, he took the flock up and down an icy trail. Then, he took the whole flock through deep snow on a long way.

I was shocked this trip he took the flock on, especially through the deep snow, but after several minutes, he got MOST of the flock back to the coop. Princess, Penny, and Jewels got discouraged on the last 10 or so feet of deep snow. I went to their rescue, and one at a time, I gently threw them towards the coop. They easily flew the rest of the way back. (They prefer to fly than me carry them. Most chickens don't like being held, especially Jewels.)

My flock had quite the day. But I think they enjoyed it all except for the crazy adventure Nightfall decided to take them on.

Here is some pictures I took of them today:

~Lacy Duckwing

 

[babychickens321]

Life with the Flock:
Lacy Duckwing's Flock Thread​

Hello, fellow BYCers and friends! Welcome to my flock thread! Here, I will tell some of my life stories with my birds, post occasional updates, and most likely, tons of pictures! I hope you will all enjoy it, and all are welcome!



My Current Birds:


Nightfall; 2021-2022 Rooster of the Year:

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Nightfall is an EE/Rhode Island Blue rooster. He hatched on July 13, 2021. He was the youngest of his hatch, and even being my current only rooster, he's not very dominant. The hens often like to bully him, though he is finally coming around. He's slightly skittish and is very delayed.

Aundria; Queen of the Flock:

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Aundria is a Blue Rock hen. I got her in September 2020, and she had hatched earlier that year. Aundria is the queen of her flock, and what I call my 'Showbird'. (A Showbirds is a bird that is very photo genetic, very pretty, and one that I like to show off to everyone.)

Princess; Everyone's Favorite:

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Princess is a Buff Brahma hen. I got her at the same time I got Aundria, and she's the same age. She is often everyone's favorite whenever I show off my birds. She's my largest hen.

Penny II; The Bully:

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Penny is a Sliver-Laced Wyandotte hen, who's the same as Aundria. She is a mean hen and has even gotten in trouble for being a bully.

Maisy; An Interesting Bird:

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Maisy is a Cukoo Maran (mix?) hen. Again, she's the same as Aundria. Just, I got her six days after I got my five hens with Aundria. Maisy is a different type of hen. She has a very high tolerance for anything. Earlier this year, she went broody. She was the broodiest hen I ever owned, which makes it hard for her being my smallest hen. She loves raw deer meat, especially when it's served to her on a fork. Though she's my smallest hen, and probably my ugliest, she's intelligent, and feisty and can easily stand her ground.

Rocky II; Special, No Doubt:

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Rocky is a Golden Comet hen. She's the same age as Aundria, with me getting her at the same time. Of the original six hens that I got in September, she was my favorite. She comes to her own name, and she helped me train the rest of my flock to come to the treat call. I don't have many recent pictures of her, because she's currently my Bald Butt Society bird. Penny, in particular, thought it'd be a nice thing to do, by plucking her rear end bald. Rocky skipped out on this year's molt, so she is still bald back there.

Jewels; My Problem Chicken:

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Jewels is a Speckled Sussex and the same as Aundria. She is a beautiful hen with an outstanding tail. (Sorry you don't see that tail in any of those pictures. She's finishing up her molt.) She is my 'problem' chicken. Within the first few months of owning her, I discovered she had a crop issue. With treatment looking to complicated, with no real answers, I bought her a crop bra. Her crop appear to have healed after several months of wearing the bra, so I decided to take it off. Bad idea. After a couple of days, she got a bad case of impacted crop, so back with the crop bra. After some more time with the bra, and frustrated that she had to wear it, I finally got some help from @Wyorp Rock, and she now appears to be doing well; crop bra free!

Beth II; The Amazing Rescue:

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Beth is an Isa Brown hen. She was rescued, by my Mom, on a busy highway earlier this year. Beth took a deep liking to me and will follow me ANYWHERE. She's very special to me because of that and got a special place in my heart.

Shiloh II; Much Different From the First:

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Shiloh is an EE/Rhode Island Blue pullet. She's Nightfall's sister, and hatched a day before him. She's a solid Blue hen, and is friendly. I've been training her to come to her name, which she is learning, just she needs some improvement still. She loves adventures, and if I'm not paying attention, she'll get a little too far away.


Well, I hope everyone enjoys my flock thread! Everyone is welcome to follow!

Special thanks to my best friend, @cluckmecoop7, for the title, and for motivating me to decide to do this.

If anyone want to, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel Lacy Duckwing, here.

nightfall looks so COOL