Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

I’m about 100 pages behind. Keep trying to catch up before posting. (I should know better.)

Unfortunately it is sad news that prompted me to go ahead and post. We lost our Sassy girl last night. She had been doing better, had gained weight back up to over 4 lbs after being down to just over 2 lbs and was obviously feeling better. But I knew it probabaly wouldn’t last long, and a few days ago started acting a little off again, and spending time camped in a nest box. She hadn’t laid since May, so I knew she probably had another lash egg she was trying to get out. Yesterday morning she seemed uncomfortable, and I gave her some calcium hoping it would help her and put her back on Baytril again. Last night she was obviously struggling, and I knew if she didn’t manage to pass whatever she was struggling with that she probably wouldn’t make it until morning. Gave her another calcium and did what I could to make her comfortable, but unfortunately I was right. She apparently passed not long after that.

Farewell my Sassy little girl. I’m sorry you had to leave us so soon (she was just over 2 years old), but I hope I made these last two months of extra time I tried to give you worth living for you. I’m glad you got to spend some time with the new little firecrackers (will try to post updates on them in a few days). At least you and Goldy are together again, I know you searched for her and called for her for several weeks after we lost her.


Sassy from the start, she was the first to fly up in my back.
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The second to start laying eggs.
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Enjoying some time outside in the hospital coop I bought (more later on the bargain I got).
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Teaching the firecrackers about the Way of the Chicken. Including that scratch is good, but to respect their elders.
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And her final picture, with her favorite treats before we laid her to rest.

Spoiler: Memorial photo of Sassy

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I'm so sorry you lost this lovely girl but happy in the knowledge she lived a wonderful life with you and her flock before going over the rainbow to Goldy

 

[RoyalChick]

Do RIRs also have that problem?

Hatchery stock has the issue. RIR have recently been bred as production hens. But show ones are the traditional RIR and no, do not have that issue.
There is a good explanation on the Cackle Hatchery site. They sell two lines of RIR - a production kind and the traditional kind. They have them on their site as two separate ‘products’.

 

[BY Bob]

I am ever so glad for my mutts, but worry extremely about the Azurs, and those ‘coloured egg layers’. They seem healthy enough, but they are only young.

Hopefully the Orpingtons are not heavy layers and live a good long life like Hattie

Question: those Marans hybrids you have there, are they a hybrid to lay lots of eggs? How are they doing? I still would like a Marans but they are hard to get here; I can get a hybrid Marans but again they are bred to lay lots of eggs.

Lilly was a Maran and she lived over 6 years. She was not a prolific layer at any point in her life. Patsy also was not a prolific layer. She died earlier than Lilly but she was at least 4 if not older.

 

[BY Bob]

I thought I'd lost my beautiful white chicken but here she is . Gleaming like a pure white Swan .
Who ever could misplace her
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She surely believes in camouflage.

 

[Sylvester017]

It’s on my wish list

Zero-turn, 54” cutting deck…. Yep I want one!

Need a new lawn tractor tax
Curly’s babies are almost as big as she is!

WOW! That thing would mince a chicken in 2 seconds if she got in the way!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

@SimpleJenn ~ not a true Halloweeny name but my Keiko's momma was called "Pumpkin Spice" which fits the holiday

This, this right here is what I think a couple of my chicks will end up looking like. Patsy is also going to be similar but instead of black I believe she will have blue or grey mixed in with the brown.

 

[SimpleJenn]

@Sylvester017 these are my first truly crested chickens, Morinth has a small one that does not impede her vision so she doesn't need any trimming. However my satin silkie Samara has such a fluffy butt I have had to trim the feathers.

 

[SimpleJenn]

@RebeccaBoyd Yeah Shep the magesty Marans has had eggs all over the place. Lots of spots but they're sometimes almost tan, sometimes orangey brown, rarely dark brown. She's been having issues where the brown is all at one end and bumpy, so that's why I'm even letting her go broody. I want the factory to be shut down for a while so she can get back to laying eggs with normal shells.

 

[Themellowyellows]

@SimpleJenn ~ not a true Halloweeny name but my Keiko's momma was called "Pumpkin Spice" which fits the holiday

Thats such a good picute! You should crop it and upload it to BYC chicken calendar contest!

 

[Sylvester017]

Thats such a good picute! You should crop it and upload it to BYC chicken calendar contest!

Yes, this is a darling picture of my "Keiko's" momma from Buckaboo Farm but it's not my photo.
https://buckaboofarm.com/farm-blog/meet-the-flock/

The following is my photo of the 3 Silkies we got from Buckaboo. My babies all grown up now!