Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I would think that the wide screen TV would generate heat?

Doesn’t everyone have a wide screen TV that the chooks can enjoy?

 

[Sylvester017]

Princess is doing so well. Here she is in a short video in her home with her admirer peeping in on her through the fence

Princesses secret admirer is called Huey, Huey has been seen following her all around the fence for days .
He lives next door and he is a Muscovy Duck .

Sadly for Huey, Princess hasn't even noticed him. I hope she does soon . This is just so sweet

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W/ Princess's floppy comb she possibly doesn't see Huey...or she has the typical Leghorn background of being an industrious independent forager not needing companionship. Our 3 Leghorns were not followers nor seemed desirous of companionship ... others would follow them.

 

[BY Bob]

Huge fan of Star Trek The Next Generation, that was a few years before I was born.

This makes me feel very old.

 

[BY Bob]

I've missed you my friend.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Advice needed from my friends here.
Next week I have a 3 day spell of very cold weather forecast.
Lows forecast at 6°F/minus14.4°C and highs at 18°F/minus7.8°C.
I am worried. Particularly about Pooh and Calypso who are still molting.
Those of you used to those temperatures: @rural mouse, @Ponypoor you both must have experience, any advice?
My options are leave them be, they will be fine. Bring the molting ones in to the garage overnight and release them back out at dawn. In the garage they would be in a dog crate with a 2x4.
Put a space heater in a room in the barn and keep them there day and night. There are some roosting spots and the carpet there needs to be thrown out anyway. It is where I quarantined Eli and Babs when they first came here.
Any thoughts?

Unless they are flat out naked, I vote leave them alone. As long as they have plenty of food, water and a draft free dry coop they will be fine.

 

[Sylvester017]

Doesn’t everyone have a wide screen TV that the chooks can enjoy?

Not only do our hens not have a wide-screen TV...we don't even have one ourselves!

 

[RoyalChick]

If you put the space heater in the human area of the coop (behind the nest boxes), 1 is there a place to plug it in safely? And 2 would the warmth trickle into the coop?

The next boxes would be warmer, providing a warmup center for All, not just the moulting...and possibly keep any eggs from freezing...

Dawn is actually the coldest time of a 24hour period.

Moving them to unfamiliar space will be stressful simply because it's unfamiliar.

You still have the heat panel facing the roosts, correct? They have a heated warm up place, are with friends, and less stress. If you can warm the nest boxes (even fresh straw (warmer than shavings) would help there) they will have options with the least amount of stress. My vote is for minimal stress.

This is an interesting perspective. Yes I can plug a space heater into the coop - even on the step just outside the human area. Sort of where I put the fire-escape when I have chicks.
I am not worried about frozen eggs as nobody is laying, but the issue is that because the Palace is so high and the ventilation so extensive, any heat just goes right up and out.
I wonder though if I could rig up a temporary roof over the roosts (tarp or cardboard) to trap heat. Maybe combined with something to deflect heat from the space heater into the coop rather than straight up.
Hmmm.

 

[BY Bob]

W/ Princess's floppy comb she possibly doesn't see Huey...or she has the typical Leghorn background of being an industrious independent forager not needing companionship. Our 3 Leghorns were not followers nor seemed desirous of companionship ... others would follow them.

Leghorns are born leaders. Would you not follow this lady anywhere?

 

[featherhead007]

Not only do our hens not have a wide-screen TV...we don't even have one ourselves!

I put one in the laying box. The chooks love it. Thank God for Animal Planet!

 

[TOMTE]

What the heck is going on?

So pretty though...