Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

You couldn't have timed that pic better if you tried!!!!

Aaaarggh, matey - that piece is MINE!!!!!

 

[Sylvester017]

She thinks she’s a big hen, but she was the runt of the hatch. She has always been small for a Rhode Island Redhead.

Same thing w/ our Dana ~ she was the pasty butt runt chick of 3 feed store Doms & she's outlived both her sisters ~ now at 8 yrs she looks huge ~ or maybe that's cuz she looks big in a flock of 5 smaller Silkies now?

 

[Ponypoor]

Nope, I wasn’t trying to be funny. My vet usually only sees horses. She’s made an exception for me because she knew I was desperate. The only other veterinarian was at the college in Fresno. Here’s little Elsa for my tax payment:View attachment 4168214

She reminds me of my lovely Buttercup

 

[featherhead007]

She reminds me of my lovely Buttercup

Thank you for that compliment. Buttercup was a lovely hen, I can only imagine. My other two birds look like her also. CeeCee is my white Ameraucana, and My Little Pony always reminds me of the pony I had purchased for my daughter on her 12th birthday (she’s crazy about horses)

 

[SimpleJenn]

I miscounted yesterday
46 eggs are in the incubators. They are double stacked so I'm manually turning them every so often.
Y'all, Navy is only 5 months old but she is doing her featherduster ancestors proud and staying broody. Tonight is the night the cochins move to the integration pen, and I'll pop her into their coop. If she's still brooding fake eggs in the morning I'll give her some of the silkie eggs. There's just too many and hubby has said "no way" to getting another incubator

In other news, I scrubbed all the feeders, waterers, and bowls, raked the dirt in the runs, and gotten the integration pen ready for the cochins.
Blue and Delft are still alive, eating cat food mixed with a bit of selenium paste and water. The others can see them from the run and they have been talking to them.
Cemani is...hooting. It'll turn into a crow soon.
Mugs

BlackJack is a very cute boy, he bites though!

 

[featherhead007]

Same thing w/ our Dana ~ she was the pasty butt runt chick of 3 feed store Doms & she's outlived both her sisters ~ now at 8 yrs she looks huge ~ or maybe that's cuz she looks big in a flock of 5 smaller Silkies now?
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Does Dana suffer an inferiority complex? Or has she also realized the fault of you two thinking that Silkies are chickens, when they obviously are not really chicken?

 

[featherhead007]

Do you really think it’s fair for Navy, to attempt raising Silkie eggs, when we know full well that Silkies are not real chickens? Maybe you could get some duck eggs. At least they are real birds, and not feather dusters.!

I miscounted yesterday
46 eggs are in the incubators. They are double stacked so I'm manually turning them every so often.
Y'all, Navy is only 5 months old but she is doing her featherduster ancestors proud and staying broody. Tonight is the night the cochins move to the integration pen, and I'll pop her into their coop. If she's still brooding fake eggs in the morning I'll give her some of the silkie eggs. There's just too many and hubby has said "no way" to getting another incubator

In other news, I scrubbed all the feeders, waterers, and bowls, raked the dirt in the runs, and gotten the integration pen ready for the cochins.
Blue and Delft are still alive, eating cat food mixed with a bit of selenium paste and water. The others can see them from the run and they have been talking to them.
Cemani is...hooting. It'll turn into a crow soon.
Mugs
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BlackJack is a very cute boy, he bites though!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Do you really think it’s fair for Navy, to attempt raising Silkie eggs, when we know full well that Silkies are not real chickens? Maybe you could get some duck eggs. At least they are real birds, and not feather dusters.!

Hey now, she's 1/4 sulky!
Her daddy is a splash copper marans, her momma is silky/cream legbar.

 

[BY Bob]

Yes, my anxiety is through the roof...I'm so afraid I'll go to check and they'll all be dead again.

I can't imagine living through that. You are very brave to have chickens again. I'm afraid that you will likely encounter these feelings more often than just this time.

 

[BY Bob]

Poor kiddos, likely wondering what all the noise was about. Hope they were able to settle down afterwards.

They were. A little after midnight.