Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Hmm, Samara has a lumpy thing on the side of her beak. I think that's what Shep has been picking at.
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Doesn't seem to be bothering her. It reminds me of when my fingernails seperate into layers and peel up a little. I'll keep an eye on it.

In other news, Samara would like to be reconsidered for the "bearded ladies" club. She was already in the "cheeky poof chicks" but she says she really does have a beard, she just needed a good bath to show it off!
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Such a lovely girl - I love her jaunty tail and of course her beard too

 

[Ponypoor]

Hubby says that in a few years we'll let them raise babies. We'll decide then whether to get hatching eggs or buy chicks. He says the brooder was fine but if a hen can raise them that seems better.

Buy pullet chicks and shove them under a broody hen - this way you don’t worry about roosters and you can get any breed you wish! And the hen will raise them!

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry to bore everyone, but somehow for me this continues to be magical.
My five layers all gifted me an egg today. From back left: Bernie, Babs, Pooh, Piglet, and Tassels.
No contributions yet from Sylvie or Calypso. I looked up my records and Bernadette hatched on Feb 3, 2022 and laid her first egg on Feb 24, 2023. So a year minus 3 weeks.
If Calypso is trying to beat that record she will have to hold out until the last week of March (she hatched April 17th, 2023)
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I’m getting very few eggs.
So, please send me your eggs to PO BOX 3584- 912 Exeter CV California. Thanks

 

[MaryJanet]

I figured out what was going on here. Much like eating all the marshmallows out of a box of lucky charms, they were only eating the purple corn and leaving the yellow corn on the ground.

Spoiled ladies they are.

@MaryJanet

True to form!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Buy pullet chicks and shove them under a broody hen - this way you don’t worry about roosters and you can get any breed you wish! And the hen will raise them!

Good idea! And she'll be okay in the main coop and run with the others? Or should we keep the mini coop for them until ready to integrate?

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m getting very few eggs.
So, please send me your eggs to PO BOX 3584- 912 Exeter CV California. Thanks

How many dozen would you like? 5?

 

[Ponypoor]

Good idea! And she'll be okay in the main coop and run with the others? Or should we keep the mini coop for them until ready to integrate?

Well once they are about a week old I let my mums out and about supervised. Everyone pretty much ignores them because they are with their mum.

I do have to watch out because the mamas can be nervous and pick fights with anyone who gets too close. If it’s a subordinate mama then they can get picked one for such behaviour. But I just keep an eye out and so t let anyone get too close. After a week it’s business as usual, and of course by then at two weeks old the chicks are great at running away and hiding if anyone pesters them.

It was the same with the chicks my niece hatched at her school, they arrived here at about 2.5 week old, I put them out with my gang who just ignored them.

School chicks

 

[featherhead007]

Can we guess who this is? Hint: she chose her own name by pecking at my iPhone screen.

How many dozen would you like? 5?

two dozen each week (until the strike is over)

 

[rural mouse]

Ooh, I need game hens....

Me too....

 

[rural mouse]

Twirp was home when we got home from the wedding. All here, all sleepy