Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Mine are pets too! I have 11 hens and 2 chicks. My hens don't have a house as good as yours but they are happy! Love to see this!

So glad you chimed in. Thanks for the kind words on the coop. Would you share photos of your chickens? We love to see photos.

 

[BY Bob]

She got to video chat with one of her great grammas yesterday and told her "I'm gonna hatch eggs for my birthday and have chickens in the house!"

How sweet!

 

[McPickle88]

So glad you chimed in. Thanks for the kind words on the coop. Would you share photos of your chickens? We love to see photos.

 

[Sylvester017]

That’s a lovely crow!

I thought the same thing ~ some are funny, squeaky, loud, deep but this crow was ~ pleasant to hear.

 

[Sylvester017]

It is official. I detest winter. I had forgotten how much I hated doing water till tonight. I had to roll up the hose in the barn, for fear of it freezing.

Now I will have to, every evening, take the hose out of the feedroom to fill up the horses buckets. And then put it back in the feedroom. Likely covered in chicken poop.

A hose reel might work to keep it off the ground? We have one in the front & back yard. Some styles mount on a wall or free standing or mounted in the ground. No chicken in 6 yrs has ever hopped on top of our hose reel holders so never pooped on. Of course hoses left in use on the ground have poop on them.

 

[Sylvester017]

You might look into hypocloreous acid vs bleach. I know the bleach sets off my autoimmune issues, but I don't seem to react to the other and it kills pretty much everything.
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Btw it is what is in Vetrycin

TY 4 D tip!

 

[Ponypoor]

A hose reel might work to keep it off the ground? We have one in the front & back yard. Some styles mount on a wall or free standing or mounted in the ground. No chicken in 6 yrs has ever hopped on top of our hose reel holders so never pooped on. Of course hoses left in use on the ground have poop on them.

Doesn’t work for a hose as long as mine (100’) tries a few over the years - more trouble than they were worth.

Weather whining tax

Summer time fluffy butts
June 2023 BFTP

 

[Sylvester017]

2:40pm
And then I caught Betty trying to pick at poor Mr P. So tomorrow she can join the rest again. I worry about her with those bigger Roos. But poor Mr P really is being harassed too much by these pullets.

Too bad they don't have some kind of saddle for roos?!

 

[Ponypoor]

Too bad they don't have some kind of saddle for roos?!

Yea I was thinking of trying to get a hood and butt guard for him.

 

[Ponypoor]

I have been blessed to have always had as far as people go stellar roos.

None of them, not even my dear Drumstick and Branch have been this easy as George. He was born a gentleman. At some point in their lives before they hit 6 months of age which George now is they have done something stupid which resulted in my go to of packing them around like a baby. They have either bit or given chase in a half-hearted sneak attack to flog from behind. When they found their voices they used them. All day and even in the middle of the night.

To date George is just special. He is respectful. He has been crowing a month. I have only heard him twice in that months time. He never, ever has crowed after 9 am. He has never bit me yet. He escorts me and keeps watch over me, not once has he deployed the sneak attack come from behind charge. I'm not saying he is perfect. I'm also not saying in a month when the girls pick back up laying and those hormones really hit that he will not have a stupid moment. I'm sure he will, they all do. He just makes raising up a cockerel easy and a very very enjoyable experience.

If everyone could have a cockerel like George, more people would have roosters.

Have to say the four youngsters here have also been really good! None has attacked me or anyone else, and other then Mr LC and Clyde having an amorous attachment to my hands they have been real sweeties.

Clyde remains a sweetie and enjoys a snuggle; Mr LC not so much now.

As long as they don’t start trying to kill each other off, they are free to stay.