Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I really liked @Sylvester017 trick with using coverage to deter air predators from swooping down so easily.

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[Ponypoor]

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That is an amazing photo!

 

[Sylvester017]

Let sleeping chooks lie

They shared this spot today for a snooze and warmth

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A brick paver makes a great pillow!

Bricks/pavers absorb the warmth of sun rays on cold days. I love to see chickens melt on warm pavers. During summer the pavers & cement slab in the shade stay cool so the chickens will sit on them to cool off. Pavers used for both warmth & coolness have been a blessing here.

 

[Ponypoor]

Holly and Jolly enjoyed some outside time today, @RebeccaBoyd one day you will need to get a fluffy dumpling.

Also listen closely to the beginning of this video and you will hear Jolly ‘honking’ away, so does this sound like a pullet? I cannot remember if Clyde did this.

 

[Sylvester017]

Your right I do eventually need white dumplings. My favorite though remains unchanged. Black. Branch and Poppy forever sealed that color in my heart as my favorite. It is not surprising though, no matter what the breed I like my black chickens.

Me too ~ love the blacks (& the blues ~ all part of the BBS colors) What surprises me is the splash variants within the BBS breeding chart. @rural mouse very well must know why

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've been crazy busy and miss being on here regularly!

Annie has a broken toe. I think it is recent, and her foot is warm where her other foot is cool. I posted on the injuries thread but would love your input as to the best way to treat.

Her toe is turning sideways & under, she reaches forward in her stride and doesn’t want to let it flex at the back of her stride. Yesterday she would stand with her foot raised. Today I saw it once but think she’s more comfortable than yesterday.

I downloaded the "How to treat Avian fractures" manual, but didn't make a very good boot. https://theiwrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Duerr_Splinting_Manual_2010.pdf
It helped her, and she was comfortable on it, but it didn't last.

I won't try tonight, as I'd want to monitor it, but I'm wondering if a splint with vet wrap on the individual toe, wrapped around the foot to secure, would work? I did not have a premade boot but of course now have them on order. I could make a stiffer boot in the meantime, flexible styrofoam but a thin plastic lid underneath, and wrapped better.

Gave her liquid Tylenol last night, a bit difficult opening her beak and a sticky mess, then not seeing bruising today I gave her 1/2 baby aspirin which she gobbled up, about six hours apart, much easier. Thoughts?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...nt-possible-or-try-boot.1658736/post-28522619

 

[ValerieJ]

Their feed is out in the coop. The scratch is all over out there....having to go hunt for it.....please, Ma, throw us some more!

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I love pictures of your chickens truly free ranging in all that space!!! I sure wish I could do that! But everyone that has tried it in this area has lost their chickens to predators. We have so many ground predators. More so than aerial ones.

 

[ValerieJ]

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Tax:

I let the girls out for about an hour... But I got hungry so I got them back in the run so I could have some bread (I was right, it's a little dense/doughy in the middle but not undercooked. I like it!)

No pics of them outside (phone was charging) but here they are begging to go out again just now
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...And Gytha.

That bread looks delicious! I love sourdough! Good job on that!

 

[ValerieJ]

Well one day all of them were outside and the big chick walked up to the roost and flap/hopped up, one of the silkie chicks walking behind him did the same thing - flap/hop….. epic miss haahahahaha didn’t even get close to that roost. But after it missed the roost, it just kept right on walking didn’t even miss a stride didn’t faze it in the slightest.

 

[Sylvester017]

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Love the vast foliage plants you have on your property