Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LhickenChicken]

How old were they?

Ginger was one year old, and Lady Nacho had just turned two.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

On this Twofer Tuesday, these two just want to escape. They seem to love escaping more than food.

 

[micstrachan]

It is Mugs Monday. I got some good ones this time around.
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Beautiful mugs!

 

[Ponypoor]

I thought a few of you might find this interesting. I’m now reading this study saying that in hens who have suffered from salpingitis (although this is incidentally the same problem common to older hens where they throw increasingly thin-shelled egg), the microvilli that line the endometrium are damaged due to inflammation. Even once the inflammation has cleared, the villi will have either atrophied or are reduced in number. It’s those villi that hold the egg and push it along at a certain pace, so if they’re damaged, they end up passing eggs through the tract more quickly. Thus, thin shelled eggs.

But! That blood concentrations for minerals don’t change; meaning that additional calcium wouldn’t help. “The damages of endometrial tissue inhibit the processes of ion transmission and the crystallization of eggshell formation”.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238045/

Thanks for sharing I read most of it (had to get back to work ), that was most informative!

 

[Ponypoor]

On this Twofer Tuesday, these two just want to escape. They seem to love escaping more than food.
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Yup tis the way of the chicken!

 

[Ponypoor]

MUGS:
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Two marans and Mina

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Two marans, one of which could still be a pullet

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The black Olive egger, left, joins in on mugs fun

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Bananas!

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Wee lass, who is always cold. She finds herself begging the other chicks to please go to bed, it’s time for a nap and to heat up. But noo, they’re too busy!

Awwww wee lassie is a darling! And so is Bananas!

 

[Ponypoor]

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2 drinking babiesView attachment 3796166Jane and Violet

View attachment 37961672 "That's MY nest" ladies (Nellie and Primula)View attachment 3796167

2 wait for me...how do I get down?View attachment 3796168Daisy and Rose (with Blanche's tail in nest 1)

So big now!

Nellie and Primula are a hoot

 

[Ponypoor]

Two is a tight squeeze even on a Tuesday
I am really hoping Piglet is just visiting Tassels to give her an egg.
I can’t cope with them both being broody!
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I will hope and pray for you

 

[Ponypoor]

It was almost two months exactly between lash eggs for Pip. Has anyone else dealing with this noticed any pattern to frequency?

Nope

I had a hen have one a couple yrs ago when I had no idea what it was, a
Bunch of thin shelled and membrane eggs, then stopped, then laid normal eggs last year and this I have no idea if she is laying at all.

But she is acting normal running around eating pooping. I am giving her calcium.

Then there was Petunia who has had soft eggs, brittle eggs, eggs in eggs….

And Sharpie and her lash egg

Not sure if she is laying anything as I am working and not home.

And take Larry, she was laying brittle eggs that always broke, and now she seems to be laying nice eggs since she moulted and I have been dosing her with calcium.

Same thing Marty - she was laying soft eggs, moulted and I have been giving calcium.

So right now I have the following hens on calcium every other night.
- Blanche
- Larry
- Marty
- Petunia
- Sharpie

I have giving calcium to them down to a science hahaha - grab and stuff down their gobs- they don’t even fuss now.

 

[Ponypoor]

Ginger was one year old, and Lady Nacho had just turned two.

Just youngsters - that’s sad.