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  1. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Poor baby! Cursed plastic! Tarps are dangerous too when they begin to deteriorate. Yrs ago our Silkie Violet got hobbled from long stringy tarp pieces. TG I saw her walking funny before she got hurt from it. Now I get after DH to throw out any tarp that begins the slightest wear! We constantly...
  2. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I know zero about roo's... but my input is wear a pair of safety glasses 👓 to protect your eyes if you decide to cuddle Mr. Chips... just in case Tassels does a weird thing like fly at you. Just never know what a bird may do to protect her young. That Tassels is a real tenacious determined lady 💕.
  3. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Do you happen to have back door beggars too by chance?
  4. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    TeeHee ~ most do agree they qualify as 1/2 a chicken ~ so, w/ one Dominique & 5 Silkies we figure we have 3-1/2 total chickens :lau
  5. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Your story is very similar to some of the ones related to me from a few Polish owners a few yrs ago. I knew Polish were a bit skittish from vision impairment... Silkies too... however, Silkie owners who also had experience w/ Polish insisted the Silkies would surprise me at their resilience as...
  6. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Bijou was playing w/ something in her mouth... do you know what it was?
  7. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    So many issues we flock owners never counted on when we started w/chickens. I never knew how much we faced w/ vet bills, vet medicines/&supplies/euthanasia, yard modifications, coop/run expenses, handicapped chicks, broodies, hen-i-tentiaries, quarantines, Mareck's, Avian Leukosis, Fowl Pox...
  8. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Many European Polish lovers keep Polish-only flocks ~ too gentle to mix w/ standard breeds maybe? They seem too gentle to be around standard breeds... it was that observation yrs ago that kept me from mixing Polish into our standard flock even tho I was fascinated by them. Silkie owners were...
  9. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    After reading everyone's issues w/ Polish, game birds, roo's, & standard size birds... I'm glad we got Silkies as our final flock. I agree... Silkies don't go around beating up other birds ~ they only pick on each other if one is in a bad mood & they move very fast out of each other's way that...
  10. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    😍 Happy time, yes! As soon as I sit down anywhere outside I have 6 pairs of chicken eyes staring at me...
  11. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We have them around here. As a kid my family nicknamed them Daddy Long Legs spiders cuz they are all legs w/ a tiny body. Don't know what they're really called but they're fairly harmless. We never see them outside (probably easy for the hens to catch) but once in a while we find one in the...
  12. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    A friend of ours rescued a loose Jack Russell ~ same day it got into his chicken run & killed all 5 of his hens. Hope this JR is good. Love the heart... what are the odds that mark happens?
  13. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Count the shrimp? ... I think I counted the same baby 4x!!!
  14. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    DH sneaked a pic of me feeding organic raisins to the girls, we feed them organic cuz what they eat goes into their eggs & we eat their eggs...
  15. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We have two 5-yr-old Silkies too. One nice thing is they usually stop laying & should never go broody again. Although, once we had a 6-1/2 yr Silkie Mini who still layed but she passed from ovarian bleeding tumor ~ her reproductive system was always messed up... I'm surprised she lived so long ~...
  16. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Hurray for the trap! DH uses store-bought cheese-filled crackers or real cheddar cheese cubelets to bait our Kensizer. Odorous foods/flavours attract them. We catch 1 to 3 rats weekly. I'm curious about how many we'll get in winter...
  17. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Whether front or back this cotton ball is lovely ❣️
  18. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Two more cotton balls that look slightly used❣️
  19. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    They may not always like it... but our 6 girls know exactly what "go to bed" means! Ginny is the hardest one to get to bed. She doesn't like the ladder so we built her steps using bricks.
  20. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I appreciate paying sponsors & advertisements but on my laptop the ad's super-impose over the posts so I'm seeing them doubled over each other. I have to hit my refresh button each time to refresh the page back to normal. Earlier today I had to remove myself from BYC for a while cuz videos...
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