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  1. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Yep, we have increasing flock numbers of red-fronteded green Amazons flying overhead every morning & back the other direction every evening. Have no idea where they go or roost... we just know we're in their flight pattern. I think our neighborhood crows keep the Amazons from settling down in...
  2. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Love 🩷 your open spaces scenery.
  3. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    TY @RoyalChick 4 Synops ❣️ That's a lot of posts to go thru & shorten!
  4. Sylvester017

    Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

    @alinas2010 ~ POW! YAY!
  5. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Whats cute are the whiskers growing on the horse's muzzle
  6. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Havin' 9 of them over the yrs has been all the "proof" 'nough fer me😉!
  7. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Belt Hatchery I believe supplies your local feed stores as they do our feed store & their breed availability is very limited compared to the Midwest's mega-hatcheries selections. Welsummers have Light Brown Leghorn in them if you ever come across Wellies, plus they are auto-sexed at hatch. The...
  8. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Did the veterinarian guess Ollie's age? Cats live way longer than chickens or dogs. For yrs my DS/DIL's kitty lived to 18 even w/ having to have insulin injections twice a day for her last 6 years of life. Cats are amazing creatures.
  9. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I was going to get a couple Light Brown Legs & Exchequers after getting my White Leg & Buff Legs but had to rehome all our Legs before I could get more. I also wanted Welsummers but never had the right opportunity. That's ok... God knew best👌 what we actually wound up with (less troublesome...
  10. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Had to laugh... been there for all except the parachute jump :old
  11. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Too little too late for some of us BY keepers who have already lost sweeties to layer issues. Our sweet Mini who suffered laying issues from her 1st egg as a pullet to her very last egg w/ bleeding ovarian tumor at 6-1/2 yrs If it was ever a possibility we would've gladly opted a chicken...
  12. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    We used vaseline once on our White Leghorn & no denying it was effective; however, it greased up some of her white feathers that stained her feathers when she took a dustbath & she looked sadly dingy till her next moult. The vet recommended Vit E which is absorbed into the skin & doesn't leave a...
  13. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    You all look cozy too ❣️
  14. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Nice... & VERY fluffy 🩷
  15. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Living on a farm... all pets & farm livestock are stressful to care for... so are the farm orchards & gardens ~ even though less stressful but still worrisome. Can't figure why some bird species have such long lifespans like parrots & swans while other birds are lucky to make it to a year? Not...
  16. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    There was once a minimum of over 200 varieties of chickens we would've liked to have owned, but now that we're old, these 4 surviving Silkies will be our last flock... DH has health issues & I am feeling my old age/ handicaps.
  17. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I don't disagree about implant issues... only that it seems to be a rare practice in the USA. I've had 3 Leghorns ~ 2 from Dan Honour's developing Buff line & 1 White ~ & absolutely loved them. They could be aloof as chicks & adults but do interact a bit w/ humans in spite of their mostly...
  18. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    TeeHee! That's a lot of new leftovers plus new chicks you'll be getting... but good to prepare for any losses you might have from your present tribe (sad, but it happens as we all know too well). I don't think you need to worry about Fayoumi egg colors so much as to wonder where they will lay...
  19. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Implants seem to be for poultry industry use & not widely recommended from what I read on the internet. My thinking is if a hen gets to the point of needing an implant for health reasons, she's not very hardy to begin with. Some sweeties just haven't been born w/ the hardiness of their peers.
  20. Sylvester017

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    The Australorp pics were all from Australorp websites... probably cross-breeding to create new colors loses some of the main features of the true black 'Lorps. TY for your 'Lorp pics... I never was able to get any... never the right opportunity for me plus I was never sure an all-black heavier...
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