Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

It that legal? It’s not deer season yet, and there are rules around discharging firearms. Let’s hope the are shooting a raccoon or a mink or something.

Oh I am fairly certain he was up to no good out there in the bush....

He stopped when I yelled out the window ' Here! WTH is going on out there? Well? What are you doing?'

Hahaha bet he didn't expect anyone up at pre-dawn-oclock

Tax for being cheeky

Two for Tuesday

 

[Ponypoor]

Bearing up. My friend searched locally for treatment at our chemists today with no luck but he managed too get a rush delivery for tomorrow fingers, crossed it arrives.

Thank you for asking. it's a very hard trail here but not giving up on my beautiful mother hen ❤

Yes she's a beauty

 

[Kris5902]

It’s called chicken math.

I know, right? I’m over 100 here, and trying to get a shot of just two at a time is one of my biggest weekly challenges chicken wise

 

[Ponypoor]

Try coq-au-vin? See if she cares more for her rooster than herself?

Or just give her the wine.... Just saying!

 

[Marie2020]

Yes she's a beauty

Flexi said Hello PonyPoor and thank you kindly

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Ok folks, we have to pause the trip down memory lane for a minute because I am stumped. We also need to revisit the "Cinnamon Queen, Isa Brown or even Red Sex-link" issue all over again. The Hooligans will be 5 months in just over a week and a half. I figured I should start looking for new eggs around the 2nd week of August maybe. I have a egg that is throwing me for a loop. Every single current laying hens egg is accounted for today except Momma hens. She lays a white egg so she does not figure into this equation. I go out to top off water and look in the corner of Russ's stall, what the heck another egg? Not only that this thing is a monster.
Here is the mystery egg beside Butter's egg. Butter also lays my biggest eggs.

This thing is huge and I cannot close the lid on that carton without breaking it

For people on here that have had them, do those look like Cinnamon Queen or Isa brown eggs? Did Rural King actually have them marked right and they are not Mystery Red Chickens after all?

I just cannot see that being a pullet egg, but good lord what else can it be? I do know in the next few days I'm going to be stalking that area to see if I can catch the culprit. I also suppose if more then one of them a day start appearing soon I'll know my answer.

 

[Kris5902]

Oh I am fairly certain he was up to no good out there in the bush....

He stopped when I yelled out the window ' Here! WTH is going on out there? Well? What are you doing?'

Hahaha bet he didn't expect anyone up at pre-dawn-oclock

Tax for being cheeky

Two for Tuesday

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That is nicer than most of what I have to say to people with unleashed dogs, we don’t get too many trespassers with guns. Only one known poaching issue in the past 5 years, although our local indigenous person likes to exercise his treaty rights in the park and forgets to tell me, granted I’m also usually halfway to where the shots were fired before I think to message him!

 

[Kris5902]

Ok folks, we have to pause the trip down memory lane for a minute because I am stumped. We also need to revisit the "Cinnamon Queen, Isa Brown or even Red Sex-link" issue all over again. The Hooligans will be 5 months in just over a week and a half. I figured I should start looking for new eggs around the 2nd week of August maybe. I have a egg that is throwing me for a loop. Every single current laying hens egg is accounted for today except Momma hens. She lays a white egg so she does not figure into this equation. I go out to top off water and look in the corner of Russ's stall, what the heck another egg? Not only that this thing is a monster.
Here is the mystery egg beside Butter's egg. Butter also lays my biggest eggs.
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This thing is huge and I cannot close the lid on that carton without breaking it
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For people on here that have had them, do those look like Cinnamon Queen or Isa brown eggs? Did Rural King actually have them marked right and they are not Mystery Red Chickens after all?
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I just cannot see that being a pullet egg, but good lord what else can it be? I do know in the next few days I'm going to be stalking that area to see if I can catch the culprit. I also suppose if more then one of them a day start appearing soon I'll know my answer.

Any chance of a double Yorker that may have been missed from a previous day? Hidden in Russ’ bedding?

 

[RoyalChick]

Ok folks, we have to pause the trip down memory lane for a minute because I am stumped. We also need to revisit the "Cinnamon Queen, Isa Brown or even Red Sex-link" issue all over again. The Hooligans will be 5 months in just over a week and a half. I figured I should start looking for new eggs around the 2nd week of August maybe. I have a egg that is throwing me for a loop. Every single current laying hens egg is accounted for today except Momma hens. She lays a white egg so she does not figure into this equation. I go out to top off water and look in the corner of Russ's stall, what the heck another egg? Not only that this thing is a monster.
Here is the mystery egg beside Butter's egg. Butter also lays my biggest eggs.
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This thing is huge and I cannot close the lid on that carton without breaking it
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For people on here that have had them, do those look like Cinnamon Queen or Isa brown eggs? Did Rural King actually have them marked right and they are not Mystery Red Chickens after all?
View attachment 3183906View attachment 3183909
I just cannot see that being a pullet egg, but good lord what else can it be? I do know in the next few days I'm going to be stalking that area to see if I can catch the culprit. I also suppose if more then one of them a day start appearing soon I'll know my answer.

Diana is an ISA Brown. She lays very large eggs that look like that.
But, at no stage did she look anything like yours!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Any chance of a double Yorker that may have been missed from a previous day? Hidden in Russ’ bedding?

Double yolk maybe. That was not hidden in his bedding, it was in a nest built out of his breakfast hay. Russ does not waste his hay and will eat every bite. I had already earlier in the morning removed 2 other eggs from that spot from Squirrel and one of the cochins. His stall was also given the weekly gutting last night instead of just scooping the poop out and freshening up. I know I did not miss a egg yesterday in it.