Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Yesterday's tribeservations (left home around 10am, cot home just in time to close the coop: move in day at the college for middle son).

-Hector is a good boy idiot. Good boy: Nox is looking for a place to lay (outside the coop) and he was escorting her up and down the hedge with the lilacs and roses (north edge). Idiot: every place he suggested was a BAD idea....several feet out in the sparse grass in the pasture....in the freshly mown lawn on this side of the hedge.... I took out some grapes and he tidbitted for her, but she snatched and ran, so he's got his work cut out for him. He and Pear were the only ones out of the coop when we got home. He was after her again. (He roosts on top of the nest boxes with her and Silver as they never moved when the new roosts were added) After catching her, he tried telling her to lay in the chive patch (pic for reference, not of event)View attachment 3227035Behind Pippa (next to the rock), not under the lilac 3 feet away.

-Kren has an obsession with Belladonna....he (speculating based upon what heard rather than saw) tried to mate with her on roost, causing himself to fall to the floor of the coop, her to then follow, unable to regain her balance. Then he tried again and she ran from the coop to perch just outside (she eventually wound up on the window sill outside) where he tried again. She ran around the coop to the opposite side where he caught her and got knocked off by Hector. When Cheetah is outside watching this, he will do the knocking off, but if Hector comes to try to help, Hector gets chased off. Cheetah stayed inside, squawked/talked much but out of sight, out of mind. Hector is starting to develop the same type of relationship with Kren (and Horus) that Cheetah has with himself: give chase upon sight.

-Grapes are wonderful taming tools. Lark and Indigo are still pretty wild. Handful of grapes, out the patio door to sit on the steps by the French lilac off the deck. Thing got the first one. Others present: Whiskey, Blanche, Nellie, Twirp, Lark, Indigo. Waiting for their grape happened. Lark didn't freak out over proximity to me. Indigo stayed under the lilac but stayed put rather than zipping around the opposite side (grapes got rolled in to her too).

-crazy busy day: college info was not received at our end: emailed to his high school email which he no longer has access to, no dorm assignment in spite of getting it set up June 1. That got fixed, he has a room......his ID card doesn't work and office was closed by the time we figured that out. He has to work today so will be doing the rest of his running around via phone calls as offices close within an hour of him getting off work....at opposite end of town....resident life office has the corrected email so that contact should be simple. Card office....no idea.... books are paid by his scholarship so figuring out how to get them via phone to Financials office tomorrow should be fun, then getting them ordered for classes monday "I'll be sharing about that in tomorrow's 9am seminar" "I'll be at work...." "then email/call me tomorrow if the financial office doesn't get the info" At least we got transportation worked out for tomorrow to get him to work (so far no one knows anything about the city bus system inspite of it having a stop in center of campus and another in front of work because the satellite campus is farther out). At this rate, he's finding EVERY glitch in the system his first semester, so he'll know who/where to fix ANYTHING. Bonus: I finished the quilt for him that I'd started when he was about 6. I'd had to put it away when it was ready to be tied, so got it done on Sunday.View attachment 3227060Didn't know how appropriate the monkeys would be...View attachment 3227062

Congratulations on the big move for him. So much to work out those first days at school. That quilt is amazing! Great work and you got it done just in time.

 

[BY Bob]

We have our first true flight. Indigo, in trying to get away from Kren, flewup into the branches of a tree, a good 6 feet up.....the one with the purple leaves...View attachment 3227072

That is a true desire to get away. Geeze boys. Get your act together!

 

[featherhead007]

Smoke being a bit heavier than air has come down off the mountain, and is hovering over the lower foothills. (And all around here) “ cough cough “ . Jaffar started crowing at 03:30 this morning. I went out to check on all of them. Held Jaffar a few minutes before going back into the house. ( Eye drops time! ) the neighbors roosters (6) were crowing loudly, early too.

 

[RoyalChick]

Making a Fool of BY Bob

It started with the Rascals coming out of their run in the morning yesterday. Now the big ladies have joined in.

Ever since Phyllis has gone broody we have had 0 eggs. None. I assumed they were all laying in Phyllis's box and that she had a huge clutch under her. So today I was going remove Phyllis from the nest and swap out all of the eggs for ceramic.

Until

I caught Betty.

Guess where they have been all laying.

Spoiler: Where has Everyone Been Laying

In Hattie House!

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If Betty has been laying every day, that is 4 days worth of eggs. Considering Phyllis stated setting last Friday, it has been 6 days. Betty should skip two days so that works.

Mrs BY Bob suggested that they might be laying in Hattie House. I dismissed the idea entirely. Made a fool of yet again.

I do need to get Phyllis off the nest today and see what she has got under her.

Well it is so pretty and the color is perfect to set off the lovely tone of their 'pink' eggs. Hattie's house is a perfect place to lay.

 

[BY Bob]

Well it is so pretty and the color is perfect to set off the lovely tone of their 'pink' eggs. Hattie's house is a perfect place to lay.

I left 3 eggs and 2 ceramics. I'm fine with them laying there.

 

[RoyalChick]

Lulu gifted me another egg today. A whopping 47.7 grams. I think that is roughly what a grocery store ‘standard’ egg is in the US (even though all the eggs they sell seem to be large or extra large).
Again she spent a fair bit of time deciding on which box to select for this gift. And it appeared that she was being advised by Maggie who showed them all to her just like a rooster would. Very odd.
Then when she emerged all four of them sang. It is odd (and possibly a tad creepy) that they all seem to share ownership in Lulu’s egg laying.
Here is Lulu’s egg from today compare to the one on day one. She has laid four eggs over five days. I hope she slows down. She is a Roadrunner by breed so I was expecting 2-3 a week.

 

[fuentemoon]

Lulu gifted me another egg today. A whopping 47.7 grams. I think that is roughly what a grocery store ‘standard’ egg is in the US (even though all the eggs they sell seem to be large or extra large).
Again she spent a fair bit of time deciding on which box to select for this gift. And it appeared that she was being advised by Maggie who showed them all to her just like a rooster would. Very odd.
Then when she emerged all four of them sang. It is odd (and possibly a tad creepy) that they all seem to share ownership in Lulu’s egg laying.
Here is Lulu’s egg from today compare to the one on day one. She has laid four eggs over five days. I hope she slows down. She is a Roadrunner by breed so I was expecting 2-3 a week.
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Working out her system
Cutest egg stands ever.

 

[lightm]

Ya me too!!!

I have never tried egg plant with the chickies, has anyone? After the debacle with broccoli I am afraid to try anything else hahahaha!

I have had eggplant cooked and served as a whole, which they were not interested in. I then have cooked eggplant chopped up and they like it.

Conclusion: they'd eat cooked eggplant if it's convenient

 

[featherhead007]

I bread my eggplant, with egg, bread crumbs and a little seasoning. Baked in the oven

 

[lightm]

Yesterday's tribeservations (left home around 10am, cot home just in time to close the coop: move in day at the college for middle son).

-Hector is a good boy idiot. Good boy: Nox is looking for a place to lay (outside the coop) and he was escorting her up and down the hedge with the lilacs and roses (north edge). Idiot: every place he suggested was a BAD idea....several feet out in the sparse grass in the pasture....in the freshly mown lawn on this side of the hedge.... I took out some grapes and he tidbitted for her, but she snatched and ran, so he's got his work cut out for him. He and Pear were the only ones out of the coop when we got home. He was after her again. (He roosts on top of the nest boxes with her and Silver as they never moved when the new roosts were added) After catching her, he tried telling her to lay in the chive patch (pic for reference, not of event)View attachment 3227035Behind Pippa (next to the rock), not under the lilac 3 feet away.

-Kren has an obsession with Belladonna....he (speculating based upon what heard rather than saw) tried to mate with her on roost, causing himself to fall to the floor of the coop, her to then follow, unable to regain her balance. Then he tried again and she ran from the coop to perch just outside (she eventually wound up on the window sill outside) where he tried again. She ran around the coop to the opposite side where he caught her and got knocked off by Hector. When Cheetah is outside watching this, he will do the knocking off, but if Hector comes to try to help, Hector gets chased off. Cheetah stayed inside, squawked/talked much but out of sight, out of mind. Hector is starting to develop the same type of relationship with Kren (and Horus) that Cheetah has with himself: give chase upon sight.

-Grapes are wonderful taming tools. Lark and Indigo are still pretty wild. Handful of grapes, out the patio door to sit on the steps by the French lilac off the deck. Thing got the first one. Others present: Whiskey, Blanche, Nellie, Twirp, Lark, Indigo. Waiting for their grape happened. Lark didn't freak out over proximity to me. Indigo stayed under the lilac but stayed put rather than zipping around the opposite side (grapes got rolled in to her too).

-crazy busy day: college info was not received at our end: emailed to his high school email which he no longer has access to, no dorm assignment in spite of getting it set up June 1. That got fixed, he has a room......his ID card doesn't work and office was closed by the time we figured that out. He has to work today so will be doing the rest of his running around via phone calls as offices close within an hour of him getting off work....at opposite end of town....resident life office has the corrected email so that contact should be simple. Card office....no idea.... books are paid by his scholarship so figuring out how to get them via phone to Financials office tomorrow should be fun, then getting them ordered for classes monday "I'll be sharing about that in tomorrow's 9am seminar" "I'll be at work...." "then email/call me tomorrow if the financial office doesn't get the info" At least we got transportation worked out for tomorrow to get him to work (so far no one knows anything about the city bus system inspite of it having a stop in center of campus and another in front of work because the satellite campus is farther out). At this rate, he's finding EVERY glitch in the system his first semester, so he'll know who/where to fix ANYTHING. Bonus: I finished the quilt for him that I'd started when he was about 6. I'd had to put it away when it was ready to be tied, so got it done on Sunday.View attachment 3227060Didn't know how appropriate the monkeys would be...View attachment 3227062

It is a very nice quilt. It has to be nice if it took 10+ years . I was convinced that it is all chickens on the quilt until you said monkeys. Haha.

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