Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I don’t know. I’m here with Hen-Rietta, we are sleeping in today.

Retirement stuff. Practice makes perfect!

 

[Ponypoor]

Fluffy Butt Friday

Fluffly’s not so fluffy pin cushion derrière (another going through a molt)

Blanche displaying a butt in repose

Misty showing us her chicken yoga bootie, and how she can blend into a spruce tree if need be.

Mr P with the wind blowing up his kilt (what do they wear under there anyways?)

Marty showing off her wind blown fluffiness

Dorothy and her svelt runway style patootie, note the accent white tipped feather that seems so fashionable these days!

 

[Ponypoor]

Retirement stuff. Practice makes perfect!

I’m working on Freedom 95…. Retirement is not in my cards

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Dorothy on the lookout for predators

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you Introvert 1000%, so doing that wasnt easy, I had post it fast before I “chickened” out.

I live in southeastern Ohio our temperatures can range from the mid 90’s down into the 10’s in the winter but averages are pretty reasonable overall. We are in the same weather zone as BY Bob as a point of reference. In addition, right behind the coop is a large hill which serves as an effective wind break. The OBS should serve well in our climate I think and I will be painting it and the coop to extend its life next summer.

Brownie is my FBCM she is a beautiful pullet, I got very lucky. I hope to have one of the hens hatch out some of her chicks someday. I left room for more chickens for sure but I also have a-lot to learn so Ill take it slow.

No news on the boys yet, I go to Rural King alot though so hopefully I will see the gentleman (an employee of RK) that took them and ask after them.

Brownie:
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Beautiful

Please don’t feel shy we love hearing about your chickies! I have also only had chickens a short time (about a year and half), but I have been lucky that a couple of friends had chickens and my niece/BIL have some and I have worked with livestock.

Everyone here wants this to be a safe fun site to learn from

 

[featherhead007]

I just made a scrambled egg for Hen-Rietta but she’s not interested at all!

 

[featherhead007]

I just made a scrambled egg for Hen-Rietta but she’s not interested at all!

She had no problem downing that tri tip steak I just fried up. The rest enjoyed it too. Jaffar is slow today, and I will bring him inside later to check him out. I have to feed him alone because, he shares all his food with his hens .

 

[bgmathteach]

I'm worried however to notice Chipie is loosing her tail feathers : she just grew them back from the molt a month ago, so I'm afraid they may have been pulled out with all the quarrelling going on in the flock. She doesn't have many, so just two missing makes her look strange. Do you know if pulled feathers will eventually grow back ?

I wouldn't panic just yet regarding Chipie. Most hens moult after brooding a group of chicks. While most of mine that brooded and moulted LATE summer don't do a big moult in the fall, some have. And nearly all that did a broody moult, but earlier in the summer, ALSO do a fall moult. For example, my 2 DC girls that co-brooded this summer (chicks are now ?15+ weeks old?) one momma moulted/started moulting when chickes were about 2 weeks old. She is also doing another soft moult now. Her co-broodie did a very soft broodie moult then, and is doing a hard moult now. The momma who hatched 4 that are about 7 weeks ago? hard, hard moult.

I’m going to retract my statement about the skirt. After thinking it over, maybe it’s inappropriate and for that I am sorry.

No worries, Alex. No offense taken. But, just so you know...it was my KNICKERS that were in a twist, not my skirt!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Can someone please inform Grannie that this is not the place she wants to start hanging out on. Grilled chicken anyone?

 

[Ponypoor]

Ha ha ha! But when you think of it roosters dont all make the same sounds either. I can hear four plus my two from home, and they all make a distinctive song. Especially a bantam rooster down there that sort of rolls the rrrrr with a shrill voice .

Maybe people speaking different language don't actually hear exactly the same thing ? When we play trivial pursuit with my partner he says he's on a purple question when I see pink, and he calls dark blue what I call purple .

Same as others have said it can be for a number of reasons. I have a hen, Brune, that is a pain to go to bed, she cries for half an hour and pecks her neighbors - she has often slept alone. Then, Cannelle has periods when she decides she wants to roost alone. Then there's also the place they pick to roost- Peanut might have the best spot and no one dares disturb her. There has been quite an evolution in the way my flock roosts, and it's always interesting to see. Right now it's so dramatic that I'm actually in the coop for fifteen minutes with a big stick to stop the roosters if they pick a fight .

@Ponypoor worms are in the environment. However the sub-species of ascaris found in horses, cats and poultry are all different (A. Galli, arascaris equorum and Toxocara Cati) so I'm not sure they contaminate one another. We treated the cats when we dewormed the flock for precaution. One thing is sure, you must treat the whole flock, not just one member.

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Wow you all have gorgeous pictures for Friday! These lovely butts are a pledge for diversity in the bum division- fluff is lovely but sleek is elegant !
Here are mine from today. I included the two hard molters Cannelle and Théo because they are actually growing back feathers.
Cannelle growing a tail but not doing as good as I'd hoped today
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Théo - you can see the quills by zooming on his behind
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Blanche manages to have a pretty butt with brittle broken feathers
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Gastounet has grown a mane but he's lacking in the tail department!
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Lea's butt.
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I'm worried however to notice Chipie is loosing her tail feathers : she just grew them back from the molt a month ago, so I'm afraid they may have been pulled out with all the quarrelling going on in the flock. She doesn't have many, so just two missing makes her look strange. Do you know if pulled feathers will eventually grow back ?
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Well, from what read if a feather is pulled out completely it grows back.

Fluffy is molting but she wasn’t losing a few of her remaining tail feathers that the bad Roos last winter pulled and broke. So I hastened things along and yanked them out

Poor Fluffy was not impressed but I see that all the tail feathers seem to be growing back

 

[Ponypoor]

Can someone please inform Grannie that this is not the place she wants to start hanging out on. Grilled chicken anyone?
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Hahahaha oh boy!