Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Legbars lay blue or brown eggs. They do not lay white ones.

Interesting!

 

[Ponypoor]

You tell her, girls!!!!

Still have Rose and Henny Penny to lay eggs today. Rose keeps going into the shavings room, I keep hauling her out! Henny so far hasn’t started hunting for a spot.

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m so eggcited, and I just can’t hide it!

Do you think I am terrible to be excited to find a dead mouse (or is it a young rat) in my electric zapper trap? I had all but given up on catching anything, then saw a bit of straw in it and went to clean it out and noticed the critter.

Sure cause a stir with Dorothy! She was BOK BOK BAWK upon seeing it!

Spoiler: Finally caught something

Another one bites the dust

(I am full of songs today it seems!)

Fuddle duddle forgot my levy for non -species specific chit chat
Rose sulking…

Drove ma Chevy in the levee but the ‘levy’ was dry….

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

It seems sometimes they never do as we would want them to . Maybe they need some time to decide to change?

I have to admit I'm kind of dreading roosting time now. I don't dare leave them on their own. It seems I have two roosters and at least two hens decided on raising hell.
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Beautiful photo. Who is the chicken ?

Funny how rules are different, here it's forbidden to hunt bucks during the rut which happens much earlier, more or less at the beginning of the hunting season mid september. Maybe because they hunt here in groups with dogs that push the game toward the posted hunters (not sure how to translate this) so the buck doesn't have a lot of chance at survival and they want them to reproduce.

I would love to see some photos of Dirt on one of the next pony Sundays .

Some tuefer for Tuesday:
Léa and Merle dustbathing
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Théo and Nougat who has entered a severe molting phase
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Nougat and Brune " let the sunshine in"
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Merle and Piou-piou eating the last of the last tiny melon from the greenhouse we took down yesterday
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Piou-piou and Gastounet doing the same
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Here in Kentucky bow season opens up in September. In October there is 1 muzzle loading weekend and a youth hunt weekend. This coming Saturday is the start of the I think 11 day rifle season. When this is over it is back to bow only until the end of December when there is 1 final 2 day muzzle loading weekend and that is it. With a bow, you can harvest either a buck or a doe. The state is zoned out, but in my area in our zone the first muzzle loading season and rifle season it is buck only. The final muzzle loading weekend it is buck or doe. The youth hunt weekend the kids can use a rifle and can kill either bucks or does. If you want to go to jail and loose hunting privileges you will use a pack of dogs to hunt deer. I think that has been illegal in my state since I was born. If we shoot one and can not find it right away which has never happened use a dog to track the blood trail and hopefully find the deer. It has been 4 years since we have killed one. There have been plenty of opportunities but me mom and dad have the same philosophy. If the body is not bigger then our dogs it is a waste. We do not send ours off to a processor, we butcher ourselves and there is a lot of time and work that goes into cleaning the deer. My neighbor has already been over asking if we were going to try this year. She knows if we get one she gets the ribs and neck roast which is her favorite part of the deer.
The chicken I used for tax was a young Squirrel.
Tax again.
Squirrels daughter Karen.

 

[Ponypoor]

Here in Kentucky bow season opens up in September. In October there is 1 muzzle loading weekend and a youth hunt weekend. This coming Saturday is the start of the I think 11 day rifle season. When this is over it is back to bow only until the end of December when there is 1 final 2 day muzzle loading weekend and that is it. With a bow, you can harvest either a buck or a doe. The state is zoned out, but in my area in our zone the first muzzle loading season and rifle season it is buck only. The final muzzle loading weekend it is buck or doe. The youth hunt weekend the kids can use a rifle and can kill either bucks or does. If you want to go to jail and loose hunting privileges you will use a pack of dogs to hunt deer. I think that has been illegal in my state since I was born. If we shoot one and can not find it right away which has never happened use a dog to track the blood trail and hopefully find the deer. It has been 4 years since we have killed one. There have been plenty of opportunities but me mom and dad have the same philosophy. If the body is not bigger then our dogs it is a waste. We do not send ours off to a processor, we butcher ourselves and there is a lot of time and work that goes into cleaning the deer. My neighbor has already been over asking if we were going to try this year. She knows if we get one she gets the ribs and neck roast which is her favorite part of the deer.
The chicken I used for tax was a young Squirrel.
Tax again.
Squirrels daughter Karen.
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Such a beauty and love those wattles

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

And you know I can pick her up and handle her no problem! But - ya - don’t mess with her man!

Little Marty has become my favorite of your flock. She reminds me so much in your stories of my sweet Poppy who I terribly miss. If something ever happens I have dibs on that hen. I read that Mr P is finally been caught servicing the laidies. If you hatch out next spring you have to set a Marty egg or two, or the whole clutch.

 

[featherhead007]

Here in Kentucky bow season opens up in September. In October there is 1 muzzle loading weekend and a youth hunt weekend. This coming Saturday is the start of the I think 11 day rifle season. When this is over it is back to bow only until the end of December when there is 1 final 2 day muzzle loading weekend and that is it. With a bow, you can harvest either a buck or a doe. The state is zoned out, but in my area in our zone the first muzzle loading season and rifle season it is buck only. The final muzzle loading weekend it is buck or doe. The youth hunt weekend the kids can use a rifle and can kill either bucks or does. If you want to go to jail and loose hunting privileges you will use a pack of dogs to hunt deer. I think that has been illegal in my state since I was born. If we shoot one and can not find it right away which has never happened use a dog to track the blood trail and hopefully find the deer. It has been 4 years since we have killed one. There have been plenty of opportunities but me mom and dad have the same philosophy. If the body is not bigger then our dogs it is a waste. We do not send ours off to a processor, we butcher ourselves and there is a lot of time and work that goes into cleaning the deer. My neighbor has already been over asking if we were going to try this year. She knows if we get one she gets the ribs and neck roast which is her favorite part of the deer.
The chicken I used for tax was a young Squirrel.
Tax again.
Squirrels daughter Karen.
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“Youth hunt “? Wow that’s really strict there in Kentucky!

 

[Ponypoor]

Little Marty has become my favorite of your flock. She reminds me so much in your stories of my sweet Poppy who I terribly miss. If something ever happens I have dibs on that hen. I read that Mr P is finally been caught servicing the laidies. If you hatch out next spring you have to set a Marty egg or two, or the whole clutch.

Don’t worry I will have hers front and centre haha, might just do the silkies if I get a chance - need to win that lottery so I can stay home and play with the chickies!

Ever since I wormed him again he has been a changed man haha . I think the parasite load was making him ill.

 

[TX Chick Noob]

Here are some belated Mug/Tax photos and a Twofer Tuesday

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

“Youth hunt “? Wow that’s really strict there in Kentucky!

Listen, Kentucky may get made fun of for having hillbillies or rednecks, but in truth we take things seriously. Those regulations are just for my zoning area. In other area's of the state you can kill does during rifle season. It depends on the populations. If you buy your deer tags you get 2 doe tags and 1 buck tag. In truth several years ago before blue-tounge hit my area not a lot of people killed does and we were horribly over populated. 4 years ago the disease hit and devastated the population. We did not hunt that year, and the following 2 years only saw small spikes and 4 points so we let them walk. 6 years ago though my dad tagged out. We ended up giving one of the tagged does to a family member who was not able to hunt that year due to a accident. One thing about it, if we shoot it, we or someone we know eats it. That even includes the tree rats or squirrels.