Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Hello FBA! While some of you are struggling with ice, the rain yesterday and a bit of sun today has completely melted our snow. I'll confess I'm happy to see the sun back. Three days of having to dry our stinking boots by the stove is enough for me !
Pictures in the morning and evening :
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I've got a lot of butts today. I wouldn't dare post so many pictures normally but I had almost none last Friday so I figure it would balance out !

A bully's butt, Piou-piou. She's growing uncontrollable! I haven't let her know about Ask Aurora because who knows what would happen .
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Léa's preening session :
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And some ex-batt's butts : Brune, Cannelle and Nougat. Some of Nougat's new feathers are broken already, you can see one sticking out in the right. I'm not sure if they have grown wrong or if she has been pecked. But she's got most of her feathers back, and is almost done with her awful molt .
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While the Fluffy Butts are lovely.... Those photos of the mountains are SPECTACULAR!

Truly beautiful

 

[Ponypoor]

hi marie

Hi Valarie - I have been checking in while I was sick - thanks for posting such lovely photos - even though I might not have commented (too sick to even hardly scroll), I enjoyed all the photos

 

[Ponypoor]

I feel better, oh so better...

I feel better,
Oh so better
I feel better and peppy and spry!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today

(ok so maybe not really peppy and spry - but I do feel better!)

AND I even managed to check in while mum put the chickies to bed and I screamed at them to behave... "Rose; Rose; ROSE darn you stop pecking your mama! Don't make me come out there!"

My neighbour thinks I am a nut! and Mr @BY Bob I totally know your pain with watching them with their bedtime antics

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Friday

And just because......

BETTY!

 

[ValarieF]

Hi Valarie - I have been checking in while I was sick - thanks for posting such lovely photos - even though I might not have commented (too sick to even hardly scroll), I enjoyed all the photos

I do hope you feel better soon. Drink lots of herbals and get lots of rest!

 

[Ponypoor]

I do hope you feel better soon. Drink lots of herbals and get lots of rest!

Have you started your physio? if so how is it going?

 

[ValarieF]

Have you started your physio? if so how is it going?

yea 3 months. I just ordered the traction device for my neck.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Lots of snow here. Heavy packing snow at first, now fluffier. I don't know the inches but it's up to and over my knees and takes a few shovels to get to ground.

Worked like a dog yesterday taking down the poultry net fences & wrapping up the wire, clearing my collection of various shaped landscape stones so DH can snowblow and I can find them this winter, and bringing in the last aviary nets. I will say these Buckeyes are NOT adventurous happy campers in the cold! I left up the aviary netting as long as I could, because it offered them lots more roaming possibilities. There was no snow! But they are the wimpiest Buckeyes. They have not lived up to their reputation!

Sorry, ladies.

Maybe because Peanut was molting so hard, and was so cold, she never wanted to lead them out there?

Maybe their covered run is Paradise?

With the aviary netting down I secured the (under) roof tarps on that side, and consolidated the greenhouse frames.

Here's before I went out to shovel some and clear off their coop. The green tarp there while keeping the driving snow out for now is blocking some ventilation. So I have a new plan to hang one from the door top at the wall angled out to the edge of the overhang. It's the exposed western side. The eastern side has no problem and is working great.

Peanut Long-Neck. She needs her outer contour feathers to grow in more, and underfluff too. She still looks 50% as big as the others.

Butters' derriere for FBF, Peanut in front.

And her great silhouette. Butters is also sporting the popular mussed-look. The lower black tail feather looks like a dart stuck there!

Uh oh, the photographer has overstayed her welcome. Or maybe Butters is ready for her close-up now!! Beautiful Butters. Nice Punk hairstyle, there! She says No, not Punk, it's called The Molt. Very fashionable!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

All Lilly chickens are special.

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I expect that @RebeccaBoyd Lilly is extra special.

My Lilly is not super cuddly so it was really sweet last night that she let me hold her and not protest. I have to agree that all Lilly's are special.

 

[Marie2020]

Ya Alex - you heard Marie - hop to it!

Two gal's against one man , he's got no chance unless Jaffar backs him up