Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

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I'll give you a broody feather duster.

 

[Ponypoor]

Staying up Too Late

Today was prep day for the family coming for Thanksgiving. I was working on cleaning up the rec room in the basement so it was my wife's job to keep track of the free ranging girls.

A short time after darkness fell my wife started screaming down the steps that she needed my help. So up the steps I rushed to find out what could be so urgent. This is the story that awaited me.

It hard gotten dark and she assumed that the girls had successfully gone to bed so she had gone back to the spare bedroom to start getting it ready. Davis, my large nowegian forrest cat, was acting squirrely. He was standing, meowing in the hallway and trying to get her to come out to the kitchen. She assumed he wanted more food and was trying to shoo him off. He was persistent so my wife finally followed him out. When they got to the kitchen she heard this tap, tap, tap, tap on glass. Finally she went to the backdoor and there were Maleficent and Aurora. Aurora tapping on the glass. It was pitch black out and they had not gone to bed. They wanted in the big coop on this clod windy night.

I've got to get some winter clothes on and I knew it would easier to corrall them in the house than it would be with them runing in the dark outside so, "let them in" I told her. Here they are wandering through the house.
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I thought Mal was getting up on the couch for sure. My other cat Isabel was on the back of that couch. I think that held her off.
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I just found an Aurora feather next to the couch. They got through the living roomm, dining room, and kitchen. I tried to get a photo of Davis and Mal together but Davis took off when she got too close.

So I went out, opened the automated door, and placed a lantern in the coop so they could see when they got there. When I opened the door and placed the lantern, only Lilly was on the roost. Hattie was in a nesting box. While surprised, she was excited to get up on the roost.

I gathered both hens up and took them out to the porch. I placed them on the porch and they went in and roosted. I swicthed off the lantern and here is everybody safely roosted.
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It is never dull here at Fluffy Butt Acres!

Hahahaha love it!

That Aurora is a born leader !

 

[Ponypoor]

I'll give you a broody feather duster.

Hahaha

She is persistent! Her and Marty look so much alike!

 

[TX Chick Noob]

So based upon this I want to know how many chickens everyone has.

Since the answer can’t be less than 1, that means I have 1 chicken. The first few criteria about breeds and egg color brought it from 11 to 6, and then since they all have names that brought it to the minimum answer of 1.

 

[BY Bob]

I totally agree!

"totally"??

Did you intend to do that when responding to a math comment?

 

[Ponypoor]

Since the answer can’t be less than 1, that means I have 1 chicken. The first few criteria about breeds and egg color brought it from 11 to 6, and then since they all have names that brought it to the minimum answer of 1.

Yup I think there will be a run on day old chicks this Spring!

 

[Ponypoor]

"totally"??

Did you intend to do that when responding to a math comment?

Hey I am just glad everyone is now lumed into the ‘you need babies/more chickens’ theme!

That is just so much fun!

 

[Ponypoor]

Awake, the chickies are ok…

Love my cameras so much fun watching chickens sleep hahaha! Wish I had cameras with my horses .

Helps pass the time, distracts me from my leg and arm spasms, haven’t had such a miserable night in a few weeks. I am trying to start back with my ballet/Pilates but even 5 min is enough to exasperate my RLS - sheesh! I was gonna start Belly Dancing hahah! Guess that’s out!

Wishing Tax

These two are a hoot!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh Restless Sleep

Here is a famous one

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.”

(Shakespeare- Hamlet)

Tax Quote

The Queen’s Princess Dorothy

 

[TX Chick Noob]

Since the answer can’t be less than 1, that means I have 1 chicken. The first few criteria about breeds and egg color brought it from 11 to 6, and then since they all have names that brought it to the minimum answer of 1.

Posted this before I saw Bob say to ignore the naming rule. And I will show my “work”.

No roosters, so nothing to pull out there.

ISA Browns = Goldy, Sassy, Crystal, Buffy, Hazel. That gives a starting number of 5. I remove Goldy as first of breed /first brown egg layer. So that is 4

EE/OE (counting these together as one, since I don’t know for sure if any are a different breed) = Dottie, Scarlett, Ruby, Coco, Jasmine. That gives a starting number of 5. I remove Dottie as first of breed /first green egg layer. Then remove Scarlett as first cream/pearl egg layer. Then remove Jasmine as first pale bluish/green egg layer. That leaves 2.

Welsummer = Speedy. Remove her ad first of breed, so don’t add her in.

Total flock of 11, minus 5 = 6.

And if any of that is incorrect. I blame the events I will disclose in my next post.

SHRA tax for Bob’s revision of the chicken math rules: