Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Feathering leaves the inner side of the legs and inside toe clean. You still have the snakeskin boots, but you also have extra fluffiness, including bloomersView attachment 3386107View attachment 3386108View attachment 3386109View attachment 3386110

Oh my gosh, Dark Brahmas! They are on the “someday” list!

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m sorry you have to deal with that, Kelly.

Sometimes I go and swear at them and tell them to ‘buzz’ off, but we have other crews here so I let the camp manager deal with it.

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Larry my nieces barred rock

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh my gosh, Dark Brahmas! They are on the “someday” list!

They are beautiful aren’t they! I want some

 

[micstrachan]

Crows and Ravens are very smart and very playful. I have seen Crows doing loop-d-loops in the wind swirls on hillsides (where the wind whirls upwards) - the crows fly up and loop backwards and down only so swoop up and over again. I have seen them playing this game often. Having fun

I love crows and ravens! They help keep the hawks away. We had a pair of “guard ravens” for years. I wish they were here now that we have TWO Red Shouldered Hawks AND… wait for it… a juvenile Red Tailed Hawk. No wonder my girls are so scared all the time these days.

 

[featherhead007]

162/100

 

[micstrachan]

I forgot to add the video of her stretching!

OMG, that little shoulder stretch was so friggin cute!!!

 

[micstrachan]

Considering the heart ache in trying to get a black hen before you got Eli, I say you do not need a excuse to post pics of her. She really is a beauty and I love the brown lacing on her. What is wrong with looking like a crow? Raven got her name by looking like a crow as a young lady. She filled out and is a beauty now. Crows are good by the way, I have personally witnessed them chasing a Hawk. They occasionally visit my back yard in the scrap pile. They are welcome whenever they want and I wish they would visit daily.

I have witnessed it, too. Multiple times!

 

[micstrachan]

Lacing was something else I wanted. I wasn't 100% sure I knew what it was, but I always think the Wyandottes look amazing and @MaryJanet has a lot of stunning lacing going on in her flock.
And now I have Babs I feel no need for a Wyandotte or Barnevelder for the lacing!

I mean look at Babs - she is gorgeous! Note also her green snakeskin boots.
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Babs is absolutely gorgeous. She’s one of the prettiest chickens I’ve ever seen!

 

[micstrachan]

So, folks, I have a dilemma. The breeder I found does not vaccinate for Marek’s.

A UC Davis necropsy of Margo revealed a “background infection” of Marek’s based on the nerve caps. She did not have any tumors as and none of the necropsies since then mentioned Marek’s.

I don’t know what to do. Maybe the new avian vet can do vaccinations for me.

 

[micstrachan]

Same idea here, that you don't have to get up there, just tack them at the height you can reach. Like a tent ceiling.

I was thinking along the lines of netting, but same idea.