Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

Mugs

Sugar: I look best very very close up.

Snicker: Is this angle better?

 

[featherhead007]

Can anybody tell me why this one looks so much like Coco? View attachment 3403548

I should have known. Coco is a black chicken with white barring, and BoPeeps is a white chicken with black barring. It was difficult to determine in the dark!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Drama at the Chicken Palace this morning.

I heard very loud, very angry chickens while I was getting up this morning.
I rushed out and I found that Babs had decided to jump down off the rafters into the servant's quarters rather than into the run as usual.
She could not get back. I don't know why she couldn't go back the way she came in, but apparently that was impossible.
I am sure you have spotted that this was all my fault.

So, I am apologizing profoundly for my wrongdoing. I am not 100% sure in all honesty what I did wrong, but I realize there is no point in arguing so I am apologizing anyway.

Here is Bernie yelling at me through the door of the servant’s quarters. I will spare you the sound track.
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Good thing you apologized, she looks serious! Better follow up with a few snacks just to be safe.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Mugshot Monday
Bernie granting me a brief audience.
Eli - about to sample my fingers as her new favorite snack.

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Wonderful photos!

 

[knoturavggrl]

It sure was - and I bet a shocker to some!

Tax

Sophia say 'where's the treats human?!'

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Cutie!

 

[rural mouse]

Whiskey dropped the black from his comb. He's gotten a bit more assertive too.

And Pippa posed

Isn't my beard beautiful!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Whiskey dropped the black from his comb. He's gotten a bit more assertive too.View attachment 3403653

And Pippa posed
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Isn't my beard beautiful!

Pippa, yes it is stunning!
Whiskey is looking beautiful

 

[bgmathteach]

OK so I have been know to be very gullible, so you need to tell me if that was actually true or not

I believed our Env. Inspector when I asked where the Bison were hiding I hadn't seen them in a bit... he told he someone poached them and I believed him - the brat! (not to worry my boss and I got him good this week with a practical joke )

Yes, a few have been known to definitely try to pick them up with wing. As you can see, they aren't always successful.
They DO try to 'poach' the eggs by rolling them with their beak/head to 'their' nest box. And I think you remember the hen that was 'stealing' my eggs I set on a table...rolling them to her and tucking them in!. .and she wasn't even broody!

I've caught ducks doing this, too, when broody. Stealing eggs from one nest and rolling them all the way across the coop to their nest box. My husband didn't believe me. He thought he was going nuts when he had seen some eggs in the nest...then they weren't there. I told him: you have to check the broody ducks nest...they steal them - well, next day, he caught the duck red handed beaked rolling the eggs to their nest. Those two co-broody ducks were/are a hoot!


But, I love them all - ducks, chicks, geese, even if they are thieves and beggars!!

 

[rural mouse]

I've taken to packing Thing out of the coop and up by the garage where Cheetah has been eating breakfast to get her to actually be a chicken.

Her nails are getting over grown and she's been staying put. She's getting herself back to the coop just fine. This morning she actually went off to be a chicken

She even did some scratching out there.

Blanche came back and posed

And a saw Lark

Exploring the rose patch. At this point, I'm predicting that she will go broody in there, and I'm going to have to let her as I won't be able to fish her out without cutting the roses down to nothing.

 

[bgmathteach]

OK, if you have marshmallows what did I get?!

Cowboy cookies. Cookies with a bit of everything!