Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

Don’t get me started!

No you didnt lol

 

[ValarieF]

What's up girls?
Misty is singing the egg song for Blance... but did she actually lay an egg? It's hard to see into that nest box. Blanche made sure the nest box had some nice new wood shavings in there - good girl!

I love the egg song thanks for the video.

 

[featherhead007]

My friends all know that I am trying to grow my own garden.
One friend said that I should try horse manure on my strawberries .
I won’t do that again, they taste terrible!
Next time it’s whipped cream only!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday today… I walked my little “ponies” East today, because Jimmy was being a brat about the chicken feed so I just let Arduinna choose which way to go and set out at a jog. Of course she wanted to chase the feral herd that was on the driveway . It’s a little long but I was hoping you could hear the hovercraft in the background and got distracted by that (you can’t, the waterfall drowns it out). It’s not a normal vehicle out our way… and sounds very different than most boats, freighters, and planes that I hear more often. Tide was out and it was pretty choppy at the beach. Sorry for the wind noise.

Awesome day out with the "ponies" those are wonderful photos and video shots - love it!

 

[Ponypoor]

This is a nice photo for POW, and/or if they have another 'head shot' contest. I love the beard & muffs - they show so nicely in this picture. And what an expression!

It is done

 

[Ponypoor]

C’mon, people! 20 pages since I logged in yesterday afternoon? Did anything happen or is there just a bunch of chatter??

Hmmm I was just wondering the same thing then I realized I was likely being a chatter box - bad Kelly!

To make amends here are more of Henny Penny's chicks she raised a couple yrs ago
The eggs:

And the results!

 

[bgmathteach]

This week it is Eli wishing everyone a Happy Mugshot Monday

She told me I had to include the second picture even though it is a bad picture because she wants Aurora to see how magnificent her beard and muffs are becoming. She also told me to take a better picture next time. Just do better is what she said.
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The first photo looks like she is saying 'Hey, mum, what 'ya doin'?"

The second one looks more like: "Really, servant girl, that is the best picture you can take? Hurump!"

 

[Kris5902]

That Red Tailed Hawk scream that is often passed off is becoming a regular call around here (along with the Red Shouldered Hawk calls… I’ve named them Harold and Henrietta. Sorry, Alex!)

After making that statement, I also got to hear it right at the end of our walk… we have a pair here too. All Chickens well and accounted for last night, but when I got home they were doing the BBB stalking us hide and seek game. It’s funny I know I have 66 Chickens and 7 ducks out there, but I walk by and you would think it was just 15-20 and 7! The yard goes empty and still. It’s unsettling. I’m not fast enough to get a decent pic of the hawks though.

 

[RoyalChick]

The first photo looks like she is saying 'Hey, mum, what 'ya doin'?"

The second one looks more like: "Really, servant girl, that is the best picture you can take? Hurump!"

I think in both she is saying:
'Are those sunflower seeds you are hiding under your jacket? GIMME NOW'

 

[Kris5902]

I hope it's not offensive to say that I think the boy on that photo has the same look as you do now, the eyes of someone with dreams.

I hope these turn out to resolve as best as possible .

MONDAY MISTERY : Who stole my old marked eggs ?
I need some educated opinions. My three pullets lay in an old barn above our house and I leave an old egg in the nest marked so I can recognize it, otherwise they switch nest. They have two nests, each with an old egg. This morning, both eggs had vanished ! No trace of broken shell anywhere in the barn, no visible animal tracks. We leave a hole open for our cats in the night so anything that can get through it could have stolen the eggs. But do any of you have a clue on what animal would take them away and not eat them on spot ?
We don't have racoons or bobcats but other wise pretty much of anything that can be found in European rural land!
Anyway I wish it luck if it tried eating the three months old eggs.

Gaston's face for a mug and tax. Doesn't he looks kind ?
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Our Ravens fly off with them, and have been known to walk right into my coop and take them out of the nest boxes, so possibly a corvid? The only other thought would be snake, but I don’t think you have the same issues with egg eating snakes and the wrong time of year climate wise even if you do.