Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

okay I can work with that math
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Your chicks are ridiculously photogenic - mine have all been having bad hair days for over a week now!

 

[notabitail]

New Dishes

For Christmas this year I decided to surprise Mrs BY Bob by replacing the fish plates we have been using since the children were little. Of course I went looking for something chicken themed. I found these on Wayfair.com, otherwise they would have been way out of my price range. Luckily, she loved them.
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My new Son in Law has arrived to celebrate the holidays. He wants to learn how to make pasta by hand and so Mrs BY Bob started his education last night. My daughter and myself are very lucky as we got to enjoy the fruits of that education. Homemade pasta, Mrs BY Bob's sauce (gravy), and her meatballs which the two of them made together on her new Italian plates. Add a little Chianti and it was almost like we were back in Italy last night!
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Did any meatballs roll out the door and into Phyllis' belly?
I am seriously craving that now. It looks so delicious.

 

[notabitail]

Does anyone know why Agathae has a bit of blue on the comb?

 

[notabitail]

It's hard to beat home made pasta.

I will make the homemade bread and you all make the homemade pasta. We can then add meatballs and enjoy.

 

[notabitail]

Want some fresh hot bread, just out of the oven? My plans are ruined for today anyways!

Sure. Can I have it? With fluffy butter please?
My plans were also ruined for today. Flat bike tire.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Does anyone know why Agathae has a bit of blue on the comb?

How old is she? @RebeccaBoyd any idea on this wee lady’s cyanotic colour of her comb?

 

[notabitail]

How old is she? @RebeccaBoyd any idea on this wee lady’s cyanotic colour of her comb?

8 months.
She lays BLUE EGGS.

 

[Ponypoor]

8 months.
She lays BLUE EGGS.

Well that’s not why she has a blueish tinge to her comb, unfortunately.

Someone else will have some suggestions.

 

[notabitail]

Well that’s not why she has a blueish tinge to her comb, unfortunately.

Someone else will have some suggestions.

Ok. Thank you for trying to help out a bit.
I just want to make sure she's not sick or anything. I noticed it because I cuddle her a lot. BLUE EGG layers are very cuddly

 

[RoyalChick]

Now what?
I am doing a beak check before bed. Somehow counting to five is harder than it seems when the littles are all racing around.
Then I do a last minute check on Eli and am totally confused.
After some early back and forth she had been nested on the top level with the golf ball and the ceramic egg.
Now she has moved to the lower level where there is a single ceramic egg which I had left there because it seemed to help Bernadette decide where to lay.
Did Eli just get confused? Maybe she rumbled that the golf ball wasn't viable?
Please tell me she isn't going to start the whole 21 day thing again from the start!

I removed the golf ball and the ceramic egg from the top level - do you think that was the right thing to do? Should I give her the golf ball back in her lower nest (that can't be right!).
In the morning I anticipate Babs will squeeze in with Eli and lay in the same box. I doubt Bernie will lay tomorrow so that is a problem for another day.
Any advice most welcome.

I also cannot fathom how some of you deal with multiple of these crazy ladies at the same time!