Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

What will happen if you do that?

Then I won’t be reading it again

 

[rural mouse]

Hello FBA, I haven't been posting. Here are some 3-week old pictures that I forgot to post.

Poopy (Inky butt in the back)
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Wendy (Inky butt again)
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Wendy was hot. (But she has been healthy. There are still soft egg issues. I am not even sure if she is laying lately.)
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Sun bathing beauties. (I think I've posted them before, but why not again)

This spring, Inky was broody May 1st to May 12th. This is pre-broody.
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Welcome back! You home or still visiting the parents? How is your dad doing?

 

[RoyalChick]

I just checked the camera that looks to the main roost to make sure Bernie and Babs were roosting OK.

What I saw instead took me by surprise.

To help you orient here is a view from a different camera

Basically the littles have all lined up on a roost opposite the bigs. I wonder if they will stay there all night. Probably not - but it is cute!

 

[featherhead007]

I use bug spray for horses - smells fairy good and relatively good price. I spray my clothes with it.

Ode de toilet?

 

[rural mouse]

Looks like 1/2 are light/white... what on earth? I would be tempted to keep them just to see what they grew up as! (Roos I am sure)

Those should be splash marked...

 

[Ponypoor]

Ode de toilet?

Um, no Eau de Citronella

 

[Ponypoor]

Those should be splash marked...

And all Roos I am sure….

 

[Ponypoor]

That made me almost spilt out my wine. Have you been drinking too?

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

(Shakespeare; Henry VIII)

 

[rural mouse]

You forgot pineapple.

Not on pizza. Doesn't mix well with tomato

 

[featherhead007]

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!

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I’m never playing golf with you. You’d steal my ball.