Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

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

Nope. Just a knucklehead.

 

[Ponypoor]

You mentioned that you miss California?
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And the tax ?

 

[notabitail]

Another reason I miss California: the California Missions.
San Juan Bautista had some chickens. I did not know anything about chickens back then and just thought they were chickens. Glad I snapped a photo.

 

[BY Bob]

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.


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


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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!

That is adorable.

 

[Ponypoor]

Ok all I am off to sleep for a bit, I am sure I will be awake in a couple hrs...

Meanwhile here are more sleeping beauties.

 

[BY Bob]

Texas storm.
We now have some rain coming in, along with thunder and wind. I hope I am not stealing anyone's thunder here.

I see what you did there.

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you Do you by chance have any baby/ tween pictures of LF you would be willing to repost? I would love to see the transformation if you have time to do so.

Sure. Give me a bit. They don't change much. Just get bigger.

 

[notabitail]

I see what you did there.

Abigail was furious. The thunder was distracting me from her. It was stealing her thunder!

 

[knoturavggrl]

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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Brownie seemed indifferent about which eggs she was sitting on or where she did it. Ceramic, real eggs it didn’t matter so long as they were eggish shaped she was gonna try and hatch them. I moved her several times, switched out eggs almost daily and she was completely unfazed.

At the end when she heard them start peeping is when she seemed to be really honed in on going back to THOSE eggs and she became more protective of them as well.

All that to say, I think it will be fine so long as she has something to sit on somewhere she will be content.

June 5th. I think I am going to make a separate thread on random rambling if people want to follow my trip to China.

Tag me please, I would love to follow along.

 

[featherhead007]

I owe a lot of taxes. I will take some new pictures tomorrow. By the way, The next door neighbor birds haven’t come back today.