Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

Sylvie wishes everyone a happy Monday and was willing to pose for mugshots.

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All your sweet girls are beautiful and Sylvie is no exception, she is just lovely

 

[Ponypoor]

Sylvie wishes everyone a happy Monday and was willing to pose for mugshots.

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She is a little beauty

 

[Ponypoor]

Myth says happy Mugs Monday everyone!!
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Story: Lays down to ponder the deeper meaning of this thing called mugs Monday.
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They blend in with the wood shavings good camouflage!

 

[RoyalChick]

All your sweet girls are beautiful and Sylvie is no exception, she is just lovely

She is a little beauty

Awww. I hesitate to pass on your thoughts as she seems quite full of herself already - but secretly I agree - she definitely is a pretty chicken!
I am very curious to see what she looks like as an adult - she is getting progressively more dark grey feathers on her back. The breeder where I got her said she would have gold/red on her breast feathwrs like Bernie has - but I don't see even a hint of that.

Bernie’s gold breast feathers for reference.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Goose always makes me smile

Well there is more to those pictures then meets the eye.
This, this explains it all.

Yes they are broody, all 3 of them

 

[rural mouse]

I have my two grey ladies going around clucking, no more chicks here!

Belladonna is too. And missing breast feathers. She hasn't committed to sitting though.

 

[rural mouse]

Lots if you give it to them! You could easily give them a bag a week for their entertainment in the winter.. I'm sure that at least half a bag would give them good foraging and scratching fun...with the amount of chooks you have, I can't imagine giving them less than half a bag at a time. So, not sure just how long your winter lasts (i.e. first snow-fall to last real/lasting snow fall) but I would stash up to that number of weeks divided by 2 if you are able. More if you can, but I don't know if you have the space more the total amount of cuttable grass (especially since you can't cut part of the field for at least a month now with the new nest! That means you will only get 1 cutting for that whole area.

Have other areas could cut. Lots of wild mustard. Not sure how they'll like it, but worth trying.

 

[rural mouse]

If you have the space and can get it, try to get some straw bales, my kiddos go nuts for a bale of straw. I have to keep the straw I have here covered up or they would have all 20 bales tore up in one afternoon!

I've done straw bales in the past. How do you think the car port wound up with so much all over?

 

[Ponypoor]

Belladonna is too. And missing breast feathers. She hasn't committed to sitting though.

It’s an epidemic!

I told the ladies here no more chicks!

 

[Ponypoor]

I've done straw bales in the past. How do you think the car port wound up with so much all over?

They are so bad tearing it up!