Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Right now my Azurs lay every day, and my silkies, Rose is laying most days, and I haven’t seen and egg from Buttercup in a couple days - maybe she is starting to mount. Everyone else is moulting so no green eggs. And Raven hasn’t laid an egg in a couple days - that I can find at least haha!

So some days I only get 3 or 4, and other days maybe 7 or 8.

I don’t mind them taking a break in fact I am happy they do take a break. They can rebuild their calcium supply in their bones, moult and get new feathers for keeping warm, and just relax and not worry about about laying eggs in nest boxes.

I believe there must be some rule in the Chicken Palace that not more than two hens can lay. I got up to 4 with Sylvie and Piglet added to Bernie and Babs.
So Sylvie went broody and Bernie stopped laying.

 

[featherhead007]

Hello ladies and is that Jaffar there?

I am so glad your Dr looked at your kitty-cat injuries, thank you for doing that - you know I am a worry-wart

Sir Jaffar is a good protector. Usually he is with his ladies. But there are some other days he prefers to be alone (like Sir Lancelot in the court of Camelot )

 

[LhickenChicken]

Right now my Azurs lay every day, and my silkies, Rose is laying most days, and I haven’t seen and egg from Buttercup in a couple days - maybe she is starting to mount. Everyone else is moulting so no green eggs. And Raven hasn’t laid an egg in a couple days - that I can find at least haha!

So some days I only get 3 or 4, and other days maybe 7 or 8.

I don’t mind them taking a break in fact I am happy they do take a break. They can rebuild their calcium supply in their bones, moult and get new feathers for keeping warm, and just relax and not worry about about laying eggs in nest boxes.

I get usually 30 eggs a day. But with my first 8 pullets I got approximately 8 eggs a day.
I have 48 chickens (roosters included). Chicken math! Some of them are either molting or taking a break.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Sir Jaffar is a good protector. Usually he is with his ladies. But there are some other days he prefers to be alone (like Sir Lancelot in the court of Camelot )

You should name a rooster Lancelot. That would be so cute. Now I wish that I'd named Sir Cuckoo differently and called him Sir Lancelot.

 

[featherhead007]

You should name a rooster Lancelot. That would be so cute. Now I wish that I'd named Sir Cuckoo differently and called him Sir Lancelot.

The name has to fit the bird

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

That’s so much fun for them to get out there, do you have scorpions and large spiders? If so do your chickens kill and eat them? Or do they give them a wide space for safety?

I do have scorpions, but I don't see them very much.... unless it's August of 2023 right after a tropical storm! They seem to come out after heavy rains! As for the spiders, they are not very large, but we have brown recluses and black widows. I have seen one of my chickens eat a black widow!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

That’s so much fun for them to get out there, do you have scorpions and large spiders? If so do your chickens kill and eat them? Or do they give them a wide space for safety?

I also love your signature by the way!
It's like a little poem!

 

[bgmathteach]

Wouldn’t a glass of wine be easier?

I don't drink.

 

[bgmathteach]

So what do you do with the remains after you have made stock/soup?
That is what I am talking about.

Bury under the compost pile (like, 3' down below grade, plus a few feet of compost on top of that. When hubby doesn't throw them in the trash. (He is a work in progress!)

 

[bgmathteach]

LEATHER gloves for scratch protection. Vinyl, latex, rubber for disease protection.


Taxes and mugs

View attachment 3661240Nimbus

View attachment 3661241Cumulo

View attachment 3661242Quartz

They posed!

does Cumulo have just a bit of a crest - or is it the angle and 'bed-head' feathers? Either way, Cumulo is looking good - as are the other two!