Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

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Who else, but Pip? She left a poopy footprint on my back. I don't mind.

Do you want to know a secret?

 

[BY Bob]

Phyllis says “the service in this restaurant is very slow!”

Sadly it was. No tip was left by either customer.

 

[RoyalChick]

Didn’t mean to offend you RC, I apologize.

I am not offended, nothing to be offended about! I was just sharing how it makes me feel whenever you post that weird corn guy.

 

[featherhead007]

Sadly it was. No tip was left by either customer.

Feathered ingrates!

 

[featherhead007]

I am not offended, nothing to be offended about! I was just sharing how it makes me feel whenever you post that weird corn guy.

Look at it this way, you can control your emotions by taking charge of them!

 

[RoyalChick]

Twofer Tuesday - an unusual pairing of Tassels and Bernie. They are checking out the hole that Babs dug. Moments before Babs pulled out some big wriggly thing and consumed it. These two are hoping to find another one!

 

[BeastBaby]

Gosh I love this photo
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Cool!

But also, Pantene pro-V, ooh lala! Get it Mr.P!

 

[featherhead007]

Rocks!

 

[ManueB]

My dad dropped off a bunch of pumpkins, gourds, and corn stalks a bit ago. I'm going to process the obviously frost damaged ones during the week, but hopefully the rest will keep and I can do them over the winter. There are a few pie pumpkins!
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The little punkin sorter hard at work.
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Gourds. I love gourds so I'll harvest seeds from them to plant along the treeline next year. Gourds!!!

As for the corn stalks, what should I do to get those ready for the chickens? Take the cobs off? Chop it? Or just haul one stalk in there every so often and let the ladies go to town? Dad says he wants a few for the deer and all he'll do is put them in the woods. Do I have to crack the kernels?

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My two spotty dotty chickens for tax

Not all chickens find out how to eat it from the cob, so I usually at least crack it off the kernel. And it's better digested if you actually crack it in smaller pieces so that's what we usually do, with a rock the size of a fist on a flat rock. The hard thing is stopping the chickens from getting their beaks under there while we smash it.
If you give it to them whole it helps to tie it or block it somehow so it doesn't keep moving while they peck.

Twofer Tuesday. It looks like I copied Kelly but I actually had the first two pics before she posted- great minds/chickens think alike .

black and black (Lulu and Mélisse )

White and white (Nieva and Alba)

Black and white (Lilly and Nieva)

It's a wind storm kind of night now...hoping to keep power until it's time for bed !

 

[Ponypoor]

I just love Butterscotch's head feathers. She is adorable.

She was hanging out in the nestbox earlier, when she left there was a pink egg in it. But I am almost sure it’s a Fluffy egg - I don’t see how Butterscotch could lay a pink egg!