Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Desertvalleychickens]

Ijak is just so darn gorgeous, I meant ask - what does Ijak mean? Does his name have a meaning?

He is amazingly intelligent!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Wow gorgeous as a teen and a hen

Thanks!

 

[featherhead007]

Two, walking away from the watering hole.
(I wasn’t fast enough with the camera)

 

[RoyalChick]

Mud chicken!
Somehow @Ponypoor’s flood pictures are so much less icky!

 

[rural mouse]

Thirsty Thursday
Yesterday was a fun day out. The snow has melted enough that you can eat it without standing in it (a very popular situation). And the melt off the roof of the Chicken Palace is running out of the gutters and creating huge pools of chilled wild water. Also very popular!
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Lol Sherlock is leery of stepping in it....later, discovered his ball sinks...he's working on it...and stuck his nose in yesterday to get the ball.

 

[rural mouse]

Thank you for the laugh folks - I am still miserable here - and if I find out who gave me this virus I will make them do hay this summer! It has been a struggle all week here at work - then doing chores also…

I just want to go home and go to bed! Or sleep on a hay bale…. Anywhere!

BFTP Thirsty Thursday

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Gosh those chicks even from last week have grown! Bert was trying to jump his mum this morning, Henny was going to clobber him - he’s a cheeky boy now! And that Betty is an independent little thing - she goes off on her own chowing down with the big girls who just ignore her

I think Henny is back to laying eggs, I got two silkie eggs yesterday, one is Marty’s and I bet the other is from Henny Penny. Good! I need all four of them laying eggs, next month I will go and get my friends silkie Roo, and put with those four. Come the end of May I should have a bunch of silkie babies to look forward to!

And I think that will be it for babies this year; if I put 2 dozen eggs in the incubator and if most of them hatch, that will be an awful lot of chickens running around here! And if someone does get really bad broody like Sophia did last year, I can always get chicks I guess - if I have to. Now that I know Peavey gets them in almost weekly…. Maybe some Midnight Majesty Marans - I have been reading and seems they are a hybrid of likely cuckoo Marans and/or BR!
https://www.hoovershatchery.com/midnightmajestymarans.html

@RoyalChick look black with feathered legs and dark brown eggs - oh yes I need some of those !!!! Oh well what’s 3 more…..

I’ll need names people….

Don't name you chicks before their egg is laid!

 

[Marie2020]

We are going to need tax from everyone discussing how packages are delivered.

You, my dear man is far worse than the tax inspectors

 

[rural mouse]

Hahahaha so that’s how I reboot Ol Blue!

Ok so I can name one of those MM Marans chicks I am ordering Blue - I need a pickup date - shipping here started 30th April (Tuesdays every week after that).

Or maybe a silkie named Bleu

You're naming birds before the egg is laid....at least wait until they hatch!

 

[Marie2020]

I have bigger troubles now.
How does this sound:
Sir Jaffar, of Cluckingham Court, honorable knight of the Royal order of Queen Aurora and Nardol the Brave from the order of the Black Medallion.
LLC. Wishes to confirm his bid to incorporate under the LLC bylaws and legalities.

 

[Marie2020]

Do they moult those along with the rest of their feathers? I have never noted my silkies leg/foot feathers moulting…. They are likely replacing them separately over time I figured.

I certainly never noted Henny Penny losing her fuzzy feet! I told her this morning she walked like a duck I think the bok bok bok was telling me off haha!

You should have seen princess after I washed her feet today.