Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Good idea. It looks like an old jam kettle. Great choice for a nest!

Yes a nice safe bin to raise chickies in - just needs a bit more bedding and perfect!

 

[RoyalChick]

White leghorns are....I think....but were they used in developing the FROST legbar or did they use cream legbats and maybe the opal leghorn (I think they call that one something else too). Do you know off the top of your head what went into the frost one?

Oooh. I actually know something relevant.
Nothing to do with Leghorns or Opal Legbars.
They are a naturally occurring mutation.

It is possibly a throwback to Leghorn ancestors and I think is double recessive white.

 

[bgmathteach]

Oh hey who had Crop Girl?

I do, because I did crop surgery on her -
AND -SHE- SURVIVED!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

All I can remember from my marriage, was that she said “I do” but then sadly she never did!

Sorry to hear that but now you have chickens so they will be way better

 

[Ponypoor]

I do, because I did crop surgery on her -
AND -SHE- SURVIVED!!!

YES! I remember , and you are a hero for doing that - if ever I need to do this I will have to Skype you for directions on how you did it

 

[rural mouse]

Photography & related name I haven't seen yet is Crop, which would be really ironic

That line of thought deteriorates rather quickly....

 

[bgmathteach]

We would all be guilty of Guinea rustling across state lines!

But ocifer, they flew onto my land - I have no idea where they came from - I thought they were native or escapees!

 

[rural mouse]

Me too.
Pan, Tilt, and Zoom. One of them eats from a pan, the other one has a tail that tilts, and the other one zooms around the yard so fast the shutter on your phone can't close in time to snap a photo.

Zoom was mentioned....but if photography wins out for names, Focus, Blur, Zoom, Pan, Tilt....well, maybe not Pan....Bomb... are top of the list!

 

[bgmathteach]

Yep I would pick up that whole bin- chicken and all, and bring her to the hen house - that way she will be safe

It is bolted to the manger - with rusty bolts that won't come off - it is somewhere around 40+ years old. The guy who originally owned this house logged with horses...he had a horrible accident and died shortly thereafter in the early to mid 80s (vehicle accident - hit by a drunk driver when he was transporting his horses - the story goes)

And, the DC girls are lower on the pecking order and get tossed off the nests - and she will hop back into any nest that has eggs - hence they won't hatch- hence why I usually have them brood in my broody house - but it needs repairing - and maybe refiguring.

 

[bgmathteach]

All I can remember from my marriage, was that she said “I do” but then sadly she never did!

You just confirmed @RoyalChick point!


You were probably more attentive to your hens than your ex (or at least understand them better! Maybe you should have been a rooster, not a man????