Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Retraction : not a little old lady,
But a sweet senior lady neighbor down the street.

Somewhat better ~ but why any senior reference at all?! Old age is useful only at the buffet bar or ticket lines !

 

[Sylvester017]

My birthday is next Friday! Virgos rule! I've got 21 years on you though. But 40 was one of my best birthdays ever! I got an "I'm not old damit!" tattoo and my husband took me to my favorite restaurant for dinner. Really, the whole year was pretty good! May yours be the same.

The coop is done! View attachment 3934118
At least done enough for now. The ladies are moving in tonight!!! The pop door is still covered, but 2 minutes and a hand saw will finish cutting the hole. The hardware cloth on the windows is only temporary. We are headed an hour away to buy the necessary 4' wide hardware cloth and the trim for outside the windows. We can finish them tomorrow and the run, hopefully. It should be cool enough the next 2-3 days that keeping everyone "cooped up" will be safe!

Enjoy that little space Reds...it's the last day you get!View attachment 3934149

Happy pre B-day!

Congrats on the coop!

 

[SimpleJenn]

It's a long waiting process breeding to get the desired results but you're young enough to wait on each breeding hatch & what to do w/the extra cockerels.

Personally I love Cochins just as they are. Our 1st two chickens were going to be bantam Cochins but our homeschool friend hatched beautiful partridge Silkie babiess & that was it. We've always had Silkies since then.

Yeah I'm falling in love with my cochins and crosses. Nyx has the cochin shape and she is just gorgeous. Hubby doesn't want to get more hens so we can keep the cochin roo...but he also didn't tell me no...I should behave haha

Why does that gorgeous one have to be a boy!? I'm hoping the pale-headed one is a girl so I can at least keep one purebred cochin.

 

[Sylvester017]

Yeah I'm falling in love with my cochins and crosses. Nyx has the cochin shape and she is just gorgeous. Hubby doesn't want to get more hens so we can keep the cochin roo...but he also didn't tell me no...I should behave haha
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Why does that gorgeous one have to be a boy!? I'm hoping the pale-headed one is a girl so I can at least keep one purebred cochin.

The boys have the prettiest plumage & the sweetest cockerel dispositions. It's when hormones kick in that the males & females go a bit nutty.

 

[Ponypoor]

I love that age when little kids can speak to me in full sentences.
At Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, under the docks, my daughter was three years old and yelled in excitement “hey dad, doggies!” She was talking about the sea lions

I lady I was acquainted with once told me she was in Sea World and her young daughter who was yelling “mama mama phoque, mama phoque!”

Of course everyone was looking and giggling at this wee child apparently swearing.

Anyone want to lookup the meaning of phoque?

It’s all very innocent really.

Yep kids are hilarious!

 

[Ponypoor]

Good luck finding one in the States!

May be some here in Canada….

 

[Ponypoor]

I wonder how many times I'd need to breed back and forth (breed wise, not to direct relatives) a brahma or cochin to get big ol fluffy silkies? Because I don't care about breed purity, I just want a giant teddybird.

You have Buff Orps they are big orange fluffy bears

 

[Ponypoor]

May be some here in Canada….

But good luck getting them across the border….

 

[Ponypoor]

My birthday is next Friday! Virgos rule! I've got 21 years on you though. But 40 was one of my best birthdays ever! I got an "I'm not old damit!" tattoo and my husband took me to my favorite restaurant for dinner. Really, the whole year was pretty good! May yours be the same.

The coop is done! View attachment 3934118
At least done enough for now. The ladies are moving in tonight!!! The pop door is still covered, but 2 minutes and a hand saw will finish cutting the hole. The hardware cloth on the windows is only temporary. We are headed an hour away to buy the necessary 4' wide hardware cloth and the trim for outside the windows. We can finish them tomorrow and the run, hopefully. It should be cool enough the next 2-3 days that keeping everyone "cooped up" will be safe!

Enjoy that little space Reds...it's the last day you get!View attachment 3934149

When you turn 90 you can put right under that tattoo ’now I am getting old’

 

[notabitail]

But good luck getting them across the border….

Your horse trailer.