Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

No. No mosquitos but heard a symphony of crickets in your video ~ they were probably under your haystack field! Those suckers are hiding all over our backyard wherever it's dark! Our chickens will keep eating & eating crickets without stop if the little critters didn't hide/jump so fast!

Yes we have a billion crickets here, also many other nighttime insects which make so much noise!

In the Spring when the frost is gone from the ground we have toads and frogs calling - millions of Norther Peepers, it is always my time to know that Spring is here when I hear them. This year I heard them about the first of March - that is extraordinarily early, but we had an extremely mild winter with not a lot of frost in the ground. Normally it would be mid-April before I hear the frogs.

One of the reasons the chook love Mount Poopmore in the winter is that the warmth of the manure pile is a great place for bugs, even in the coldest of nights the bugs will survive in the manure pile.

 

[Ponypoor]

I had the same thought. Breeders are crossing Leghorns w/ many other breeds to increase egg production ~ Legbars, Black Production, hybrids, etc etc etc. At the same time increasing prolific egg breeds is also shortening lifespans . Sometimes the crosses don't inherit prolific egg laying which is good cuz it allows the bird better health/lifespan.

The Azur Blue I have here are a hybrid of Leghorn and Aracona - they lay lovely blue eggs, but I worry about them laying to many.

 

[Ponypoor]

Picture #5 where s/he is just taking off is amazing!

It sure set the chooks on alert - they were all hiding under the trees and growling. I am not overly worried about it carrying AI but I don't want to have them dropping in too often. They do hang out at the pond up the road where there are many geese.

 

[Ponypoor]

So beautiful. I had one visit last week too!
I need to look it up - I think they live year round here.
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Do you have a pond on your property? There is a lot of ponds and creeks here so we get a lot of water birds around here.

 

[notabitail]

But I wanna be Smort

You can change your username once...

 

[Logar]

You can change your username once...

But that is too much work

 

[Ponypoor]

But that is too much work

Gonna need tax for the non-chook chit-chat.

Like this:

 

[Ponypoor]

But that is too much work

Don’t change your name! We all know your name if you change it we won’t know who you are!

 

[Logar]

Gonna need tax for the non-chook chit-chat.

Like this:
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Fine. I’ll pay up

 

[Ponypoor]

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I love a nice barred rock

Is the other a Buff Orp? I have three - big fluffy chickies