Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Gorgeous birds those Polish!

Yes they are. And full of personality.

 

[BY Bob]

Maleficent!!! Beautiful sweetheart!

A very very special lady. Thanks for remembering her name.

 

[BY Bob]

Tried to get an unusual 2ferView attachment 3992274Two 1s....and it went up as I raised rhe phone to take the pic....sigh, fail...

Picked up 2 bags of feed, so full dark before I got home.

Look at all that snow!

 

[BY Bob]

I am such a bad student. I do think you explained that to me.
I need to keep my lessons bookmarked so I am not relying on my memory.

Maybe a notebook to which you could refer.....

 

[rural mouse]

I am such a bad student. I do think you explained that to me.
I need to keep my lessons bookmarked so I am not relying on my memory.

I'm glad you keep asking about markings. I learn something new every time too. I also get things I'm iffy on settled in my own mind.

 

[rural mouse]

Look at all that snow!

On the divide. There's nothing at home.

 

[TOMTE]

Woke up with swedish flower hens on my mind. I'd really love a few of those...

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

I was nicknamed Sylvester in elementary school by classmates as an extension on my first name & I liked it. Helped that I was a Looney Tunes cartoon fan too!

Chicken Abigail. She was late to get her tail. When her tail grew in, Mom called her Abitail. I made up the story that she insisted she was "not Abitail". Hence the username.

I was playing around with semi-random ideas and it sort of fell together.

There is an old saying:

One can become a million quite easy with horses.

All you need to do is start with a billion dollars!

Thus ponypoor came to be when I got my horses.

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I'm not nearly as inventive as everyone else. My username is my first name and my middle and last initials. People tell me they think of me as Sally Peanut Butter, though, and that fits. I love PB.

Tomte is the name I go by online Anyone familiar with Norway/Sweden history/mythology might know what it means

My favorite pullet when I first got chickens was a very small Buff Orpington, and because of her golden color, she got the name Daffodil. Her much larger sister got a coordinating name, Dandelion, and they were shortened to Daffy and Dandy. A few weeks after I got them, Daffy passed away, and I was still grieving at the time when I made my account, so I picked ILoveDaffy. For anyone who wants to know, I have no idea what Daddy passed from, I just woke up and went to go feed the chickens one day and from the looks of it, she had just dropped off the roost that night dead. No sickness or marks on her and the others were just fine. Looking back it may have been a Failure to Thrive type thing since she was so small compared to the others.

Thanks to everyone who have replied. And yes, I know what a tomte is. A gnome-like character in Scandinavian cultures. They are also called nisse. I think they like porridge or oatmeal.

 

[TOMTE]

Thanks to everyone who have replied. And yes, I know what a tomte is. A gnome-like character in Scandinavian cultures. They are also called nisse. I think they like porridge or oatmeal.

YAY! Yup, leaving out a bowl of porridge for them was common practice! Or beer, ale, mead, etc. Fresh milk, too, I think. I wonder if the offering depended on region, or just what was available. Probably the latter.

 

[TOMTE]

Wattles!

Esme and Aliss (didn't manage to get a pic of her) have the smallest wattles.

Everyone's favorite Magrat still has the largest! Her comb is starting to thicken up a bit too!

Gytha's aren't much smaller. Look at their earlobes, too!

Gytha is a little camera shy...

Sybil is in second place, wattle size wise.

I think she has the biggest comb. She's been curious about the next boxes lately. I'm betting on her being first to lay!