Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValerieJ]

I did spend some time outside with the chickens. George has learned to build a nest and call the girls to it to show it off. They chose not to lay in it poor boy.

Well, that is simply adorable.

 

[Ponypoor]

It was only a matter of time.....
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/02/100k-eggs-stolen-from-central-pa-supplier.html?outputType=amp

What is this world coming to?

 

[Ponypoor]

Good Lord. How exactly do you take 100,000 eggs? Maybe they just took the whole trailer.

It’s the Maple Syrup heist all over again

 

[Ponypoor]

I have had the "Blah's" today. I do not feel sick, my sugar levels have been perfect. I have had zero energy to do anything. All I wanted to do was sleep. I'm blaming it on Kentucky's bi-polar weather. Mid 70s yesterday and today 50 but felt colder.

I did spend some time outside with the chickens. George has learned to build a nest and call the girls to it to show it off. They chose not to lay in it poor boy.

I sat for a hour inside the coop with Davy and Barbosa. I talked to them, called them and offered treats. They elected to stay in the back and give me a stare down. I know the problem, I do not have their preferred treat. Last night their previous owner told me their treat of choice is mealworms. They completely ignored my offering of blueberries. George loves blueberries though so they did not go to waste. I guess I have no choice, I need to head to TSC or Rural King sometime this week and pick up a small bag of mealworms.

The boys were a bit friendlier when I came in to put them in their box at bedtime. I had the camera with me and got a few pictures. Davy is the braver of the two.

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George still sleeps with his girls.
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Judy, I thought molting was over. She started dropping all her feathers this past Friday. Why Judy. At least they are coming in as fast as she is loosing them. Crazy hen.
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They are lovely I like the one with the wattles best though

Poor George, Mr P did that also and the girls ignored him

 

[Ponypoor]

Seems like quite a heist. I wonder where one finds an egg fence?

 

[Sylvester017]

I love making jelly. We prefer it over jam (sensory issues) and apple butter!!! I'm hoping to get cherry and peach or pear trees too.

I adore fruit trees. My mom had varieties of peach, pear, plum, apricot, olive, sapote, quince, avocado, persimmon, fig trees ~ plus guava bushes. When I moved here almost 40 yrs ago mom gave me a purple fig cutting to root following her instruction (basically just stick the twig in the ground & it will grow!). I loved that tree as it grew fast & produced copious amounts of fruit. The drawback though was too many ants, rats, wild birds, & June bugs attacked that tree. After the 4th year I chopped it down as I got tired of finding most luscious figs destroyed by pests.

My neighbor has peach & nectarine trees & can't keep pests or birds off of them. So, when we looked for fruit trees as backyard chicken shade we chose what rats, birds, or bugs don't like ~ lemon, grapefruit, & pomegranate trees ~ & guava bushes for the front yard which can be trimmed like hedges. Birds & rats & ants especially leave the sour fruits alone & don't dig their beaks/mandibles into the hard pomegranate shells. Fruit pest problem mostly solved.

I would've loved a white sapote tree as shade in the front yard but the very sweet sapote fruit tastes like delicious soft custard & attracts not only rats, birds, ants, & bugs ~ but bees & angry wasps too. The soft white sapote fruit bruises so easily & rots so fast after harvested it's never found in supermarkets. Years ago we came across a Von's Market in Orange County that had them for one brief week & we bought the whole crate they had in the produce section ~ about 2 dozen & DH & I gorged on that heavenly tropical fruit & polished them off in a week & a half! Never saw sapote again after that one year!

White sapote skin tears so easily that if a hanging fruit brushes in the wind against a branch the skin scratches & bees instantly
descend on the exposed very sweet fruit.

WHITE SAPOTE

My folks had a huge prolific white sapote tree on the farm so my uncle brought a beehive to collect the sweet nectar produced by that tree.

WHITE SAPOTE FRUIT TREES grow enormous

 

[Sylvester017]

Remember, not turning left (or is it right) at Albuquerque is what gets you lost....

LOVE the Looneys!!!!

 

[Sylvester017]

Eggs are on the truck headed to be delivered tomorrow
I'm so nervous

 

[Sylvester017]

Aster Come Home

Here is a video of me calling Aster. Everyone else comes at first and Aster has to thread her way through them to get to me.

That is so sweet. I do miss a Leghorn personality...

 

[Sylvester017]

That looks soo good. I have never made a Quiche. I want to though as I think I would love it. If you do not mind could I get the recipe for that? My girls are picking back up laying and I no longer need to hoard eggs for myself.

I'll PM you after my Dr appt tomorrow We make this all the time.

I'll share quiche if you share your lemon curd recipe. Our dwarf lemon tree is overly prolific!