Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I just love your videos Bob.
I notice they are feeding off the wooden boards. Is this how you normally feed them?
The chickens here do not like eating out of the bowls I provide the food in. They much prefer to eat from natural ground. Wood at least in theory should be a much more comfortable pecking surface than pottery, hard plastics and concrete.

I feed them wherever they are. Unfortunately they love the deck. It serves to be their preferred spot. They are not crazy about the cement patio unless it's something like a cracker that they take from my hand and then need to beak apart.

They do not like to take crackers when I am out in the yard with them. They will take a few and then give up and move on. It's too hard to break them up. I figured this out by cracking the crackers. If I do that they will eat as long as I want to crack the crackers for them.

The wood of the deck seems to be the perfect combination of toughness but still easy on the beak. They will even try to draw me there if I have food elsewhere. They will run to the deck and try to get me to follow.

Of course the downside is constant deck cleaning, which in the winter can be tough.

 

[BY Bob]

I can just hear her saying “Wait... did you just SHUT ME OUT?? Don’t you know who I am?!”

This feels so true. She is getting like a door to door vacuum cleaner sales person. Now when I open the door, she sticks her foot on the sill so I can't close it.

I just got yelled at to "close that door" because Maleficent had her foot blocking it. I had to throw some mealy worms out to get her to back off. I feel like I am being extorted now!

 

[MaryJanet]

Hehehe you better watch out or you'll be cornered one day and handing over all the mealy worms!

 

[Kris5902]

I have a similar issue here with the Free Range rehab girls. They sit on my steps, hide under the trailer to ambush me. Anything in my hands must be food. They literally chase me... yesterday I had to drive back to the trailer for some tape, I tossed out some scratch to distract them so I could drive back to the build site. It wasn’t enough though, and they were chasing the Jeep at top chicken speed as I drove off. They see me approach and charge full speed then stay underfoot... if they hear the trailer door open they will leave the barn to investigate (even at roosting time, quite counter productive when I’m going out to shut them in for the night!). And they really want into the big coop, which does not fly with my cats at all!

 

[BlueBaby]

Hello, @BY Bob I have made it over to your thread. I haven't read all of it yet, but I will as time goes by.

 

[drumstick diva]

no meal worms -

 

[BY Bob]

Hello, @BY Bob I have made it over to your thread. I haven't read all of it yet, but I will as time goes by.

Glad to have you here. I hope you enjoy the stories and discussions. Beware, I do get silly at times!

 

[BY Bob]

Safe and Warm

The flock has found a spot where they can lay in the morning sun safe from nasty hawks. Here they are next to the house under the rose of sharon bush.

 

[BlueBaby]

Glad to have you here. I hope you enjoy the stories and discussions. Beware, I do get silly at times!

That's ok, I don't mind silly at all. A bit of humor is good, but there seem's to be so little of it anymore.

 

[silkiemother]

finally just finished reading every. single. page!