Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Normalizing Relations

It looks like Tilly and the cat may have reached an understanding.

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Doesn't look like Tilly has much choice in the matter!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Thanks!
I don’t think it has to be a B name. I quite like Beulah, but no disrespect to your great grandmother but the name Bertha always makes me think of Big Bertha - the WWI Howitzer!
I tried many red-associated names on her but they all tend to be feisty characters and she strikes me as more calm and reflective.

None taken. I had a huge bass reflex speaker cabinet (speaker pointed to the rear inside, to enhance the acoustic properties of the cabinet) in my very youthful days, maybe 5’ wide x 2.5’ tall, on wheels, we called it Big Bertha! Shook your pant legs to stand in front of of it.

Have you looked at names associated with the darker color maroon, or burgundy, which is closer than actual red to me for the brown-red of Buckeyes…even purples maybe, like Veronica. Brick, if it’s a dark colored brick…
I don’t like most of these actually, except Ophelia, and Hana / Hannah
https://www.magicbabynames.com/?name=Maroon

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Girls Names​

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Boys or Girls​

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[RoyalChick]

I am quite flattered that this Thirsty Thursday Sylvie has chosen to drink water I supplied rather than the abundant wild water outside.
Of course the wild water is likely being consumed by an army of Littles so she came in for some peace and quiet.

 

[RoyalChick]

None taken. I had a huge bass reflex speaker cabinet (speaker pointed to the rear inside, to enhance the acoustic properties of the cabinet) in my very youthful days, maybe 5’ wide x 2.5’ tall, on wheels, we called it Big Bertha! Shook your pant legs to stand in front of of it.

Have you looked at names associated with the darker color maroon, or burgundy, which is closer than actual red to me for the brown-red of Buckeyes…even purples maybe, like Veronica. Brick, if it’s a dark colored brick…
I don’t like most of these actually, except Ophelia, and Hana / Hannah
https://www.magicbabynames.com/?name=Maroon

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Boys or Girls​

[/td] [td]Zaher + ♡[/td] [td]Eshana + ♡[/td] [td]Soil + ♡[/td] [td]Dax + ♡[/td] [td]Rogina + ♡[/td] [td]Cricket + ♡[/td] [td]Dexter + ♡[/td] [td]Minty + ♡[/td] [td]Crimson + ♡[/td] [td]Marwan + ♡[/td] [td]Sunflower + ♡[/td] [td]Spindle + ♡[/td] [td]Charbel + ♡[/td] [td]Maaya + ♡[/td] [td]Cele + ♡[/td] [td]Rashad + ♡[/td] [td]Saara + ♡[/td] [td]Turquoise + ♡[/td] [td]Anthony + ♡[/td] [td]Clover + ♡[/td] [td]Vermilion + ♡[/td] [td]Oliver + ♡[/td] [td]Hanaa + ♡[/td] [td]Raspberry + ♡[/td] [td]Luke + ♡[/td] [td]Hether + ♡[/td] [td]Aqua + ♡[/td] [td]Garry + ♡[/td] [td]Nikkita + ♡[/td] [td]March + ♡[/td] [td]Andrew + ♡[/td] [td]Ophelia + ♡[/td] [td]Crow + ♡[/td] [td]Thomas + ♡[/td] [td]Marzia + ♡[/td] [td]Masai + ♡[/td] [td]More boys names...[/td] [td]More girls names...[/td] [td]More names...
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Good thinking.
Garnet, Russet, Amber, Audrey/Auburn.
Maybe Amber.

 

[rural mouse]

Thanks!
I don’t think it has to be a B name. I quite like Beulah, but no disrespect to your great grandmother but the name Bertha always makes me think of Big Bertha - the WWI Howitzer!
I tried many red-associated names on her but they all tend to be feisty characters and she strikes me as more calm and reflective.

Red, calm, reflective....hmmm....

Cerise

https://explainnames.com/names-that-mean-calm-and-peaceful/

Shalom and Kizumi jump at me in the first few. Meanings on several might fit too

 

[RoyalChick]

Red, calm, reflective....hmmm....

Cerise

https://explainnames.com/names-that-mean-calm-and-peaceful/

Shalom and Kizumi jump at me in the first few. Meanings on several might fit too

Oh several names I like here - thanks for finding. Bookmarking to discuss with her later but on my short list from here would be:
Kazumi, Zuri, Amani, Paloma, Shanti, Avani

Adding Sienna (not from this list) coming from red-brown clay soil (which is exactly her color!).

 

[rural mouse]

The poor kitten! Wow!

They're all getting used to each other. She pounces on/at anything that moves (moulted feathers, Castor's tail, Sherlock's ball, fallen leaves, dust motes....). When she moves, the chickens alert....and so it goes...in circles...

 

[rural mouse]

Oh several names I like here - thanks for finding. Bookmarking to discuss with her later but on my short list from here would be:
Kazumi, Zuri, Amani, Paloma, Shanti, Avani

Adding Sienna (not from this list) coming from red-brown clay soil (which is exactly her color!).

I get it. Had to discuss names with Bijou....and had lists. I swear she wanted to hear them ALL, then decided the first one was acceptable!

the Queen in assorted moods...the tail expresses EVERYTHING

 

[RoyalChick]

I get it. Had to discuss names with Bijou....and had lists. I swear she wanted to hear them ALL, then decided the first one was acceptable!

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She really is gorgeous - and she chose her name well!
I will probably hold off naming Bucky until Tassels releases some control - it is hard for me to get to know them and of the four she is the one that holds back. When there is a scrum for blueberries she often wanders off and digs up her own stuff and then darts in for a blueberry and carries it off into the bushes to eat. She stays out of the fray.

 

[BY Bob]

Run build is ongoing...pavers added on one edge under the posts & wire run supports to keep the swale side of the run from sinking. The ground may have shifted to “fall” toward / into the swale next to it. Not the French drain but a deep swale excavated some years ago that the French drain goes to. You can see the swale stones just beyond the run litter boards
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A pullet with the Bigs
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Pullets in the pool, might begin dustbathing!
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No…a sunbath instead!
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Annie looking fine
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Hazel is molting; Shehnai clambering on her doesn’t help her comfort I’m sure
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She's doing okay dealing with the Hormonal Idiot. Sessions with him, the chase and capture, are not fun. Not visibly injured so far, when she gets caught she positions herself pretty well and is very stable while he fumbles around slipping off her and moving his feet all over the place, figuring out how to do this and stay on her. I saw his foot push out and step on her wing for instance, but I think he mostly stepped on feathers. Mornings, then an afternoon shot at mating her after the midday siesta, usually not too successful, but later he's downright hunting for her in the evening. The pullets are still also mimicking Shehnai giving short chases, and she confronts them, generally flares at them twice before running away.

In between all is fairly peaceful and she relaxes some when she sees from his body language he's on to something else, but she keeps her distance. She doesn't obsess about where he is, it's interesting to watch how "in the moment" she is. If he is out of sight she'll do her regular chicken things. Sometimes she is shocked and surprised when he comes back from a corner he just went around, very funny! He might be learning some about what’s acceptable and what isn’t, his behavior is refining in some vague way, just an intuition on my part.

Shehnai has crowed! He was standing tall as if he had spied something to look out for. Then he got taller and flapped his wings. Then he did it again, with a crow! So far he crows about three times each morning and that's it.

Currently sounds like "Toodle-ee-doo!"
Shehnai preening
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Shehnai mug
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Hazel is getting pretty good at staying with the orps for protection and hiding from his sight, and the orps might be learning their part too. A couple days ago Diane led her up into the coop to roost early during a lull in the chasing, Hazel agreed and didn’t throw her out. Shehnai didn't try to follow them in there, though last night he did, causing all kinds of squawking and rummaging sounds. Don’t know if he succeeded in mating her, but he came back out after several seconds. I could see he had had the idea because he jumped up there and looked around while Hazel and one of the BO’s were hanging about the coop door thinking about going in for the night. Then he was chased down, but went back after they went in. I took pics when he got up there and the pullets followed
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If the pullets are like the last group of Buckeyes they would lay a first egg in early December, if the light were right. (June 2 hatchday; the last group were hatched July 6 and laid Jan 4th.) Will they be squatting in November then? How soon before the actual egg so their hormones become evident to a roo? Shehnai is sort of grabbling/stabbing them on the neck now, but not trying anything more.
Pullet photo-bombing
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Here Hazel’s taking refuge with Annie this morning when she’s in there to lay her egg
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For a couple of days I’ve been closing up the wire run with Hazel and the orps in there for about half an hour to an hour while I do chores and hang out before doing run work. They eat and rest and dust bathe and are hidden behind the visual blocking screen. This also gives me time with Shehnai and the pullets to be close with them, undisturbed by the orps. They invariably come over to see what I’m doing and end up chasing the Buckeyes away so this is nice.

I've been concerned Hazel is spending much of her time in the forested aviary area which has a waterer but no feed, though she is getting bugs. When I brought food by hand up there she hungrily ate a lot, and I fed her twice. Might put a treadle feeder up there.

Here's Shehnai seemingly cooling off. He does this, likes to lay on some damp ground. He did some gathering motions while there.
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He is handsome. He does have a lot to learn, I am hopeful he can pull it off.