Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I only saw one really obvious tribe today. I saw three roosters, a few hens, and lots and lots of babies... maybe a dozen little chicks and a dozen older chicks... at least! So that would mean more than one hen set eggs, right? Since they were different ages? When we were out just before dawn, one could hear roosters crowing allover the place, but you couldn’t really see them. I think they were in the trees.

This just popped up on my Facebook feed, I thought it was appropriate

 

[BY Bob]

Congratulations!

Thank you

 

[micstrachan]

This just popped up on my Facebook feed, I thought it was appropriate
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Good one!

 

[micstrachan]

It's no good. I've got to fez up. I've been in denial. I've got as near to a house rooster as makes no difference.
Treacle visits the house every day. I let them all out of their coops in the morning, Treacle spends between half an hour and an hour with the tribe or the ducks and then arrives at my house. He doesn't march straight in. He waits outside until I appear.
Once I'm in the house (I usually am because I go in to have breakfast around then) Treacle comes in. He's not after food it seems. He just wants the company.
If I leave, as I have for most of the day recently, he often waits in the house. The door is open so he can come and go as he pleases. When he does go back outside and I arrive, he rushes at me like I'm a hen, his wings spread out and full tilt run. He gets right up to my feet and stops dead.
If I go back to the house he follows me.
The strange thing is, when the rest of Tribe 1 arrive; it's usually after 3.30 pm, he mixes with them as normal. They generally stop in the house until supper time, 5pmish. Then they all go off to their coop together.
I'm having to carry him out some days just to make sure he gets some outside time.

Oh my gosh, Shad. That is so cute! I can totally picture him running at you like that. Great visual!

 

[micstrachan]

A Christmas Surprise

Since the passing of Daisy, the greatest hen ever, we have never had a December egg. I caught Sansa in an egg box yesterday but I thought nothing of it as they have been using the coop a lot. I was checking out the coop today when I caught this out of the corner of my eye.
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What great little surprise!

Well done, Sansa!

 

[BY Bob]

Is it just me or does that egg look blue? Congratulations on the December egg Bob!

That is the ceramic egg. I found a way to get blue eggs!

 

[Kris5902]

I can only find brown ceramics, and when I tried that to reduce egg eating? Well chickens are not color blind. They just kept chowing down on the green and blue eggs, and the occasional brown. They could totally tell the difference.

 

[Shadrach]

How gorgeous is my Nyssa?!

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She's very gorgeous.

 

[Shadrach]

Well I don't either but I find a lot of it shows up as packaging (I can thank @Shadrach for a lifetime's supply of Spanish language newspaper), and some other packaging paper is absorbent rather than shiny and I (packrat that I am) keep it all and use it to line the compost bucket, trash can etc. But if you don't have a supply then that doesn't help as an idea. Sorry, that is all I have!

Well, you can't knock that! You'll have bilingual chickens before long; multilingual if you've been speaking to them in English.

 

[Shadrach]

Tuckered out after a hard morning’s study session.

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She looks just like the kids I went to school with.....asleep.