Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Spaghetti breakfast for the chickens this morning. (They are crazy for pasta treats) And very funny to watch as they eat!

Mine love pasta as well. I get a real kick out of watching them eat it.

 

[featherhead007]

Mine love pasta as well. I get a real kick out of watching them eat it.
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Exactly!

 

[featherhead007]

Now I'm getting hungry!

 

[BY Bob]

Queenie will be boss-lady before we know it!

There might be a tussle over the top spot but I bet she becomes the leader of her own subgroup. There will be a group of Buckeyes that follow her lead and are below her in the pecking order. Especially when she starts laying. This is so much fun! I'm so glad @ChicoryBlue is sharing this with us! Even better it came from saving a hen.

 

[Shadrach]

Then and now.
Mel with Treacle as a chick.

Treacle as an adult with Mum Mel.

 

[BY Bob]

Then and now.
Mel with Treacle as a chick.
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Treacle as an adult with Mum Mel.
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These are real keepers. What a wonderful folding frame this would make. So special.

 

[Shadrach]

I am also *this* close to looking one up, booking an appointment for my “cockatoo” And showing up. Any decent vet should care enough about animals to treat one that is in pain... regardless of species discrimination. Avian vets? Sure... see my chicken? Hard no!

Don't know what to say Kris.
I understand the need for regulation of antibiotics but in the country down the road from you they are pumping them into cattle like there is no tomorrow.

 

[Shadrach]

We just need to tag team sometimes! Sometimes it just takes multiple perspectives to transfer the information.

It's funny, I have been so sick that I have not even seen the ladies for days. It got warm today and I am finally feeling a little better so I went out with some walnuts and sat on the deck. 4 of them gathered around me. Hattie stood off and Phyllis waited to jump in. Once I brought out the walnuts it was pandemonium. I actually think that Sydney got more than Aurora. I had a terrible time getting any of them to Phyllis.

After the frenzy was over, I was wistful. This time last year I had my crew trained to take turns with treats. The 4 would arrange themselves and as I called their name they would each take their piece. That group included Aurora!

I have to take some blame that I have not trained them but 6 just seems to be a lot more to handle than 4.

I didn't realise you were that sick Bob. I thought you just had a bit of a cold.

 

[BY Bob]

Voyaristic Tendencies

The sun came out briefly yesterday and that was all the flock needed. It was bath time!

Hattie had created an especially deep hole. Come with me as we look in on Hattie and Phyllis "in the tub".

 

[BY Bob]

Don't know what to say Kris.
I understand the need for regulation of antibiotics but in the country down the road from you they are pumping them into cattle like there is no tomorrow.

We are quite the whipping boys aren't we.