Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Love it! Thanks ACM!

Remind me, what does SCA stand for? And is this kind of a thing that all you Ozzies do?

 

[BY Bob]

Sorry to pipe up when things were just getting settled but I think chickens are more dazzling than blessing.

So I may go my own way and speak of a dazzle of chickens. If that's ok with everyone.

You do you MJ! We will understand.

 

[BY Bob]

You know, it wasn’t raining today, and I actually took a bunch of back tax pictures, some even turned out semi-decently... while juggling the aftermath of winter storm #3 and the goatling. Luckily the rains came well before the winds that dismantled our poly shed (house is still standing though, go Sukh and the “fierce brown hunters” construction crew! ) and to prove things are looking up on the house build, my table saw landed upside down on our construction plans, so they didn’t blow away and are still semi legible!

Day two, pill two of Roostie’s antibiotics... he’s decided he’s not a fan of these either, but pilling him with the “horse pills” is still easier than getting a liquid medicine into him. I take his fighting it to mean he’s starting to feel better, and he was more active in courting his ladies today, so I’m still hopeful.

Come on Roostie. You can do it. Fight dude, Fight!

 

[BY Bob]

Remind me, what does SCA stand for? And is this kind of a thing that all you Ozzies do?

Society for Creative Anachronism i believe. They are here in the US As well.

 

[BY Bob]

Oooh... I think I finally have a good way of putting it!

If left to their own nature chickens will form tribal groups. This is what @Shadrach has achieved with his husbandry techniques. (I might be getting there with my free range group, but I think I need more separate and better nighttime shelters for them to form more exclusive tribes). This doesn’t necessarily remove the description of “flock” for a group of chickens. From the new oxford American dictionary:
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especially if you were to replace “kind” with species... but given the opportunity chickens will form into further divided tribes (based on the criteria already discussed, preferring similar breeds/temperaments etc.) on their own. That’s the differentiating point, given the opportunity... but being social animals, if not able to form that grouping with like individuals, they will still do-exist and function in a flock with whatever other chickens are available?

Also note how the original sense was in reference to people, just another kind of animal, when we get down to it?

Look who went and pulled out the dictionary on us. How many days discussion and you are the first to pull it out. Kudos to you Kris.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I love them. Blanche has a special place in my heart. Love those leghorns!

Buffy looks great. I'm s big fan of Orpingtons as well.

Thanks for thinking of me.

I know Blanche and Buffy are your kind of chicken, so I thought you’d like that%

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Thank you. Henrietta is a very pretty hen. She is my best layer of my flock. She's taking a break right now, but her molt is finally finished. She didn't go completely bald all at once but back at the end of November she was so pitiful looking I joked I needed to find a tiny paper bag with eye holes and stick on her head. Last season she started laying the first of march and would go 8 days straight without taking a day off. She didn't quit until the first of November. Her comb is starting to color back up slowly so looking forward to her starting back up again. Here are a few more pictures of her in her new coat. Her red got darker this year.
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This is Henrietta's daughter Bread. *note to self, stop letting mom name the animals*. Bread closely resembles her mother except she didn't inherit her mothers blue lacing. She is still a pretty young pullet and I hope she is just as good a layer as her mom.
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Henrietta is a very pretty hen, and Bread is maturing nicely too.
what breed are they?

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Ivy is having a hectic moult at present. Every few minutes another feather comes away.

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I love those feathered feet!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Ivy is still pretty even when she's scruffy. I didn't get a picture of Henrietta at her worst. The one time i did take pics of her while molting she gave me death glares lol.
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Haha, Ivy is looking at the camera like “ oh no, not today! My feathers are a mess!”

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

So have I, Chickie was the perfect example.

I can’t believe we do this to chickens. Sometimes I hate humans!