Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

The biggest thing is thinking you are paying on one thread and you are on a different one. I won't admit to how many times I've done that!

Yep. Did it just yesterday. Luckily Shad picked it up & I could remove myself blushing madly!

 

[BY Bob]

She Really Did It!

Lilly laid an egg!

Maybe Hattie pressured her into it. Chicken peer pressure, that's a thing, right?

In the process, Lilly destroyed Hattie's nest (the top nesting box). She threw all the straw into the coop and kicked the ceramic egg to the side. Check it out.

The egg is much smaller than Hattie's and very pale but I don't care.

I cannot remember the last time Lilly laid an egg. What a wonderful treat from her today.

 

[ValerieJ]

Ok we will allow it. But you are missing out. It was quite a year.

Well, okay, if ever I get time to read this 357 page novel, I will.

 

[Ribh]

I think you’re a great chook-dad Shad. I feel a bit guilty when I think of Emily, my original girl along with Lucy. They were quite similar, I don’t think I’d noticed any individual personality traits by the time she died. I was sad and she’s the only girl I buried. I wasn’t devastated like I was with Penny and Bessie, possibly because I found her dead on the ground and hadn’t gone through efforts to save her like the other two. I’d only had chooks for eight months by the time Emily died and and still had much to learn. She and Lucy also didn’t free-range. That started after Emily died; Lucy seemed sad and lonely, so we let her out when we were in the yard. Then when we got Penny and Chickie, they had supervised free-ranging. That’s when I started noticing personalities.

I feel guilty that I don’t think about Emily as much as I do Penny and Bessie.

It's like with any animal. You don't really know who they are until you spend time getting to know them. My Campines are almost indistinguishable from each other when fully feathered but they are nothing alike in personality! My favorelles are almost complete opposites. I notice it when I haven't been spending time with the girls. The subtleties of flock dynamics have changed & I miss things.

 

[LozzyR]

Yep. Did it just yesterday. Luckily Shad picked it up & I could remove myself blushing madly!

Is that what happens when I get an email notification of someone’s post and then I can’t find it?! I thought I was going a little crazy!

 

[Ribh]

Lilly laid an egg!

Yay! Congratulations!

 

[BY Bob]

Well, okay, if ever I get time to read this 357 page novel, I will.

You will laugh and you will cry. It is a vibrant slice of life if I do say so myself.

I went back and was reading old posts myself last night. My wife wanted to know what was so funny as I giggled to myself.

 

[Ribh]

Is that what happens when I get an email notification of someone’s post and then I can’t find it?! I thought I was going a little crazy!

Dunno. I always check the threads I'm following manually because my notifications are erratic.

 

[Shadrach]

I haven't read it all either ~ but that's ok. Things eventually become clear. The hardest part is keeping track of where certain parts of a conversation have moved to amongst 4 threads!

My discussion of my wicked broody is now on MJ's thread. Poor MJ. I just try not to fry my poor little brain.

I'm afraid I'm guilty of adding to the confusion.

 

[Ribh]

I'm afraid I'm guilty of adding to the confusion.

Story of my life!