Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Like sands through the hourglass so are..........The Days of Our Nest Box.
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Starring
Hattie as Hope Brady
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Sydney as Abigail Deveraux
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Sansa as Sami Brady
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Aurora as Kristen DiMera
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Lilly as Alice Horton
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And our special guest star Phyllis as Erica Kane in a special 5 part crossover event!

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I wanted to love and laugh at this.
Well done Bob.

 

[BY Bob]

They really do pile in with each other!

I love the sequence. They always seem so happy when dustbathing. Looks like Queenie is getting the job done.

 

[BY Bob]

I wanted to love and laugh at this.
Well done Bob.

It was all for you.

I even got an age effect on Lilly's photo that I loved.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

Oh, yay! Thank you!

I'm not sure how I replied to this post.... I meant to reply to:

This is so wonderful... one of my favorite flock introductions of all time.

Sorry if that sounded like the weirdest thing ever

 

[RoyalChick]

OK I got some photo stills from the video of the dustbath the other day. Still have to see how to make a shorter clip of it. Here are the stills -

Queenie (Buff Orp.) started off slightly set away, but got pretty well in there eventually. She always kept her head away from Hazel's head so there was minimal face-to-face time. That's Hazel to her right at 1 o'clock, and for every picture except the first I'm pretty sure that's Butters at 3 o'clock, and Peanut at the bottom at 6 o'clock. You can see Peanut's red legband, which she nibbled and tugged briefly. Popcorn was in the nestbox laying.
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Those are magnificent photos - I love the color contrast of Queenie with the rest of the cuddle puddle.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

They really do pile in with each other!

I love the sequence. They always seem so happy when dustbathing. Looks like Queenie is getting the job done.

I'm noticing how piling in maximizes the whole dustbathing goodness - additional rubbing plus the extra shrapnel flying around from others. What is interesting to me is that Hazel doesn't react badly to her body or blond feathers, only to her face.

 

[featherhead007]

Is that a repurposed owl box - or some ther bird, and upside-down, for what looks like the nestbox? (In the back there)?

Correct, it’s an upside down bird house

 

[BY Bob]

Correct, it’s an upside down bird house

How are you feeling today? Did you get some sleep, I hope?

 

[featherhead007]

How are you feeling today? Did you get some sleep, I hope?

Actually not much sleep, and my stomach has been upset with worrying. I haven’t been able to eat much lately either. Maybe I’m getting sick?

 

[featherhead007]

Correct, it’s an upside down bird house

It isn’t where the littles stay at night. Just out at daytime, if it’s warm enough