Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

Order placed to hatch on the 21, all vaccinated for Marek's and will be put on medicated feed once they get home.

Sounds great! Very happy for you.

 

[Kris5902]

Yay internet connection! Got my second Covid shot today and am hanging out at my mothers for a bit so… I need to catch up on some chicken tax pics!

Mom teaching the first 4 layer chicks where the humans roost…

 

[LozzyR]

You could ask the breeder, “Is every day, a bad hair day for a Frizzle?”

Pretty sure the answer is ‘yes’.

 

[Kris5902]

Some close ups of my bling girl’s eyes and don’t tell DH I posted him with our “baby” goat!

 

[MaryJanet]

Pretty sure the answer is ‘yes’.

As a human frizzle, I say "Hey!"

 

[MaryJanet]

Some close ups of my bling girl’s eyes and don’t tell DH I posted him with our “baby” goat!

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Those pupils are tiny.

 

[Kris5902]

And 3 of the 5 newest hatched babies! My big bitey pancake of doom’s chicks. Two are showing daddy’s Barnvelder genes a little bit the other is pure Grandpa Chickie Hawk, with heavily feathered legs and what looks like the beginnings of cheek muffs already!

so some good May come from this move for my mom, if nothing else she has a stable internet connection!

 

[Kris5902]

Those pupils are tiny.

It looks almost like cataracts… her eyes looked normal and more orange until the sudden blindness, it may have developed somewhat slowly and I didn’t notice it because Hawk and his girls are so low maintenance

 

[featherhead007]

Some close ups of my bling girl’s eyes and don’t tell DH I posted him with our “baby” goat!

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That poor blind chicken. I’m at odds as to what to think. Such a lovely bird.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Chicken tax, SHRA and other. Popcorn! Her fluffy butt, early for Friday, as she's foraging this evening.

Spotlight of sun on her fluff! I couldn't get closer...

Glint on certain hackles feathers is interesting.

In other news Hazel is/was doing some kind of small molt. The last several days there've been fluff feathers, and some two-feather feathers - a long fluff and a small less fluffy one seemingly on the same shaft, and one big contour feather lying about. She looked a little scraggly and her thigh area shape doesn't look the same. Might account for her grumpiness.

Interestingly, Peanut got on Hazel's case and pursued and pecked her on the neck recently. Hazel went running.

I checked Butters' neck and she's got about an inch of nice new feathers out of the pins and coming in under the hackles! She squatted and let me stroke her yesterday.