Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[fuentemoon]

Our chickens are used to loud where we live, we are close to trains and industrial noise. It is only noisy some days, but those days are cacophonous.
Our cat star on the other hand loves fireworks, she will sit and watch them, the others mostly hide.

 

[fuentemoon]

Here are the before and after yard pics

Oh and my other sunflower variety opened its first bloom!

 

[micstrachan]

Gorgeous. The Susans will survive. They are tough. Mine aren’t flowering yet.
I have a profusion of daisies. Just dm me if you want me to collect some seed for you.
Below are a couple of ancient pictures from the BC era (before chickens) but they give a sense of what I mean by profusion of daisies!

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Wow, so beautiful! I can do irises here and daisies, too, I believe. But deer never allow roses to stay. They are like deer candy.

 

[Blazinga]

tonight we decided to play house.

Someone thinks dust bathing it overrated and paper towel bathing is the way to go.

Oh and if you were wondering what happened to their house, here is the semblance of a roof. There's welding to do before we finish.

 

[micstrachan]

This deserves a laugh.

Right??? I had a chuckle, too!

 

[micstrachan]

Maggie on safari
Maggie is big game hunting. She is determined to score ‘the big five’ (worm, beetle, moth, spider and grub).

Here she is hiding out so she can observe for game.
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Shhh. She may have spotted something.
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Yes. She is locked on her target.
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And with one (not very graceful) leap she has bagged her first trophy.
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Congratulations Maggie ‘Big Game Hunter’!

I love chillin with my chickens!

What a great series of photos!

 

[micstrachan]

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Oh and if you were wondering what happened to their house, here is the semblance of a roof. There's welding to do before we finish.

Wow, you guys mean business!!!

 

[micstrachan]

One of my favourite pictures. This is Notch. For me the picture sums up my vision of chicken keeping. Not a fence in sight and Notch surveying the world from his vantage point on the edge of the jungle. Okay, not quite a proper jungle, but he isn't quite a feral rooster.
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Lovely!!!

 

[micstrachan]

I won't be around for a while, unless my cat comes home. He never strays anymore he's a real mother's boy.

This is only in my mind because someone threatened my dog and my life twice, he told me not to speak to his family. But his step son seems fond of me and spoke to me two days ago, then this mans dog ran away again yesterday and his two sons spoke to me as they found him.
Now my cat has been missing for the entire day.
This man walked past as I was asking and my next door but one neighbour to keep an eye out for him. The lunatic stopped to stare at this man as he was going up his steps.

Sorry just my mind is racing feeling very sad and deeply worried.


Cat holding my dog as the slept
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Oh no, I’m sorry. I hope you find your cat!

 

[micstrachan]

I am taking today off work and between chores have been sitting with the chickens. I noticed something interesting which is they know the alarm calls of wild birds.
I have lots of noisy wild birds and they ignore them. But one small bird flew by making a cry and the Princesses all dived for cover in the Chicken Palace and sure enough, hot on the tail of the little bird was a huge hawk. It was really like the little bird was warning the chickens.
That felt rather fanciful and the hawk went for a mouse in the meadow and so everyone (including me) relaxed and I thought no more of it.
A few hours later the mocking birds started screeching (they are always quite noisy) and again the Princesses ran straight into the Palace. And sure enough a fox appeared being mobbed by the mocking birds.
Meanwhile they completely ignore all the yells coming from the crows.
Seems like there is a shared avian language.

Yes, I think so! We have lots of wild birds the chickens usually ignore, but they do pay attention with certain calls.