Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Been trying to load some pictures for a few days, my internet has been sketchy for uploads.
Butters new feathers are really light golden. Is that typical coming in from a wound? She's got an epaulette (?) that goes to on to her left wing, and a spray on her back.
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The sun peeked out while I was taking pictures, with rays right on her
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Here she is with Popcorn
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Oh, wow! Really cool looking new feather patches!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Now here is Maggie... but Maggie and Claudine look a lot alike... now... it doesn’t show in pics but at first glance I get them mixed up... this is Maggie...View attachment 2744605View attachment 2744606View attachment 2744607View attachment 2744612View attachment 2744613

I love Maggie's plumage. It makes her look so much like a bird of prey.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

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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Such a beautiful, flowery wilderness. That's the sort of cottage garden effect me and hubby love, especially if it's self propagating.

And look! You already had a duck before you got wild ones!

I LOVE THIS! This is awesome!!

Ditto!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

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!

Did you see what she "bagged"?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

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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I hope your kitty finds his way home quick smart. Hopefully he's just been exploring.

I hope your lunatic neighbour starts finding his own business much more interesting and time consuming than yours.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I could faint. As I was writing he came back shouting too me.

I'm admitting to you now. I'm in tears and over the moon with relief. He may have been stuck somewhere this is the first time in well over a year he hasn't come home on time.

My friends daughter sent a text too the bully's next door neighbour, it was sent half an hour ago.

She is one of the other ladies threatened by him and was going too move but stood up to him and had her son's backing.

As she confronted this the vile beast he backed down. I think her tall son may have been a deterrent

I'm So sorry I won't be a detective after all but have my precious boy is home eating and calling right now. God knows what happened.

Wherever he was he couldn't eat, he must have been trapped because his tummy is completely empty.

All my neighbor's came out shouting and are now celebrating as I am.

I can't tell you the relief I feel.

Please excuse any mistakes, I blame Alex

So glad to hear this Marie.

Thank you for up dating.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

All my neighbor's came out shouting and are now celebrating as I am.

I can't tell you the relief I feel.

Please excuse any mistakes, I blame Alex

Sounds like your other neighbours are lovely people.
I hope the lunatic bully gets a clue and mends his ways.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Been trying to load some pictures for a few days, my internet has been sketchy for uploads.
Butters new feathers are really light golden. Is that typical coming in from a wound? She's got an epaulette (?) that goes to on to her left wing, and a spray on her back.
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The sun peeked out while I was taking pictures, with rays right on her
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Here she is with Popcorn
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Wow! That's amazing and a lovely colour combination too. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of wound did she have?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Here are the before and after yard pics
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Oh and my other sunflower variety opened its first bloom!
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Your girls did a great job!
I keep telling my family that even if the hens are not laying, they are earning their keep in other ways. Now I can show them your pics to prove it!

 

[RoyalChick]

What a great series of photos!

Thank you. I had a lot of fun watching her.