Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Humid today. Overcast in the valley, but at 6000ft clear skies and beautiful. Short Sunday trip earlier. Temperature is 90f degrees. The chooks were mad that I kept them locked up this morning. (They kicked over every feed pan I had set for them. They are now free in the yard to do whatever they want.
Those eggs I displayed earlier, will be given to my church peeps on Wednesday evening.

 

[featherhead007]

Cloud tax:

 

[micstrachan]

Humid today. Overcast in the valley, but at 6000ft clear skies and beautiful. Short Sunday trip earlier. Temperature is 90f degrees. The chooks were mad that I kept them locked up this morning. (They kicked over every feed pan I had set for them. They are now free in the yard to do whatever they want.
Those eggs I displayed earlier, will be given to my church peeps on Wednesday evening.

It’s humid up here, too, Alex. 90+ in the shade and dry lightning in the forecast for surrounding areas. I’ve had to keep my locked up today, because I took my daughter to the beach this morning and we have a party to go to in a couple hours.

 

[micstrachan]

Poor by Bob. He must think I'm awful. I was having a conversation with @Grammy60 and posted my reply to Bob this is the second time I've done this.

Sorry Bob.

It happens. I wouldn’t worry about it, and Bob is pretty chill about things like that.

 

[micstrachan]

I have accomplished something in taming Blueberry. She was held back from her group simply at first because my dad liked her colors and wanted to know what she would look like as a adult. Me and Rosie had been eyeballing her since day 1 hoping she was in fact a she and trying to find a way to justify keeping another mix. When he made the comment he thought she was the prettiest one at only 3 weeks old and wanted to know what she would look like as a adult that sealed the deal. Keeping her was his idea, not ours and she would become HIS chicken. We all have our own favorite or special chickens, mine is obviously Drumstick. Mom's is Butter, Rosie's heart belongs to Basil and Raven. Dad has never had a favorite, he likes them all, but has yet to click with one. He came in last night gloating that he'd stolen my chicken. I asked him he meant by that, and apparently for 2 hours Blueberry never left his side. She stayed with him while he let dirt graze after his ride, then when he put dirt up and was grooming him she was either on the top stall board or on Dirt's back talking to him. She then hopped up on his lap before bed and settled in while he and mom were out there just sitting with the horses before coming in. I'm going to smugly let him think he stole my chicken, when in fact His chicken has won him over.

Aww… I love this!

 

[featherhead007]

It’s humid up here, too, Alex. 90+ in the shade and dry lightning in the forecast for surrounding areas. I’ve had to keep my locked up today, because I took my daughter to the beach this morning and we have a party to go to in a couple hours.

Maybe your chickens might like the beach also?

 

[micstrachan]

Maybe your chickens might like the beach also?

Good one! Can you imagine their stress of a car ride in crates followed by being brought to an unfamilar place with dogs running all around?

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

We received over 3 inches (7.5 cm) of rain in a 2 time span. We had some local flash flooding.

I took this picture driving into town.

This is video to show how incredibly heavy the rain was.

 

[LozzyR]

I just thought I would share what I have just found on the different eyes.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hens-one-eye-dilated-and-one-not.939781/page-2

Chickie had one permanently dilated pupil and I had her for 18 months, so I’m guessing it wasn’t Marek’s. Given that she was ex-battery, I would say injury.

 

[RoyalChick]

We received over 3 inches (7.5 cm) of rain in a 2 time span. We had some local flash flooding.

I took this picture driving into town.
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This is video to show how incredibly heavy the rain was.

We had similar and last night we had thunder storms that were shaking the windows of the house. The cats were terrified (and they are not normally concerned with storms). The chickens stayed standing on their roost with their eyes wide open until well after midnight.
We are all exhausted today!