Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Blue eggs, leghorn 50% personality chances (plus the white feathers) AND a crest for Mrs BY Bob! Can't go wrong!

Sadly, yes it could.

 

[BY Bob]

Looks like at least one fluffy butt is molting

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It is good they molt early.

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs Monday.

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What a simply amazing photo. I would put that one on the wall.

 

[BY Bob]

Just popping in to say Hi! I’ve not forgotten about everyone… I got a new phone and have been having a really hard time getting on line with it (buying a signal booster thing, very soon) I wanted to let everyone know we are mostly doing ok, and working on raising some more funds to get the house up. FIL’s friends now want cash in addition to lots of Goat meat for life, thanks to yet more family drama. I’m getting close to having the house at least weather tight for winter, I hope.

Chicken news… we have some more new chicks and I’m getting more hatching eggs from my friend. My roosters can’t really cover the flock right now and all my Brodie’s keep trying to sit on dud eggs. We lost Cass to a raccoon, and my friend lost 8 of his hens to a mink (we eventually got the mink trapped and taken care of).

Arduinna keeps going into heat and attempting to go find herself a boyfriend. So we are now on leash at all times outside until she’s actually old enough to breed.

Our Summer markets have resumed, so we are quite busy with sausagemaking. And I’m now selling all my eggs through our general store, which is helping keep things more manageable.

I hope everyone is doing well, and that I can get our internet situation worked out soon and get back in touch more regularly.

So nice to hear from you Kris. I am very excited to hear that the house could be up. That is fabulous news! You are never far from my thoughts.

 

[BY Bob]

Welcome back Bob. Glad you are safe. I haven’t done anything really stupid during your absence.

It seems not.

 

[BY Bob]

Currently reading through last fall...the molt...my adults are molting (based upon the feathers I'm finding: no naked backs) (the babies are too but expected at 9-10 weeks). Is a hard molt breed related? Or will a bird have a hard molt (naked pincushion) one year and a gradual another? If the latter, ideas on cause? If the first, which breeds are more prone to it? We've been known to get the occasional summer snowstorm (rare, but it happens), endangering naked pincushion birds.

In my experience each of birds has their own molt type and it remains consistent through out their life. Patsy and Lilly were and are always hard molters. Daisy, the great hen ever, molted but you only could tell when her tail feathers dropped out it was so slow and mild. Lilly and Sydney are somewhat I the middle. Sansa did not molt last year as far as I could tell and has had raggedy feathers on her back for a year now. It will be interesting to see what happens to her this year. Phyllis is a middle molter except when all of her head feathers fall out. That does not look like fun at all.

 

[RoyalChick]

Sadly, yes it could.

 

[RoyalChick]

It is good they molt early.

I was thinking the same - it is going to get into the 90s again this week and I would rather they were missing feathers now than when it is well below freezing. Very satisfying to see.

 

[BY Bob]

Thanks.

There is just a pervasive melancholy around here right now. I'm sure it will fade with time.

 

[BY Bob]

I was thinking the same - it is going to get into the 90s again this week and I would rather they were missing feathers now than when it is well below freezing. Very satisfying to see.

I just got a triple digits warning on my phone. I hope it stays cooler there.