Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

Monday Mugs

This Monday is all Lilly. Enjoy.

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Lilly has a strongly sculpted feather / body shape, I never realized it was like that. Holds her wings in tight, well-tucked under her broad breast feathers. Above and below her wings there is quite a change of width between her pantaloons and her rump feathers. Remarkable! She doesn't do a lot of antics, right? You've called her serious. And the crown is heavy. And she furrows her brow at times. Could you call her rather steadfast and unflappable, even relatively calm, as far as chickens go, or not? She looks quite stately in these pictures. Love it!

 

[Marie2020]

Today is my first day of uni, wish me luck!

Lots and lots of luck

 

[Blazinga]

Ooooh! Best wishes!
Have you chosen a field, or still weighing options? (No right answer...heck my degree has nothing to do with my career )

Art major with an English Minor. I'm trying to get into the animation field.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

The dogs keep looking at the chickens and then up, as if saying, "Hmm, they are eating that stuff....have you got anything there for me?"

I have to watch, my crazy dogs like and will eat the chickens’ food.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Another pic of my rock garden (foraging) this evening. Jaffar is standing just outside of frame. But he’s doing his job. “Roostering”View attachment 2808009

They are all grown up and filled out nicely.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Monday Mugs

This Monday is all Lilly. Enjoy.

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Really great pictures of Lilly!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Today is my first day of uni, wish me luck!

Good Luck!!

 

[micstrachan]

Oh

Oh good grief. Oh poor Ester.
A little warning is needed. Oh no. Oh. Oh I can’t bear to look. Oh that looks so uncomfortable. Oh it looks itchy. Oh oh oh.
Please tell me everything is OK now. Please tell me that doesn’t happen every year.
Oh my. I am going to have nightmares about that.

Yes, Ester recovered with heat and tube feeding for two weeks indoors. She had that hard molt in the middle of winter. She’s going through a mild molt right now, so I hope she gets it over with before winter. I think she quit laying permanently after that, however.

So sorry if that was shocking for you!

 

[micstrachan]

Monday Mugs

This Monday is all Lilly. Enjoy.

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Beautiful Lilly!

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes, Ester recovered with heat and tube feeding for two weeks indoors. She had that hard molt in the middle of winter. She’s going through a mild molt right now, so I hope she gets it over with before winter. I think she quit laying permanently after that, however.

So sorry if that was shocking for you!

So glad she did OK. I don't know what it is about those hard molts but I just can't bear to see how uncomfortable they look!