Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

English is a stupid language.

It's the hardest language in the world to learn to speak

Read, read
Lead, lead
Bow, bow, bough
Two, to, too
There, their, they're
Then all the words borrowed from other languages that may or may not be pronounced the same ast he original language....

...just as Chinese is the hardest to learn to write.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Chill Lilly

Lilly want always the coop level-headed hen you see today. Mrs BY Bob was reading on Sansa for being so mean today. I thought I would remind her how mean her precious little leader used to be. I firmly beleive that someday Sansa will also be the coop calm leader. Until then though she is mirroring Lilly's behavior.

Here is a reminder of how much fun Lilly had terrorizing Maleficent and Aurora.

Great to see this again, thanks! It's the thing the second in command does, if I have this right? Like the Vice Principal at a high school, at least the one I attended

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Not true Bob. Flying my aircraft means i have to focus. (It's like switching my brain from idle to max power) On the ground, we can make mistakes and survive, up there, one mistake is too many! So, there is always that anxiety when i'm in my cockpit.

Maybe the good day is when you land safely then?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

So, since I haven't really introduced myself (and I'm still playing catch up. Currently on page 2036),I thought I'd share a couple of pictures of my flock to properly say Hi.

Lavender Brown and Luna, my lavender orps:
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Roxy and Velma, my blue Plymouth rocks (and the youngest of the chooks. Of course perching where I don't want them to):
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Gabby, the boss bird who sometimes likes to sit on me:
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And the rest of the crew. Scarlett and Ruby the RIRs, Princess Peach and Buffy the buff orps, and three black Australorps, Xena, Callisto, and Maleficent (my mom calls them the three witches because they were super mean to the littles). Bonus addition of my elderly Sheltie, Fred, who was watching over them for me:
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And last but not least, my two surviving adult ducks, who don't have names:
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Thank you, what a nice group - and I love your little caption descriptions of each of them!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Do you know what's causing them? Sinuses or maybe food

@RebeccaBoyd 's symptoms are a mild case of Covid. The word mild I use relatively. I had a symptomatic reaction with the second shot that were similar but better - bad headache that wouldn't relent for two weeks, severe fatigue and brain fog. Taken together it lasted nearly three weeks.

 

[featherhead007]

Maybe the good day is when you land safely then?

Exactly!

 

[Blazinga]

He was supposed to be junior rooster to rusty's senior (and maybe fertilize the eggs of the smaller breed hens as a 13 lb rooster on a 4 lb hen could have been a problem). Now however, flock sentinel. As a gold penciled Hamburg, he's supposed to be a flying little guy. The flight should help against ground predators. As I've lost more birds to them than to aerial (15:1 and 3 to injuries), I think he's got pretty good odds. Just didn't expect a 13 week bird to crow.
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Cute little guy, but senior roo is a lot of responsibility at such a young age. We knew he was a roo at 6 weeks. Only one with wattles. Just hope he handles the cold well.

Alba started crowing at 7 weeks.

 

[Marie2020]

I've just found a brilliant thread, both a crock pot and hen was used as incubators too hatch baby chicks.

This girl is a marvel


https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/crockpot-slow-cooker-incubator-take-2.1485891/

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

@RebeccaBoyd 's symptoms are a mild case of Covid. The word mild I use relatively. I had a symptomatic reaction with the second shot that were similar but better - bad headache that wouldn't relent for two weeks, severe fatigue and brain fog. Taken together it lasted nearly three weeks.

This describes what I'm going through right now perfectly. And yes compared to my sister and my dad now, I'm calling my case of covid mild. What gets me is the headache really didn't start until about a week after I tested positive.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

New hens are here, and I'll get pictures later for everyone. I'm really going to need Alex's input on these girls at least until I get a egg. I was told they are blue Marans, they are blue, but they have the most un Maran like body shape I've ever seen. I may have just inherited 6 blue large fowl cochins.