Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

Henry 11.
The more time they get out of the run the more like a rooster Henry becomes.
Interesting to see he has adopted the herding shuffle much more often. In the run, I assume due to llack of space he either doesn't try to keep the hens together and when one is in his way he usaully flashes his hackles.

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry - I spelled it wrong! No deer getting killed here. A young one is eating apples 12 feet from our living room window right now.

I thought that “Killdeer” was a strange name for a bird, that’s all.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Killdeer don't perch on the ends of branches. They tend to run on the ground. I'm guessing it's something that doesn't typically migrate on this continent, but nest in the arctic.

Last guess. How about a juvenile peregrine falcon? The face marking that extends down from the eyes could from a side viewing look like a neck ring.

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[ChicoryBlue]

I found scratches on my coops paint. That is worrying me

Do you think it's a varmint like a weasel or a prey bird?

 

[Lady Red]

No ridicule. Just a touch of sadness as for some of us a perfectly boiled egg is one of life’s great pleasures which you cannot enjoy.

No need to be sad! I'm a food lover, just more along the fruit, veggies and cheese lines

 

[Marie2020]

Do you think it's a varmint like a weasel or a prey bird?

A troublesome animal or bird.

I looked it up on Google

 

[Lady Red]

I like iconoclasts!

Oooooh! I like this descriptor! Will wear the label with pride

 

[Lady Red]

I'm not a big egg fan either. Most of the eggs I've collected recently I've cooked and fed back to the chickens.

My brother in chicken keeping blasphemy! Lol

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Not Done Yet

I sleepily opened the door to go outside today and was startled by a Hawk standing on the roof of the run. It took off just as I came outside. It seems that it was likely looking down through the glass at the littles in the big run. They were totally unaware that it was there.

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The bigs knew and were hidden but the littles were chirping away like they hadn't a care in the world. Thankfully they were locked up and there was no way the hawk could reach them. It flew away as soon as I opened the door.

The littles remain locked up.

Or listen to the bigs, but the alert sound is so quiet not being with the others they may not hear it.

First, their "scanning the sky" head tilt gets about 20% of the sky, judging by a recent picture, and that's only IF they're proactively scanning. They really don't have anything near the range of sight of non-poof chickens. Second, they are talking all the time with each other. Like, all the time. I personally love hearing them, but how can they hear anybody else over their chatter?

Seriously, my opinion is they need extra, extra care until they are bigger, older and wiser, and can spend quality (life-saving educational) time with the bigs.

 

[Marie2020]

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They just call for deer slaying. (But I don't think they can read any more than deer can)

that bird is cute