Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[fuentemoon]

Taken just now, snowing like crazy, with and without our porch light on.

 

[BY Bob]

Taken just now, snowing like crazy, with and without our porch light on.

Fresh fallen snow is one of the most beautiful things in nature. Wonderful photos.

 

[Scrambles83]

What a wonderful anniversary! How did you all celebrate becoming a family?

They got some leftover turkey and prawns from Boxing Day lunch.
Just watching them on the grass pecking and scratching around atm

 

[micstrachan]

Is she out of the wind?

Yes, but I moved her. I climbed in with a red head lamp on, took her down, and switched it to white light so she could easily see her way into the coop. As quickly as I could, I secured the outside sunroom door (that hangs on two lag bolts and gets latched in three places), leaving her on the coop floor in the dark. Poor girl was calling, but I was talking to her the whole time. I turned the headlamp back to red, quickly opened the main coop door (illuminating the coop in red with my headlamp) and she went to roost in one of her favorite spots. All is well.

If she does it again, I might let her stay, but didn’t want to chance it tonight, especially knowing she had a sore leg recently. In all honesty, I was surprised how pleasant the conditions were in there when I climbed in.

 

[micstrachan]

Waiting for Santa

Many of you will recall in that in 2019 3 of my 4 hens got to see Santa. When you got to PetsMart, you had to wait in your car with your "pet" until it was your turn to see Santa. I realized today that I took video of Aurora patiently waiting in the car for her chance to see Santa. You can see the excitement and expectation in her face. Watch along with me.

Here is her photo with the big guy from 2 years ago today.

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Too cute! Wow, in the video her darker muffs are really noticeable. Aren’t they much lighter now?

 

[micstrachan]

Tomorrow is Beethoven-Hen’s hatch day. She’s Six years now. She’s been so special to me all these years. Sadly, she’s not feeling well tonight (bad death breath) and she was choking on her food earlier. She’s here with me now, along with Jaffar, and Arizona. I just fed her some sweet potato pie I made earlier. And she prefers to lay right here next to me. (No mites, or bugs,I checked carefully) she’s still recovering from a molt. And pin feathers are all coming up from her neck. Wish us good luck please.

Get well soon, Beethov-Hen.

 

[micstrachan]

That was awesome, I enjoy seeing wildlife from other lands... And of course I am ok with ravens and crows too even though I have enough of them here.

I once rehab'ed a crow with a broken wing, I called him Sir Edgar Allen Crow , he and his buddys hung around for years after he returned to the wild. They had me very well trained with feeding them. They liked the horse kibble I fed my old stallion.

These days when a raven or crow flies over the place my chickens freak out and run for cover! Which is likely good! I saw a crow once steal a baby Hare, mama Hare was jumping in the air trying to get the crow to drop it... It did a couple times because baby was struggling. But in the end the crow won... Mama Hare was growling, thumping her feet, and hopping mad. Circle of life...

I don't think a crow or even a Raven (which are as big as chickens here) could kill a grown chicken but my small babes or my tiny silkie they might.... Why take the chance I say.

Interesting! Crows and ravens are not a threat to grown chickens here. In fact, they chase hawks off. That is, except for the Red Shouldered Hawk that lives at the pond right near here. That hawk has my chickens pretty jumpy all the time these days.

 

[micstrachan]

FBF.
Hard though this may be to believe that fluffy butt belongs to Lima.
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Yaaaay, Lima!

 

[Ponypoor]

Interesting! Crows and ravens are not a threat to grown chickens here. In fact, they chase hawks off. That is, except for the Red Shouldered Hawk that lives at the pond right near here. That hawk has my chickens pretty jumpy all the time these days.

Yep they chase off raptors here too, but I so paranoid after losing my two silkies Roos that my gang is not allowed to roam anymore.

 

[Ponypoor]

@micstrachan someone else who doesn't sleep at night ?

I was checking my barn cam, chooks and geegees all behaving.