Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

They are very large!

My brothers dog on the yacht (I’m obviously thinking about him lately)

 

[featherhead007]

They are very large!

Can’t you see the Frizzle riding his tail?

 

[Ponypoor]

Ok Fluffy Butt peeps, I'm in trouble now. I have a lone chick. The 3rd egg looks like it quit around day 17 or 18. I've already called Tractor Supply and Rural king. Neither one has chicks right now. Tractor Supply will get theirs in next Thursday. There was one more local feed store that used to carry chicks so I called them. They no longer carry chicks, they claimed they could not compete with Tractor Supply and Rural king. I've got it in the brooder, it ate and drink a little but it needs a friend now.

Oh dear... So disappointing, too bad your not close to me, I have two silkies mamas desperately wanting their golf ball to hatch, could have stuffed it under them and two dotting mamas to care for it

Actually could work in your favour if they have chicks arrive next week, the silkie would be big enough not to worry about a few bigger breed chicks clobbering it.

I would go that route put a fluffy bird toy in with it, it's not the worse thing for it to be imprinted on you for a short time.

 

[Ponypoor]

California beach chicken:
Kidding. View attachment 2998561

Awww hi puppy! Enjoying the water

 

[Ponypoor]

Well I didn't get hay or get to town, snow squalls and blowing snow. My hay guy told to stay home you can't see anything, he knows I am sheltered here with the trees, bit up on the heights it wide open and white outs. The wind is fierce here I can only imagine what it's like further up

 

[Ponypoor]

Weather whining tax

Henny Penny fluffing around in the shavings

 

[BY Bob]

Well I didn't get hay or get to town, snow squalls and blowing snow. My hay guy told to stay home you can't see anything, he knows I am sheltered here with the trees, bit up on the heights it wide open and white outs. The wind is fierce here I can only imagine what it's like further up

Best to be safe. I've driven through Lake effect white outs in my life. I will never do that again. Older and wiser and frankly don't need to do so.

 

[BY Bob]

Treasure

I just found this in the Cluckle Hut. This is a big as their feathers ever got.

 

[featherhead007]

Well I didn't get hay or get to town, snow squalls and blowing snow. My hay guy told to stay home you can't see anything, he knows I am sheltered here with the trees, bit up on the heights it wide open and white outs. The wind is fierce here I can only imagine what it's like further up

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I'll be using bales of straw and tree stumps to make a ladder up to the new roost. I think the older hens feel nervous about hopping from perch to perch to get down, so I'm going to provide very wide and stable surfaces for them to use.

I like that idea very much. The roosting platform is about 25 inches high here, and I haven't heard any objections from the shop steward though they've never known anything else. Queenie was fine with it, but when she was in the big walk-in run during integration she would eye and go for the highest possible spot she could fly to. Same when she was inside, she would roost on the very top of the brooder, on the 1/8" on-edge fur strip up there, wedged between the fur strip and the ceiling. I would take her off and put her on the highest perch, to keep the poop inside the brooder, cause sometimes she would face in.

Maybe it's proximity to the ceiling / roof they like, it gives them the sense they are as high up as they can go?

The Buckeyes have never been great high beam athletes, nor are they precision jump-flyers. They do aim when they take off, but I think that means they merely have an intended, but general, landing area. Like Evel Knievel they blast off and hope for the best!