Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

Baby says "Don't you dare even try to take a picture of my butt"

 

[bgmathteach]

I finally managed to get a fluffy butt picture of Corona. She did not want to cooperate this morning and insisted her rear was off limits.
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This is how she preferred to be photographed.
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Well, you know, you DO have to keep an eye on those shifty humans!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Going to head to Tractor Supply in a hour or so. The goal is Buff Orpington pullets. If they do not have any available I have a short list of other breeds. When my Cackle Hatchery catalogue arrived mom looked through it and marked several breeds that she liked. The short list is: Black Australorps, Rhode Island Red, Cinnamon Queens or Golden Comets *I'm not happy with that choice*, Black Laced Red or Golden Wyandottes, and Golden Laced or Buff Cochins. I'm letting my mom choose what breeds we get but I really hope I can talk her out of the Golden Comets. I know they are pretty, and supposed to have great temperaments but they are a high production breed. I need to get it in her head that if she goes that route she is most likely setting herself up for heartbreak in 2 to 3 years time.

 

[bgmathteach]

Tax for lots of wordy posts without pics. (even though chicken related)

 

[bgmathteach]

Has anyone housed ducks and chickens in close proximity?

 

[bgmathteach]

I know this isn't a 'chicken', but thought it too funny not to share, especially for our Aussie friends!

Magpies foil scientists!

 

[featherhead007]

Good to know... They demolished my two tomato plants, fruit, leaves just left twigs behind

I was looking forward to those big juicy tomatoes!!!!

Anyways they survived, but then they have been eating the paint off my barn door lately and I bet that can't be good for them!!!

Why I bet if I fell down in the barn unconscious they would like peck my eyes out and work their way to my innards!

PennyPoor, the other white meat.

 

[Kris5902]

OMG what an awful thing to happen.
I am very, very wary. This seemed to be promoting that it was somehow safer than a regular heat lamp. The Sweeter Heater (which that company doesn't sell) says the same thing. I am skeptical but would like to know why they say that.
I believe an oil filled heater genuinely is safer and I have a spare one of those that I can have in the people side of the Chicken Palace so there is no risk it gets knocked over (actually they are very hard to knock over even if you try). The trouble is that it doesn't direct heat towards the chickens so it really doesn't do much.

My mom had an oil heater plugged in and on 24/7 when she was at the farm (no heat or insulation to really speak of in the building she was in). Eventually the one that was in the room when we moved here glitched, melted the cord, and scorched the plate in the electrical outlet. She didn’t even notice because as a smoker her demise of smell is a little impaired… first thing I checked was the toaster… then the heater for the smell of burning plastic. Granted it was an older heater, and the wiring is a little “questionable” in that building.

 

[RoyalChick]

I finally managed to get a fluffy butt picture of Corona. She did not want to cooperate this morning and insisted her rear was off limits.
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This is how she preferred to be photographed.
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She looks gorgeous from all angles!

 

[RoyalChick]

Going to head to Tractor Supply in a hour or so. The goal is Buff Orpington pullets. If they do not have any available I have a short list of other breeds. When my Cackle Hatchery catalogue arrived mom looked through it and marked several breeds that she liked. The short list is: Black Australorps, Rhode Island Red, Cinnamon Queens or Golden Comets *I'm not happy with that choice*, Black Laced Red or Golden Wyandottes, and Golden Laced or Buff Cochins. I'm letting my mom choose what breeds we get but I really hope I can talk her out of the Golden Comets. I know they are pretty, and supposed to have great temperaments but they are a high production breed. I need to get it in her head that if she goes that route she is most likely setting herself up for heartbreak in 2 to 3 years time.

I think the Cinnamon Queens are a high production breed too.
Good luck!