Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Lovely pics, Michelle.

Dare I ask how the move is 'moving' along? Did you end up getting two of those coops you mentioned, and had DH Started modifications yet?

?Maybe I shouldn't be asking?
Hoping things are progressing reasonably well.....

Nappie says "I've got my eye on you"
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I will update everyone on the housing situation once things are settled. Thanks for asking.

 

[Kris5902]

This may be cheating twofer Tuesday a bit… With the crazy weather here I’m keeping Trouble in the coop today, she’s in a Broody box for recovering her leg injury at night and separated from the jumpie cockerels during the day in a meat tractor. But she still needed fully watered, exercised, and fed today, so in a brief break between the squalls I fed and watered her outside the coop with the main flock. It was about an hour of standing guard over her to keep the cockerels away, but she’s walking better than she was. I quickly turned my back on her to feed the main bunch and she made a successful break for the chicken trailer and even got up the step. I managed to get a couple pictures while fending off cockerels, but the mud and poop everywhere around the Trailer made it hard to get anything vaguely presentable

And here she is with Meatball

Having one stationary chicken at a waterer kind of makes getting pics of her paired with another friend easy! Both these girls usually join Trouble in the meat Tractor because as you can see they are a little too popular with the clumsy boys. The meat birds don’t have the same evasive capabilities as the rest of the flock, and that makes them an easy mating target…

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I am going to do a formal introduction to Granny. This is the only 1 of the 3 chipmunk chicks that I am fairly sure is a pullet. I keep going back and forth on the other 2. If she is a suspected EE she has one thing going for her to pass off as a Cinnamon Queen, she's going to be red. Then again, I also now question the EE as she has yellow legs. I truly do not know what breed Rural King sold me as Cinnamon Queens.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Two for Tuesday.
First picture is Granny and one of her siblings that I keep going bath and forth on if its a boy or girl. There are times when I think boy, and other times I think girl.

Next we have Blueberry and Creamy hard at work.

 

[MaryJanet]

This may be cheating twofer Tuesday a bit… With the crazy weather here I’m keeping Trouble in the coop today, she’s in a Broody box for recovering her leg injury at night and separated from the jumpie cockerels during the day in a meat tractor. But she still needed fully watered, exercised, and fed today, so in a brief break between the squalls I fed and watered her outside the coop with the main flock. It was about an hour of standing guard over her to keep the cockerels away, but she’s walking better than she was. I quickly turned my back on her to feed the main bunch and she made a successful break for the chicken trailer and even got up the step. I managed to get a couple pictures while fending off cockerels, but the mud and poop everywhere around the Trailer made it hard to get anything vaguely presentable View attachment 3060421
And here she is with Meatball
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Having one stationary chicken at a waterer kind of makes getting pics of her paired with another friend easy! Both these girls usually join Trouble in the meat Tractor because as you can see they are a little too popular with the clumsy boys. The meat birds don’t have the same evasive capabilities as the rest of the flock, and that makes them an easy mating target…

Trouble is a gorgeous hen. I love the colour and pattern of her feathers.

 

[micstrachan]

I am going to do a formal introduction to Granny. This is the only 1 of the 3 chipmunk chicks that I am fairly sure is a pullet. I keep going back and forth on the other 2. If she is a suspected EE she has one thing going for her to pass off as a Cinnamon Queen, she's going to be red. Then again, I also now question the EE as she has yellow legs. I truly do not know what breed Rural King sold me as Cinnamon Queens.


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Call me crazy, but I don’t think she’s an EE. No muffs and Sunshine had green legs. I could be wrong, of course!

Is that a pea comb? No chance of her being a Buckeye, right? I think her feathers are too light for that, but hard to tell for sure.

 

[RoyalChick]

From yesterday’s walk… as decent pictures today are highly unlikely with our weather. Now offering very reasonably priced dandelion pruning. He’s like a Hoover. The only reason he left the patch was Daddy and Arduinna were getting too far ahead of us!

I need to borrow him. My Princesses are useless on dandelions - they don't even dig them up!

 

[RoyalChick]

Rosie's 4-H project is due tomorrow. This year she is doing photography and like her mother put off taking her pictures to the last minute. She asked me Sunday evening for the camera. She came back in a little over a hour later and I was shocked when I downloaded them. Here are just a few she is going to use. She is titling her project Springtime in the Mountains.
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How lovely!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Do not call me handy when it comes to wood! Progress on the greenhouse frame mover #1 (the simplest/easiest idea trying first). Probably going to need four angle bracing thingies as the 2x2's are fairly squirmy. Made two so far, screwed them in wrong, the screw heads were sticking out and I want to not cut my hand on them by accident, so I took the screws out and am going to either switch it around and do it differently or drill a sort of counter-sink hole for them.

Brackets on both sides helps the wiggliness in one plane.

Also, a minor gripe. I thought 2x2's would be 1 1/2 inches each side. So did the Home Depot guy helping me. Well they are 1 3/8! So the little brackets stick out a bit. Not a big deal for my project of course. But I guess after 11 boards the mill gets a "free" one?

Tax - Butters and Popcorn under the blueberries today, nobody standing very still.

Focused at last... Butters glinting in the sunset light

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Call me crazy, but I don’t think she’s an EE. No muffs and Sunshine had green legs. I could be wrong, of course!

Is that a pea comb? No chance of her being a Buckeye, right? I think her feathers are too light for that, but hard to tell for sure.

Granny looks nothing like the Buckeyes here did at that age. There needs to be a special black bar on certain feathers, next to the quill? It's one of the identifier markings, along with definitely black in the tail, but I think those come in later?