Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Noooooo! No more taxes! Especially as with Rural internet and the time differences I tend to bulk post respond when I finally get a chance to sit down in the evenings. Don’t give Bob more tax ideas! Most of my responses are even chicken related I swear! I’ve been keeping most of the non chicken stuff separate…

Kris is right, NO NEW TAXES! What do you think this is, the US Federal government? Gezz.
Rant tax:

 

[bgmathteach]

@BY Bob when did you make a grazing frame? I don't remember you having one before.

 

[BY Bob]

The trouble is now the other leg! And I think muscle strength in both is reduced.
She got back to close to normal but now seems unsteady. Could be coincidence but in the meantime I weaned her off her vitamin supplements.
I have now restarted those.

I would suggest keeping the vitamins going for the next 6 to 8 weeks. Let's give her a chance to catch up.

 

[BY Bob]

Well you saw the video that was the start of her descending from on high. I will try for others once they are back in the Chicken Palace.

I wanted a picture of them all cuddled up together.

 

[BY Bob]

My vote on cows for Sunday:

Mooove forward with it!

 

[BY Bob]

OOh pretty ladies so lovely!

I'll catch you up: @Bob just got back from Italy for his daughters wedding (so romantic), Michelle has a new house (so egg-citing), Kris is getting her house done slowly, Marie found a lovely playhouse (always wanted one apparently), some of us are having lots of 'hen house drama'.... And everyone is having baby chicks left, right and centre!

I am living vicariously through those with babies

Nice summary.

 

[BY Bob]

Or perhaps a tax for doing three posts in a row?

I would never get done posting taxes. Nope. That tax is vetoed.

 

[BY Bob]

Another day of pelting down rain - I have given up on nice weather. Everything is so muddy - my Magnolia tree is not going to flower

But the bright spot in my day arw my horses and chickies

Today they didn't disappoint.

Two Grey Ladies making a run for it.
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Buttercup has flown the coop
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Two ladies preening together.
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And Misty learning all about equal and opposite reactions, she flew from where she is perched on the side of the wheelbarrow, but her momentum pushed the wheelbarrow over, and of course she didn't get enough leverage and almost didn't make it to the hay piled in the wheelbarrow beside it hahaha! No hens where hurt but I wish I had the video running!!!
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Great photos! Thanks.

 

[BY Bob]

Now in attempting to gather twofer pictures I was hanging out and getting some good videos of dust bathing, watching the flock, the different Tribes, and Roosters interacting… and it occurred to me that poor Trouble hasn’t had the chance to really get a good dust bath in over a month now. So I went to fetch her and had her in my arms when I spotted a certain goat (Jimmy) trying to eat the plastic cover from the greenhouse poles in the bathtub in the yard (yeah I’m slowly getting the house together, it’s just a little tossed all over my yard, it’s fine) so I rush over, put Trouble down in the yard in front of my trailer and go to move the mischievous Goatling. I was mid move when the jerks spotted her. Turns out she can’t walk but she can run just fine. She sprinted all the way to the garbage cans, hormonal jerk in hot pursuit, being chased by the funny rooster screaming threats of punting at him.

She took shelter between the feed cans, he hopped on, and a second or two later got swatted off of her, none too softly. I carried her over to the far waterer, where we were joined by meatball one and meatball two, before going over to the favourite dust bathing spot. After several minutes of the human rooster clearly settling down to supervise, Sammy and Dean both moved off to other pursuits with their own tribes and I was left in Charge of the bathing and watching Spike, Elios, Baldy, the Jerk guy, and a bunch of hens. The tribe/Flock dynamics are interesting. Trouble got some more enrichment and I took a good while to just sit with the birds on a little branch. The geese and seven goslings came by for a visit. And now I’m just waiting on DH to come back from the store and mail run (four hours later… ) so we can walk the goats.

Sitting with the chickens before Sammy and Dean leave me in charge:

Such a wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. That was nice and calm and worth a moment of reflection.

 

[RoyalChick]

I wanted a picture of them all cuddled up together.

Here is a cuddle puddle picture.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-25678491