Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

Does this count for FBF? Or is it cheating??? What’s that idiom about shooting fish in a barrel?

 

[bgmathteach]

How about a DUCK Fluffy Butt?View attachment 3106200

Oooooh, a muscovy! I would love to have some muscovies, but the only ones I can find are the all white ones

I'm guessing that is a female ... though would need a better view of the caruncles to be sure....

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

That’s still less than 50%… you’re doing good IMO. I’m looking at my two and hoping against hope little fluff proves me wrong shortly about my gender concerns. I might be 2/2 cockerels… sigh… another one of those years?

Yes, while at first 10 may seem like a lot, I have to remember last years numbers. Overall last year I had roughly between 75% to 80% hatch rate of cockerels. The year before was also heavily skewed towards cockerels. If for once I can stay at 50% or below of cockerels I will be very very happy.

 

[rural mouse]

I sat in the run for a while this afternoon. It's too hot for this time of year. The ladies made divots to lie in to cool off.

I have a container that I collect chicken treat stuff in. Banana peels, bits of greens, etc. One thing I thought they would LOVE is old maid popcorn kernels. Nope. Don't touch 'em. I thought they'd flip over corn, but I guess not.

Anyone have a treat that totally bombed?

Yes. Problems is I can't remember what it was!

 

[Kris5902]

good luck with that! Have you experience with woody cuttings before?

General rule of thumb is to take twice what you want/hope to propagate with woody cuttings of plants that readily propagate that way. (I don't know about various dogwoods...hubby is the expert there...but he is gone (again!) for the weekend.

I’ve taken about 90,000 herbaceous cuttings, but very few actual woody ones, though I usually used #4 Woods rooting hormone before I switched to gel. I currently have Roottech gel, peat moss, and I googled it worst I can do is fail.

 

[rural mouse]

So, when they sleep, they each lay their head on the other, necks all twined together. I can't get the song "Fire" by the pointer Sisters out of my head.
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That is, until they projectile all over me. Kinda squelches the mood, somehow.

Has DH figured out your bait and switch yet?

 

[featherhead007]

Oh Alex oh no! I am sorry to hear that...

Eqvalan will cure that, but you will have to dust again I am afraid

 

[bgmathteach]

I’ve taken about 90,000 herbaceous cuttings, but very few actual woody ones, though I usually used #4 Woods rooting hormone before I switched to gel. I currently have Roottech gel, peat moss, and I googled it worst I can do is fail.

So, in other words: more than me in general

 

[featherhead007]

The dogwood has finished blooming and I plan on making a trip down very soon to attempt some cuttings from the remaining semi-live branch… technically this is borderline illegal, what with it being the official tree species of our province, but as the tree is clearly devastated and unlikely to survive I’m not too worried.

Worry!

 

[RoyalChick]

So, when they sleep, they each lay their head on the other, necks all twined together. I can't get the song "Fire" by the pointer Sisters out of my head.
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That is, until they projectile all over me. Kinda squelches the mood, somehow.

OMG they are adorable!