Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

@RoyalChick How is Minnie today? Any news regarding blood work?

 

[BY Bob]

The installers hosed the metal filings into the garden… Iwish I’d thought to say something before they did that. I’ve picked up all the pieces I could find and blocked off the bottom of the path with fence panels.

That was truly inconsiderate. They need to pick up their mess not move it somewhere else. Yikes!

 

[BY Bob]

The littles did some exploring, supervised by me and assorted adults: exitted the coop through the big door, circled around and inside the through the bird door.View attachment 3119470View attachment 3119474View attachment 3119471
The chippy has tiny wattle marks and rose comb is pink and seems to have grown. This one was one of the first to hatch and was thought to be out of the MIL eggs, making it a bielefelder x. Rose comb though...possibly a Hamburg x brown leghorn instead.... waiting on the others showing signs/signs being definite.

Lovely to see them out.

 

[BY Bob]

Umm… I don’t know what I was trying to say here.

You like doxycycline?

 

[BY Bob]

One slight issue with this statement, based on a lot of personal experience taking cuttings (in my youth) for commercial growing purposes. The primary reason to propagate by cuttings is that the cutting is exactly the same genetically, including down to the chronological “age” of the plant, and it is often referred to as “cloning” for this reason. This becomes an issue if you are working with some of the newer auto flowering tomato varieties as the tiny cutting may flower at the wrong size regardless of the light cycle which is usually what it used to induce flowering in these particular tomato plants. However when working with non auto flowering genetics this is actually a benefit as you can have a genetically mature 3+ Month old tomato plant (or a few hundred or thousand plants) that is smaller and easier to prune and harvest, and manipulate the light cycle to induce flowering for ideally sized and shaped tomatoes. Also if you are growing a particular variety of tomato you can produce hundreds of uniform identical plants for ideal harvest all at one time of a reliable quality. Cuttings are the same as grafting, except where you are grafting into a particular root stick for a quality controlled by that like dwarfism, resistance to a particular disease, or more vigour. The fruit would be the same, but the rootstocks growth qualities would be more prominent. Very few commercial tomato growers here Grow from seeds or attempt to breed their own seeds at home, because taking cuttings is more reliable and effective. My province is known for its indoor tomato production, it’s our cottage industry, and when I was working at it employed more people than fishing, mining, and logging combined. I don’t personally enjoy those varieties of tomatoes, but it was a really good job for a long time.

I had no idea they grew tomatoes that way. Wow. I learn something new from you all the time!

 

[bgmathteach]

You like doxycycline?

I laughed because I'm clueless, so, it was just funny to me. (huh, why should/shouldn't I like that??? Makes me feel like a bumbling idiot!)

 

[BY Bob]

I don't call out people for those things...as google correct and phones are TERRIBLE about predicting your intentions...plus, I'm a terrible typist, and I'm on a computer (remember, no smart phone here!!!!). So, it would be like the pot calling the kettle black Usually I get the intention anyways.


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Mum, I'm exhausted....gonna take a little nap on your computer, 'k?View attachment 3119714
All that searching for Lulu was tiring!!!!
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And Mr. Kuzu man woke me up at 4am! No rest for the weary

These computer photos are cracking me up.

 

[bgmathteach]

I had no idea they grew tomatoes that way. Wow. I learn something new from you all the time!

They root really easily! I've had tomatoes where a low branch touched the ground and it grew another whole plant (though still attached...it grew large and upright right next to the original!) Rooted well & everything.

 

[BY Bob]

Maybe he's gotten soap in his eyes before from a stray drip, which would sting painfully. Baby shampoo around the head and neck?



I do somehow love that they are so close, your mini-tribe. I think this box headquarters is very important, even as a talisman when they can't fit into it, guessing just being near it might be a comfort and reassurance. It will be interesting to see how they manage laying when the time comes, could this become their private nest box? If so, how will they manage occupancy, will they share?

Managing to hang on at 60+ pages behind....

I'm so glad you are sticking with us. You would be sorely missed.

 

[bgmathteach]

Assorted mugs

View attachment 3119719Cheetah clone with cheeks

View attachment 3119720Is this comb growing?


View attachment 3119721Adventuring outside is exhausting


View attachment 3119722A much bigger Mera, speckling up beautifully, 11 weeks


View attachment 3119723One of Jess's pair, both can drink out of the nipple waterer too. 3 weeks

View attachment 3119724And the feisty little black is gaining gold breast and neck feathers

The middle ones (age wise, not picture wise) are so darn cute!!! I just love them when they are in the 'fugly' stage!!