Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Cryss]

No worries. I love pics.

Oops. Got carried away and hijacked your thread.
My apologies.

 

[BY Bob]

Oops. Got carried away and hijacked your thread.
My apologies.

Nothing to apologize for. I have some great Maleficent video I need to cut up anyway and this buys me time.

 

[BY Bob]

All Grown Up

I don't know if I should call them Littles anymore. I caught this on the camera this morning. Looks like Maleficent is laying an egg! 21 weeks old. They grow up so fast. Its just funny how not even a week after Patsy passes, Maleficent is trying to bring new life into the world. What wonderful lessons these hens bring to me.

 

[BY Bob]

And the Color is......

Brown.
Well we still love her. I was hoping for a color though. Here it is.

 

[WhoDatChick]

And the Color is......

Brown.
Well we still love her. I was hoping for a color though. Here it is.
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Oh no! Oh well, very exciting anyway!
And wait a minute... did you say 41 weeks!? Whoa! That’s a loooooonng wait .... my EE Kelly was my second to lay after my RIR at 23 weeks...
And yesterday I heard one of my middles singing the egg song but no egg ... they are 17 weeks.. don’t know what that was about...

 

[BY Bob]

Oh no! Oh well, very exciting anyway!
And wait a minute... did you say 41 weeks!? Whoa! That’s a loooooonng wait .... my EE Kelly was my second to lay after my RIR at 23 weeks...
And yesterday I heard one of my middles singing the egg song but no egg ... they are 17 weeks.. don’t know what that was about...

It was a typo, 21 weeks. Oops. Going back to correct the post.

 

[WhoDatChick]

It was a typo, 21 weeks. Oops. Going back to correct the post.

Oh okay, that makes more sense

 

[Ribh]

And yesterday I heard one of my middles singing the egg song but no egg ... they are 17 weeks.. don’t know what that was about...

They practice first. They scratch around in the nesting boxes & ~ produce nothing! They squat ~ nothing. They sing ~ nothing. They start dropping random eggs in the run ~ or you could have Campines who run shrieking through the run like mad women out of their minds. Truly. They screamed like banshees for weeks. Then all of a sudden they started laying regularly & have been pretty calm ever since.

 

[WhoDatChick]

They practice first. They scratch around in the nesting boxes & ~ produce nothing! They squat ~ nothing. They sing ~ nothing. They start dropping random eggs in the run ~ or you could have Campines who run shrieking through the run like mad women out of their minds. Truly. They screamed like banshees for weeks. Then all of a sudden they started laying regularly & have been pretty calm ever since.

... hormones ... I know what they do to me

 

[BY Bob]

Foodie Friday

I have been saving this one. I created another feeding frenzy earlier this week. I took mini bowtie pasta down into the yard and sat down in the grass with them. My wife took the video. I apologize for the auto-focus issues.

Here is my challenge to everyone. Count how many bowties Maleficent gets. There is a stretch where she gets almost all of them. She is last in the pecking order but is so fast and aggressive no one can stop her. She's like black lightning as she zips through robbing the other hens. It is amazing. Not only that, her and Hattie swallow them whole!

I am very interested in your counts. I get a different number every time. Enjoy!