Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

And the Color is......

Brown.
Well we still love her. I was hoping for a color though. Here it is.
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Most of my girls are brown layers of various shades. We got so excited when the Campines started laying because they lay white eggs! And white eggs are what you usually get commercially.

 

[Ribh]

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!

Maybe 12 or 13...??? Gosh, she's quick!

 

[BY Bob]

Most of my girls are brown layers of various shades. We got so excited when the Campines started laying because they lay white eggs! And white eggs are what you usually get commercially.

We started with white leghorns so were very excited when Patsy and Lilly joined and we started getting brown eggs. Just never happy, right? Lol

 

[Cryss]

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!

I count 10.

 

[WhoDatChick]

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!

My count... 12..?

 

[BY Bob]

Keep those counts coming. I will do a frame by frame tomorrow and try to get an absolute count.

 

[BY Bob]

I have counted these bowties several times. It appears the count is 10. She gets 5 in the first 1/3 of the video and I thought it was close to 13 but slowing it down, it seems to be 10.

 

[BY Bob]

House Chicken

In all the years we have had chickens only one of them has ever walked inside my house. We have brought them in to clean them up and treat them but they don't get to come in on their own. Boundaries and all. The one time the rule was broken our hens were being chased.

It was September 2015 and my wife had some friends over and they were drinking white wine in the backyard. The ladies were out free ranging because there was someone there to watch over them. One of her friends had brought their small dog with them. I was not permitted at the ladies gathering so I was inside watching TV.

My wife asked the dog owner if the dog would chase the chickens, of course she said her baby would never! So my wife said you can let her off the lease then as she can't run away, the yard is fenced in. So off the leash the dog went. Guess what happened next.....

I was in the living room when the ruckus started. Hearing all the squawking I went to the back door. I opened the backdoor to see what was going on and Elphie ran right between my legs and into the living room before she stopped. When she hit the living room my 3 killer cats scattered as well running to the bedroom and basement from the frightening hen. Here is Elphie standing in the living room.

At the time Daisy was only a pullet and she did not run into the house; she went under the deck. Unfortunately the dog was small enough to follow her under. My deck is over 12 feet in depth. I cannot reach the dog. I leave Elphie in the house and lock cats in the rooms they ran into and start to address the issue under my deck. All I can think of is to use the hose. I spray the dog with water until it comes out and its owner can re-leash the dog. Daisy turned out to be OK.

I bring this up because yesterday a second and third hen made it into the big coop. Ever since Patsy had shown her the backdoor, Maleficent has chased me into the house. I said to my wife, someday she is coming in. In fact I have to watch that the door doesn't hit her sometimes she is so fast.

Yesterday we had an extended thunderstorm catch the flock on the deck. Everyone managed to find someplace to hide to at least limit the rain falling on them except Maleficent. Here she is standing in the rain. You see she tries to fit under the chair with Aurora to no avail.

At the end you can see that she walks to the backdoor. I could not leave her stuck out there so I opened the door......

Eventually Aurora saw her inside and so.....

We now have to be extremely careful no one gets caught when we close the door. The house is now an extension of their world. Oh well. My hens are spoiled, who would have guessed!

 

[WhoDatChick]

That is so sweet! It looks as though she was enjoying it a bit as I’m sure it was a relief from all this heat! I can’t believe I’m saying this.. but I AND my gals would love some rain! It hasn’t rained in quite some time which is unusual as we live in the rain forest normally

 

[BY Bob]

If you look close you can see the air conditioning vent blowing their feathers. I'm sure they loved that as well.