Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ali James]

I’ll stop hijacking your thread now Bob; will start my own once the girls arrive.
I’ve found you all so helpful and I can’t help from asking tons of questions all the time!

 

[BY Bob]

I’ll stop hijacking your thread now Bob; will start my own once the girls arrive.
I’ve found you all so helpful and I can’t help from asking tons of questions all the time!

Anytime. We have a lot of knowledge in this group and I love discussing Leghorns.

One more picture of Daisy......

 

[Kris5902]

Leghorns made me lovers of chickens. So I am biased; I admit it. However here is what I try to tell everyone about leghorns in as unbiased a fashion as I can.

Bad:

• They Fly. If they get out they are liable to fly from you and even roost very high in trees. I have seen them successfully fly over 20 feet along the ground.

I wouldn’t necessarily put the flying into the “bad” column... but it can occasionally be a bit of a challenge as well as entertaining! The Roo I’m free ranging, Sammy, is 1/2 (maybe more...) Leghorn and he’s even been teaching his hy-line red GF to fly! She tries now at least... I let them out and she takes off like a shot running and flapping... she occasionally even gets a few feet of air. Leghorns are awesome, even if a handful and needing plenty of space.

 

[Kris5902]

I’ll stop hijacking your thread now Bob; will start my own once the girls arrive.
I’ve found you all so helpful and I can’t help from asking tons of questions all the time!

Make sure to let us know when you do! Then we can all watch you chickens adventures too!

 

[Ribh]

Thanks Bob, your'e right. Our chickens are going to be pets and so need to be friendly and pretty chilled out.

They will live in a run and I plan to do some basic behavioural conditioning to get them to come to me i.e. mealworms! Then once they reliably come to the sound of mealworms, I want to let the out in the garden for a bit, supervised of course, and then be able to bribe them back into the run.

Remember POLs are teenagers with all a teenagers faults. Your girls will settle & be calmer once they start laying regularly, especially if you spend plenty of time with them & tid~bit for them. Pretty sure all mine think I'm their rooster. It's quite funny to see them vying with each other to make sure I notice them ~ especially the shyer ladies.

 

[drumstick diva]

Would love to see a video of all your ladies flirting with you

 

[Ribh]

Would love to see a video of all your ladies flirting with you

Sorry, Nancy. Not likely to happen. I'm the only one here who can operate the camera.

 

[BY Bob]

What is That?!

When the girls are let ot to free range one of the first places they go is a gravel patch in front of the deck where there is a bird feeder and hence sunflower seeds and stones that are ready to throw around. It's great support for them. A few weeks ago a vine started growing in their gravel box. I figured they would trample it as they trampled my new bulbs I had planted in the spring. For whatever reason they did not. Now they have a problem on their hands. While I was away and they were locked in the chicken compound, the vine took off growing. they have lost over 1/2 their gravel box. Their looks are precious now when they get in. Apparantly the thought of destroying the plant has not occurred to them. Now they are fighting over little open patches. Silly girls.

 

[Ali James]

Any fluffy butt pictures? It is Friday after all!

 

[BY Bob]

Any fluffy butt pictures? It is Friday after all!

Of course!