Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Diana_burns04]

I love the name!

Me too

 

[Diana_burns04]

OK, how about some pictures of the chicks from back in April of last year?

Let's start with Fluffy Butts, what better place?
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Here is Jabber. He was crazy from the start.
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And here is Hattie, so sweet and friendy from day 1.
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the baby chicks are so cute!! What are they??

 

[BY Bob]

Me too

Thank you. Welcome to the thread!

 

[BY Bob]

the baby chicks are so cute!! What are they??

Jabber is an Easter Egger and Hattie is a Lavender Orpington.

 

[BY Bob]

THIEF!

Since I was working from home today I decided to work outside so the ladies could get some free range in. I figured I could protect them and dissuade the hawk from lunching at Fluffy Butt Acres.

I sat up on the patio partly because there is a larger table there and partly because the sun was shining there and no longer shines under the magnolia tree.

Things were very nice at first. The new girls even hopped up on the end table to visit for a while.

I ate breakfast a outside a little later. Aurora was very keen to find out what I was eating.

She would not be my problem. A short time after I took this video, Maleficent would jump up on that ottoman and take a hashbrown potato cake right out of my hand and take off with it. Quick as I could blink my eye. It was so fast I couldn't even get a picture. The little dinosaurs devoured it in seconds.


Luckily I had a second one in the house, which I ate.......IN THE HOUSE!

I too can be taught.

 

[Kris5902]

That's a great clip. You've got a bunch of savages.
I see very little of that with Tribe 2 (Bantams) and with Tribe 4 none at all.
The Marans based tribe, Tribe 2 will make a new pullet or cockerels life difficult at roost time but they settle down quite quickly. There is something about movement underneath a roosting chicken that is a factor in this behavior I think.
Tribe 3 (various stages of Bantam and Marans crosses) are much more like your hens.

Just to clarify Tribe 3 is made up of Bantams crossed with Marans? Or a group that includes bantams and some other Marans crosses? Really interested, as I quite like my Marans temperament and size, and have recently experimented crossing them with some Isbars, and LeghornxCrested cream legbar hens. I plan on having the Marans as an integral part of my breeding groups.

 

[Kris5902]

THIEF!

Since I was working from home today I decided to work outside so the ladies could get some free range in. I figured I could protect them and dissuade the hawk from lunching at Fluffy Butt Acres.

I sat up on the patio partly because there is a larger table there and partly because the sun was shining there and no longer shines under the magnolia tree.

Things were very nice at first. The new girls even hopped up on the end table to visit for a while.
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I ate breakfast a outside a little later. Aurora was very keen to find out what I was eating.

She would not be my problem. A short time after I took this video, Maleficent would jump up on that ottoman and take a hashbrown potato cake right out of my hand and take off with it. Quick as I could blink my eye. It was so fast I couldn't even get a picture. The little dinosaurs devoured it in seconds.


Luckily I had a second one in the house, which I ate.......IN THE HOUSE!

I too can be taught.

Maybe you’re lucky they aren’t great fliers? I’m remembering some footage that made the news when I was younger about seagulls stealing people’s hot dogs right out of the buns while they were attempting to eat them at one of our cities largest parks

 

[BY Bob]

Maybe you’re lucky they aren’t great fliers? I’m remembering some footage that made the news when I was younger about seagulls stealing people’s hot dogs right out of the buns while they were attempting to eat them at one of our cities largest parks

We were at the beach once and my wife was eating doritos. She took a chip from the bag and a seagull swooped in and took it right from her hand as she was putting it into her mouth. It was outstanding. I could not stop laughing.


I really had no choice but to admire Mal's sneakiness today. Well played Maleficent.

 

[drumstick diva]

they DO look like crop circles

 

[Shadrach]

Just to clarify Tribe 3 is made up of Bantams crossed with Marans? Or a group that includes bantams and some other Marans crosses? Really interested, as I quite like my Marans temperament and size, and have recently experimented crossing them with some Isbars, and LeghornxCrested cream legbar hens. I plan on having the Marans as an integral part of my breeding groups.

They're a cross Kris. A bantam hen and rooster lived with the Marans when I first got here.
None of the hens had shown any inclination to sit and hatch before I took over the animal care here. Where and with who the chickens live with seems to depend on firstly breed and then nearest relative.
One hen called Mini Minx (very hot stuff in the chicken world) sat and hatched a mixed batch of eggs and produced four chicks. She and the last incubator hatch which produced Cheepy, are responsible for the mixed breeds and the third and fourth tribe formation.
This all happened eight years ago and I didn't know then what I know now.