Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LozzyR]

My ladies pictured first pictures are 1 year old March 25th and We got 4 more chicks they are 1 month old now March 24th pictured bottom pictures they are little stinkers taking their pictures

Gorgeous! Is the third picture an Isa Brown? She looks like my Chickie would have with a full beak.

 

[ValerieJ]

Hope she feels better soon so you can too .. I don't know so just asking - Is long tern aspirin okay. I know i could cause stomack upset in people

I know what you're saying. I'm not allowed to take aspirin at all. But, she hasn't had that many. I only give it to her when she is warm and panting. A fever is worse than an upset tummy.

 

[BY Bob]

I have a ridiculous issue in the Chicken Palace. Maggie has learned to shut the fancy sliding chicken-door. So she shuts Elizabeth out of the coop and Elizabeth stands outside on the ladder yelling like crazy and Maggie sits on the roost looking smug. I must move the cameras over the weekend so I can capture this in action and figure and how on earth she does it. But it must be Maggie because Diana is sometimes locked in with Maggie and sometimes locked out with Elizabeth. I am going to have to put another latch on to stop her locking her sisters out!

O My Gah! I must see this video.

 

[BY Bob]

It took me a bit to realise there was a hen under there!

He is covering her like a gentleman rooster should.

 

[BY Bob]

My ladies pictured first pictures are 1 year old March 25th and We got 4 more chicks they are 1 month old now March 24th pictured bottom pictures they are little stinkers taking their pictures

What beautiful girls. A leghorn too! You are so lucky.

 

[Cwestlake]

Gorgeous! Is the third picture an Isa Brown? She looks like my Chickie would have with a full beak.

Are you talking about the chicks? I’m not too sure on Isa Brown maybe I hope so

 

[Cwestlake]

What beautiful girls. A leghorn too! You are so lucky.

Thank you so much!

 

[Cwestlake]

What beautiful girls. A leghorn too! You are so lucky.

Thank you so much

 

[BY Bob]

I bought Chickie and Henny Penny from a battery farm nearby (which has since been shut down because of animal cruelty). I had just lost Emily, one of my two original girls and Lucy seemed lonely. You could buy them for $5.00 each and give them a home, otherwise they were killed at 18 months old. I didn’t know anything about quarantine then so I just put them all in together. It took Lucy about 5 minutes of hanging back before she got in there and started scratching around with them. There was no bullying, no pecking order, just three mates hanging out together. I was a bit shocked at Chickie’s appearance; her severely trimmed beak, one eye in which the pupil remained dilated, plus she was smaller than the other two, but as I got to know her, I discovered how cruisy and laid-back she was, how she stayed relaxed when I picked her up.

When I was painting the tractor after I had lost Penny, I had all the pieces spread out on the trampoline. I also had the pot of varnish up there as Lucy and Chickie had a habit of licking pictures and brightly coloured things and I didn’t want them to do that on something that was covered in chemicals. The two of them had been hanging out with me under the trampoline and every so often I could hear trilling (which I’m pretty sure was Chickie). Anyway, Chickie decided she wanted to know what I was doing so she flapped her wings furiously and got herself up to the edge of the trampoline and perched there. I lifted her back down as I didn’t want her licking stuff. She did this four times in a row! It was very cute and if I hadn’t had stuff covered in varnish, I would have let her hang out with me up top. It’s a nice memory, anyway.

What a wonderful story. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

 

[Cwestlake]

Wonderful Story You Shared Thank You So Much For Sharing With Us