Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ali James]

Let’s see if I can remember how to upload photos...

Four fluffy butts!

 

[Ali James]

This is my Heritage Skyline, Charlie, who allegedly could lay blue eggs (but let’s not talk about that )

She has a habit of going broody, in the ‘growling-pancake’ way, rather than a ‘shrieking beach ball’ way. It got so bad this time, we bought a cage of shame and sent her off to broody-jail. She snapped out of it really quickly.

As @Shadrach was saying a while ago, she goes into the full on trance on the nest, we can stroke her, get our hands right under her and she won’t move. Neil picked her up and put her on my lap and she stayed put. She is in no way a lap chicken; if anything she is the flightiest of my flock

 

[featherhead007]

Feisty, when not in her broody trance!

 

[Ali James]

After hunkering down on the nest for hours and hours on end, here she is having a stretch

Followed by a dust bath, right next to the food of course (who doesn’t like a bit of soil seasoning on their breakfast?)

 

[Ali James]

She is like gollum when it comes to coveting precious eggs. He she is in the coop just waiting for Blue and Echo to finish laying so she can pounce on their eggs

 

[Ali James]

Here they are all together (it feels like a massive achievement to get all four in one picture, and even more so when they all look up at the same time!)

I’ve been making the most of lockdown and allowing them out to free range each day. Sometimes they only get 20 minutes, other times, hours, if we’re doing garden projects or enjoying the nice weather

 

[RoyalChick]

This is my Heritage Skyline, Charlie, who allegedly could lay blue eggs (but let’s not talk about that )

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She has a habit of going broody, in the ‘growling-pancake’ way, rather than a ‘shrieking beach ball’ way. It got so bad this time, we bought a cage of shame and sent her off to broody-jail. She snapped out of it really quickly.

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As @Shadrach was saying a while ago, she goes into the full on trance on the nest, we can stroke her, get our hands right under her and she won’t move. Neil picked her up and put her on my lap and she stayed put. She is in no way a lap chicken; if anything she is the flightiest of my flock

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She is beautiful!

 

[Ali James]

My non-feathered flock members, Jinx and Hex

 

[Ali James]

Hex (the tabby) made the mistake of coming up to me and standing between Charlie and the entrance to the run (this was whilst Charlie had been evicted from her nest). Charlie went into apocalypse mode and lunges at her, flogging her wings like a rooster. Poor cat was utterly terrified and fled.

 

[Ali James]

This is my alpha hen, Delta, first of her name, Queen of the coop, ruler of the high roosts, dispenser of harsh justice and all round meanie.

she is investigating a new diversion I made for them, I wired a load of pine cones to an upturned wooden hanging basket. I’ve been scattering feed and corn amongst all the pine cones to make them work harder for their treats