Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Big day here. First off, i finally got pictures of whole chicks not just fluffy butts. Though in full transparency I still get 5 butt photos for every head - as soon as they see me they turn around and tilt their butts up. I think I may have mentioned the projectile poo issue already. Hmmm. Hope this phase doesn’t last too long!
And secondly they moved out of the house. I am checking on them every few minutes in case it is too cold or too windy. But they seem very happy with the extra space and branches to climb on. One already skewered a passing gnat - killer chicks!
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Cuties!

 

[micstrachan]

It was such a beautiful evening. The kids were enjoying the evening and the chickens were free ranging.

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Miss Rose is looking lovely in her real feathers.

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Lily is the cutest little thing with her bity tail feathers!

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Sunny decided to check out the roof on the fluffs pen and since kids are kids...
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Lily decided to monkey see monkey do!!! Lol


Oh goodness they are just adorable!!!!

Soooooo adorable!!!

 

[micstrachan]

The Downside of too Much Free Range Time

Strange nesting locations. This whole nest box egg laying saga just continues on. Check out the new nest Lilly was trying to make today.

Of course you can't really tell where that is from the video. Here is the actual Location.

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Right behind Sansa on the roof of my pool shed! I have never had hens do this before. This lot is being spoiled with too much free range time. They are going wild on me!

Haha! Wait until you see how wild the chicks are when they’re raised by a hen instead of a human!

 

[micstrachan]

I managed a snuggle with Stanley today!!

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He's still a sweetheart!!

Love this!

 

[micstrachan]

Hello. My name is Minnie. I am really tiny but I can stretch up tall if there is something to see. I only have an itty-bitty tail, more of a fig-leaf really, which I need to preserve my modesty when my human-mom takes pictures of my fluffy butt.
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Precious!

 

[BY Bob]

Oh my frick! That’s hilarious!
We have Saturday late afternoon family zoom and Dorothy LOVES to jump up onto the laptop and hog the camera!

I bet that is so cute.

 

[BY Bob]

Haha! Wait until you see how wild the chicks are when they’re raised by a hen instead of a human!

I am kind of excited to see that. They must see the world very differently.

 

[LozzyR]

Auntie Aurora

The following video is not just fun because there are chickies in it. Aunt Aurora has finished laying her egg and walks out and past the chickies and Sydney.

The video also captures Aurora's strange nest building while walking behaviour. Watch as she exits the nest and picks up straw and puts it on her back. It’s odd. I watched her do this in the yard one day after laying but instead of straw she was picking up sticks and putting them on her back.

Has anyone ever seen one of their hens do this before?

I’ve never seen any of my girls do that when walking around, only when Charlie was on the nest.

 

[BY Bob]

Snack and Nap

The little chickies eating with mom and then settling down to rest.

 

[featherhead007]

Catching up... current story of my life I thought I should maybe chime in here too, my Sapphires have a barring gene from their Crested Cream Legbar parent and a dominant white gene from their leghorn one, when I cross them to my BCM (maybe 1/2 Blue Copper maran?) Rooster I get three colours of hens: almost completely white with a few stray black feathers, iridescent black, and a beautiful grey with a hint of copper around her collar. The chicks start out either black or yellow, and the black boys also all have the head dot. The yellow chicks are indistinguishable for the first few weeks, but the boys show their comb development quite early on. It’s Really easy to keep track of these crosses because of the combination of lightly feathered feet or legs and the distinctive little crests and the patterning in the dark cockerels goes obviously straight back to the CCL parent with their juvenile feathers. unlike my Barnvelders, I thought for sure I pulled a pure Barnie egg, but someone came out of the shell with feathered feet, so it must’ve been one of my Olive eggers from Chickie Hawk’s first clutch that donated the egg!

No, I think your hen, has been cheating on her rooster!