Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I don't have any idea what you're talking about...

I do!

 

[FransGran]

Fluffy Butt Friday
Fran

Maxine

Verna

Nora

 

[RoyalChick]

Do you compost? You could wipe it off with kitchen towel and put it straight into the compost.

Yes absolutely! And for that matter I could just toss a tiny bit of paper towel into the chicken litter.
It is not a big problem, just a bit less completely lovely than everyone else's beautiful clean eggs.
Dotty isn't in my good books for another reason which is she has developed a taste for my ankles. She follows me around pecking at my ankles. It really hurts!
Sigh.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Ice Ice Baby

We are having a big ice storm today. You can see it building up on the branches of the birch tree. I have to watch that tree as it has split before. Despite the nasty weather, the ladies have still been leaving the complex for short bursts to grab some seeds or grass and then head back in.
View attachment 2471516

Same thing here!!

The branches touching the Pretties coop are usually 8 feet off the ground.

@BY Bob if you have any trouble with the tree let me know. Rich works for a tree company and they'll have everything taken care of in no time.

 

[featherhead007]

For Fluffy Butt Friday:

 

[featherhead007]

We get frost on our rooftop and maybe on the grass. But that’s about it!

 

[LozzyR]

Nyssa channeling her inner duck.

 

[Kris5902]

This is the kind of behavior I am interested in. "Queenie held quite still in a firm pointy-face low-head stance while the Buckeye kept her head high and stretched-out, but moving it."

Did it look like this?

What you are seeing exhibited here in the video I posted is called fence fighting.

The peck at the ground and then lift head and peck at each other is the fence fighting. Did you see Queenie peck the ground and then at the fence or Buckeye? If so, she may very well be trying to intimidate the Buckeye in question. I am pretty sure that my resident baddy Aurora was doing so to Sydney.

Now that is my read on the behavior. Others will say they have no idea why chickens fence fight and more interestingly, why some chickens do and some don't. Additionally it is also interesting to note that once the fence is removed in the majority of cases no fighting ensues.

I learned much of this from @Shadrach and I am glad to pass it on.

They're fence fighting and you should try to prevent it. It's easy for them to get a
toe caught in the mesh.

My girls will also try to chest bump when fence fighting...

 

[featherhead007]

I waited too long to show this, but.......

 

[BY Bob]

Brrrrr! Just nasty cold wet here. Miserable.

4 hours of ice so far...