Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Warm Water

They line up every morning now when I bring fresh water out. Hattie is always first.

I sat in the run with them for a while yesterday morning. Something has happened to my relationship with Sansa. She would not eat any meal worms from my hand and kept a wide berth from me at all times. I wonder why?

Some photos from our time together.
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OMG, Hattie’s mugshot!!!

Sweet thirsty babies. I can’t imagine having to worry about frozen water!

I wonder what’s up with Sansa?

 

[BY Bob]

So I didn’t catch up on the thread. I actually spent time WITH the chickens today. I got lots of poop out of the coop. We had lots of snuggles. I tended to the wet grass hay pile of DH’s. He keeps buying GIANT bales of grass hay for two tiny bunnies and then leaving it out in the rain. Does anyone know how heavy wet grass hay is??? Also this time around, instead of relocating it one wet pitchfork full at a time, I mixed it with leaves and chicken litter! I’ve been tending to it three weekends in a row now, in hopes it will not be a danger to the chickens (mold) and be useful in the garden in a couple months. There is no longer any slime on the hay.
Today they kept finding these white bits that looked like cheese. They were crazy for it! I finally realized it seemed like wood pellets that had gone moldy? Maybe? Fingers crossed my flock is not poisoned with microtoxins.

I did get a couple pics today.
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Such a beautiful tribe you have. I love seeing pictures of them!

 

[BY Bob]

OMG, Hattie’s mugshot!!!

Sweet thirsty babies. I can’t imagine having to worry about frozen water!

I wonder what’s up with Sansa?

I'm wondering if she is upset over being carried twice the other day. I don't pick them up. I try to leave them their space at all times. Maybe she is angry with me for that. That's all that has changed. That I can think of.

 

[BY Bob]

OMG, Hattie’s mugshot!!!

Sweet thirsty babies. I can’t imagine having to worry about frozen water!

I wonder what’s up with Sansa?

I love that picture of Hattie. That face!

 

[Ribh]

Gladly. I need a good chicken puzzle. I don't have one.

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https://www.amazon.com.au/Cobble-Hill-Chicken-Quotes-Jigsaw/dp/B01AVQTMQU

https://www.amazon.com/Rooster-Puzzles-Jigsaw/s?k=Rooster+Puzzles+Jigsaw

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I sat in the run with them for a while yesterday morning. Something has happened to my relationship with Sansa. She would not eat any meal worms from my hand and kept a wide berth from me at all times. I wonder why?

What were you wearing? Sansa is quite a fashionable girl. You weren't wearing pink and orange together were you?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! There are quite a few on here with anniversaries in February! We just celebrated 36 years on the 2nd!

Congratulations to you too!

 

[micstrachan]

I hope it's ok to share this duck clip here. I just loved it.

Awww... I enjoyed that!!!

 

[micstrachan]

Well, the chicken tax payments are going to be late in coming there are now thigh high drifts of Snow out there. View attachment 2528709We struggled out with the waterers and DH put one in front of the trailer a foot or two away from the door. The Chickens sensibly said “nope!” No one ventured out. We did relocate Roostie and his ladies into the barn, surrounded by hay bales and topped with the brooder box lid as owl protection. The snow was drifted up over his tractor and some had even managed to sift into the roosting box overnight. Yesterday we got everyone else turned so the non vented backs of the tractors were facing the wind. View attachment 2528707
that’s a 63L garbage can almost completely buried by a drift. It’s not actually that deep, maybe a foot and a half of actual snowfall at most, but the winds here like to make things interesting for us. Good news is it’s much warmer now, +6 C by tuesday... so the tanks should unfreeze soon.

I can’t see the photos, but... YIKES!

 

[micstrachan]

AMAZING!!!