Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Cynthia12]

Love them, those 2 look like trouble makers in training.

I agree.

 

[micstrachan]

I couldn’t get any beef liver but I got lamb liver and cooked some up. You should have heard Nyssa’s excited clucks when I hand-fed it to her!

Awww... this warms my heart!

 

[Cynthia12]

A look only a broody hen can give.

 

[Kris5902]

@RoyalChick where where we discussing scotch? Shadrach has weighed in. No ice, ever.

Wise man indeed! Just a bare touch of water to open up the flavors a bit... I won’t let the bartenders touch mine, I used to get a glass of water, a pint of whatever beer is on sale, and a double, neat. They always water it down way too much or put ice in if you let them. We were such regulars at the pub next to our work (late shift closing crew friends) that we actually stopped having to order. We just sat ourselves at our table in the closed section and our waiter would bring us our usuals. One hour before closing. Ten years working together... I miss that aspect of my previous lifestyle as much as the patio, and our hot tub.

DH is blasphemous and anything short of Johnny blue label he will water down until it looks like beer and tastes like water with a hint of smoke and peat. Sometimes, I am shocked and amazed that we are still together. Interestingly enough I often prefer a good 12 year old scotch to an 18...

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Sansa Update

Since I believe that I may be the cause of Sansa's anxiety, I have been trying to think of how I can examine the situation better without effecting it with my presence. The solution came to me this morning, the cameras. I observed Sansa for over an hour this morning via the cameras and the hen I was watching seemed to behave as she should and normally does. She was eating, scratching, hanging out with Lilly. She just really seemed normal.

Then the sun came out and I released everyone from the complex. As you saw in an earlier post, everyone came to the deck except Sansa. She would not come. So I took her over her own bowl of chopped up cheese omelet and fried potatoes. She ate them. After that initial visit, everyone went back to the coop to hang out with her.

Later in the afternoon I look out the door and I see Sansa standing alone in the 1 yard square grass patch looking at the deck. That is when I realized everyone except her and Sydney are on the deck. Well everyone that braved the killer pool cover deserve snacks and so I provide them. In this case some leftover Taco meat and walnuts. Sydney must have been laying an egg and before you know it a Barred Rock hen is sailing over the pool. Flying for all she is worth. Well she did not quite make it but the pool is solid ice. She hit, skidded, and would up on the deck like she planned it that way.

Feeling bad for Sansa, I grabbed a couple of walnuts and went over to the coop to share them with her. She is very much anxious being around me but she did take one from my hand. I went to put the rest on the pavers and we wound up switching positions with her now between me and the deck. I went to go back and in order to stay away from me, she went first. So Sansa wound up on the deck with everyone else this afternoon. I learned that apparently I am scarier than the pool cover.

As I said, they enjoyed their day playing on the deck, grooming under the table, eating exotic foods from foreign countries (taco meat), and in general, enjoying a day out. Sansa seemed to enjoy it as much as everyone else, especially the Killer Corn!

I did not see everyone else leave and go back to the coop so I have no idea how long Sansa was left behind but I came out and found her alone on the little fence. I could tell right away she was measuring for flight and before I could even get my phone out of my pocket, she was airborne. Over the pool she sailed. Sadly, just like Sydney, she did not make it. About a foot short of the other side she hit the ice, slid, and was up on solid ground like she planned it. Into the complex she went.

Everyone roosted as usual and I sit here wondering what to do next. Aside from her new found fears of me and the pool cover, she seemed fairly normal today. What to do?

Perhaps you featured in a bad dream she had. If nothing else has changed it must be psychological.

Or maybe she blames you for all the snow?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Karen and her siblings have a complaint, and they will go to the housing authority if they have to to get their grievances resolved. What is their problem? They had visitors, 6 of them to be exact for about 30 minutes this evening. Those visitors *they refuse to believe they are their baby sisters and brothers, they are only children after all*, destroyed their freshly cleaned cage. Now no they had nothing to do with the food scattered all over, it was all the little ones fault. The little ones also had the audacity to use their sawdust bowl. Pecking was not permitted, even if they started it by pecking you first, and they wanted to be always underfoot. The final straw was that their log had to be removed for the littles safety. It is frowned upon to hop up and down off the log when you might stumble over someone. Did you know chicks can stomp like a angry 2 year old? When I removed the log Karen stopped off and put herself in a corner and turned her back on the whole mess. Don't worry, their log was returned after the littles went back to their own brooder, but Karen is still unhappy. She overheard a conversation about how when they were a little bigger they could share a brooder with them. Now for some pictures.
Introducing the 6 newest fluffbutts.
View attachment 2533086and them annoying their big siblings.
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Get them out of my sawdust bowl.
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"What ya doing" Eating now go away Pipsqeak.
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They are not staying are they? ARE THEY?
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These photos are adorable! And so educational.

What a difference in size. What is the age gap?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

A look only a broody hen can give. View attachment 2533310

You had better watch out for your fingers....and nose!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Greenery, flowers, sunshine and Deana for ByBob.

 

[LozzyR]

Awww... this warms my heart!

Although I suspect she hasn’t eaten much today. She escaped this afternoon and turned her beak up at cheese. Even blueberries and corn after bedtime when I provided some light! I’ll cook her some more liver tomorrow.

 

[BY Bob]

It snowed hard last night, all day off and on, and is supposed to keep up until 1 tomorrow. We need it! Interesting, we aren't getting a lot. A lot of small flurries off and on. I had ordered some Nn eggs that were to be shipped today from New Mexico. He said he isn't going to ship due to extreme weather conditions. It's been staying in the teens, and they got 10 inches of snow! New Mexico! What's going on?

The weather was upside down yesterday for sure.