Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

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Did they make a trip outside?

 

[BY Bob]

That's Moon from Tribe 1 in the yellow coop. She about average size for Tribe 1.
If you look at the size of the black bantam hens it gives a good idea of the difference.
You could get all three bantam hens into Fat Bird!

Possibly all 4 into Hattie.

 

[featherhead007]

Did they make a trip outside?

I gave them 20 minutes of sunshine yesterday

 

[BY Bob]

I gave them 20 minutes of sunshine yesterday

Thanks more than I have gotten in a month!

 

[featherhead007]

Thanks more than I have gotten in a month!

It was still chilly out, and I didn’t want to shock their “feather challenged” little bodies. (They are growing fast, and healthy)

 

[Scrambles83]

I have old example of this as Patsy first knocked Jabberwocky off of Hattie. When Jabber took umbrage, Patsy took care of the situation and put him in his place. There is no sound.

Oh beautiful Patsy
I love how she just goes back to casually pecking the cabbage after delivering the smack down on Jabber

 

[RoyalChick]

I have old example of this as Patsy first knocked Jabberwocky off of Hattie. When Jabber took umbrage, Patsy took care of the situation and put him in his place. There is no sound.

I remember when you first posted that video - it really taught me a lot - I didn't know chickens behaved that way. I also remember the hanging cabbage as a really cool idea.

 

[BY Bob]

I remember when you first posted that video - it really taught me a lot - I didn't know chickens behaved that way. I also remember the hanging cabbage as a really cool idea.

When i first saw it, I was shocked that any hen would dare take on a rooster. Patsy would whoop him many times while he was here.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Louis is just, different, from the other 2 boys. Dirt and Russ will beg and try to steal anything you eat or drink. If its good for people, it must be good enough for horses to and we must share is their line of thought. Louis on the other hand, never begs or offers to steal anything. Besides hay and grain i've found 4 things he will eat. Raisins, hot dog buns, graham crackers and peppermint life savers. ANYTHING else, nope, not having it. He may sniff it, but besides the two times he's took a bite of a crunchy cheeto which he promptly spit out and made a god awful face, he's not trying it. This even includes apples and carrots. Louis has a few odd quirks that make him who he is, and a lot of them I feel are due to his past. Before we got him for 10 years he was a padded show horse. After that he was switched to the heavy plantation shoes. Due to those shoes, he never got to be turned out and be a normal horse. First thing we did when we got him was yank those shoes and put him on normal keg shoes. But the damage to his feet is done, over 2 years later and his feet still don't look normal. Better, but still not quite right. After years of being stalled, he just doesn't know how to act or relax if he's turned out. He'll pace the fence line the entire time, not once offering to graze. Clip a lead rope to his halter, instantly drops his head and will pick as long as you let him. You can drop the lead rope, he still happily eats, remove the lead rope, back to pacing the fence line. Tried turning him out with Russ, didn't help. Russ would be pigging out, Louis just works himself up into a hot sweaty mess. Its ok though, for all his quirks, he makes up for it when he lays his head on your shoulder and goes to sleep. Besides chicken therapy, horse therapy is the best.

What breed is Louis? I had a TWH and she was a granddaughter of Ebony's Masterpiece.

My best friend had a daughter of I'm a New Yorker. Sadly she contracted EPM and died at a young age.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh beautiful Patsy
I love how she just goes back to casually pecking the cabbage after delivering the smack down on Jabber

I really love the shoulder she gives him as he runs off. That's right. You better run!