Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Blazinga]

^ you can see the rooster patches coming in

Cinnabar is colored orange and blue. I can't wait until she reveals her full head. I also saw some muff pins which is very exciting.

 

[BY Bob]

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^ you can see the rooster patches coming in
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Cinnabar is colored orange and blue. I can't wait until she reveals her full head. I also saw some muff pins which is very exciting.

They are both beautiful. You picked out some lovely chickens.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Whew. Wasn't just me

Ditto

 

[Ribh]

I couldn't find the thread but I have found the picture. This is quite an old picture. I looked much like this until I reached 60ish. A heart attack and a couple of bad injuries took their toll. This was taken before I moved to Spain and the location is one of the islands off Sicily. The caves in the background are where they used to put the Mafioso they caught. My girlfriend at the time took the picture. I think my daughter has some more recent pictures, but in general I try to avoid having my picture taken.
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There's definitely that rooster resemblance.

 

[Ribh]

That is not an easy question to give a sensible answer to.
For contained chickens a reasonable rough guide is 60 grams to 70 grams a day for bamtam sized chickens.
For larger dual purpose breeds 120 grams a day.
But, many contained chickens have access to food all day and some will eat from boredom rather than hunger, just like humans.
I don't/can't leave feed down all day. I feed twice a day from spring to autumn and three times a day in the winter months. They eat as much as they want then and forage for the rest.
Again roughly, all the tribes, 22 chickens in total, eat a bit under 500 grams a day of the commercial feed here. Fat Bird eats the most commercial feed, probably close to 60 grams a day and Donk and Nolia eat the least, sometimes as little as 10 grams each.
The roosters tend to binge eat at feeding times maily because what they find in the day they offer to the hens if they are laying.
Hens about to go broody can eat twice as much of the commercial feed daily for the preceding three or four days.
So, feed quantities per chicken vary enormously by breed, size, time of year, egg laying status and available forage.

Mine have access to food all day but they are being let out to free range early in the morning & what I find is the lower order girls use the free range time to access the food unmolested. At present most of my moulters prefer to fossick for stuff than eat the commercial feed.

 

[featherhead007]

Me and Jaffar watched “We were Soldiers” for his afternoon matinee

 

[BY Bob]

Me and Jaffar watched “We were Soldiers” for his afternoon matinee

Good choice.

 

[LozzyR]

I couldn't find the thread but I have found the picture. This is quite an old picture. I looked much like this until I reached 60ish. A heart attack and a couple of bad injuries took their toll. This was taken before I moved to Spain and the location is one of the islands off Sicily. The caves in the background are where they used to put the Mafioso they caught. My girlfriend at the time took the picture. I think my daughter has some more recent pictures, but in general I try to avoid having my picture taken.
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It’s nice to put faces to names.

 

[featherhead007]

Here is my fluffy butt Friday pic (early) I won’t be here till late tomorrow night.

 

[micstrachan]

It could literally just be fluff. My Buffy is SUPER fluffy and looks huge, but she’s actually one of my smaller chickens when you weigh her and when you reach into the depths of her fluff and feel her little body.

So this is interesting. I held Cashew tonight and changed my mind; she is no longer one of my smaller hens. I think that’s because the others are no longer fat!