Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Wow! My largest tops out at 13lb. Like a kitten in comparison !

13lbs is big for a cat. That is surely respectable. Mine are freaks!

 

[BY Bob]

Let her in, but first hide the beer !

Aurora would drink all of your beer for sure.

 

[RoyalChick]

13lbs is big for a cat. That is surely respectable. Mine are freaks!

Yeah - Nightshade is a big cat. I need to measure him - he is also long.
But not on your scale!

 

[RoyalChick]

Hattie came by about 30 minutes later.

Surely Hattie brought pie?

 

[featherhead007]

Aurora would drink all of your beer for sure.

It was a pun. You know that I don’t really drink booze. (DrPepper yes)

 

[ChicoryBlue]

This seems to be what Hazel is doing. Head and neck were first, though I thought there were a lot of rear fluff feathers about. Now her back/rump is barely covered, there are fluff pins coming out under there, when she was wet yesterday the outer feathers parted and it looked quite thin. Overnight she got things in order but there might be just one layer of outer feathers over it. Pictures tomorrow!

Butters (left) and Peanut, under the lilac bush & tree saplings, favorite place to rest, preen, and bathe in the ground. Then they saw me coming with my phone out, they're not sure they want a picture taken I think. That's Popcorn's head peeking out behind Peanut's rump.

Here's Popcorn resting in a dirt bowl, she did that while the other two preened. Hazel hung about but is foraging most of the time during this molt of hers.

Hazel in front and Butters behind her. See how Hazel's feathers roughly lie. Fluff feathers are coming in under them. She's hung on to the one tail feather for awhile now. They have that forest edge behind to forage in, but they are actually going after worms in the open green areas now, the worms prefer the root systems in the greenery and the rain has brought them up. Hazel's getting a lot.


Here Hazel (in front) is with Peanut. Peanut is usually the sleekest but the comparison is striking.

Hazel's Roughy-Fluffy Butt.

 

[BY Bob]

Surely Hattie brought pie?

Mealworms pie I think.

 

[BY Bob]

It was a pun. You know that I don’t really drink booze. (DrPepper yes)

Aurora drinks beer. Not Dr. Pepper.

 

[micstrachan]

Well, folks, this should be my last post on the thread about dear Ruby. OMG, the report is horrible. My poor, sweet baby. I wish I hadn’t kept her alive so long. Ruby did not have cystic right oviduct, salpingitis nor fatty liver. Her fat stores were depleted and she was severely emaciated due to extensive metatastic ovarian cancer (liver, kidneys, intestines, coelom). The mass did indeed obstruct her duodenum, which could explain why she was so malnourished.

I’m going to crawl into a cave now. I might be joining the cull-all-sick-birds camp. Poor Ruby. Poor, poor sweet Ruby. OMG.

 

[BY Bob]

Butters (left) and Peanut, under the lilac bush & tree saplings, favorite place to rest, preen, and bathe in the ground. Then they saw me coming with my phone out, they're not sure they want a picture taken I think. That's Popcorn's head peeking out behind Peanut's rump.
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Here's Popcorn resting in a dirt bowl, she did that while the other two preened. Hazel hung about but is foraging most of the time during this molt of hers.
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Hazel in front and Butters behind her. See how Hazel's feathers roughly lie. Fluff feathers are coming in under them. She's hung on to the one tail feather for awhile now. They have that forest edge behind to forage in, but they are actually going after worms in the open green areas now, the worms prefer the root systems in the greenery and the rain has brought them up. Hazel's getting a lot.
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Here Hazel (in front) is with Peanut. Peanut is usually the sleekest but the comparison is striking.
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Hazel's Roughy-Fluffy Butt.
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Gorgeous photos and ladies! I just love your pictures.