Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

The hens eat the leaves too but apparently the tubers are exquisite and worthy of high pitched squeaking and running off with one in your beak so your friends can't get any of it.

One of the Red SEx Links Ex Batts got a largish beetle today. You should have seen the performance. She burnt all the calories she got from the beetle running around with it in her beak trying to stop the others taking it off her.

 

[MaryJanet]

What is wrong with this picture? Lunch today:
- cats got venison with pumpkin
- chickens got diced beef liver on rice with a cilantro tomato garnish
- I got a grilled ear of corn

Answer: you didn't give the corn to the chickens

 

[MaryJanet]

I am being stalked every time I set foot outside now. The blue girls who still protest being touched unless it's bedtime when I can pet 5 out of 6 now hover and follow me everywhere in the backyard. I've also gave up on singling each one out with a name besides Flurry, the other 5 are Blue. They all look alike. I can also be washing dishes and just look outside and there they are. Staring at me and waiting, they know if there is left overs they get dumped into the scrap pile. It would not be so bad if they did not glare at me with angry expressions all the time. These 6 are plotting something.
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They're very beautiful.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

This is just the best story!

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh wow, they’re THAT good!

Yep! The finding of a soursob bulb is an event of mighty proportions!

 

[Shadrach]

Fret? You probably should have called her 'CAT' or something similar...she is an Excavator Extraordinaire!! (maybe she frets, too?) Each picture I've seen of her lately, is her hovering over a freshly dug pit.

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Yup, she can dig, no doubt about that. I love watching them dig. They don't do it in the run. Once outside their whole demeanour changes. The thing is, I can improve their diet reasonabley easily and I could do that while they are contained.
What I can't do and neither can they really is get the same kind of intensive excercise they do running around out of the run and in particular, all that digging. It's these types of activities that helps to get them fit, not to mention all the stuff they dig up and eat that is not in any feed I've seen.
Best of all is watching them fly. Okay, there have not been any spectacular 5 meters off the ground type flights, but a few of them now have flap run the entire length of the large part of the L shape that defines the "free range" area currently.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I Just Knew It

When darkness started to fall, the Phyllistines had no idea where to go to roost. I gave them some time but they just laid down in the grass and distress peeped. So I gathered them up and they climbed up to my shoulder. SoI sat down and we hung out together for a while.

Of course they could not sit still and eventually wound up on my head.

Notice how simply I caught Legertha when she fell off my head. Pretty slick, right?

I took them to their coop and put them on the porch. From there, they put themselves to bed after snacking for a while.

Phyllis roosted in the big coop tonight so I closed off the big run. The littles will be free to roam the big run when the automated door opens in the morning.

These girls are so amusing! I can’t believe they get up on your head!!!

 

[MaryJanet]

One of the Red SEx Links Ex Batts got a largish beetle today. You should have seen the performance. She burnt all the calories she got from the beetle running around with it in her beak trying to stop the others taking it off her.

Oh that's a nice anecdote! Funny little hen it's so funny how they run with their prize held way up high!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Here you go!
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Love this! Hahaha

 

[Shadrach]

The grey hen I've named Cloud. She's a Marans/Legbar/unknown cross.