Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

An over priced Toyota camry.

True!

 

[BY Bob]

I loved reading your diary update

I'm glad. Thanks!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m embarrassed to show any molting pictures of the chooks

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Beautiful tax. I just love the curiosity of Buckeyes. Before Ruby fell ill, her nicknsme was Adventure Girl. I stopped counting the number of times I had to go fetch her from the neighbor’s yard. Once later, when she was actually quite ill, but was apparently feeling adventurous, he brought her to me so he could let hus dogs out.

Peanut is that way. I've let her out of the bigger electric fenced area twice when I've been out there with them, and hung around as she roams. The others don't want to go out with her. They stand and watch her carefully though, necks up to get a better view: what is Peanut doing out there? She asks to go out - an urgent piping trill directed at me while looking at the gate, walking back and forth. She sometimes does this same thing when I've got the back of the coop off to clean the roost. She hangs around below it, trilling. She waits until I encourage her, or make way for her? and then she jump flies up into it. Just to look around, to look out the back from up there.

 

[BY Bob]

I wouldn't worry about her choosing the box. Sydney likes to sleep in the box too sometimes, right @BY Bob ?

Close. I think you mean Sansa. She is also a random nest box sleeper throughout the year. Sansa is using the nest box all the time right now. Hattie aldo will sleep in a nest box and on the floor.

 

[micstrachan]

Female raptors are usually quite big compared to the males. With general variation either way some females are huge compared to their mates.

Got it! Such a fun factoid I can’t believe I did not know! Must have been female.

 

[micstrachan]

Peanut is that way. I've let her out of the bigger electric fenced area twice when I've been out there with them, and hung around as she roams. The others don't want to go out with her. They stand and watch her carefully though, necks up to get a better view: what is Peanut doing out there? She asks to go out - an urgent piping trill directed at me while looking at the gate, walking back and forth. She sometimes does this same thing when I've got the back of the coop off to clean the roost. She hangs around below it, trilling. She waits until I encourage her, or make way for her? and then she jump flies up into it. Just to look around, to look out the back from up there.

I love this! Ruby used to pace back and forth to be let out of the run. She’s the only one who ever did this. She also had COUNTLESS private free range sessions before work. Iwould have loved to let them all out, but a couple are too hard to wrangle back in.

 

[BY Bob]

The girls were out for a bit this morning, but they were very nervous after the hawk was stalking them and went back in on their own. I went inside and did some things, and we went for a bike ride. Just got home and let them back out, and wouldn’t you know it, a red tail hawk was hovering nearby. It moved on right away, but the girls are nervous.

Lovely video. And ladies. You are right, they were jumpy.

 

[Blazinga]

Ah, yes. This one is actually of the Guinea Pig Chicken variety. She’s quite the specimen!

Cavie genetics are very interesting.

 

[bgmathteach]

And who is that handsome rooster in the background?

My young DC rooster. No name, but he 'herds' me and will let me touch/groom him at night now (no moving..no sidelong glancing but holding still...he is just plain okay with it now) but he doesn't want to be picked up during the day. He has started taking a few bits from my hand,now, though

With so many chickens, it is tough to do that with all...so I usually don't start putting extra effort with the boys until I have decided who will stay. (getting too close too early makes freezer camp REALLY hard. It is difficult enough as it is...but since I do eat and like chicken, I would rather have mine than store bought...hard or not.) Probably TMI.