Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I seem to recall that happened the year before that as well! Can you imagine trying to crack a ceramic egg into a ceramic bowl? The bowl would chip.

Happens every time someone chicken sits. Crazy.

 

[BY Bob]

LOL, no pun intended, right @BY Bob

That one was accidental.

 

[BY Bob]

Mary: knock knock
J: who there?
M: knock knock
J: who. there.
I: it me!

Excellent!

 

[BY Bob]

I think I'll hose this path down then look for some worms
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Excellent idea. Way to think outside the box!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

New Location

Sydney is nest hunting. She built a new nest for today's egg just inside the entrance to the Cluckle Hut and did not use the nest box.
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Phyllis showed it to me so I knew about it. She pointed the egg out to me itself.

I would love to leave an egg in the nest for Sydney but it would freeze at night and then thaw during the day and it would be a real mess.

I need to get new brown ceramic eggs. Everyone who watched my chickens last year took the ceramic ones with them and I think they are too embarrassed to tell me. I am down to 1 white and 1 green from at least 4 of them last year.

When you get the new ceramic eggs write "FAKE" on them in big letters before you have any chicken sitters.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

It's Friday here.

Fluffy Butts from the archive because my 3 girls are all moulting their fluff.
Tsuki and Deana.

 

[RoyalChick]

Hello Fluffy Butt peeps. I have been quite sick the last few days and barely able to drag myself out of bed to care for the critters.
Think I am maybe turning the corner now. Just dropping in to say big news. Maggie has decided to start roosting again.
I missed it all because of being out of it but there she is this morning between Diana and Dotty on the big roost.
I am happy about that.
Minnie is still roosting alone but she is perky and laying eggs so I can’t put that down to sickness. Just bloody mindedness!

 

[rural mouse]

Here too it has been nasty and soggy but we are also having a short break from the rain right now.
Everyone is covered in mud (including me).
Mine got venison loin, chopped cilantro, coconut oil, and blueberries.
Diana and Maggie are very efficient at consuming chunks of venison. Bambi beware!

My in-laws do a lot of hunting. Their tribe get the bones to clean.....and they do: elk, deer (mostly mule deer), antelope, occasional bear or moose, sometimes wild turkey. All the meat goes into the freezer. They rarely eat beef. And the chickens get to pick through the bones for the bits left (plenty) in addition to all the grasshoppers they can catch and everything they find around the horses. They also follow my MIL around and sneak into her garden (lettuce and strawberries). Flip side, the manure the birds produce goes back into the garden for some fantastic results.

 

[rural mouse]

Don't speak so loud or flexi will be ordering me to the shops and they don't have anything like that around here. So whisper

You have all the seafood instead...

 

[BY Bob]

When you get the new ceramic eggs write "FAKE" on them in big letters before you have any chicken sitters.

But then the chickens will know! Their eggs come out with no writing on them.