Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

Don't you bring your own? Unless you are visiting @micstrachan , in which case she is buying @BY Bob some of hers, that he loves.

Tax:
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Excellent tax payment for pj talk, thank you!

 

[LozzyR]

Not to worry, we can teach you

I sing to the cats.

 

[MaryJanet]

Tax for a post that was only tangentially about chickens.
Here is Minnie showing off the grey spangles on her chest. I am curious to see if Dotty develops some spangles too now she has decided to molt.
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Her spangles are gorgeous!

 

[Ponypoor]

I will not look, I will not look...

A lot of drama and sqwaking outside my office tonight as everyone get settled for the night. I am letting them figure it out on their own tonight.... But need to bring in the horses so they need to hurry it up!

 

[LozzyR]

“Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…”

 

[featherhead007]

I will not look, I will not look...

A lot of drama and sqwaking outside my office tonight as everyone get settled for the night. I am letting them figure it out on their own tonight.... But need to bring in the horses so they need to hurry it up!

Squawking here too, but it’s only my roo!

 

[MaryJanet]

“Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…”

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I'm not sure what your tax obligations are on this non-chicken post. I'll have to refer to the Minister for Fluffy Butt Taxation, @BY Bob ?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I have to say the more I read and learn the more I feel it was a fluke that Henny Penny hatch out all four eggs I stuck under her, successfully! Ignorance really is bliss I guess. I bet next time I won't be so lucky!

It was not a fluke, you used the best incubator on the market, a momma hen. I have yet to have a 100% hatch rate using the incubator. I have had a perfect hatch rate using a broody hen. With the incubator I hover constantly checking temps, humidity, making sure the turner is working, candling on schedule. With the hen, I leave her to it and focus on her. Making sure she comes off to eat and relieve herself and she does the rest. I'm going to be perfectly honest here and say something that I should smack myself over. I hope in the next week Chiquita goes broody. If she does I'm definitely giving her the eggs. It also solves the issues of me brooding them myself. Surely a hen that went broody 10 times last year will get with the program right?

 

[featherhead007]

I'm not sure what your tax obligations are on this non-chicken post. I'll have to refer to the Minister for Fluffy Butt Taxation, @BY Bob ?

Bob will set you straight!

 

[MaryJanet]

It was not a fluke, you used the best incubator on the market, a momma hen. I have yet to have a 100% hatch rate using the incubator. I have had a perfect hatch rate using a broody hen. With the incubator I hover constantly checking temps, humidity, making sure the turner is working, candling on schedule. With the hen, I leave her to it and focus on her. Making sure she comes off to eat and relieve herself and she does the rest. I'm going to be perfectly honest here and say something that I should smack myself over. I hope in the next week Chiquita goes broody. If she does I'm definitely giving her the eggs. It also solves the issues of me brooding them myself. Surely a hen that went broody 10 times last year will get with the program right?

I'm glad you favour hen hatches over incubator hatches.

Peggy and Ivy are co-parenting two fertile eggs expected to hatch Sunday-Tuesday. It's my first ever hatch and I'm a bit jumpy about it.