Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

My princesses are being lazy today. Watching them makes me want to take a nap too!
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They look so happy.

 

[Marie2020]

Hello Bob and everyone

 

[BY Bob]

I got sucked into reading the reviews yesterday and found these inside photos for everyone wanting to know about the roosts.
Second photo shows a modification. Personally I would have put a board over the end to shelter the nest boxes.

They will be pooping right in the nest boxes that way. That was not a great design.

 

[BY Bob]

Hello Bob and everyone

Hey there Marie!

 

[BY Bob]

I learned this at my other house. My 'woods pen' had lots of pines (and hemlocks, which they didn't eat...except for some of the tender new growth of limbs in spring) in it. Limbs they could hop up on got denuded of needles, especially in the winter when there wasn't much else to 'attack'. However, they would do it year round...and really liked the tender 'buds' growth in the spring of the new shoots and new needles. They have done this here, as well, to the few branches they can reach with needles on them on the 2 pine trees in the extended run. I figure if they like them, why not give them more as enrichment? I"ll have to get pics of what they do to the limbs/needles this weekend!

I would love to see that. Sadly I have no pines here.

 

[BY Bob]

I remember the pink eggs.

With envy I should add.

 

[Ponypoor]

I grind the tums and cook in an omelette, it smells awful, they didn’t like the mint flavour at all, but the berry works well (disclaimer… you may get pink eggs from the food dye in them)

Thanks for the laugh (good thing no co-workers close by!).

Will try this on Saturday!

 

[featherhead007]

Rocks-Anne guided me to a hidden clutch of eggs (that’s where she’s been laying lately) she knows that I need to collect the eggs, even the hidden ones.

 

[Ribh]

Oh I think visiting with the neighbours is awesome .

Hmmmm...their bantams aren't flyers but Ha'penny, being a Campine, is a very good flyer, considers their yard an extension of her own & has been known to lay in their nesting boxes. Luckily they have been pretty cool about her visiting rights.

 

[Ribh]

I was thinking similar to @Shadrach s tribes when more than one rooster. in the tribe...each had 'their' hens within that tribe that they mated with, escorted, protected........though both 'groups' of hens mingled freely while out and about....it was more who had to 'run' for escort...and/or who had to provide look-out service when the group split into different areas (i.e. dust bathing and foraging) ?No? Not really sure, just pondering out loud.

I don't think my tribe is as stable as Shad's was. It tends to be very fluid & I have more ornamentals. Feathered feet, frizzling & the tiny Japs mean very different dynamics to the birds like Campines & Vorwerks.