Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

 

[Ponypoor]

They are today. The weather has turned warmer and they are loving it.

I had the gals out all morning, super windy and I thought poor Curly would get toppled over

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

 

[Ponypoor]

I get it right more than anyone else. I can reliably say they are all chickens, and just watch, I will be proven right yet again. They are in fact chickens!

Hmmmm I would say many are Kris' army cassowary... They look like cassowary the am sure!

 

[Ponypoor]

I truly feel your pain and I'm sorry this has come to you and her.

I understand this completely, more than you maybe know. Trisha died from complications of a prolapse. I won't have leghorns or productions beds again because of her and Daisy, the greatest hen ever.

Maybe it's wrong of me to love seeing them in other people's tribes but they own my heart. I can't wish them from the face of the earth and I can't bear to have them in my tribe. They are magnificent birds and we humans ruined leghorns by turning them into laying machines.

Trisha
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Wow splendid looking lady what a beauty

 

[Ponypoor]

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Awwww a barred butt

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

 

[Ponypoor]

I am surprised that no one joined her. I love the Coke leap!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Time to move out.

They moved outside a week and a half ago. Until yesterday they were confined to the chicken coop as I felt they were still a bit to small to interact with the big chickens. They have been able to visit each other with the coop door as a barrier so for the most part the interactions have gone fairly well. One of the cochin girls though I have to watch like a hawk, she does not like them yet. When I get time I'm going to let them out to explore several times a day but they will not have free access outside the coop yet for another week or so.

 

[Kris5902]

The Chook Taj Mahal is in!

After a bit of a late start, the guys arrived with the structure flat-packed in the back of a Ute. By the time they finished the light was beginning to fade but they got it finished. I’m so happy with it! I’ll need to varnish the door, the duck-walk and nest boxes so they’ll have to wait another week so the fumes clear, but that’s ok.

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Alex making friends with Lottie
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Love it! Can you ship those two guys to Canada?