Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I just returned. Rocks-Anne seems better today. I think that she was having trouble with laying her egg yesterday. She’s inside with me at the moment, watching a documentary about the Hard Rock Cafe business chain. (YouTube) go figure

Rocks-Anne’s a pretty hard Rock herself!

 

[Ponypoor]

Rocks-Anne’s a pretty hard Rock herself!

Must have read my mind I was just flipping through to see how she was

Really glad she is ok.

 

[bgmathteach]

Noon check, no pips. 10 minutes off the nest for food, poop, and more water guzzling. I stood guard over the nest while waiting for my high maintenance mama to have her alone time. I did see a wiggle though… from the egg that’s front and Center View attachment 3068520

I love that little butt wiggle near the end to shift the last few eggs in back under her!

 

[featherhead007]

“When 66 years old you be, you are expected to slow up a little!”
6.5 years = 66 chicken years

 

[bgmathteach]

Yes - a telephone table.
Look up telephone table on Etsy. They sell for $500-600.

OMG: yes, this is the one I have - but it has a darker stain.

Well, who would have thunk it! Figures, I just put a coat of clear spar-urethane on the bottom half. Leave it to me to 'ruin' a valuable piece by refinishing

Hope the chickens like the expensive antique artifact!

 

[RoyalChick]

I love that little butt wiggle near the end to shift the last few eggs in back under her!

It is amazing they don't break more than they do.

 

[rural mouse]

I know....which has me very stumped. What I ordered: 6 Welsummer, 6 BCM, 3 'white egg layers', and I got a 'free Meyer Meat Maker' (MMM) Only, I really didn't, as I was shorted one....so somebody is missing.....given that this one has a spot on it, I'm thinking it isn't BCM. However, it clearly isn't a Welsummer ( which 2 were DOA, another passed - one of the two very weak ones - yesterday morning), there aren't any white egg layers it matches, and I was told the "MMM" was an EE that week. (That said, maybe they swapped it out/ran out of EE - the MMM is always a dual purpose chick that they have extra hatch. One of my Chipmunk striped ones has puffier cheeks than the others, so I assumed that was an EE and I was shorted Welsummer.... But now I'm thinking...maybe not? Maybe I was shorted a BCM and I have either a CM or BR, or maybe a Dominique, but I don't think so due to the comb......? They were ALL supposed to be pullets - including the MMM....which, if it is a BR ( ), that would make sense as it is a smaller spot than would be typical for a BR Roo.

"What breed of chicken is this chick?" Is oodles of fun!

 

[rural mouse]

"What breed of chicken is this chick?" Is oodles of fun!

Then there's: the feed store labeled them XXX, but they're looking more like FFF....

 

[MaryJanet]

Bob's ladies are PoW!

I've taken a screen capture for him so he can see it when he gets back.

 

[MaryJanet]

I think it's Patsy, TGHE, and Lilly.