Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

It’s watermelon day today!
The whole family is enjoying it:

 

[MaryJanet]

I have been unable to keep up for some time now. I just do a little speed-reading and some jumping ahead, and pray I don’t miss anything important.
I would love it if someone could recap the highlights at the end of the day.

Or perhaps a tax for doing three posts in a row?

 

[featherhead007]

The moooooo the merrier

 

[Ponypoor]

So true. I am very hit & miss here as I just can't keep up @ present.

Hi ribh

 

[Ponypoor]

It's time you posted some photos anyway. Hop to it.

It's this working thing! It is seriously impacting my quality time with my fur and Feather babies

Ok I will post some two 4s

 

[Ponypoor]

Another day of pelting down rain - I have given up on nice weather. Everything is so muddy - my Magnolia tree is not going to flower

But the bright spot in my day arw my horses and chickies

Today they didn't disappoint.

Two Grey Ladies making a run for it.

Buttercup has flown the coop

Two ladies preening together.

And Misty learning all about equal and opposite reactions, she flew from where she is perched on the side of the wheelbarrow, but her momentum pushed the wheelbarrow over, and of course she didn't get enough leverage and almost didn't make it to the hay piled in the wheelbarrow beside it hahaha! No hens where hurt but I wish I had the video running!!!

 

[Kris5902]

Now in attempting to gather twofer pictures I was hanging out and getting some good videos of dust bathing, watching the flock, the different Tribes, and Roosters interacting… and it occurred to me that poor Trouble hasn’t had the chance to really get a good dust bath in over a month now. So I went to fetch her and had her in my arms when I spotted a certain goat (Jimmy) trying to eat the plastic cover from the greenhouse poles in the bathtub in the yard (yeah I’m slowly getting the house together, it’s just a little tossed all over my yard, it’s fine) so I rush over, put Trouble down in the yard in front of my trailer and go to move the mischievous Goatling. I was mid move when the jerks spotted her. Turns out she can’t walk but she can run just fine. She sprinted all the way to the garbage cans, hormonal jerk in hot pursuit, being chased by the funny rooster screaming threats of punting at him.

She took shelter between the feed cans, he hopped on, and a second or two later got swatted off of her, none too softly. I carried her over to the far waterer, where we were joined by meatball one and meatball two, before going over to the favourite dust bathing spot. After several minutes of the human rooster clearly settling down to supervise, Sammy and Dean both moved off to other pursuits with their own tribes and I was left in Charge of the bathing and watching Spike, Elios, Baldy, the Jerk guy, and a bunch of hens. The tribe/Flock dynamics are interesting. Trouble got some more enrichment and I took a good while to just sit with the birds on a little branch. The geese and seven goslings came by for a visit. And now I’m just waiting on DH to come back from the store and mail run (four hours later… ) so we can walk the goats.

Sitting with the chickens before Sammy and Dean leave me in charge:

 

[Kris5902]

Or perhaps a tax for doing three posts in a row?

Noooooo! No more taxes! Especially as with Rural internet and the time differences I tend to bulk post respond when I finally get a chance to sit down in the evenings. Don’t give Bob more tax ideas! Most of my responses are even chicken related I swear! I’ve been keeping most of the non chicken stuff separate…

 

[Kris5902]

And that video took two and a half hours to upload!

Yep, there’s seven!

 

[bgmathteach]

Now in attempting to gather twofer pictures I was hanging out and getting some good videos of dust bathing, watching the flock, the different Tribes, and Roosters interacting… and it occurred to me that poor Trouble hasn’t had the chance to really get a good dust bath in over a month now. So I went to fetch her and had her in my arms when I spotted a certain goat (Jimmy) trying to eat the plastic cover from the greenhouse poles in the bathtub in the yard (yeah I’m slowly getting the house together, it’s just a little tossed all over my yard, it’s fine) so I rush over, put Trouble down in the yard in front of my trailer and go to move the mischievous Goatling. I was mid move when the jerks spotted her. Turns out she can’t walk but she can run just fine. She sprinted all the way to the garbage cans, hormonal jerk in hot pursuit, being chased by the funny rooster screaming threats of punting at him.

She took shelter between the feed cans, he hopped on, and a second or two later got swatted off of her, none too softly. I carried her over to the far waterer, where we were joined by meatball one and meatball two, before going over to the favourite dust bathing spot. After several minutes of the human rooster clearly settling down to supervise, Sammy and Dean both moved off to other pursuits with their own tribes and I was left in Charge of the bathing and watching Spike, Elios, Baldy, the Jerk guy, and a bunch of hens. The tribe/Flock dynamics are interesting. Trouble got some more enrichment and I took a good while to just sit with the birds on a little branch. The geese and seven goslings came by for a visit. And now I’m just waiting on DH to come back from the store and mail run (four hours later… ) so we can walk the goats.

Sitting with the chickens before Sammy and Dean leave me in charge:

I love that you just had to POINT to the Rooster!

That point and he goes: hum-de-hum-hum, nothing to see here, was just stretching the legs is all....I'll just go back to my spot over there...nothing to see....