Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Here is another mugs shot from my little friend who visits several times a day.
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Love the jolly tilt to his/her head!

 

[Kris5902]

The universe is trying to tell me something I think. I told you all grandma decided I needed a Polish. The first thing that pops up on my facebook this morning from one of my local groups is a add for blue polish hatching eggs. These eggs are from a NPIP certified breeder and they are only 20 minutes away from me. I still stand firm that I cannot add Polish this year, but I think I will go ahead and contact them to find out how much they cost and if things go right and grandma relents her "I'm going home" rant that is a daily occurrence still get some next spring. I do not want polish, but then I did not want silkies and we see how that turned out.

That or your phones are spying maybe a bit of both.

 

[micstrachan]

Is that unusual for this time of year?

Yes, but I did come across a text or something indicating we were low once in May last year, too. Read an article this morning calling it “unseasonably cool.”

 

[BY Bob]

Mowing won't kill it - the root is big and deep - but it is a "short-lived perennial" and relies on re-seeding to keep going, so if you mow when the flowers are out it can't spread and the original plants will die. I have gardened around clover as I want it to help the surrounding soil (now the chickens will eat some) and noticed a plant will live a few years and then be gone.

This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BY Bob]

I know today is mugshot day. I have an uncooperative collective today. Not even any decent Friday pics. However, updates are needed. Yesterday was a mostly drizzly day (snow that melted on contact, much needed moisture ), frost this morning (not surprising).


Jess with the little pair: I suspect a pullet and a cockerel, but too early for definitive. View attachment 3099111View attachment 3099116

The trio inside: the Egyptian chippy is likely a pullet as she's showing the bielefelder pullet colors, but she has a rose comb, so .... both the buff have cheek puffs, the large chunk from a blue egg, likely fathered by the 3-4 year old BOxEE cock and the little one from a white egg: must be from mine: looks just like cheetah, puffs must be Thing, highly unusual as the cross should be 100% black (split to mottle: can throw mottled babies).View attachment 3099114
As far as the rest of the lot:
View attachment 3099115View attachment 3099113View attachment 3099112View attachment 3099117I have NOT had to evict them from the coop in the morning the last 2 days. They're coming out with the bigs: Integration success. Ranging still needs some work, but size wise they should be staying mostly undercover, which they are so

Excellent news! Congrats!

 

[BY Bob]

Good day to you BYC friends:
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Good day to you.

 

[micstrachan]

This is kind of funny (not like ha ha funny, rather cool/odd, funny) My chickens, broody or not..though they DO poop during the night, the majority of my hens let loose a very large poop as soon as I let them out in the morning. I would say 2/3 size of a broody poop, but not as stinky. Most (not all!) night time poops under the roosts are much smaller. It's almost like they hold onto the 2nd half of the night's worth of poop to let it loose outside?? (It is much more true this time of year, a bit less so in the winter...?maybe because the nights are so long then?)

Mine do this, too.

 

[micstrachan]

I know today is mugshot day. I have an uncooperative collective today. Not even any decent Friday pics. However, updates are needed. Yesterday was a mostly drizzly day (snow that melted on contact, much needed moisture ), frost this morning (not surprising).


Jess with the little pair: I suspect a pullet and a cockerel, but too early for definitive. View attachment 3099111View attachment 3099116

The trio inside: the Egyptian chippy is likely a pullet as she's showing the bielefelder pullet colors, but she has a rose comb, so .... both the buff have cheek puffs, the large chunk from a blue egg, likely fathered by the 3-4 year old BOxEE cock and the little one from a white egg: must be from mine: looks just like cheetah, puffs must be Thing, highly unusual as the cross should be 100% black (split to mottle: can throw mottled babies).View attachment 3099114
As far as the rest of the lot:
View attachment 3099115View attachment 3099113View attachment 3099112View attachment 3099117I have NOT had to evict them from the coop in the morning the last 2 days. They're coming out with the bigs: Integration success. Ranging still needs some work, but size wise they should be staying mostly undercover, which they are so

Awesome!

 

[BY Bob]

The universe is trying to tell me something I think. I told you all grandma decided I needed a Polish. The first thing that pops up on my facebook this morning from one of my local groups is a add for blue polish hatching eggs. These eggs are from a NPIP certified breeder and they are only 20 minutes away from me. I still stand firm that I cannot add Polish this year, but I think I will go ahead and contact them to find out how much they cost and if things go right and grandma relents her "I'm going home" rant that is a daily occurrence still get some next spring. I do not want polish, but then I did not want silkies and we see how that turned out.

Polish are fun chickens for certain. I love them.

 

[featherhead007]

Polish are fun chickens for certain. I love them.

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Betty: “hey Phyllis, can I borrow your pearls?”
Phyllis: “NO, don’t be silly!”