Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Hello to all followers of this huge wonderful thread and to @BY Bob who kindly invited me to participate.
I have something to confess...I've been silently lurking here for a while. I feel kind of guilty as if I had been spying . I'm probably not going to post very often as this thread is already very dense, and I already ramble far too much on Shadrach ex-batts thread, but I did want to introduce myself and my chickens. I will feel more at ease to like or comment on some of your posts.

I am a french city gal that moved in summer 2019 to the country, in my partner's family old house in the prealps. In January 2020, we got six three months old ex-battery hens as livestock. They quickly became our new friends. Meet Blanche, Nougat, Caramel, Cannelle, Brune and Vanille.
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Last December a farmer gave us a couple of bantams : a teenage awkward cockerel and a feral girl. Théo turned into a pretty bullying young rooster bigger than a bantam, Chipie stayed feral. Integration was a disaster but no one died and now they are more or less part of the flock.
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I must add that we got two sibling barn kittens, Hibou and Tila, in November 2020 to solve a mice problem.
A year went by and they had become my partner's spoilt children.
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Our next addition will be two ponies but we still have a bit of work to get our settings ready before that.
I've been way too long but at least I won't feel so creepy now when I read about all of you . Have a nice Friday and week-end everyone.

Thank you for sharing these lovely pictures of your beautiful animals ❤

I'm so pleased you found this thread you are amongst the best of people in here.

 

[bgmathteach]

So, my geese are evidently pretending to not like me.

I go into their area, they run (waddle, clumsily) to the far side of the brooder.

However, I pick them up and they immediately snuggle into warm momma. I bring them to the bedroom, put them on the bed ('chicken towel under them, of course), and they putter around the space some. The phone rings...I get up and cross the room, and they both (but the boy especially) starts an anguished call and they putter to the edge of the bed trying to get to me

I think we have successfully bonded

The girl found a mole on my arm and tried sampling it. They already have pretty strong beaks! Yikes!

Can you guess which is the girl & which is the boy? One the gray is much lighter than the other, particularly on the head area...just to help you distinguish from pic to pic.

 

[Marie2020]

Apples they don’t like apples!

Mine would kill me or bite my fingers off for a bit of apple

 

[Marie2020]

So, my geese are evidently pretending to not like me.

I go into their area, the run (waddle, clumsily) to the far side of the brooder. However, I pick them up and they immediately snuggle into warm momma. I bring them to the bedroom, put them on the bed ('chicken towel under them, of course), and they putter around the space some. The phone rings...I get up and cross the room, and they both (but the boy especially) starts an anguished call and they putter to the edge of the bed trying to get to me

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The girl found a mole on my arm and tried sampling it. They already have pretty strong beaks! Yikes!

Can you guess which is the girl & which is the boy? One the gray is much lighter than the other, particularly on the head area...just to help you distinguish from pic to pic.

What adorable little creatures

 

[featherhead007]

My beloved chicken has fleas I have to treat the whole family now. Strip down the coop (again) HOW HORRIBLE!

 

[Marie2020]

My beloved chicken has fleas I have to treat the whole family now. Strip down the coop (again) HOW HORRIBLE!

Yikes that's awful

 

[bgmathteach]

So, when they sleep, they each lay their head on the other, necks all twined together. I can't get the song "Fire" by the pointer Sisters out of my head.

That is, until they projectile all over me. Kinda squelches the mood, somehow.

 

[featherhead007]

So, when they sleep, they each lay their head on the other, necks all twined together. I can't get the song "Fire" by the pointer Sisters out of my head.
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That is, until they projectile all over me. Kinda squelches the mood, somehow.

Dux poop ! That’s what they do!

 

[Marie2020]

Anyone remember Black velvet I loved this song

 

[Ponypoor]

Somehow it managed to snow while we were in Italy but not kill the apple blossoms. I don't know how but here they are when we returned home.

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Oh lovely and bet they smell heavenly

We are about a month behind here, not sure about were you are....

Should have had them blooming mid April....