Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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.

Hahaha, been there with broody poop

 

[Ponypoor]

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

Oh Alex oh no! I am sorry to hear that...

Eqvalan will cure that, but you will have to dust again I am afraid

 

[Ponypoor]

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Anyone remember Black velvet I loved this song

Great song....

Gee thanks now that one is stuck in my head hahaha

 

[Ponypoor]

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

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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.

Omg sooooo precious

Yep I think you are their mama

 

[Kris5902]

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.

Welcome! Beautiful kitties and chickies Lurk away! Lol I keep wanting to keep up on other threads, Shad’s among them but there just never seems enough time for anything. It looks like you have a lovely setup there.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Anyone remember Black velvet I loved this song

Hi pretty Moggy oh a black cat just cross my path on Friday the 13th

 

[Kris5902]

My Magnolia has only 3 flower

Waiting to see whats up with the peaches and cherries.

The dogwood has finished blooming and I plan on making a trip down very soon to attempt some cuttings from the remaining semi-live branch… technically this is borderline illegal, what with it being the official tree species of our province, but as the tree is clearly devastated and unlikely to survive I’m not too worried.

 

[Kris5902]

Ok, after some observations on each of the chicks I hatched off I have to report that the Rooster fairy still loves me. I got my hands on each and every one of the 21 chicks in the coop that leave Thursday. They are now just over 3 weeks old and out of them there are 10, yes 10 boys. Not only do they have prominent combs but the wattles are coming in. I have also been stalking the 4 that the Baby and Raven adopted and I am very pleased to say that they are pullets, no combs or wattles yet at this critical age. Then we have the lone chick "Karen" that momma hen hatched who is 2 weeks old today. I am not allowed to touch it but she is allowing me to get a little close and so far, no comb. If it is a boy in the next week it should pop. The jury is still out on Ezzie, I think a pullet, but I've learned with silkies I know when they crow or lay a egg. In total I have had 27 hatch and make it past those critical first few days so far this year. 10 out of the 27 are known boys, it is a lot, but not nearly as bad as last year.

That’s still less than 50%… you’re doing good IMO. I’m looking at my two and hoping against hope little fluff proves me wrong shortly about my gender concerns. I might be 2/2 cockerels… sigh… another one of those years?

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

How about a DUCK Fluffy Butt?

 

[bgmathteach]

The dogwood has finished blooming and I plan on making a trip down very soon to attempt some cuttings from the remaining semi-live branch

good luck with that! Have you experience with woody cuttings before?

General rule of thumb is to take twice what you want/hope to propagate with woody cuttings of plants that readily propagate that way. (I don't know about various dogwoods...hubby is the expert there...but he is gone (again!) for the weekend.