Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Which one of your lovely ladies is this? I am terrible with names and faces

You know, that’s the famous Sherlock Holmes, wonder chicken. And she’s beautiful . Where is her assistant?

 

[BY Bob]

I even flubbed making bread! Hopefully it turns out ok hahaha. I have only been making bread since I was 12! Hahaha

Even flat bread is delicious when home made

 

[featherhead007]

Even flat bread is delicious when home made

Good point!

 

[featherhead007]

Sadly, I have no hens with beards or muffs in my tribe But I really wanted some

 

[RoyalChick]

Mugs Monday

Is all about beards and muffs today.

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If Mugs Monday is all about beards and muffs, then Bella says hi!

 

[Marie2020]

Mine love it in the summer. They bury themselves in the cool dirt.

Mine are digging down in the clay inside that play house I found they are loving that little addition to their adventures ❤

 

[Marie2020]

I am trapped inside the Chicken Palace. No, not a faulty door catch but tree trimmers.
The chain saws and the chipper make quite a racket and the Princesses are not at all at ease with it.
In brief updates
- I think maybe maybe Bernadette’s leg is looking a bit better. Definitely not normal but less useless.
- Minnie continues to look awful. She showed interest in a piece of shrimp yesterday so when I am able to get out of here and back to the house I will cook her up a few shrimp and see if I can get her to eat. I got as good a look as I can at her ears - it is really hard because the feathers protecting the ear canal are reall stiff like a scrubbing brush so almost impossible to look underneath. But she definitely has no ear discharge or gunk

What on earth is wrong? it's been weeks of worrying for you

 

[Kris5902]

Mink sighting last night, about 9 pm. I closed In the Goats and Free range Flock about 8:30 then drove down to the farm to do a load of laundry and steal some water so I can hopefully get some more cleaning done or the dishes today. It was inside Hawk’s Run and eating from the feeder when I drove up then hid in my remaining trusses, and eventually I chased it into the trees to the North (mountain side) of our road. I strongly considered moving the chicks back inside, but am a light sleeper and they are right next to our bedroom window (open) and have excellent contact with the ground in the meat tractor. They were all in the one solid huddle box, not the vented top part so I placed that at the opening to the solid one like a little run and positioned cardboard around the hole in the back. Didn’t sleep well, and at 2 am we got rain and I had to go out and get them a tarp and cover up all the cleaning stuff I have out (I am currently detailing all our vehicles) then 5 am DH had to leave for the ferry, to get sausage making supplies and some crumbles for the chicks.

 

[Kris5902]

Speed of growth is one reason. Grafting uses an established root system which can take a tree years to develop from a seed or a cutting.

And grafting is essentially the same as a cutting except you are not growing the root system from scratch… most of my information on genetics comes from my indoor growing experiences in my late teens and 20’s and an interest in reptiles and the wonderful world of ball python breeding. But it does help in my current chicken interests in looking at dominant, co-dominant, recessive, and allelic genes and how they show up. It also allows you to grow different types on the same trees which can be useful if you need to cross pollinate or a variety is improved by cross pollination and you have limited space. I put a 5 variety grafted apple tree in our back yard in the city, as I only wanted two or three medium sized fruit trees in the (relatively) small city yard.

 

[Lexicon]

Mugs Monday: Clara

Clara is bottom of the pecking order, but I love her spunky attitude. I have no idea why she ended up where she did in the social order. She is currently almost broody, so she wanders around ticking and letting out bloodcurldling yells. Last night Myrna even ceded her digging spot to Clara!