Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Yeah made me want to eat more junk.

Give me a brandy @Ponypoor I've had a hectic week so far.

I will have one for you, and one for me too

It's all sugar sugar sugar... And fruit!

 

[Ponypoor]

Recent pics of one of my Roos and his ladies, for Taxes for all my recent ant and wine talk:
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P.S. Yes, my Roos have had a few 'discussions' with each other these past few months...esp. the younger ones @ 1 yr. old....feeling their oats the young'uns are! They are starting to settle down more now...hopefully next year there will be less 'discussion' and more 'protecting the girls from predators' action! The first pic of the Roo shows some comb & wattle 'discussion' results.

Beauties all

 

[Ponypoor]

More thirsty bird
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She's lovely!

I haven't had a chance to take photos this week, work is a four letter word this week hahaha.

 

[Ponypoor]

I suspect that you have carpenter ants. There may be other kinds that get wings, but I know for a fact that carpenter ants get wings in the late spring (around here) and fly away to mate and to start a new colony:

Nuptial flight[edit]​

When conditions are warm and humid, winged males and females participate in a nuptial flight. They emerge from their satellite nests and females mate with a number of males while in flight. The males die after mating. These newly fertilized queens discard their wings and search for new areas to establish primary nests. The queens build new nests and deposit around 20 eggs, nurturing them as they grow until worker ants emerge. The worker ants eventually assist her in caring for the brood as she lays more eggs. After a few years, reproductive winged ants are born, allowing for the making of new colonies. Again, satellite nests will be established and the process will repeat itself.[14]

Thanks that was interesting, my chickens haven't been exposed to ants yet... Last year it was tent caterpillars which freaked them out and they wouldn't eat.

Japanese Beetles though were a huge hit!!!

 

[Sally PB]

Japanese Beetles though were a huge hit

I go JB collecting every day during their "season." Free protein and pest control, all in one.

 

[Kris5902]

What did you think the predator was?

Could have been the cattle, possibly a coon, or mink, or dog we had a fawn attacked and killed on the other side of the island recently by an off leash out of control dog…

 

[BY Bob]

Flexi the most intelligent and Mama of the flock
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That is a great photo. She looks beautiful.

 

[Kris5902]

No rooster here. There was once.

I may have mentioned rooster just to see a picture of him… he may have been a jerk, but he was gorgeous

 

[BY Bob]

If she has been on it less than 24 hours, it should still be okay. Much more than that and it will really start to develop. (though in some places, a chick in an egg is a delicacy

No development as I have no rooster.

 

[BY Bob]

I'd for gotten just how handsome he was!!

There is just something about a strutting, cocky, but watchful stance of a rooster!

He was handsome.