Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

And I thought I was the only one that had to put chickens to bed!! Now I don't feel so bad, as it seems to be the majority of your tribe needs 'encouragement' to roost IN the coop Thank goodness I don't have as high a percentage as you...with almost 80 birds,,I would never get to bed myself! As it is, I have 13-15 that have to be put into the coop nightly. Plus the ducks.....they just want to party at night and it takes them FOREVER to decide...'oh, yeah, I guess Mommy is getting pretty perturbed...maybe we aught to go to bed now"

I do have to say, though...all of your girls are so gorgeous AND obliging when you 'escort' them to bed...thanks for the video

How are the secret geese doing with DH? Or do I have the wrong member?

 

[bgmathteach]

Alright! Here i go.

Well, my current chickens i have are Emily, Rizo, Isbe, Dixie, Trixie, Peep, Jolene, Patty (probably, undecided), Abby and un-named chick (silver sebright chick) 100% open to name suggestions if you have any for the sebright.

(For the chicks, i did them all in one photo, same with Isbe. I can’t seperate them for photos or Isbe freaks out, and their kinda squirmy to take a nice photo.) View attachment 3181179

The Sebright in the very back (on her back) is un-named
The one next to the Sebright (Patty/nutmeg)
The one doing the dramatic pose in front of mama (Gabby)
The one to the left on the bottom (Jolene)
The one to the right on the bottom (Peep)

Rizo
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Emmy. Im posting a bunch of photos of her because i love her. As you probably can tell she is a tad invasive when it comes to personal space. View attachment 3181189View attachment 3181190View attachment 3181191View attachment 3181193

Trixie View attachment 3181197View attachment 3181198

And finally, Dixie. View attachment 3181199

How about the name 'Speck' for the sebright? They do end up with spotted tips of feathers, yes? And Sebrights are a smaller breed.
Lovely lot you have there!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m back home safely. All the chooks are doing well. Xzit is still being Xzit. I think I raised the property value by parking the new car in my driveway!

 

[bgmathteach]

A certain evil bat of a hen tried to blow my cover of sneaking eggs to Chiquita this morning. Momma hen is back to laying and has been for a week and a half now. She also has been using the dog lot coop to lay her eggs in but in a different spot then Chiquita so I thought nothing of it. Dad comes in from watering earlier and asked me in front of mom what was up with my hens. What do you mean? Apparently Momma and Chiquita got into it and he informed me they were having a knock down drag-out this morning over a nesting spot. Ooh....nothing is wrong, Momma is evil you know, who won? Mom is glaring at me like "what is up". I snuck out later to check. Chiquita is happily on her nest, Momma is raising a ruckus outside the coop. I lift up Chiquita to make sure her eggs are ok. She has 4 under her . She had stolen Momma hens egg, and Squirrels egg. I now see I'm going to have to mark Chiquita's eggs, and somehow block Momma and Squirrel from laying in her vicinity so fights do not continue to happen. I also have to do this in a way that mom does not suspect a thing. I should also say that Chiquita did NOT appreciate me removing the other 2 eggs and she can be a viscous tiny puffball terror.

Remember @Shadrach 's post. Chickens can COUNT!!!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Problem solved, I think. I cleaned out the bin in the coop that Bunny and her chicks were sleeping in before they started roosting. I made a fresh new nest out of hay and moved Chiquita and her eggs into it and scooted it back against the wall. Chiquita was hiding behind it. She did not protest the move and instead of setting her down on her eggs in the new nest I placed her in front of it to see what she would do. I've never been successful before in moving a hen from her chosen nesting spot. Angry puffball ran to her eggs and settled right down. I then took some more fresh hay and fixed a spot beside the bin for Momma hen and Squirrel. I can cover the bin over so the other girls cannot disturb Chiquita. It also has enough room in it that I was able to place a water dish and food dish inside incase Chiquita needs to come off the nest and I'm not out there. I will make sure to let Chiquita out every day so she can relieve herself. If mom walks out and peeks into the coop the bin is not new, been inside for a while now. It will not arouse suspicion.
Here we have Angry Poof *her new nickname* happily settled on her eggs.

The girls new nest spot.

Another shot of Angry Poof. I also know if I choose to, in the future she can easily cover 3 or 4 full size eggs. I really did not expect to find Momma Hens and Squirrels much larger eggs under her today. And incase another slip-up happens, Chiquita's eggs are now marked.

 

[BY Bob]

Did you like that wasp nest right above Trulys head

That is a big one. How did you miss that?

 

[BY Bob]

So here goes the pictures of my lot, to celebrate 10 000. And even if I have been here for a short time I also want to say thank you to the wonderful man who created this thread, who takes the time to read every post and answer kindly and give advice to so many, when he already has another full time job .

The six ex-batts.
Brune
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Caramel
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Vanille
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Nougat
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Blanche ( when she still had a tail)
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Cannelle
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Chipie the bantam and the four chicks she hatched six weeks ago.
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And last Théo !

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Such beautiful chickens!

 

[featherhead007]

Well, lets put it this way:

Most non-expensive vehicles don't handle as well for that kind of speed....so, of course it is mostly (not completely) the expensive cars that go 'zoom, zoom...this is MY road'

Unfortunately, it can just be 1-5% of the people that are that audacious, but they are the ones you remember because they give you heart failure when they do something stupid, and it is up to YOU to react to make sure nothing bad happens.

That said, there was a study done once (technically not scientifically sound as it wasn't random sampling...they did 'convenience sampling' and selected just 3 intersections that were convenient to the researchers) It was close to 93% of the drivers that dis-obeyed traffic lights, crossed double yellow lines, and cut people off (in view of the researchers) were in high-end, modern vehicles. They also determined that a very high percentage (I don't remember that amount, but it was somewhere above 3/4) of the drivers that were 'extra courteous (described as allowing other vehicles to go when they didn't need to - such as waiving a left hand turner through when light turned from red to green, as opposed to charging through intersection instant light changed) were in older, visibly well used cars of 'general status' (such as Cheverolets, Fords, etc....NOT Lincolns, Mercedes, Cadillacs, etc.)

The researchers (out of Western New England College - a local school who has a well reputed polling arm - called it ego-driving. The ones who had higher status socially felt they had more 'rights' than others in all areas, including the roads. They had reached this conclusion based on their unscientific data and other cited research articles that looked at socio-economic status and general attitudes.

While not completely reliable imo, as there wasn't true random/cluster sampling done, all other aspects were in following with statistical guidelines. [The 3 individuals who carried out the actual research were students @ Western New England, and none had cars, so they had to choose high traffic intersections that had good visibility in all 4 directions from intersection ( for recording purposes, to be sure captured car make, etc), AND had to be within reasonable walking distance of the campus.]

So, again, not totally legit statistically, but the findings were far and away statistically significant in terms of differences in behavior, on average, between expensive vs non-expensive cars. I would want to see the study replicated to be totally convinced...but data significant enough and calculations, etc. appropriat and sound, that I would also not be dismissive of the results, either. Just my two cents. (though, with inflation, my 2 cents really is no longer worth much!)

Tax for Stats:

Hey, mom, where's our snacks. The other day there were lots of larvae here..and boy, were they good! How come none now? Chop, chop, get on it servant mum!View attachment 3181290

Spoiler: Some graphic descriptions for the squeamish.

I had used a dead snap trap rat to try to catch the last marauding raccoon ( slit the dead rat's belly to enhance aroma and 'luring power'. In no time at all, fly eggs were hatching into yummy, wiggly fly larvae!

Wow

 

[Ponypoor]

Todays comedy here - glad to see the police can have some fun sure hope my friends around the world can view this!

https://www.barrietoday.com/police-beat/comedy-gold-barrie-officer-takes-on-turkey-video-5566701

 

[BY Bob]

100000 post celebration!

View attachment 3181008The quad that started it all: Grey, Lady, Silver, and Buster. Silver is the only one still here. Next lot didn't take many pics, but Pear is the only one left of those (Although Raven, one of the giant roos has his own ladies several miles north of here)
View attachment 3181009Mama (Pear's sister) and baby StormView attachment 3181010Rusty, my sweet, gentle, giantView attachment 3181011With Silver and TwirpView attachment 3181012Tidbitting for Mama, who called Storm overView attachment 3181015Storm's first day outView attachment 3181023Rusty (on the ground not the step) and Pear.
View attachment 3181024The other baby lot (cheetah is on the far right and either PITA or Blanche is the yellow one next to him)
View attachment 3181025Cheetah and Nellie
View attachment 3181022Thing 1, Helen, and PITA/Blanche
View attachment 3181020Thing 2View attachment 3181021Cuckoo
View attachment 3181019Jessica or her sister
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View attachment 3181017And with Rusty
View attachment 3181014More of the lotView attachment 3181013The king had passed, long live the king. Cheetah was a poser even at 13 weeks

View attachment 3181007Curious Twirp
View attachment 3181046All grown up Storm
View attachment 3181047The next generation joining the tribe
View attachment 3181048View attachment 3181049View attachment 3181050View attachment 3181051Asphodel, Belladonna, Primula (Nox and Mera were busy napping in the shade and I just realized they're all about 18 weeks old)View attachment 3181052Including Hector! He really waited to let me hear his crowing attempts.

Generations are growing.

That is wonderful. I just realized that we need to see more pictures of yours out and about. They are beautiful out enjoying the countryside!