Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Cold-Blood]

Little Lulu sang like Maggie and Diana do when they have laid an egg (or want you to think they have). She then came to talk to me about it.
I have not found an egg so she may just be practicing.
She really now has the demeanor of a grownup young lady, but I know she is still in contact with her aliens buddies.

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Clone it, please. And send me the result.

 

[RoyalChick]

Is she the great pretender ?

Is she squatting yet ? Henny Penny did about 2 weeks before she laid an egg.

Yes she is squatting for me
That what tipped me off that she wasn’t a baby any more!
I am struggling to accept that my little alien baby is all grown up - it is nice she spends time with me to comfort me.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you! We still can’t imagine what could haul off a big fat 15lb-er... perhaps a coyote ... but I’ve never seen any this close to home!

Coyotes are very sneaky and secretive.

 

[Ponypoor]

Clone it, please. And send me the result.

She's turning out to be quite a pretty gal isn't she

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes she is squatting for me
That what tipped me off that she wasn’t a baby any more!
I am struggling to accept that my little alien baby is all grown up - it is nice she spends time with me to comfort me.

Oh I felt the same with my chicks back in the spring.

Now they are mature young ladies

 

[Cold-Blood]

She's turning out to be quite a pretty gal isn't she

Yup.

 

[RoyalChick]

She's turning out to be quite a pretty gal isn't she

She really is! She is very dainty. Her feathers are very slick to her body and if it weren’t that she is a complete nutter she would be quite the lady!
As it is the effect is a bit spoiled because she is always running around at great speed chattering. She is quite noisy for such a small being!

 

[MaryJanet]

Little Lulu sang like Maggie and Diana do when they have laid an egg (or want you to think they have). She then came to talk to me about it.
I have not found an egg so she may just be practicing.
She really now has the demeanor of a grownup young lady, but I know she is still in contact with her aliens buddies.

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Her shape is more hen than pullet these days. I think there will be an egg from Lulu very soon.

 

[rural mouse]

A bit of maturity should take care of that.

So I take it you will keep him? He is a beauty

Not planning on NOT keeping him at the moment. Plans can change, winter is coming, predators get hungry, and decisions can wait (other than names). He's beautiful (and a favorite...who am I kidding: they're all favorites) and his fighting spirit CAN be a blessing or a curse. I was happy with 4 roos, but 5 will work too. Good sentinels/escort boys are needed.

This afternoon, Hector was keeping watch through the gap the buck came through the other day. Little Whiskey was doing a bit of watching the opposite direction farther down the hill. (This while I was getting the pics of Cheetah and Horus, among others). Cheetah had been doing sentinel duties when I first moved the hose. Hector came over, got a drink then took up his post as Cheetah came over. Watching the shift in who/where is interesting and sometimes subtle. Even the hens do some duty time, right down to Pippa, Maizie, Lark, and Indigo. None seem to be on duty for very long at one time but everyone gets to eat, drink, bathe....Cheetah is on most frequently, but Hector is taking up duties more and more frequently. It's coming!!!

 

[rural mouse]

She really is! She is very dainty. Her feathers are very slick to her body and if it weren’t that she is a complete nutter she would be quite the lady!
As it is the effect is a bit spoiled because she is always running around at great speed chattering. She is quite noisy for such a small being!

She's a teenage girl....with extra phone privileges....