Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Fluffy Butt Friday

These two are completing a molt and soon will be back to their former glory

These two where just hanging around the garden

And truly says scratch my butt hahaha

 

[Ponypoor]

Thirsty Thursday

Poopy
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Wild water is the best water

 

[Ponypoor]

Good morning all! I hear my alarm clock calling me better get going!

 

[ManueB]

We had a really bad thunderstorm storm yesterday at the end of the afternoon ; hail, horrible wind, lightning and pouring rain for an hour. Power's been out since and just back on (it's midday) and so did internet + cell phone access.
Turns out we have a problem since we've redone the old houses and added gutters to their rooves. All the water from the three gutters comes pouring down the same path in front of our house and we quickly had a huge torrent running down the slope carrying leaves and mud and small stones.
I was pretty upset with the teens. Gaston is more scared of the other chickens than of getting struck by lightning ! He just wouldn't go inside the coop to seek shelter so the four teens stayed huddled under a wood stack where they weren't really protected from the hail and wind. They only went to roost really late when we forced them to, the storm had ended but there was still a lot of water running.

We're still very lucky as the only damage is on our vegetables and fruits in the garden and like I always say, I'm grateful we're not making a living from our garden. There has been terrible storms in all our region and even some deaths in Corsica from trees falling. The damages are huge and it feels like this is the new normal.

 

[RoyalChick]

We had a really bad thunderstorm storm yesterday at the end of the afternoon ; hail, horrible wind, lightning and pouring rain for an hour. Power's been out since and just back on (it's midday) and so did internet + cell phone access.
Turns out we have a problem since we've redone the old houses and added gutters to their rooves. All the water from the three gutters comes pouring down the same path in front of our house and we quickly had a huge torrent running down the slope carrying leaves and mud and small stones.
I was pretty upset with the teens. Gaston is more scared of the other chickens than of getting struck by lightning ! He just wouldn't go inside the coop to seek shelter so the four teens stayed huddled under a wood stack where they weren't really protected from the hail and wind. They only went to roost really late when we forced them to, the storm had ended but there was still a lot of water running.

We're still very lucky as the only damage is on our vegetables and fruits in the garden and like I always say, I'm grateful we're not making a living from our garden. There has been terrible storms in all our region and even some deaths in Corsica from trees falling. The damages are huge and it feels like this is the new normal.

Glad everyone is OK and no chickens got washed away!
Do you collect any of the water at all to use during drought?
Just curious. I have been wishing I collected more (only some of my gutters go to collection) as it has been almost a month with no rain and my barrels are empty!

 

[BY Bob]

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=karen+carpenter+bayou+

I do not remember her signing that.

 

[BY Bob]

She is very dainty! Was a tad worried about one leg but it may have been the step up.

Fancy young ladies are dainty.

 

[BY Bob]

Today's nesting box drama
is the same as yesterday : Inky and Light both needed to lay inside house.

This is Inky trying to get inside house to lay. She kept pecking on the door. Poor thing we couldn't open the door until Light was done. [Light does not like to share the house with other chickens, only humans ... ]
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But before that she finally posed for me: molting Inky (and dinosaur looking chicken to the left)
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Are they all getting along better?

 

[BY Bob]

“One keg”? Gucci doesn’t drink beer I don’t think

She does not. She is too young.

 

[BY Bob]

I think Gucci drinks Martini.

When she is grown up, not before. Right now she drinks sparkling apple cider.