Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

Been getting special electric out to the poultry netting for the Fall. Wanted it to be moveable, as I'm not sure where or how far into the winter I'll keep the fencing going this year. Too much shade with low sun, combined with rainy days, I end up hauling the solar energizer in and out to charge. Two hours figuring out I had the wall wart plug wire reversed in polarity, now all is good. Pic showing a cut-out switch by the fencing, wanted one out there. The link to the fence is not clipped on yet.
Wednesday's Coffee Klatch day? On @Ribh s thread...

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Popcorn dustbathing, all by herself. They don't let her in to the group bath. I feel sad about that! When Queenie was around she was in, but lately they keep her out. So she's taking hers early while the others were still foraging.
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Everybody foraging in the back earlier this morning, just outside the aviary netting. This area I'm going to net at some point.
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This pic below - on the right that's Hazel, in her slow molt, with one or two tail feathers left
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At first I thought she was dead

 

[Ponypoor]

Mr Pompeii has turned out beautifully!

He is behaving well also.

 

[ValarieF]

He is behaving well also.

Hmmm more options for my roosters name

 

[LozzyR]

Never seen a blueberry THAT big before!

Blueberry tax:

 

[ValarieF]

 

[RoyalChick]

I am alive; but I tell you I have just had the worst 24 hrs, so ill exhausted, body aches, fever, savage sore throat (still have that) some coughing massive headache, and then nausea and throwing up. Of course not having eaten anything all I was doing was dry heaving.

My stomach muscles are protesting right now , but the worst is the sore throat, trying to work it’s way up into my sinuses. Add in runny nose and constant streaming eyes…. 00:08hrs on Thursday - thirsty Thursday - so o am having a cuppa bovril, every swallow a journey in serious agony, but I feel a bit better.

How crazy that my mum had this few days before me, and all she had was a mild cold symptoms for a few days. Me I have been brewing this since Saturday! And so ill. Of course she has had her four full doses of the jab, were as I only had 4…. Bad Kelly!

But I am upright and not too bad all considering. I might even have another bovril!

Thirsty Thursday

Mr Pompei is going to need his golden locks pinned up to keep them out of his food and water! (Ok going to be gross here: long hair an vomiting don’t mix )

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Oh you poor thing. Does sound like Covid. Are you able to get paxlovid?

 

[rural mouse]

Hmmm more options for my roosters name

Caesar, Charlemagne, Emperor, Nero, Odin, Zeus, Jupiter, Dinner, Saunders, Captain, Colonel, Cordon Bleu, Fried, Parmigiano, Foghorn, General, Patton, Houston, Geronimo, Admiral, Kirk, Spockothers. Jar-jar, Zulu, Revere, L'Amour, Sackett, Zane, Jericho (gonna crow them walls down)


Not awake brain rambles off on weird tangents and makes odder jumps to others.


Edit: Smaug (must be red/gold feathered), Thorin, Thrain, Aragon, Beorn (must be mostly black feathered), Frodo (must have feathered feet), Gamgee (if he does LOTS of digging)

 

[RoyalChick]

So happy to see Lulu up bright and early and having a refreshing sip of clean water.
She is looking good today and didn’t get up in the middle of the night.
Happy Thirsty Thursday everyone!

 

[RoyalChick]

Hmmm more options for my roosters name

Can you post some pictures of him for inspiration?

 

[BY Bob]

The Case of the Disappearing Chicken

So, one of my DC girls 'disappeared' on me, and a week later I saw her in the afternoon and 'threw' her into the coop/run complex...as there were fox sightings and I was afraid she would be a sitting target....until I saw her, I thought she had been gotten and was no more.

Well the very next morning she bolted the minute I went to give them the morning check/food/water.(she was quicker than I, I didn't shut the door in time)

I searched high and low, but could not find her I was sure she would not be long for this world with the foxes out and about...and did I mention we have raccoons?

A week and a half ago, on a Saturday, as we were getting ready to go to the transfer station, my husband asked if I needed the cardboard leaning against the house...as he would take it to be recycled if I didn't......
Low and behold, the ONE place I didn't check - but should have! My little DC girl was in the sand bucket under the roof overhang, BEHIND the cardboard. She had 4 eggs she was sitting on! I was afraid the eggs wouldn't hatch due to mom being off of them overnight, but I felt I had to let her sit for a while anyways, after all she was quite determined to be a mom, and shrieked bloody murder when I found her and checked to see what was under her.

I have put food and water out with easy access, and figured that she would get until this weekend...if nothing by then, back into the coop/run with the other she would go!

Well...this afternoon I went to check on her on my way into the house from work.......

More Chickies

Momma's 'nest':
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Proud Momma with 2 chick (another one pipped, but not zipped; 4th not pipped)
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In this last pic, there ARE 2, one you can see the head/beak of, the other you can see the back.

Way to go! Congratulations! Chicks!