Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

New Layer! New Layer!
One of my teens has started laying. Not sure which one, but I have BCMs and Welsummers...I am pretty sure it is one of my BCMs because they had started getting redder combs and wattles a few weeks ago. The Welsummers are definitely behind them in that regards. It could be any one of 3 (out of 6) of the BCMs.View attachment 3235853

The egg on the right is from my new laying girl.

Wooohoooo.

 

[ValarieF]

I have close to 80 chickens ( a little over 80 birds between chickens and ducks.) I need a way to keep track of them all! So, for chickens: Blue, Red & Yellow bands for my 3 BR breeding groups. Those purple are for my new (this year ) BCM & Welsummers, I use spiral brown bands for my broodies (they stay as long as they live), and I have just started using colored zip ties on legs for age. Clear/white was 2 years ago, last years are getting green (before this year's get too old to tell them apart) and this year's will get blue zip ties.

I am in that odd place with my chickens where they are pets and raised for eggs & meat. I usually process my older girls at 2.5 years. (Note the usually, I currently have 6 that are 4 - and NOT broodies - that I just couldn't process - and I have only 'expanded' to this many chickens in the last year or so. I started with 8 total about 6 years ago- Chicken math is REAL!!!))

1 week old chicks enjoying their 'mini-jungle'.

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A very dirty 'white' chick enjoying a dust bath!
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Ic so we are tagging chickens hehe sounds good!

 

[BY Bob]

I love her expression (the one back left!)

Her chickens are super photogenic and always have such expressions.

 

[ValarieF]

I have close to 80 chickens ( a little over 80 birds between chickens and ducks.) I need a way to keep track of them all! So, for chickens: Blue, Red & Yellow bands for my 3 BR breeding groups. Those purple are for my new (this year ) BCM & Welsummers, I use spiral brown bands for my broodies (they stay as long as they live), and I have just started using colored zip ties on legs for age. Clear/white was 2 years ago, last years are getting green (before this year's get too old to tell them apart) and this year's will get blue zip ties.

I am in that odd place with my chickens where they are pets and raised for eggs & meat. I usually process my older girls at 2.5 years. (Note the usually, I currently have 6 that are 4 - and NOT broodies - that I just couldn't process - and I have only 'expanded' to this many chickens in the last year or so. I started with 8 total about 6 years ago- Chicken math is REAL!!!))

1 week old chicks enjoying their 'mini-jungle'.

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A very dirty 'white' chick enjoying a dust bath!
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OMG such cuteness, mine are shipping monday tuesday or wednesday I cant wait!

 

[BY Bob]

Yes they can!

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So beautiful.

 

[BY Bob]

Good grief. I know I have a lot of foxes, but this is absurd!
This from my security cam just now, and a still I used to get a count. The glare off the cobweb is a tad distracting.

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I would turn on the electric fence. For sure.

 

[ManueB]

Hello Fluffy butts ! I did what I could to get some pictures after lunch. We have a huge storm forecasted for this afternoon so I've been trying to do all I could to make it safe, thunder's rumbling now and I'm expecting power and internet will be down soon. My partner's working today (he's a bus driver) and of course he'll be driving the bus back in our mountains gorges just at the time the storm should be the worse .

A very small not quite finished butt : Piou-piou

A no fluff but very dainty butt, Chipie

A bigger ex-batt butt courtesy of Brune

 

[ValarieF]

Dottie jumps on me everyday. Yesterday she let me pet her for the first time without much noise. Today I pet her some more with no noise and she stayed on my leg and back. She and I are pretty close.

 

[ValarieF]

The pecking order is weird Dottie doesnt follow Malefacent and has her own followers, and malefacent has her own followers and the 2 of them will butt heads (no blood draw). I guess I have one flock with two gangs lol.

 

[rural mouse]

The pecking order is weird Dottie doesnt follow Malefacent and has her own followers, and malefacent has her own followers and the 2 of them will butt heads (no blood draw). I guess I have one flock with to gangs lol.

They're still working it out. And the order shifts again when they start laying/go broody and hatch babies.