Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

I guess since I slept late this weekend I can start my week off with an early morning!

 

[Marie2020]

I love them as chicks but they are growing slow hehe

I may be wrong but I would think that's a good thing, they have a chance to build up and be strong

 

[Marie2020]

A watched pot never boils!


Just be careful. One day you will look at them and say 'OMG, they are TEENS"

Just like our children the terrible 2's teenagers and before we know it they are parents their selves

 

[Marie2020]

I guess since I slept late this weekend I can start my week off with an early morning!

Is 4am early enough

 

[featherhead007]

Oh that’s cute! And yes eggsactly what I mean by using ponytail holders Might run this wil the silkies too .

Mr Pompei could use this also once his feathers grow out from the new pin feathers he is growing during his molt

No. Don’t do that to Pompei. It’s so humiliating.

 

[featherhead007]

I don’t mind Alberta in the winter, very lovely with everything green, silver and white - but no summer. I prefer here where summers are more tropical with hot hazy humid - and the many shades of green in the hundreds of different trees both deciduous and coniferous - out there it’s just Poplar and spruce mixed in with stands of Hemlock.

In the Fall out there it’s green and gold, the poplars and hemlock turn golden yellow, and lose leaves in aboit a week. Here the colours are amazing! Red, gold, ink, yellow, orange , tan, brown… on the many differ trees

It rarely gets below -38c here winter is around -26c at night and -20c during the day , because I live in a snow belt we get copious amounts of snow off the Great Lakes, in Alberta where o work the amt of snow depends on location, mountains get a horrendous amt of snow where as the south. And plains get very little, but it COLD!!!

Having said that I see people with chickens and ducks who keep them without heat in sheds, they go outside during the day as they wish…. I sure they get frostbite on their combs but they seem to be thriving

There’s a little town called Nova Scotia I would love to visit someday!

 

[ValarieF]

Is 4am early enough

I got up at 3 am

 

[ValarieF]

I gotta get some pics of the big girls I noticed some red on one of the combs. Neck feathers are coming out.

 

[Marie2020]

I really wish I had a camera attached to me
This morning I picked some lovely juicy blackcurrants for the girls after they had had their breakfast and Tina had thrown around the food trays, again
I rolled the blackberry's down the path too give them a little excitement, princess made me laugh getting so enthusiastic but Tina was just so hilarious, I'd never seen anything like this before, she got down to the floor like she was laying down and crawling on her belly yet really fast and just beelined for the Berry she was so determined too get
Oh those cute noises of excitement

 

[Marie2020]

I got up at 3 am

I wasn't ready to wake up my heart felt really painful. It's a living nightmare not being able to sleep