Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

They can get through that opening for sure. They just need to get there. If you had a Polish they could helicopter all the way up there. Just saying.

You've really jinxed her. Part of a rooster job is telling hens where to lay.....

 

[rural mouse]

It’s a good 9’ up….

I watched one of my pullets fly up a good 8 feet from the ground to the tree branch to escape a pursuing roo. Add in the distance from the tree to start (5 or 6 feet), figure the hypotenuse (or however that's spelled, not the hypertension that autocorrect is suggesting), and she flew...um.... @bgmathteach how far?

My point...properly motivated, they could make it.

 

[BY Bob]

I received a call from home. Seems that my little scheme worked. I’m headed back home to testify, and get my chooks back home where they belong.
(I cannot go into any other details)
The birds are all safe and healthy though.

I'm so happy to hear that. Good news indeed.

 

[rural mouse]

I love them, they are adorable. I do have to ask though, how old are they? I have 2 types of PTSD, broody's and "OMG another boy." That last chick pictured, would start to scare me. With Marans, or Marans mixes, if I see the hint of wattles or comb with color starting BEFORE 9ish weeks, I panic. Most of my Marans and mixes if they are boys let themselves be known between 2 to 4 weeks. I have had a few late developers who I thought were girls pop comb and wattles overnight up to 9 weeks.

2nd the motion on the watch sharpish

 

[rural mouse]

Then there were Fluffy and Curly who spent 6 weeks in February broody!

Although I think at the end they just stayed there because it was darn tootin cold!!

(Cough cough Jessica) and again in April....resulting in either Lark or Indigo...

 

[rural mouse]

Snacks before bed at the Chicken Palace. There is a chicken in the long grass!

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Just goes to show how well her feather camouflage her if she ever goes broody....

 

[bgmathteach]

I watched one of my pullets fly up a good 8 feet from the ground to the tree branch to escape a pursuing roo. Add in the distance from the tree to start (5 or 6 feet), figure the hypotenuse (or however that's spelled, not the hypertension that autocorrect is suggesting), and she flew...um.... @bgmathteach how far?

My point...properly motivated, they could make it.

She flew 10', assuming the distance to tree was the 6', not the 5'.

 

[rural mouse]

She flew 10', assuming the distance to tree was the 6', not the 5'.

@Ponypoor see? And that was ground to top, not using the steps to flap/climb/jump up....with the loft loaded with lots of insulating, draft stopping, tasty hay....the temptation is real!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I have a few chickens molting. I had been averaging a dozen eggs a week until about 4 days ago. I then started getting 8 to 10. Ok, molting is starting, Bunny is broody no big deal. Started to pull down a bale of hay from the top of the pile and a egg falls and breaks. What the heck? Grab a step ladder what do I find, a nest of 9 more eggs. 4 from Holly and the rest looked to be from one or two of the new girls. You know what is odd, besides back in the spring when she gave up 2 weeks in, Holly has not been broody this year. Until this year Holly has hatched 2 or 3 clutches per season. My eye is already twitching and my PTSD is starting to kick back into overdrive. I suspect Holly or one of the new girls is plotting something.

 

[Marie2020]

Im gonna flood you all with cuteness for weeks