Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[lightm]

Good morning from Foxy

 

[rural mouse]

Dandelion mugs

Saved these from middle of last week

PITA, who is now back to running with the rest.

Indigo, with Lark lurking (bit of role reversal there)

What ARE you doing?!

Belladonna

Mera

Alright, THAT'S IT!

 

[BY Bob]

It’s light enough to just remove in winter - my gang won’t go outside when it gets really cold and snowy.

I need to leave that up and add more.

 

[BY Bob]

Dorothy is getting her feathers back also, but those one feathers on her wings are still sticking out!

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She looks very good for a molting hen!

 

[Lonewolfgirl]

Thank you. I was inspired on a long drive to Florida.

Yes i know how that is

 

[BY Bob]

Hi people. Remember the sick hen I tried to help last weekend who died a couple days later? The necropsy results already came in. She had salpingitis AND peritonitis and they went septic. She also had a bacterial lung infection. The poor little thing didn’t really have a chance. How kind they were to take her in and try to save her. At least she wasn’t taken by a predator.

Poor baby. I just want hug her.

 

[BY Bob]

I’ve only hsd one EE and she was Armpit Girl. Yep. Very friendly.

While Maleficent was super friendly, Aurora refuses to be touched. Not every EE is going to be friendly.

 

[BY Bob]

Yes Karen is one of mine. Good guess, she is very close to laying as well, but it was not her. The egg belongs to my Corona daughter Lilly.

It was Lilly! Crap I forgot to back and guess.

Lilly!

 

[ManueB]

Hello Fluffy Butt Acres, I hope the week starts well for all of you and your chickens ! We're having another incredibly warm sunny day here, and enjoying it even though we would really need some rain.

Monday mugs with uncooperative chickens. They are not happy we are messing around their home, as we've (finally !) began working on covering their run making holes and scattering clutter all around.

Piou-piou has reached a new awkward stage of growth. Her body has really grown the last three weeks but her head has stayed tiny, she looks pretty strange! I hope the head catches up now .

Flighty Cannelle who has me worried again.

Pretty Merle.

Gastounet .

Grumpy Nougat.

 

[BY Bob]

Just remember, if you use a soft netting, or string lines, you may eventually find yourself having to disentangle a bird with really nasty talons and a serious beak. Before we got chickens, when we were just recently arrived on island DH got to help another farmer (where I was gardening in 2020 & 2021) with this task. Welding gloves suggested. A red shouldered hawk made a dive and got stuck in the anti-hawk string lines the guy had up. Fun times.

I would be more than willing to help Satan quietly out of the netting.