Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Hello

HI!

 

[featherhead007]

Ya the kittens are gone! Alex! make them come back! Here Kitty Kitty Kitty... Here Kitty....

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[Ponypoor]

It's late spring where i live
Awesome pool and beach weather

Says Texas on your ID - Does Texas have a long spring time? (hahaha just kidding!) You must be in S.A.; South Africa; or Australia or N.Z.

Welcome - we LOVE seeing everyone's pet chickens Especially me, I am living vicariously through everyone right now so post your photos!

Today is Thirsty Thursday

(Hahaha I snuck Truly in there Sundays are pony Sunday)

Friday's are Fluffy Butt Friday

Since it’s night were you are you will see this tomorrow/Friday
Here is a cute fluffy butt - Marty

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

This is why you don't let your chickens on Beak Book - MR P! You are in serious trouble dude! Get your fluff derriere over here - we need a chat!

I need to have a chat with Momma Hen. Something about planning and timing has her feathers ruffled and she is as mad as a wet hen. I have to go quickly talk her down before she takes matters into her own wings again.

 

[Ponypoor]

I've predicted this since the day Mr. P arrived. I'm not trying to be mean, I've just been on the receiving end twice now of the same sneaky hen disappearing, feared dead and showing back up with chicks. The first time Momma hen pulled the stunt was when we we moved from the barn up to the house. I had all the chickens transitioned from the barn to the house but her. She was still in her semi-wild state and she just disappeared. I looked for her, even looked in the barn when at the time no one was supposed to be in it. Missed her nest as she was hidden between the walls of a stall. I remember it like yesterday. November 1st, dad takes Dirt for a walk and calls me to come get my hen and her babies. She had heard or saw him and brought 3 chicks to him begging for food. I came down, took my beating but caught the 3 chicks and was walking home with her in tow when while passing the barn I heard it. A distressed chick coming from inside. Go inside and find the chick plus the scene of a massacre. She had hatched off 12 in that wall, and there were 8 little bodies scattered in the barn isle plus the stall with only their necks broken. To this day I do not know what killed those chicks. Got everyone home and set her up in a dog kennel and thankfully within a few days Momma Hen knew where home was now. Those 4 surviving chicks, 3 boys 1 girl, of course. A year and a half later, same hen, vanishes suddenly. Look everywhere, even back down at the barn. Not a sign, had neighbors on the lookout for her as well, nothing. Walk outside one morning and there she is, with 10 under her. This time around she gave me 2 daughters, wasn't she just thoughtful. She tried to pull the stunt once again this summer but thankfully one of the red girls led me to the nest before she went to setting. I found her stash, 15 eggs. I've learned my lessen with that hen and instead swapped her out with only 4 chosen eggs. 2 hatched. She is almost done with them and I now need to start trying to find a home for 2 pretty boys. I predict the sneaky hen is going to be Marty, she is tiny and black and already likes playing the disappearing act in the mornings. I also don't think Ponypoor is going to have my rooster luck, not everyone is as cursed as I am.

Well Rebecca - hopefully like horses I get all fillies! Over the years I have had mostly all fillies thankfully! Those young studs are nothing but trouble - of course at least with them, one can cut the pom poms out of them

Not so easy in a chicken ....

 

[Ponypoor]

Well my chickens were, but...I got rid of them bc I moved to south America this month

HA! I guessed right - SA!!! I am psychic (except were lotteries are concerned).

Ok Ok OK I know whining tax (I pay a lot of whining tax)

 

[Ponypoor]

We already had that....almost....it's warmed up.....but the bottom's falling out of the thermometer again....soon.

Weather tax....oh, wait! It's Thirstday! (Taken during that cold snap)View attachment 3337934Communal drinking from the top because it tastes better than from the bottom of the bucket..... Poor Twirp. Kinda puts her diminutive size in perspective...which is why her double Karate kick to Hector's face was so amazing....

You go girl! Good little Twirp

 

[featherhead007]

Well Rebecca - hopefully like horses I get all fillies! Over the years I have had mostly all fillies thankfully! Those young studs are nothing but trouble - of course at least with them, one can cut the pom poms out of them

Not so easy in a chicken ....

 

[Ponypoor]

Not permitted to read a spoiler - really?!

But as @BY Bob has requested I have not read the spoiler.... it will about kill me with curiosity but I guess I can contain myself! barely....

I am baking bread in the dreaded gas oven...
I think it's doing ok, I had to raise the bottom rack up though as I thought it might be burning, the flame is on the bottom of the oven. It's like cooking in the old wood fire range! Oh I remember that old stove well at our friends cottage - I loved using the handle to move the round 'plates' from the top of the range to throw wood in! And the oven - you had to watch what you were baking like a hawk hahaha

And my penance for going off the chicken rails
This is what Rebecca is hoping - that my gals go hide away in the hay and return a month later with chickies

 

[Ponypoor]

What a gorgeous egg. I really think I messed up not taking my black and blackish hens.
Meanwhile my giant freeloader continues to eat and grow bigger.
Sorry - I only have coop cam pictures this week as I am traveling.
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We can commiserate together on long distance fluffy butt photos

They look quite happy and content.