Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Hi beautiful rooster. Do you think you can teach my Hades to be cuddly like you?

“It takes time and patience, and lots of mealy worms!”

 

[ValarieF]

“It takes time and patience, and lots of mealy worms!”

I use grub terra black soldier fly larva, Its more for your money and healthier.

 

[featherhead007]

I use grub terra black soldier fly larva, Its more for your money and healthier.

Mine’s BSFL too ( from Canada )

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

So while me and mom were sitting in the exam room waiting the hour and a half for the dr to come in our conversation naturally turned to chickens and eggs. She started it by the way. She said it was ridiculous that with me averaging 5 dozen eggs a week that we are having to buy store bought eggs for grandma. She bought a dozen yesterday for her and they were 4.50 a dozen. She asked me what type of hens laid those eggs in the stores. I told her I thought leghorns were generally used for white eggs in the stores. She then asked me if Rural King or TSC sold leghorn chicks. I have seen them although they are not regularly kept in stock. Mom is now determined that she is getting 2 leghorns and insisting that grandma stop buying store eggs. Get home and I remembered a facebook listing I had saw yesterday morning. Someone is selling a flock of laying hens that were hatched between January to March of this year so in their prime laying wise. Looked it up and as I thought they have leghorns in the mix. I showed the add to mom and she had me message them. If they ever respond we might be adding 2 new ladies to the flock this week. If I have my way we will add 3, they also have Cream crested legbars available. If I have to break my rule and purposefully add white egg layers to my flock I might as well bight the bullet and add a blue layer as well.

 

[BY Bob]

Some of those are actually needed trace elements! The rest, well they are in everything, just about.

A big reason why I now feed organic to my chickens...I try to give them healthy stuff........I do want them to live a long life (well, if I don't send them to freezer camp, that is.) Too many non-organic have trace residues of Roundup in them. I switched to all organic a few years ago after reading a few studies that were kinda scary!

Remember Crop Girl will be 5 this spring:. I know that isn't old for many of you, nor for how long chickens can/should live.....but I haven't had a chicken live much longer...my sweet Rosie died @5.5 years old, and my two favorite of all time roos died within 2 weeks of each other at just over 5 years old (Randy & Knight, BR & DC - hatchmates!) It probably doesn't help that I only let a few get beyond 2.5 years.....so my percentages are off anyways.

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How wonderful! 5.5 years old. That's great!

 

[featherhead007]

Mine’s BSFL too ( from Canada )

And they taste great on French vanilla ice cream!

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm soooo pretty
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I'm not the cause of all this mess
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There's a beautiful new moon up there but my phone camera just can't catch it
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I love sweetcorn
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Beautiful ladies, beautiful moon and beautiful kitty

 

[BY Bob]

Someone is giving me an egg a day, it’s a pink egg so one of the silkies. Likely Marty

Someone say pink eggs?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Houston we have a problem. I did not even know the ole bat was back to laying officially. This hen will be the death of me yet.

 

[featherhead007]

Houston we have a problem. I did not even know the ole bat was back to laying officially. This hen will be the death of me yet.
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Has quite the intrepid spirit!