Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Two for Tuesday

Hard to get just two when everyone is having a blast digging and scratching in the fresh straw I threw down for them

Two sharing

Two silkies

Two friendly butts

Two ears and two eyes hahaha

 

[Ponypoor]

Happiness is fresh Straw

 

[ValarieF]

Happiness is fresh Straw

I really need some silkie eggs to hatch.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

It is less then a week away from the new year. I have a to do list. I need to thoroughly clean and sanitize my incubator that has sat dormant since the end of April. That should not be too bad of a project as it was put away clean. Around the first of February I need to set it up for a test run for a few days to make sure it will hold its temperature and humidity. It is coming on its third season. If it is going to have issues I need to know before March. My goal is the 2nd or 3rd week of March to fill it with a dozen silkie eggs. I've promised myself to be a good person and not do any incubating until I have those precious silkie eggs in my possession. Since I plan on having to brood those future chicks myself, if I can time it right I hope to have the leghorns around the same time to make it easier. In the end, my wish list is for 2 or 3 leghorn pullets and at least 4 silkie girls. 2 white and 2 black as I am splitting the dozen eggs into 6 white and 6 black.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Happiness is fresh Straw

That is a lovely video. I like how both Marty and Mr. P seem to stay pretty close to each other.

 

[ValarieF]

Fed the chooks mash and corn then some corn and cat food. They love going at the ground for that food. The babies are big, I dont want to put them outside until it warms up. Going through my office and cleaning everything out so they have room to roam. Going to add nesting spots so they dont have to be confined to the tent. They let me pet them and come near me so they are my indoor pet chicks.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happiness is fresh Straw

So much fun!

 

[ValarieF]

Roaming babies in da house

 

[ValarieF]

 

[Kris5902]

All you peeps use that C word instead of the F word (which is nice I guess) but makes the weather seem worse than it actually is. I prefer the J word.
(JUST comfortable enough for me)

What I still can’t quite wrap my head around is how at temperatures that really shouldn’t exist, the two different scales start to match up -40 is just -40 regardless if Celsius or Fahrenheit… WHY??? and 30 is my tolerance level… in both C and F… lol no hotter or colder respectively. Delicate west coast flower…