Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Love em all! They look great! I have 5 GLW's. I cant get over how beautiful they are. Especially in certain light when their black feathers appear shiny green. And that fluff; i cant get enough! I follow them around with my hands out hoping someone will sqaut and let me get a feel

I loved my GLW. She was a real character.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh chicken! You are ALL that!!!

Queen Aurora says thank you.

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning everyone.

Dirt update first. My boy has not coughed in almost 48 hours and even with the stethoscope no more wheezing. I think he finishes his antibiotic in 2 days. Louis and Russ are still completely fine thankfully. He is also getting back to his spunky self in his stall. I cannot tell you how happy I am to see him bouncing around and knocking his water bucket over in a play for attention and treats. He has not been ridden in a week and a half and dad is going to give him at least another week after he finishes his meds. I know towards the end of that he will have so much energy that he will be a knot head and I will resort to name calling in the end. It is ok, I still have my boy to shout at.
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That's wonderful news!

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning everyone.

Dirt update first. My boy has not coughed in almost 48 hours and even with the stethoscope no more wheezing. I think he finishes his antibiotic in 2 days. Louis and Russ are still completely fine thankfully. He is also getting back to his spunky self in his stall. I cannot tell you how happy I am to see him bouncing around and knocking his water bucket over in a play for attention and treats. He has not been ridden in a week and a half and dad is going to give him at least another week after he finishes his meds. I know towards the end of that he will have so much energy that he will be a knot head and I will resort to name calling in the end. It is ok, I still have my boy to shout at.
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That is such wonderful news!

 

[BY Bob]

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Not a good picture, but this is Snowbird, my Chantecler rooster.
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Two-fer. Snowbird with Middle, who had the worst looking molt of anyone this year.

Wow! They really do have small combs and wattles. I would not have guessed that is a rooster from the head shot! Very handsome.

 

[BY Bob]

Two for Tuesday
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So cute!

 

[featherhead007]

I don’t think I’m getting through to BoPeeps. I had a long beak to beak talk with her this morning, and told her that she doesn’t need to be picked on. I told her that she’s probably the biggest hen I have, and she’s quite beautiful too. And not to listen to those other hens, they are just jealous of you! Then I took her out and she started crying (looking for the other birds) she followed me around the house to the yard where the others are.
(She’s the only real Rock I have)

 

[bgmathteach]

Could be. But I am hearing it from someone I respect on BYC. It may come down to when chicks are available, what the weather does, etc. I usually start them inside, but I hear chickens do so much better if they’re started outside. I just don’t think I have a warm and dry enough place to start them outside. The nice thing about the heat plate is that it is fairly low wattage. If the power goes out, I could run it off one of my battery back ups. I could even do that outside, maybe after they feather out.

So, some heat plates have 2 settings, a low & a high. I think the high is too high/hot for brooding - but would be fine for heat as a wall mount. I have (had) 2 brooder plates. One is only for brooding. The other can be used with the legs for brooding, or without and mounted vertically to a wall. That one does get too hot on high imo for brooding. It also depends on how high I have it adjusted relative to the chick's height, and how hot/cold it is when using it. I brood my chicks in the 'mudroom'. an unheated space with the louvered 'breezeway' type windows...so I have, when the chicks were first starting out, had the low wattage one set correct height for them, and the other set as high as it would go on the hot setting to give them extra 'warm space' and so that it also wasn't cold around the edges of the other heat plate. It worked really well. Then, as they grew and the temp outside moderated a bit, I switched to just that one but on low. (that one was bigger than the other, and as they got bigger, the other wasn't large enough).

Sorry, I don't remember the brand, and it has since died, so I can't check as it has gone the way of the wind.

 

[RoyalChick]

Glynda and Phyllis are the same size. Hattie and Lady Featherington are about the same size.

2 littles 3 Bigs
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I think one of the things that subconsciously attracted me to the Polish is that they have the same lines, energy, and size as the leghorn and now the legbar. Check this out.

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Those are great comparisons and I love the family posing in that first picture.

 

[bgmathteach]

Precious! Here was my older model with better design:
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I love it when the chicks climb/hop up on mom. So cute! Cashew was a lovely lady! Nothin like Mom and her chicks. (Both Cashew & @BY Bob 's Sydney!)