Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

so sorry I’m sure she had a great life how old?

Hi. Was this post to me? Sorry I missed it. Lucky would be six at the end of March.

 

[micstrachan]

Here you are!! (There are four, barely taller then a quarter!) View attachment 3411919View attachment 3411920
@Ponypoor , you asked if i had any other chickens besides Japanese bantams, i have a black sex link and a Easter egger cross as of now

Beyond precious!!!

 

[fuentemoon]

Rain, sleet, sun repeat...
40f daytime temps down to freezing tonight and expecting 16° thursday night.
A summer twofer

Ran errands today. Was sitting in the target parking lot listening to the last few minutes of my book when I looked up to see an unexpected sight

@Kris5902

 

[micstrachan]

Ha! The kids named them all after cookies or cookie ingredients.

Mine yell at me every single morning because you know the 16x8 coop is sooo squished.

Oh I am so sorry to hear this. I am glad to hear she has her flock close by.

Thank you. Sorry I missed this one, too.

 

[featherhead007]

He hasn’t even seen the chicks yet and he’s already cheating on her with 4 other girls.

Thatta boy! I’m impressed

 

[Ponypoor]

Leghorn comb

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Best. Hen. Ever

 

[lightm]

Hello everyone,

Been playing the catching-up-this-thread game. Congratulations to Bernie @RoyalChick Sorry @GregnLety about your sweet fat lady's passing. Congratulations to @Ponypoor and @knoturavggrl on getting brahamas. Congratulations to @TX Chick Noob on getting chicken time. I loved Rebecca's videos. I am sure I have missed lots of important events.

Chicken math has gotten to us. (No, it is more like we are fed up with city and its anti-chicken attitude). We are going to buy land and be farmers!!?? A new adventure?? For now, the plan is to buy land 30 minutes away, live in a trailer, sell our current house, and start to build a house in new land. And we will have LOTS OF chickens. Yummy yummy. We will still be working fully, so no, not farmers, but I will be starting a permaculture dream on my land.

I have no pictures, but I do have a precious broody video from last year, which seems very appropriate for spring.

I hope everyone is having a good night.

 

[BY Bob]

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Keep up the good work girls, 5 dozen ready to leave tonight. 2 dozen left yesterday evening. All are under a week old. As long as they keep selling like hotcakes I cannot be tempted to load up the incubator. I do find it odd though, the ones that look almost white, those are Butters eggs. She started back laying this week and until I caught her in the act I did not believe they were hers. She always in the past laid a light tan with occasional speckles. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that she will be 3 this spring with the sudden color change. Shell is just had hard as before so it is not due to lack of calcium.

Patsy's eggs faded dramatically as she aged. I believe I noticed it around 3.

 

[BY Bob]

If I have to go with Plan Bunny, this will be her 5th brood and she is only 2 1/2 years old. If someone ever came up and told me Marans are not broody or good mother's I think I would die laughing.

My Marans never went broody. Just saying.

 

[lightm]

I’ll link it again here, I’ve never seen a broody owl before!

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What a video! But what if the other owl is a girl too and the eggs are not fertile? If she can't tell the gender at all.