Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Grandma The Chicken]

Ooooo a barred rock and wattles
Beautiful

Grandma is a brown Plymouth Rock.

 

[featherhead007]

? That's how Abigail said you sing the Symphony No.5

Means something much different in “Cochin”!

 

[featherhead007]

Means something much different in “Cochin”!

And I am fluent in Cochin!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m off to the feed store and I’m taking my rooster Jaffar with me. (He likes car rides)

 

[notabitail]

I’m off to the feed store and I’m taking my rooster Jaffar with me. (He likes car rides)

What do people say when they see him? I'd love to have a rooster like that.
"The newest, coolest, service animal: the emotional support rooster Jaffar

 

[notabitail]

And I am fluent in Cochin!

Hmm... Escort call?

 

[RoyalChick]

After an hour + of reading i am still 40 pages behind maybe i can catch up tonight, time to get moving. We are having a week of beautiful warm weather, lots to do! First bread though.

Escorting the ladies back home from their morning wander
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I really love this picture.
Definitely wall-worthy. I would also enter it into the various competitions - calendar, caption and POW. It is very special.

 

[notabitail]

Classical music tax is due

Well, not the picture I was going to send, but Philomena climbed up there on her own. I hope she keeps doing that.

 

[RoyalChick]

I am back. Apparently it is chickie nap time and they don't want to play any more! So, more of @ChicoryBlues questions.

Can you also tell us where you got them from? Are they vaccinated or not, and how you thought through that issue?

I got them from a breeder in PA. It was a couple of hours drive for me. Sort of between me and Bob. If I hadn't been sick I might have thought about a visit - but maybe with the whole quarantine thing better not. He isn't a big organization but he has a farm with a number of breeding birds - and then he hatches and broods in his basement. He specializes in breeds he likes. He is interested in genetics but is definitely in the amateur breeder category. If you DM me I am sure he wouldn't mind me sharing his contact info.

And yes, vaccinated against Marek's (not anything else). I did a long post on this thread about Marek's a while back which goes into a lot of geeky stuff so I don't want to clog the thread - if you DM me I am happy to debate - but I am very certain it is the right thing for me to do in my flock situation. The reason the little dears are quarantined in my bathroom is that I am waiting a few more days for the vaccine to take effect.

Here is my prior post on geeky Marek's stuff: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26642172

And now, to prove to @RebeccaBoyd that I have gone to the dark side here is photographic evidence of feathery legs. I can’t believe I did this. I really hope I don’t regret it! I was clearly in no fit state yesterday to be making big decisions like choosing chicks!

 

[rural mouse]

Well, Storm laid her egg, then left. Nest has 6 eggs: 3 white, 2 brown, 1 green. Have finished clearing the garden bed except for the tree roots. Need loppers to snip them. Nellie and Indigo joined me inside the fence and got the worms I found. Indigo lingered and got a few extra.

Hoping the weather holds so I can muck out the coop this weekend. Now that the garden is mostly prepped for the contents, I can look at doing that so I only have to move it once.