Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I have outdone myself with making breakfast today! Yummy wow it’s delicious!
Not complicated, seafood salad with crab, red onions, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, cucumber slices, feta cheese, and cabbage. Topped with Catalina dressing.
Pride in my work tax:

 

[RoyalChick]

I have outdone myself with making breakfast today! Yummy wow it’s delicious!
Not complicated, seafood salad with crab, red onions, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, cucumber slices, feta cheese, and cabbage. Topped with Catalina dressing.
View attachment 3493830Pride in my work tax:
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That sounds delicious!

 

[featherhead007]

That sounds delicious!

Oh, you betcha it is!

 

[RoyalChick]

Piglet doing what she does best.

 

[knoturavggrl]

As Rebecca said she is just likely hauling it back under her, she is new and learning also. Those babies know how to let the hen know if they are being too rough - they have really good lungs.

They are so cute and really good looking strong chicks - good mama she is doing a wonderful job! How many more to hatch?

Well, it was a flurry of completely unnecessary panic on my part this morning so when I lifted Brownie off the nest I think I counted 6 fully fluffed up chicks which would leave 3 to go. I was just so stinking relieved to see alive chicks under there that I don’t trust my counting 100% and Brownie went RIGHT back to them and glared at me she looked to be saying: I JUST got them settled human!!! She didn't give me much time to look .

 

[fuentemoon]

Rosie

So many dandelions this year! I should have taken a picture last week before i mowed.

Alinta making prints

 

[featherhead007]

Piglet doing what she does best.

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Piglet is eating. Is that what she does best?
I have a neighbor who drinks . Falling down, That’s what he does best.

 

[featherhead007]

Piglet is eating. Is that what she does best?
I have a neighbor who drinks . Falling down, That’s what he does best.

It’s sad but true!

 

[BY Bob]

Babies confirmed at Butler Hollow Coop!!!!

I went out with mash as I have done almost every day for Brownie to have a snack and get some water and with some patience out comes this one:
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I see the scratch on its beak and she scolded this one pretty harshly for coming out. I was worried and said screw it I need to see of the rest are ok or if Brownie is a great sitter but a horrible mom. I know this happens, rare but possible. So I lifted her up gently and set her on the ground. I counted 6 fully fluffed out we ones. Mama got right back in the nest with them and didn’t hurt them at all. Here are a few more photos of them.

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No meanness after that one incident, should I be concerned or was she simply trying to protect that baby from me and the cold? Thoughts? The rest seem perfectly unscathed and very lively.

Woohoo!!

So adorable!

 

[BY Bob]

I did it! The babies have moved out of their tent in my bathroom and into the brooder box in the Chicken Palace. I will keep them confined in there for a day or so before giving them a tour of the whole place so they know how to dodge and weave.
Like the anxious mother hen that I am, I was worried that they wouldn't find the food and water in their new home. So I was trying to figure how to dunk their beaks and show them the ropes.
I needn't have worried. Pigletine to the rescue! She has an uncanny ability to find food and was tucking in before I had unloaded all her buddies.
I can't get any of them interested in going under the heat plate - they are too excited about the extra space to run around in. I will try again later and definitely as it starts to cool down this evening.
And because it is Friday here is a very tiny fluffy butt.

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Wonderful!