Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lexicon]

I believe they are all girls but what do I know?!
The Legbars (Piglet and Winnie) and the Welbar (no name yet) should be Autosexing.
The breeder has experience of his chicks and believes both the black ones are also girls. But we will see.

Here is Winnie (the Pooh) also playing at being grown-up.
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I love the photos you take of your chicks. They are simply adorable

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m thinking about Texas!
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And I am thinking of all the lovely tax I shall be seeing

Pay up kind sir!

 

[Ponypoor]

Not really. It’s just that the song was on my mind.

I am still working on west side story and my version of “I feel Pretty”

I’m a chicken, I’m a chicken, I’m a chicken who digs on the diiirt….

 

[Ponypoor]

Yeah, heard that on the news. They were apparently trying to do a controlled burn even though the whole province is on fire ban. The "controlled burn" got out of control...

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh! Oh!
Mr Archer: Puppy Pics
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From when I took him camping at a cabin near a lake
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My favorite: Archer being silly.
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I love him! What a character

 

[notabitail]

What are blitzers? I have a Speckled Sussex. She is soooo sweet amd soooo soft, not to mention beautiful! However, she acts like a complete nut during molt or if she goes broody.

Abigail is a complete nut. She will not let you hold her unless she uses your hand as a perch, she will stomp on any keyboard, regardless of whether it plays music or types words, and she insists on standing on my side desk and squawking. Loudly.

 

[Ponypoor]

You Australians are upside down

MaryJanet has limited time to be reading all the posts, maybe just limit you replies to the others so she doesn’t get swamped.

Also you owe a tonne of taxes! BTW…

 

[featherhead007]

I am still working on west side story and my version of “I feel Pretty”

I’m a chicken, I’m a chicken, I’m a chicken who digs on the diiirt….

“It’s a small coop after all. It’s a small coop after all….,,,

 

[notabitail]

Extremely hard. I still wobble occasionally. I got the, "well let me know if you change your mind" response when I said no.

One of the things that helped me to resist was watching the flock interest in the run the other day. They are much more unkind to Sydney and Phyllis when they are confined. They have tons of available space. Not counting the coop there is ~150 square feet of available run for them with multiple feeding and watering stations. But it seems like they go out of their way to keep Phyllis and Sydney from enjoying anything, from a drink of water to a simple bath. I had to fend them off so Phyllis could dust bathe in peace.

The whole thing gave me pause about adding anyone else to this environment. I know Ned and Lucky, who grew up with them, stayed on the porch, on top of things in the run, or in the coop so they would not be harassed by the Stygian Witches, Aurora, Lilly, and Sansa.

It all just gave me pause. While free ranging everything is much calmer and everyone seems to get along much better. I don't know if it will be snowy this winter, you never do going into it. It was not last winter when I integrated 3 new hens in February. If it is, they are going to have to coexist in that complex. I wonder how disappointed I will be with their behaviour should that come to pass.

Who are you calling witches!
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I have noticed my chickens being complete mean to each other. Especially Dominica and Gaby. Gaby will run after Dominica, scaring her into my office. Once I made the mistake of putting the two of then togheter on a chair. Gaby went after Dominica, pulling her earlobes and beating her up.
And then Agathae went after Gaby and gave her a well deserved yank on her butt.

 

[Ponypoor]

You Australians are upside down

Most of the world has right hand drive - we are the anomaly with our left hand drive.