Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

Outing fail (no harm came to anyone):

Its quite warm today but not super hot, figured perfect day to get mama and the chicklets out to see what grass is all about.

It idyllic for the first 10 minutes:

Then chickens do what chickens do and caused chaos. The first one realized that it could fit through the bars with no issues and then the rest proceeded to hop in and out at which point it decides to rain .

We gather up the chicks which made Brownie very mad. She was so disgruntled with our actions she flew at me at one point, but they are all safely back in the tent now.
I tried to explain to her I was helping to ensure one of cats, who was watching this whole affair, didn't decide to snack on one of her chicks but she is still peeved about the whole situation.

Annnddd once again I find myself apologizing to a CHICKEN!!!

 

[BY Bob]

Our Sebrights have nice fansView attachment 3503475

Spectacular!

 

[BY Bob]

I am sitting here fixing to do something that I never thought I would. That is to cook a beef brisket in the oven. It is pouring down rain here and I don't have a shelter to cook under. Found a good basic recipe to set my time and temperature for but I spice to my own taste. Anna will get her brisket tomorrow. I just hope a baked brisket meets her high standards.

Best of luck. That is a hard cut off meat to cook right. Trying a new method on top of that would be nerve racking for me.

Tax

 

[BY Bob]

Caturday:
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Thirsty Thursday that I missed:
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Tiny fluffy butts (all five)


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Some individual butts
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Moving up up up butts
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They are so darn adorable.

 

[ValarieF]

So my youngest daughter asked me last night what I wanted for mothers day. I said a steak and fruit and salad stuff. (I forgot the rolls). So we ordered food from walmart and hubby picked it up this morning. I just ate my juicy steak......felt so good. And its my Peanuts favorite food. She is my service dog chihuahua. Since I've been sick she has not left my side except to go potty or when I leave for a drs. Appt.
Sorry chooks no steak for you I ate the whole thing! I do share with peanut she doesn't like dog food.Ordered a movie from cable, going to watch M3ghan

 

[BY Bob]

Oh how lovely, Phyllis has told me she may have babies this year. I want her to have babies like these.

Not like this?

 

[BY Bob]

So my youngest daughter asked me last night what I wanted for mothers day. I said a steak and fruit and salad stuff. (I forgot the rolls). So we ordered food from walmart and hubby picked it up this morning. I just ate my juicy steak......felt so good. And its my Peanuts favorite food. She is my service dog chihuahua. Since I've been sick she has not left my side except to go potty or when I leave for a drs. Appt.
Sorry chooks no steak for you I ate the whole thing! I do share with peanut she doesn't like dog food.

Happy mothers day. Mrs BY Bob is also getting steak as per her choice.

 

[ValarieF]

Happy mothers day. Mrs BY Bob is also getting steak as per her choice.

Steak is the best next to bacon.

 

[BY Bob]

Can anyone give me a guess as to when the littles might be able to eat pellets rather than crumble?
I will run out of chick crumble before the end of the week and trying to decide how big a bag to get. I generally prefer pellets because of waste but I assume they are too big for the babies to eat.
Worst case I can make mash of course but at the rate these gals are eating I would be making new bowls of mash every few hours!

I stay with starter/grower until they are mostly grown. Here that means crumbles. I've not seen starter/grower in pellets. Where do you get it?

 

[BY Bob]

The silkies are so cute and the frizzle
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The big ones and the tweens wont come out
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Zeus cocorico. The tween rooster is cocoricoing back from inside the coop. He is actually loud now and has a good cocorico going on.

Gorgeous all!