Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

I have Eggciting news, at 18 weeks and 2 days old 1 of the Leghorns laid her first egg. Do not know which one it was but there was a white egg in the porch box this afternoon and I had already collected Chiquita's white egg.

Congratulations They really do grow up so fast!

 

[featherhead007]

I do treat my chooks with Ritz crackers on occasion.

 

[knoturavggrl]

So now they are all perched in the coop, crops full of cheese balls?

Well, not really, this was this afternoon and I used the cheeseballs to lure them in and gave them a handful to get them to go back into the coop and run area. Nothing to crazy Now if I let em they would eat the entire container I have no doubt

 

[BY Bob]

Will you ever upload all your old videos to Video? Just curious.
Maybe I should use them instead. *gets sucked into youtube by the gVacuum*

Nope. Too much work. There are hundreds of them. For now youtube is storing them for me for free.

 

[BY Bob]

That is true. But they require payment to enable sharing only with link. That is why I didn't switch over to them.

That is true. I don't intend to put anything up that I can't take down. I don't believe that I will leave any videos up permanently anywhere any longer.

 

[RoyalChick]

Those and extreme cheese goldfish crackers are both my last ditch if I need to get them to go somewhere neither has ever failed me.

The bigs are roosted Brownie and the littles are all settled into the red tote I moved from the tent. Refreshed the littles waterer, took a deep breath, and I left them all for the night.

What are cheese balls?

 

[BY Bob]

Agree. We lost our crazy hen, Cuckoo, yesterday to a RSH while my husband was about 20 feet away.

It is disturbing how unafraid of us they are. I'm so very sorry for your loss. It can be devastating.

 

[RoyalChick]

New Food
Everytime I come in through the side gate the chickens have been charging towards the gate. I assumed that it was to break out of the yard into the outside world.

The gate
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Turns out it was something else they were after.

Everytime I open the gate, these little pipes fall off the vines.

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Apparently they are delicious. The chickens swallow them whole. It is a feeding frenzy everytime I open the gate.

I planted this vine years ago because supposedly the blue swallowtail butterfly likes to lay their eggs on the vines. I do not remember what it is called.

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[featherhead007]

Coco is so sweet. I was tucking the chooks in for the night and Coco jumped off her perch and onto my hand. She said something in “Rock” that I didn’t understand, but she is inside with me now. I think she just wants some special attention from me.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Is that early? I am thinking it is, I should have kept better track of my gals, but I think it was 20 weeks-ish.

It is early to me. Sadly that is one appeal for leghorns in the commercial industry. They start laying around 18 weeks. I am gearing up for one day future problems from them. I would have been happier if they had waited a few more weeks, but all the signs were there that the first eggs were coming. I am totally smitten with this group and I am trying to enjoy them to their fullest and not dwell on future potential problems. I did top off the oyster shell dish a couple days ago. I have a feeling these girls will need it.