Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

You wanted some heat because it was so cold and wet there. Do you want me to drive back up there and remove the hot weather? I could bring it back down to Florida (they are used to having heat like that! )

I would love to visit, but I’m afraid that the mosquitoes will eat me alive.

 

[featherhead007]

I’m thinking that Dakota will probably be inside the house for tonight. She’s following me around like a puppy. She’s been picked on again today.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I moved the tractor coop over to the shaded woodsy summer spot. It's been so hot so soon! I've been preparing another run back there but decided the heat near our shale "parking lot" is just too much and the netting would be okay for now, with the electric fence all around. And, I discovered a new nesting area they've made under the coop, I presume because it's been too hot for them in the coop during the day. Watched Popcorn lay her egg there - she lets out a scream-wail just before she lays, and she did that three times yesterday, unusual, so I went out to see what was going on. She laid it quietly, just huffing a bit as she pushed, and then hopped right over to the feeder to eat afterwards. There were two eggs already there.

Much cooler in the woodsy spot. Cleaned and jet-sprayed the coop all down today before moving, then moved it, sprayed coop protector and let that dry, then put chopped hemp in the nestbox and poop tray. Popcorn, who forages like nobodies business and keeps me company wherever I am out there, hopped up in the open back and inspected before much was reassembled. Then she got in again and tried out the nestbox just when I got the hemp and fake eggs in. Here she is.

She settled on the eggs and pulled them under her. What, Popcorn you just laid an egg yesterday, are you going broody? She resettled twice more, spreading her wing out to make sure she covered four of the fake eggs.

Hazel came in to see what was going on, then went out and stood on the veranda. I went back to get more things and heard who I think was Hazel doing the escort call so I went back. Popcorn was out. She didn't lay an egg.

I've been noticing how much escort and companion duty Hazel does, but have seen it mostly with Peanut and Butters. This was nice that she did that for Popcorn. Popcorn doesn't really have a close buddy in the gang.

 

[notabitail]

I would love to visit, but I’m afraid that the mosquitoes will eat me alive.

*scratches mosquitoe bites*

 

[featherhead007]

I moved the tractor coop over to the shaded woodsy summer spot. It's been so hot so soon! I've been preparing another run back there but decided the heat near our shale "parking lot" is just too much and the netting would be okay for now, with the electric fence all around. And, I discovered a new nesting area they've made under the coop, I presume because it's been too hot for them in the coop during the day. Watched Popcorn lay her egg there - she lets out a scream-wail just before she lays, and she did that three times yesterday, unusual, so I went out to see what was going on. She laid it quietly, just huffing a bit as she pushed, and then hopped right over to the feeder to eat afterwards. There were two eggs already there.

Much cooler in the woodsy spot. Cleaned and jet-sprayed the coop all down today before moving, then moved it, sprayed coop protector and let that dry, then put chopped hemp in the nestbox and poop tray. Popcorn, who forages like nobodies business and keeps me company wherever I am out there, hopped up in the open back and inspected before much was reassembled. Then she got in again and tried out the nestbox just when I got the hemp and fake eggs in. Here she is.
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She settled on the eggs and pulled them under her. What, Popcorn you just laid an egg yesterday, are you going broody? She resettled twice more, spreading her wing out to make sure she covered four of the fake eggs.

Hazel came in to see what was going on, then went out and stood on the veranda. I went back to get more things and heard who I think was Hazel doing the escort call so I went back. Popcorn was out. She didn't lay an egg.

I've been noticing how much escort and companion duty Hazel does, but have seen it mostly with Peanut and Butters. This was nice that she did that for Popcorn. Popcorn doesn't really have a close buddy in the gang.

Sweet

 

[featherhead007]

Oh boy! They really have moved in then?
I don’t believe my littles have the ooomph to get that high up. But then again Sylvie did fly past my head and I have no idea where from!

They only hang around until my chooks come home to roost. Then they scurry out and head for the Biden wall (that’s what I call the fence they travel through) easy access to my backyard from their backyard. Basically they come to forage and eat my feed

 

[notabitail]

They only hang around until my chooks come home to roost. Then they scurry out and head for the Biden wall (that’s what I call the fence they travel through) easy access to my backyard from their backyard. Basically they come to forage and eat my feed

Why'd you call the wall that?

 

[knoturavggrl]

Q: If I went all the way to Florida and beyond to get chickens, would I end up with Bahamas brahmas?

Just a question.

Yep, I do believe you would.

Here is Young Miss Tassels. @RebeccaBoyd - see, she really does have feathered feet. To be honest they alarm me now and then because I think her leg is all swollen and then I realize it is just feathers. It looks like she is getting some fluffy muffs coming in. Or maybe that is just chick fluff making its way out.
She is noticably bigger than the other four. I suspect she will grow up to be a big gal.
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Of course Piglet noticed there was a photo shoot in progress and demanded in on the action.
She is such a ham!


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Stunning photos, I hope you enter a few of them into the POW thread.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Broody Tomatilla? Thoughts?

Tomatilla is acting broodylike.
A few days ago she started making sounds like she does when she's going to lay an egg, or like a rooster.
And tonight she went back on the egg she laid earlier but I switched it out for a stone egg because I don't want to risk an actual egg.
Then later I went to get Padme some food and Tomatilla was roosting.
Do you think she's broody? I really hope so because I hoped a hen would go broody, preferably Tomatilla.

 

[featherhead007]

Why'd you call the wall that?

Because it’s an easy access fence. Like the boarder wall in Chula Vista/ international city. California.