Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Pastel the Rooster]

How wonderful. I have never had an ankle biter

I have one! As soon as I walk into my coop, Bolt is biting my leg and attacking my boot. (I wear snake boots in the summer) I really need to figure out what is wrong with her. She is not laying, and has a massive attitude. I'm not liking it.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Willow is back to normal. I don't think she has any broodyness in her at all. No egg though. Splotch and BBQ are the only two girls laying.
Don't get me wrong, I love seeing pink and tan eggs, but I want to see chocolate brown and green eggs too.

 

[featherhead007]

I can’t figure which one it is. Maybe all of them!
When I spin around they all look up at me like butter wouldn’t melt!
‘Who me?!’

Maybe they are going after the corns on your toes? (If you have corns)

 

[featherhead007]

Willow is back to normal. I don't think she has any broodyness in her at all. No egg though. Splotch and BBQ are the only two girls laying.
Don't get me wrong, I love seeing pink and tan eggs, but I want to see chocolate brown and green eggs too.

Colors!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

A few days ago, I brought Pastel on my porch to give him a mani-pedicure.
I was walking up the stairs, when I stopped cold.
There was a huge snake on the top step, slithering off the step into the bushes.
The second I saw it, my brain went to work identifying it. Yellow Rat Snake. Non-venomous. Likes to sneak into coop and steal eggs. Haha, that's how my brain works.
I waited until it was almost completely into the bushes before I gave it a little nudge. I just poked its tail, and it fell off the steps into the foliage.
I then walked up the stairs into my porch. I grabbed the dog nail clipped, and clipped the points off of Pastel's spurs.
That was the same day he charged at me a few days ago, and when I picked him up I felt his spurs, and one was razor sharp. I just trimmed it back a few centimeters, until it started to get too thick to cut.
I didn't want to split his spur. He is a good boy though. I probably would have stepped on the snake if it wasn't for him. I only looked down because I noticed Pastel looking at something and tid-bitting. -I think that's what it's called...

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Colors! View attachment 3569026

You seem to Google stuff a lot. I think that you may break your phone (or whatever device you're using) from googling-?- stuff so much. And screen shotting it...

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, I walked right past her 2-3 times looking for her the night she wasn't in the coop. At least 1 of those times I was within 3 feet of her and I was trying to look under the grass, too. She had come out earlier in the day and I'd seen the direction she came from so had a general idea of the area. In order to find her, I had to follow her back out and only found her because I watched the grass tops moving until she settled in. Hawks are the biggest concern right now and she's got that pretty well covered. Best guess for hatch date: last week of the month.

Well should be ok in that case. 13 eggs - wow that is quite the cache of eggs!

 

[RoyalChick]

Maybe they are going after the corns on your toes? (If you have corns)

I don’t. And certainly not on the back of my ankles. I do have freckles though.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh gosh, that is my biggest fear. I really hope that everyone is okay.

On a lighter (no pun intended, honestly) note, I didn't know that you had horses!

hoses not horses (I read horses first also ha!).

 

[Ponypoor]

I don’t. And certainly not on the back of my ankles. I do have freckles though.

I have a hole in my leggings (at the knee) and the little so and so will peck my knee when sitting on my lap when I wear those leggings. They can really bite hard! Sharp little chickie beaks!