Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Techniques for Eating Cheese Balls
Hopefully @micstrachan doesn't see this post. She would be disappointed in me.

It has been forever but today the ladies got some cheese balls! I don't think Glynda and Lady Featherington have ever seen them before.

Two techniques for crushing the cheese ball were evident.

1. The spear. This was perfected by Aurora. You spear the cheese ball with one part of your back and then crush it until it crumbles.
2. The Flip and Smash. This was perfected by Sydney. You grab the cheese ball and flip your head smashing the cheese ball on the ground.

Here is the Spear
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And the Flip and Smash
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These two had to break them up for the others. One the ball was broken the other hens would steal pieces from them.

Hahaha! Looks like they are having a blast. I like how you tag me so I *don’t* see the post.

 

[lightm]

Thanks! This is my first time being here, I kept on seeing it and I decided that I just HAD to look at it! Here are some pictures of my chickens. And I’ll take a pic of my cockerels later. View attachment 3574124View attachment 3574125View attachment 3574127View attachment 3574126View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574129View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574130View attachment 3574131View attachment 3574132

Is that a philosopher or is that a philosopher?

She is deeeep in her thought. Maybe enter the caption contest!!

 

[Marie2020]

Good Morning fluffy butts and all!
Meet my chickens!

Lovely
The little black chicken tweeting away I would definitely name Tweety" they are all so cute

 

[Marie2020]

It’s 25.5C and 61% humidity in the barn; 27C and 59% humidity outside.

The chooks are hanging out under the trees in the catnip, and mama has the babies in the dirt at the old barn garden.

Once again under severe thunderstorm watches.l, sure is dark to the west of us.

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I can't tell when there is going to be a thunder storm anymore, we get the signs of one coming in but it rarely happens. I guess that's climate change

 

[Marie2020]

They all get finger fed, since they were babies. Butters is just not interested, we’ll, she shows interest and comes over, but then judges she won’t eat it.

Mine are the same. Sometimes they go made for our local strawberries today they are not so keen

 

[Marie2020]

Techniques for Eating Cheese Balls
Hopefully @micstrachan doesn't see this post. She would be disappointed in me.

It has been forever but today the ladies got some cheese balls! I don't think Glynda and Lady Featherington have ever seen them before.

Two techniques for crushing the cheese ball were evident.

1. The spear. This was perfected by Aurora. You spear the cheese ball with one part of your back and then crush it until it crumbles.
2. The Flip and Smash. This was perfected by Sydney. You grab the cheese ball and flip your head smashing the cheese ball on the ground.

Here is the Spear
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And the Flip and Smash
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These two had to break them up for the others. One the ball was broken the other hens would steal pieces from them.

They are having a ball. Pardon the pun

 

[Marie2020]

Thanks! This is my first time being here, I kept on seeing it and I decided that I just HAD to look at it! Here are some pictures of my chickens. And I’ll take a pic of my cockerels later. View attachment 3574124View attachment 3574125View attachment 3574127View attachment 3574126View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574129View attachment 3574128View attachment 3574130View attachment 3574131View attachment 3574132

Hello
Welcome to fluffy butt's

 

[Marie2020]

Just once yesterday and then I tried again today, but she is not acting well, in fact my guess now is her heart is failing. She did seem to be eating a bit more when foraging today this afternoon, but I mean a tiny bit. She took a little greens - baby's breath - from me, but she alternated between looking fine and trotting with Popcorn a few times to looking tired, and when she stopped to rest she half-closed her eyes. I know she dust-bathed earlier today, because when I checked her at noon she was wonderfully full of dirt. Between 4:30 and 7pm out and about, she just was closing her eyes every time the group stopped to hang and preen. Twice she hung out by me and napped briefly. So when I tried the feeding at 7pm or so what happened there was not good, and really made me think for sure her heart is failing, and the stress of the procedure exacerbated it. Or she's just so skinny she's too weak?

I stopped after about 10-15 ml because she really gave a good wriggle, and with that effort her eyes half-closed, so I immediately got the tube out and it seemed to me her legs failed, she was passing out. I let her down keeping her head and front part supported a little to not push anything in her crop up, she lay sort of on her side, then in 2-3 seconds she was awake and quickly got her feet under her, stayed that way a couple seconds, then stood up. I'm calling the vets tomorrow to see what they think. I hate to travel with her but maybe they can come here on Friday, if she lasts that long.

She pooped a tiny watery poop waiting while I got the tube food ready, so I collected it and got it dissolved in a test tube and got a slide on it before starting the tube feeding. I didn't see anything remarkable.

 

[Marie2020]

Yep that is what I thought also

Or the worst date I have been on…

At least he’s handsome

Naughty Kelly

 

[Marie2020]

Princess is digging her way to Australia and Tina is thinking about it.