Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Gigachad poultry]

You have to not dwell on the negatives but on the positives. There is an old saying “you have to take the good with the bad”.

Yes there are many sad things in life, but there are also wonderful things. The smallest thing can make you laugh (like Penne trying to breed my foot ), I don’t dwell on a negative thing, going down that road will just make you reinforce sadness. Accept the sad things and embrace the wonderful things.

Pep talk tax

How is your friends horse?

Here are the silkie chicks sharing supper with Reenie and the school chicks picking through Lulus poops.

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I'm sorry but I laughed at the last photo, because all I saw was an anger pink spiderman with a horse body!

 

[rural mouse]

I can’t wait ! Quite eggciting here with tots hatching, Rebecca’s on the weekend, and RM’s girls broody in the wilds!

Soon more babies

You're counting chicks before theyhatch, again....

 

[Ponypoor]

@Ponypoor
I saw a day or two ago you had a new egg customer wanting 20 dozen eggs every few weeks. Congrats that is a feat and good luck meeting his request. If you girls cannot provide all 20 maybe make a deal with him to supply what you can and point him to another local chicken person who may fill in the gap. 20 dozen is a lot and I could not even meet that request. I have 2 loyal customers who request 5 dozen every 2 weeks. Thankfully things lined up that they do not need them on the same week. I only sell the big eggs so the smaller ones are kept for me, family and neighbors. Not going to lie, winter can be rough when the girls go on strike. This is where chronic broodies comes in handy. I have found that if I let the girls set to where they hatch out from the end of August to first of October they are actually back on line and laying again by the end of November and do not take the winter off. Combine that with young pullets if I have them in their first season I can make it work to where I have enough eggs for my customers and myself. I could put lights on the girls to where they do not take the winter break but I really do not mind it and the girls need it. Truth be told I really do not mind them going broody even though they drive me crazy. The amount of time they spend setting and then raising chicks gives their bodies roughly the same amount of a break that they take in the winter. I fully believe that is one reason why Momma Hen is still laying and as healthy as she is at 9+ years old. Besides winter breaks that hen goes broody and raises chicks at least 3 times each year.

Oh I will never be able to give him even 10 dozen if the two other people I have wanting 3 dozen and 2 dozen respectively each week. Even that will be hard to fulfill, I will go and see my neighbours up the road who have flocks and see if they can fill requests for his eggs.

I lump all the eggs together, silkie, Easter Eggers, my cousins hens, and if RH#2 ( red hen #2) lays any eggs I’ll throw them in also.

I already explained about broody old bats, and winter and molting to all of them. I believe in educating the customers, they all find it interesting.

During the winter I just let them go fallow, they don’t need to lay in the winter if their bodies are taking a break.

I may keep a couple of the newest chicks, I will see what they lay, but I am not interested non keeping a who slew of chickens - unless I win the lottery

 

[Galaxy_rules]

So true

Totally

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm sorry but I laughed at the last photo, because all I saw was an anger pink spiderman with a horse body!

Lulu

She is an Appaloosa - they have pink skin or mottled pink and black skin.

It’s the perspective of the photo makes her look weird, I was trying to show the chicks in the back of her stall
Which BTW freaks me out, I worry about them getting stepped on!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes that is Dirt, my dads Rocky Mountain Horse.
Here they are with my daughter and her Tennessee Walking Horse Russ 2 horseshows ago.
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How did last weekends show go? Did your dad ride?

Tax

Just me and the mosquitoes sitting with the peeps

 

[Ponypoor]

I can’t wait ! Quite eggciting here with tots hatching, Rebecca’s on the weekend, and RM’s girls broody in the wilds!

Soon more babies

WTH? Tots? How does autocorrect get tots from chicks I ask you?

Truly trots …

 

[GregnLety]

@Ponypoor
I saw a day or two ago you had a new egg customer wanting 20 dozen eggs every few weeks. Congrats that is a feat and good luck meeting his request. If you girls cannot provide all 20 maybe make a deal with him to supply what you can and point him to another local chicken person who may fill in the gap. 20 dozen is a lot and I could not even meet that request. I have 2 loyal customers who request 5 dozen every 2 weeks. Thankfully things lined up that they do not need them on the same week. I only sell the big eggs so the smaller ones are kept for me, family and neighbors. Not going to lie, winter can be rough when the girls go on strike. This is where chronic broodies comes in handy. I have found that if I let the girls set to where they hatch out from the end of August to first of October they are actually back on line and laying again by the end of November and do not take the winter off. Combine that with young pullets if I have them in their first season I can make it work to where I have enough eggs for my customers and myself. I could put lights on the girls to where they do not take the winter break but I really do not mind it and the girls need it. Truth be told I really do not mind them going broody even though they drive me crazy. The amount of time they spend setting and then raising chicks gives their bodies roughly the same amount of a break that they take in the winter. I fully believe that is one reason why Momma Hen is still laying and as healthy as she is at 9+ years old. Besides winter breaks that hen goes broody and raises chicks at least 3 times each year.

I'd like to find someone wanting that many eggs. We get on average 15 a day and it won't be long before this year's hatchling girls starts laying regularly. We already get a few from them occasionally. Starting to think it won't be long before we get turkey eggs but I'm not sure at what age they begin laying.

 

[Ponypoor]

@RoyalChick

See how clean Henny Penny’s fuzzy feet are? She was walking in mud earlier. They keep their feet fairly clean I find.

 

[Ponypoor]

My little champion came through really well. It was only a 45 minute operation, and there was only skin covering his tear duct, so no where nearly as bad as we thought. He has a nose drain in at the moment and his smitten daddy is about to take him to his home to recover. Along with the twenty pie cartoon I added here earlier.

I am so relieved. I hope to see him next month to spoil him rotten

Thanks for you support I truly appreciated it

Oh that is marvellous news! So glad to hear this