Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

I am just going to throw this out there then for flocks in general.
I feel for a stable flock dynamic there needs to be 1 rooster. If that rooster is lacking you will see a hen step up to try to fill that role. I guess that can even include crowing.

Yes. Well Bernie behaves like a rooster in many ways including 'mating' Babs from time to time (who in turn squats for Bernie from time to time).
She also paces about outside the nest box when Babs is laying an egg and accompanies her back outside when she is done.

Bernie often stands like a rooster and I would not be remotely surprised to hear her crow. Only I am not sure it was actually her that crowed.
The one part of the rooster handbook that Bernie has not read is the whole food sharing thing. She is not at all keen on that idea.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Looks great to me - but I am an old lady and my opinion therefore doesn't count. Oh wait, the person claiming it is a bad haircut is also an old lady. Ha! Her opinion doesn't count either!!
By the way, you may need to relent on wild color. I keep pondering a purple stripe for myself. Or a bright green one to match my green chickens.

Ok, let me rephrase that then, color period. I am not being mean about it, in fact she does not want color anyways. Rosie has thick hair, that can be difficult to deal with. We had a time this morning due to it raining straightening it for pictures. I prefer it be a little longer, but that is just me. She had it cut, thinned heavily and layered. She also deals with the top layer of her hair naturally straight, the lower half wants to curl or wave naturally so it can be a nightmare at times. I am afraid if she colored it, it would damage it and make it even more difficult to manage. She also normally never straightens it, today was special. Most times she showers at night, lets it air dry and brushes it before bed and in the morning. Half the time before the day is up she has it up in a clip.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hope you are beginning to get ready to go to the emergency room.
Can you see to drive? One-eyed driving is not the safest of things.

Went all the way to the Hosp in Alliston, it was a MADHOUSE. Standing room only - I walked in, was freaked out by the crowd and the assurance that it would be hours to see anyone and I walked out and drove back here, called around to find an eye dr, and have an appt with one in the Walmart vision centre at 3:45pm. That will be money out of my pocket as Eye Dr are not covered by the Provincial Health here, unless I went to Emerg.

Driving was fun - the bright light even with my sunglasses makes my eye spasm and run, but thankfully it's the country and not much traffic, just the odd squirrel running in front of me.

So now I get to repeat the drive to Alliston Walmart in about half an hr.

Petunia, Muffy and Eli-too have been checking out nest boxes - oh come on kiddos you are way too young for that! Meanwhile Tippy just comes in my office to snooze away from everyone, and in the 2 hrs I was away I came back to eggs being laid all over the Hen House! And Whiskers is yet again in another nestbox hoarding the couple of eggs that someone laid in there. I stole them and gave them to Rose and Dorothy who are actually in a nestbox each laying their eggs. Such drama, "These are the Eggs of your Life", I am going to start writing a soap opera about the daily lives from Eggtopia

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Went all the way to the Hosp in Alliston, it was a MADHOUSE. Standing room only - I walked in, was freaked out by the crowd and the assurance that it would be hours to see anyone and I walked out and drove back here, called around to find an eye dr, and have an appt with one in the Walmart vision centre at 3:45pm. That will be money out of my pocket as Eye Dr are not covered by the Provincial Health here, unless I went to Emerg.

Driving was fun - the bright light even with my sunglasses makes my eye spasm and run, but thankfully it's the country and not much traffic, just the odd squirrel running in front of me.

So now I get to repeat the drive to Alliston Walmart in about half an hr.

Petunia, Muffy and Eli-too have been checking out nest boxes - oh come on kiddos you are way too young for that! Meanwhile Tippy just comes in my office to snooze away from everyone, and in the 2 hrs I was away I came back to eggs being laid all over the Hen House! And Whiskers is yet again in another nestbox hoarding the couple of eggs that someone laid in there. I stole them and gave them to Rose and Dorothy who are actually in a nestbox each laying their eggs. Such drama, "These are the Eggs of your Life", I am going to start writing a soap opera about the daily lives from Eggtopia

Momma hen throws out "The Old and the Chickless'.

 

[knoturavggrl]

You are making me realize that mine are all overdue a good inspection. This lot are all very much against being handled so it will be a production for sure and have to happen in the middle of the night.

I am so upset I missed it but she isn’t limping at all. Eating, drinking, pooping all completely normal and when I look them over it’s primarily while they are foraging and their feet are in the grass. So I 100% know how I didn’t notice. I think I need to start plucking a few off the roosts at night and doing closer inspections. I can work my way through them all. I also need to get the rest of my chips so I have that 12” deep litter bed on the floor for them to land on.

 

[rural mouse]

Yesterdays 1st day of school picture with the offending hair cut. She has wore it the same for 8ish months now. I do not care what she does as long as she does not shave it or have wild colors put in it. It is her hair and I want her to have what makes her feel good about herself. Of course when crap happens like this morning she does not believe me when I tell her it looks good. I'm her mother and I am supposed to say things like that.
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That's a fantastic haircut! She looks so grown up!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thirsty Thursday

Yum yum

Mr P enjoying a particularly lovely vintage of Maison des Chevaux

And the red ladies trying it also

 

[notabitail]

Thirsty Thursday

Yum yum

Mr P enjoying a particularly lovely vintage of Maison des Chevaux
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And the red ladies trying it also
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How elegant.

 

[rural mouse]

I am just going to throw this out there then for flocks in general.
I feel for a stable flock dynamic there needs to be 1 rooster. If that rooster is lacking you will see a hen step up to try to fill that role. I guess that can even include crowing.

@RoyalChick even the princesses are requesting a King.

 

[notabitail]

Yes. Well Bernie behaves like a rooster in many ways including 'mating' Babs from time to time (who in turn squats for Bernie from time to time).
She also paces about outside the nest box when Babs is laying an egg and accompanies her back outside when she is done.

Bernie often stands like a rooster and I would not be remotely surprised to hear her crow. Only I am not sure it was actually her that crowed.
The one part of the rooster handbook that Bernie has not read is the whole food sharing thing. She is not at all keen on that idea.

Gaby and Agathae both squat for me. And Abigail did too. (a little push with my hands seemed to trick them-they think I am a real rooster and actually listen most of the time when I herd them into the coop).