Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Hi, Bob. I was busy helping a friend all of Saturday and most of Sunday. Today the chickens are out, as was I, but I forgot to take a video. Here are stills of each of them that I took just a couple days ago. They were inside the run. I was trying to show all the featherh madness to my sister.

Notice some of them without tails and look at poor Roxy’s neck. Everyone except Buttercup and Minnie Minnie are in some stage of molt.
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They are so beautiful still.

 

[BY Bob]

Monday Mug
Phyllis has thrown all of the flowers out of this pot and it is now her personal dust bathing location.

A day late of course.

 

[BY Bob]

I made pesto pasta!!!
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[BY Bob]

Two for Tuesday

Foxy and Meimei still think they are babies.
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Meimei and Honey (pic was taken a week ago when Honey was still well)
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@ManueB thanks for the thought. Honey actually improved slightly from yesterday. So there is some hope!

Such wonderful lap chickens you have there.

 

[rural mouse]

. Color genetics is a mistery to me because all the possible mums are plain black or brown and the daddy is silver.

The brown is a dark version of gold. The silver washes the brown down to gold. She carries both gold and silver. Her babies could be either color (gold including red and brown) or silver (including black although it does seem to stand alone also.)

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Two fer Tuesday

Cluckie, you can't peck open pomegranates! (And Ijak of course had to be in the photo too. )

And new roost!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Here is my tax!

Eda & Susan attempting Two for Tuesday (and a photo bombing Buff Buck)
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Does anyone know what they were doing!?! They did this for like ten minutes! Is it a ritual of some kind!?!
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Eda is having a hard time with getting in new feathers!
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The ritual was.....
Hiding whatever device they use to get on Beakbook.

 

[lightm]

Two fer Tuesday
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Cluckie, you can't peck open pomegranates! (And Ijak of course had to be in the photo too. )


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And new roost!

Love the crowing in the video!!

 

[RoyalChick]

An open letter to all chickens
From the chicken servants of the world

Dear chickens,
Please have some consideration for your hooman servants. They try their best to look after your every need, and when they fail to come up to your expectations it is because they are slow-witted and are not fluent in Chicken, not because they have bad intent.
Please note, that as well as being slow-witted, some of your servants are old. Some, dare I say it, are fat. It really is not good for their health to be running around in the sun chasing chickens when the heat index is over 100 degrees. That is Fahrenheit - if you chickens prefer Celsius - that is 38 degrees C.
So please, if you choose to fly over your fence, could you kindly do so on a cool day and please, when you have done whatever it is you flew out to do, can you return promptly to the safety of your chicken area and not lead your servant on a high speed chase across open fields and through dense shrubbery.
I am not blaming anyone in particular, Sylvie, but on behalf of the servants I must stress this is a health and safety issue that requires prompt attention.
Humbly yours,
The Servant at the Chicken Palace
(on behalf of chicken tenders, bucket boys, and chicken servants everywhere)

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Love the crowing in the video!!

Thank you! I just learned how to do it!