Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I am very happy for you and them , the best outcome one could hope for. You have no choice but to do what best for group as whole. It is hard though

Thanks, I am happy for them.

Hey, how are you doing? I keep meaning to ask

 

[bgmathteach]

Sounds like a good idea. For trial 2 I will try kitchen scraps and/or apple cider vinegar and soap to reduce the surface tension.

Anything sweet will attract fruit flies. Savory (think, meat or decaying vegetables) will attract regular house flies better. If you eat meat with a bone in it, put the bone in with bits of scraps on it. Let it sit for a few days, to start to decay and have odour - that should do it!

Happy mugs Monday from : Do I really have to stand still while you futz with whatever that thingy is????"

 

[Ponypoor]

Anything sweet will attract fruit flies. Savory (think, meat or decaying vegetables) will attract regular house flies better. If you eat meat with a bone in it, put the bone in with bits of scraps on it. Let it sit for a few days, to start to decay and have odour - that should do it!
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Happy mugs Monday from : Do I really have to stand still while you futz with whatever that thingy is????"

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Such a pretty chook, I just love the variety of colours.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oooo! Another palindrome

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Like Bob or mum!

 

[bgmathteach]

Ok well, the only male here now is Mr P. The issue with poor Marty missing and found hiding away sealed all their fates. And after seeing how everyone was enjoying themselves out and about the past 2 days with the boys safe in their pen affirmed my decision.

The silkies are just too small to have to deal with rowdy boys. It would be different if it were just the big girls. I would have kept Penne.

But I am glad they are with hens their size.

Here are the gang at this point:
Mr P
Fluffy
Curly
Henny Penny
Marty
Buttercup
Misty
Whiskers
Rose
Dorothy
Blanche
Penelope
Sophia
Tippy
Eli-too
Petunia
Butterscotch
Muffy
Babe
Ruth
Sue
Cash
Red
Sharpie
Larry
Raven
Topsy
Flopsy
Twister



Chicken math is a hard thing!

o
h, my gosh. You will give Mr. P heart attack trying to take care of all those girls! 28 girls for Mr. P to supervise alone????

 

[rural mouse]

Ok well, the only male here now is Mr P. The issue with poor Marty missing and found hiding away sealed all their fates. And after seeing how everyone was enjoying themselves out and about the past 2 days with the boys safe in their pen affirmed my decision.

The silkies are just too small to have to deal with rowdy boys. It would be different if it were just the big girls. I would have kept Penne.

But I am glad they are with hens their size.

Here are the gang at this point:
Mr P
Fluffy
Curly
Henny Penny
Marty
Buttercup
Misty
Whiskers
Rose
Dorothy
Blanche
Penelope
Sophia
Tippy
Eli-too
Petunia
Butterscotch
Muffy
Babe
Ruth
Sue
Cash
Red
Sharpie
Larry
Raven
Topsy
Flopsy
Twister



Chicken math is a hard thing!

Keep an eye out for a silkie roo then.

 

[rural mouse]

Anything sweet will attract fruit flies. Savory (think, meat or decaying vegetables) will attract regular house flies better. If you eat meat with a bone in it, put the bone in with bits of scraps on it. Let it sit for a few days, to start to decay and have odour - that should do it!
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Happy mugs Monday from : Do I really have to stand still while you futz with whatever that thingy is????"

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Bielefleder roo?

 

[lightm]

Meimei

inky

 

[Ponypoor]

o
h, my gosh. You will give Mr. P heart attack trying to take care of all those girls! 28 girls for Mr. P to supervise alone????

Not to worry, most of them don’t even bother with him, nor him them. He hangs with his original few (Marty, Penelope, and Sophia) that he likes.

The rest will tolerate him, and sometimes let him breed them, otherwise they just ignore him

Now the funny thing is the Azurs find him very alluring where as my nieces hens have no interest in him. The school chicks hang out with my nieces hens mostly but Sophia’s chicks hang with everyone equally. At night they roost with the main gang in the Hen House.

So I am not worried that Mr P will be over taxed.

 

[Ponypoor]

Bielefleder roo?

Gosh for a moment there I thought you were suggesting I get a Bielefelder Roo - I envisioned poor Marty being squashed flat

I was not sure if a Roo or hen but sure is a pretty chook isn’t it?