Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I feel really bad for Sylvie. She doesn’t seem to have got the hang of this broody thing at all.
When she is off the nest she runs around frantically making that broody bok-bok-bok sound. She doesn’t focus on eating, drinking or bathing (though I have seen her do all three), she just runs around aimlessly and apparently frantically. Like she lost her car keys.
When the others are peacefully napping or busy digging she charges into them at full speed. They get annoyed and beat the crap out of her.
I am hoping she will give up on her own. And I hope when she does she can reintegrate peacefully. It seems to me she has lost a lot of friends.
Babs and Bernie are more tolerant of her behavior than the other Pentagonists. You can almost feel their frustration with her!
Piglet has stopped giving her eggs and is laying elsewhere - somewhere Sylvie hasn’t discovered. Babs still supplies her an egg every day.
Poor Sylvie. I think she may be up on the roof again.


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Sylvie reminds me of my old roommate in college.! Wandering aimlessly, Bok boking at everything. Not eating anything.

 

[RoyalChick]

It is still Friday and I have some more fluffy butts.
Tassels in the foreground with Calypso ahead of her.
And Bernie doing her best with what she has left.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Fluffy Butt Friday:

Myth is really rounding out now.
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Lore, pretty boy and he sure knows it!
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Various stages of molting, so somewhat fluffy butts?
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OK so on my bike ride today I stopped to talk to a wonderful lady neighbor who keeps chickens and bees, and I guessed two of the pullets she got this year, very nice brownish very speckled hens, were Speckled Sussex. They look just like yours in the color and speckled-ness, at least from a little distance, and they didn’t have quite the shape it seemed to be Jubilee Orpingtons. Very small unnoticeable combs, which I should have paid more attention to! I was wrong - she said our other neighbor, who knows a ton about chickens, and knows the fellow from whom the first got these (350 chickens of all different kinds), tells her these look like they are “Orloffs.” I looked it up…..So now there is yet another breed to confuse these other breeds with!

These chickens are young hens, and not nearly fully grown yet - and as I watched them move, one did have a very slight over-puffiness in the neck and something about her face looked different, almost eel-like, so I think it is the beginnings of a beard and maybe muffs. I’ll get pictures soon.

Here’s a BYC focus thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/russian-orloffs.297764/

 

[ChicoryBlue]

This is the brick pavers I have, with loose hay that has been sitting on top of them over the summer. There are a gazzillion bug, spiders and what-not under the hay and cracks between the bricks. And the chooks have a blast digging through it.
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I am in the process of pulling up pavers we’re the tats have tunnelled under them, backfilling and replacing the pavers - hate rats.
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Aren’t the rats just going to re-tunnel through the nice diggable backfill, unless you can block them some way?

 

[featherhead007]

Some fluffy butts in the yard today:

 

[Ponypoor]

I feel really bad for Sylvie. She doesn’t seem to have got the hang of this broody thing at all.
When she is off the nest she runs around frantically making that broody bok-bok-bok sound. She doesn’t focus on eating, drinking or bathing (though I have seen her do all three), she just runs around aimlessly and apparently frantically. Like she lost her car keys.
When the others are peacefully napping or busy digging she charges into them at full speed. They get annoyed and beat the crap out of her.
I am hoping she will give up on her own. And I hope when she does she can reintegrate peacefully. It seems to me she has lost a lot of friends.
Babs and Bernie are more tolerant of her behavior than the other Pentagonists. You can almost feel their frustration with her!
Piglet has stopped giving her eggs and is laying elsewhere - somewhere Sylvie hasn’t discovered. Babs still supplies her an egg every day.
Poor Sylvie. I think she may be up on the roof again.


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I am sorry to laugh but that is eggsactly like Henny Penny

A whirling dervish, running every screaming at everyone picking fights, then she will go back to her nest and be quiet as a sleeping baby, until someone walks close by her, then it’s The Exorcist!

What I do now with her is remove her from the nest and put the food by her and stand guard not letting anyone near her. She is much better if she isn’t distracted by the others - makes her feel secure.

 

[Ponypoor]

Aren’t the rats just going to re-tunnel through the nice diggable backfill, unless you can block them some way?

Yep that’s what the bags of cement are for. I will grout any openings and cracks - entomb the suckers!

 

[rural mouse]

OK so on my bike ride today I stopped to talk to a wonderful lady neighbor who keeps chickens and bees, and I guessed two of the pullets she got this year, very nice brownish very speckled hens, were Speckled Sussex. They look just like yours in the color and speckled-ness, at least from a little distance, and they didn’t have quite the shape it seemed to be Jubilee Orpingtons. Very small unnoticeable combs, which I should have paid more attention to! I was wrong - she said our other neighbor, who knows a ton about chickens, and knows the fellow from whom the first got these (350 chickens of all different kinds), tells her these look like they are “Orloffs.” I looked it up…..So now there is yet another breed to confuse these other breeds with!

These chickens are young hens, and not nearly fully grown yet - and as I watched them move, one did have a very slight over-puffiness in the neck and something about her face looked different, almost eel-like, so I think it is the beginnings of a beard and maybe muffs. I’ll get pictures soon.

Here’s a BYC focus thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/russian-orloffs.297764/

Now I'm slightly jealous. They're on my breed wish list.

 

[Ponypoor]

OK so on my bike ride today I stopped to talk to a wonderful lady neighbor who keeps chickens and bees, and I guessed two of the pullets she got this year, very nice brownish very speckled hens, were Speckled Sussex. They look just like yours in the color and speckled-ness, at least from a little distance, and they didn’t have quite the shape it seemed to be Jubilee Orpingtons. Very small unnoticeable combs, which I should have paid more attention to! I was wrong - she said our other neighbor, who knows a ton about chickens, and knows the fellow from whom the first got these (350 chickens of all different kinds), tells her these look like they are “Orloffs.” I looked it up…..So now there is yet another breed to confuse these other breeds with!

These chickens are young hens, and not nearly fully grown yet - and as I watched them move, one did have a very slight over-puffiness in the neck and something about her face looked different, almost eel-like, so I think it is the beginnings of a beard and maybe muffs. I’ll get pictures soon.

Here’s a BYC focus thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/russian-orloffs.297764/

Oh, I wanted Otloffs but I couldn’t get them other than straight run. Aren’t they crazy looking ? I still would like a couple pullets.

 

[ManueB]

Hello FBA ! Haven't posted photos in a while, I will try to catch up next week as I have a few I’ve kept for other days. I have a few butts for today, and a comb question.

Pied-beau’s behind. Not exactly fluffy but shiny.

His sweetheart Lilly has a poopy fluffy butt

Mélisse has a pullet's sleek butt. She laid her first egg a few days ago, and is the first of the pullets to lay (hatched on the 20 May).

Laure is growing big ...and so is her butt !

And a question for those of you who have some knowledge on different types of comb. I’ve been told a few times Théo’s comb was "strange" and a few days ago someone said that it must have been torn and wounded to look like this ! He did get into a few real fights with Gaston some months ago but most of the time it was his wattles that got torn the most, and I don't recall that it was ever to the point of being worried about it. Any opinion on whether his comb is naturally split or due to a bruise ? ( He is molting by the way and very touchy if anyone mentions it!)