Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

They look like spitting images of my black copper Maran!!

Welcome

 

[featherhead007]

I found out something new. Sir Jaffar likes my stir fry shrimp tofu recipe as much as I do ! He really gobbles it down!

 

[knoturavggrl]

So many fallen leaves!

Right? It’s drizzling today and they are really falling fast. I want the sun to come out so they dry out. Then my husband can mulch em and I can put them into the run or the pole barn for later if I get enough! Free run bedding

 

[Ponypoor]

Rainy drizzly day but the chickens liked their outing in the leaves. Oh and for the first time in MONTHS (Thanks to broody hormones and then molting) I finally got a Brownie egg today
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Good girl Brownie!

 

[Ponypoor]

Loads of tax that I owe:
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Onyx's molting pictures

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Two fig tree pics

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Cluckie in the Chicken hospital

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Storm chicken lineup

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And fluffy butts!

Thank for the tax you have a lovely flock, and I am more than a little jealous of your fig and pomegranate trees

 

[Ponypoor]

They look like spitting images of my black copper Maran!!

Welcome! Feel free to pop in and join the conversation! We would love to see photos of your chooks

Next year I am planning on getting a French Cuckoo Marans

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Thank for the tax you have a lovely flock, and I am more than a little jealous of your fig and pomegranate trees

Don't be jealous! I'm sure you have way more amazing trees at your place!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Right? It’s drizzling today and they are really falling fast. I want the sun to come out so they dry out. Then my husband can mulch em and I can put them into the run or the pole barn for later if I get enough! Free run bedding

Yes!

 

[Ponypoor]

Don't be jealous! I'm sure you have way more amazing trees at your place!

Yup

But they don’t have fruit that I really want and pay a fortune for: figs, bananas, mango….

 

[micstrachan]

Good for you! I have over 50 adult hens - guess how many eggs I have been getting?4-6. Yesterday only 3. i know you are molting, girls, but really???? I spend $250+ per week feeding you all - can you help with the feed bills just a bit???? At least I'm getting 5-6 duck eggs a day (out of 13 girls),

And, none of the pullets are yet laying to help with the slack. My oldest 2 groups, should be laying - or laying soon, but nope!, not yet 6 of those 4 +2 about 1.5 weeks apart.

And, for now, the young roos are still too young/skinny to process - one from the second hatch, multiple from later hatches (8, can keep at most 1)

So, at the moment, they are literally eating me out of house and home! and - at least I am hoping - the 2 older sets of chicks should start to lay this fall. I'm assuming all the others will wait until late Jan or early Feb.

Hmmm....this math just DOESN'T add up: presently about 125 birds (young, adult, chickens, ducks, geese) 6-9 eggs per day. Hmmm, maybe I need to rethink them as my retirement plan - 'cause now I am working to support THEM!

?maybe they though I said I was their retirement plan, not the other way around????

Slackers! Just kidding, of course. I am down to seven hens ages 3-7.5. Getting zero eggs per day.