Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sally PB]

That photo needs to go onto the comments contest

I think I'll do that!

 

[BeastBaby]

Let the guessing begin!

For Mug Monday curtesy of @BeastBaby and their suggestion, here are the four Hoover pullets. Wonder what colour eggs they will lay

Babe (she can hit this out of the park)
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Dr Ruth (the little pecker)
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Sue (she ain’t no Boy called Sue)
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Cash (she knows how to Walk the Line)
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And one of the School Chicks - Butterscotch, someone pecked her comb and it bled all over her topknot. She should be laying very soon.

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Okay! So
Babe: green
Ruth: olive
Sue: brown
Cash: green
Butterscotch: light blue but with a bloom that will make it look like stone

 

[notabitail]

Mugs Monday

Me before my cup of tea in the morning:

and Dominica.

 

[BY Bob]

Henny Penny was a chicken,
She was a good friend of mine,
I never understood a single things she said,
But she sure did know how to whine,
She really really knew how to whine.

(Ok now sing it to the tune of Jeremiah was a Bulldrog…. By Three Dog Night )

And the chorus.........

Singing, Joy to the chooks
All the hens and cocks
Joy to the chickies under momma's care
Joy to chooks everywhere

 

[featherhead007]

What beautiful animals.
I had a photo here somewhere of my chickens trying to mug my dog for h8s chew heart . Happy days

Ha!

 

[featherhead007]

Took these middle of last weekView attachment 3682800Storm, she's let the remaining trio go off to do teenage things, but is willing to snuggle with them come roost time. She will drive adults away when the littles (who are at least as big as Twirp, Lark, and Indigo; Nimbus is bigger than Cheetah) want to snuggle. When they don't, they get to suffer the adults telling them to go instead.

View attachment 3682801Tailless Whiskey (don't worry, Alex, I just happened to snap the pic as he paused to decide where to place his next step. He kept moving a half second later)

View attachment 3682802Enigma is looking VERY much like Maizie minus the beard now that Maizie is done moulting. Comb different, so, once she's laying, I may stand a better chance of telling them apart at a glance......(doubtful)

View attachment 3682803Pear is very much watching over all of them. I suspect her vanishing last week involved helping Nimbus hide. Next morning she came up to the house asking to be let into the coop. She learned Silver's smarts.

View attachment 3682804Havoc (I love her beard) who likes to hide her face. She's constantly eating.

View attachment 3682805Tuff is crowing....and slowly improving. He's doing a lot of observatIon, so I have hopes for him turning out to be a good boy. I haven't seen him tidbitting or attempting to mate the girls yet, so he's at least taking it slowly rather than turning hormonal idiot in an eye blink.

View attachment 3682806He did some posing.

View attachment 3682807Nellie is finished moulting and has produced the occasional egg. If she limits herself to a couple a week next spring, bodes well for her living a longer life than many leghorns.

View attachment 3682808Tuff keeping an eye out for Havoc and Enigma


As for the others: Primula is also done moulting, Belladonna is close. Lark and Indigo both started moulting. Poor Lark is doing a hard one like Nellie did last year. She's a 3/4 naked mass of pins. Dropped her tail feathers yesterday and spent the night next to heat in solitary splendor. I've taken to stroking a toe nail for the birds moulting. Just a touch to attempt keeping them used to being handled. Lark and Indigo have NEVER permitted being handled, but last night the toenail was tolerated surprisingly well.

Pippa has finally sprouted pins over her naked back. She was laying consistently until last week (she lays a darker toned more olive egg than Maizie's minty one I could finally confirm).

Cuckoo has started laying again, so is mostly finished moulting. Hector is also feeling better. He's taken to attempting to pester Cuckoo who is very much not interested yet.

The Invasion are pinking (redder than the pics in less than a week). Chia hasn't disappeared again so hopefully she takes to laying in the coop. I'd like to see egg color one at a time to ID who lays which color and shape. Somehow, I don't think they'll oblige me, in surprising ways.

Put that leg down!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m here spending time with Xzit. She got mad at me because I was tickling her under her wings. Wow what a temper she has! She’s not complaining about the steak breakfast though is she?!

 

[featherhead007]

And here’s Xzit giving honors to her favorite mentors picture. (Phyllis)
Glamour lessons are on Xzit’s Christmas list.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Mornin!

On our way to conquer the week
And...that popcorn had a sell by date of April 2023. It was in a sealed bag but dang it even smells stale.

 

[featherhead007]

Mornin!
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On our way to conquer the week
And...that popcorn had a sell by date of April 2023. It was in a sealed bag but dang it even smells stale.

April 2023 is my car’s registration deadline