Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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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@BeastBaby

Well Butterscotch has laid her first egg - well second really, the other day I thought she laid an egg, but it was pink and looked like a Silkie egg. BUT, today I did catch her in the act, so I am calling todays egg the first - and it’s a pinkish-light brown colour.

Totally threw me for a loop, as I have no idea now who her egg mum is - maybe Rose? Who lays a tan coloured egg…? And was really eggspectimg another blue one after the ones that Muffy has been laying.

Marty, Fluffy and Butterscotch’s eggs

 

[featherhead007]

Update:

Today kinda sucks! Remember that elderly lady neighbor? Well she’s sick and had no one to help her out. She called me and asked me to come over. I brought Sir Jaffar with me, fed her and took her to the bathroom. Gave her her meds and am now in her living room watching tv with my rooster buddy. I will be heading home soon as a caregiver arrives this afternoon. Sir Jaffar has been feeling better lately and I’m glad for that!

a church friend is on her way to care for this lady, so I can go back home to see my chooks.

 

[BY Bob]

My dad dropped off a bunch of pumpkins, gourds, and corn stalks a bit ago. I'm going to process the obviously frost damaged ones during the week, but hopefully the rest will keep and I can do them over the winter. There are a few pie pumpkins!
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The little punkin sorter hard at work.
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Gourds. I love gourds so I'll harvest seeds from them to plant along the treeline next year. Gourds!!!

As for the corn stalks, what should I do to get those ready for the chickens? Take the cobs off? Chop it? Or just haul one stalk in there every so often and let the ladies go to town? Dad says he wants a few for the deer and all he'll do is put them in the woods. Do I have to crack the kernels?

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My two spotty dotty chickens for tax

For chickens you need to get the field corn off of the cob at least. Mine have a hard time pecking it off. It's better if you can crack it up for them.

 

[RoyalChick]

Twirp has a TON of new feathers sprouting around her tail She's going to be fully covered again soon! Whiskey is taking his time, but has pins coming too.

CAUTION @RoyalChick moult pics, all the hard moult pics are running around and eating plenty so while look uncomfortable, aren't ACTING uncomfortable.

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And a closer tail shot. She has pins coming quickly below, too.

View attachment 3684435Enigma has some feather shred happening....so did Silver....maybe I have my offspring?

View attachment 3684436Chia, eyeing nest bank for landing. She's being treated as if she has started laying. She didn't to into a nest box. Rather she used the ledge to get around the crowd at my feet.

View attachment 3684437Maizie, Jessica, Whiskey: telling Maizie and Havoc apart is going to be tricky: the black beard and Havoc has fairly strong Colombian markings around her neck, while Maizie has very faint ones....they both have black tails, along with Pippa....

View attachment 3684439Roos: Whiskey and Cheetah

Poor moulting ladies: Pippa and Lark (She's getting it HARD)View attachment 3684440Exit stage left: Whiskey, Pippa, PITA
Enter stage right, top to bottom: Blanche, tailless Indigo (shaking her loose feathers out), Mera, Nellie

Surprisingly warm today (almost 60f) but chilly wind. Lots of sunning going on.

Thanks for warning me.

 

[Ponypoor]

Put that in the caption contest!

Done

 

[RoyalChick]

For chickens you need to get the field corn off of the cob at least. Mine have a hard time pecking it off. It's better if you can crack it up for them.

I assume field corn must be tougher than sweet corn? When I have grown sweet corn they has no problem tearing it off the cob.

 

[Ponypoor]

Your batteries are probably getting super old. You should replace them. Or hire my little brother. Power tool nut.

I have four batteries - 2 are the originals. And 2 I bought a few years ago.

Anywhooo I gave up on the door and decided it was too nice a day to not sit and watch the chooks. Not much longer till winter.

 

[Ponypoor]

I assume field corn must be tougher than sweet corn? When I have grown sweet corn they has no problem tearing it off the cob.

Is it dried? It might be a softer variety.

Update:

a church friend is on her way to care for this lady, so I can go back home to see my chooks.

You are a good person, I am glad she will have some one to help her.

 

[notabitail]

I have four batteries - 2 are the originals. And 2 I bought a few years ago.

Anywhooo I gave up on the door and decided it was too nice a day to not sit and watch the chooks. Not much longer till winter.

I ordered a new battery for more flight time on my drone. Two days later one of my older batteries refused to function properly.
Yes, I know. Tax. Coming soon.

 

[featherhead007]

I’m home now, and it’s raining ️ I didn’t see any chooks around, so I opened a can of corn and yelled “CORN!” Dakota came running from under the willow tree