Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BeastBaby]

Thirsty Thursday:

Fire truck tax: pullets roosting as close as they dare to the sand pit, to which the adults have exclusive rights, as seen via security camera.

 

[BY Bob]

Cursive isn’t taught in school anymore. I used to send letters through the mail to my nieces written in cursive hahahaha.

Sort of like making them use those old rotary dial phones

Ok so don’t worry he isn’t dead… but he was sound asleep in the sun, Mr P face down in the dirt

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Gosh they can scare you sometimes!

 

[Ponypoor]

Gosh they can scare you sometimes!

I think his ear/skin is bothering him, poor fella. I am treating him and he is not a happy boy about it.

Tomorrow I am going to try and wash his skin and feathers with some antibacterial soap to try to get rid of the crud built up. Also wash his feathers so they are clean. Poor old boy - it’s tough being a stud

Before his trimming.

 

[Ponypoor]

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Fire truck tax: pullets roosting as close as they dare to the sand pit, to which the adults have exclusive rights, as seen via security camera.
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They sure look like they have a great location there

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I think his ear/skin is bothering him, poor fella. I am treating him and he is not a happy boy about it.

Tomorrow I am going to try and wash his skin and feathers with some antibacterial soap to try to get rid of the crud built up. Also wash his feathers so they are clean. Poor old boy - it’s tough being a stud

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Before his trimming.

Poor Mr. P, but you will have him feeling better in no time. I have to ask though, how have you avoided being beaten by Marty while you doctor him?

 

[Ponypoor]

Poor Mr. P, but you will have him feeling better in no time. I have to ask though, how have you avoided being beaten by Marty while you doctor him?

Twice - yesterday and today- I grabbed him while he was on the opposite side of the fence from Marty.

Nights are easier with them roosting. Poor fella - it’s just not fun having an infection and moulting!

Hey how’s your shoulder?

 

[featherhead007]

I would just throw the stocks leaves and all in there and they will have a blast tearing it apart.

Why don’t you just go buy them a huge set of LEGO building blocks!

 

[featherhead007]

Drama… you all know I hate it.

Tonight they kiddos found out that I stapled the screening on the HH-A window, and in HH-B I stapled a shaving bag over the window so that Sophia’s teens couldn’t fly up and roost there.

So what did they do instead? One flew up onto the door to HH-A, but Buttercup gave her a thumping and she flew down. Two of them spotted the small high up window in Hen House A and flew up there - the 2 of them barely fit there! I got fed up and left them to figure it out.

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Then Misty was mad she also couldn’t roost in the window in HH-A so she was going to roost in a nest box in Hen House B. Sheesh! I hauled her fluffy butt out and put her in a nest box in HH-A where she belongs.

The rest of them I left to figure it all out - I need to get HH-B DONE! Just the door needs to be hung, then they can all roost on there - tomorrow - that’s the plan!

Why do I feel my blood pressure rise whenever I’m reading your posts?

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

I feel happy for you! I remember the first time I hatched eggs. It was so exciting!
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Onyx: Hatched in an incubator, raised by Plum.

Onyx, your gettin' some new feathers, whatcha lookin' at? Come over here, I love you!!!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Those witches as you called them, Rosie would flourish under their teachings. From the very beginning she has had the older close to retiring mean teachers. I never called them mean, this came from people we knew whose children had them in the past. It was always you need to switch her out of so and so's class, they are always yelling at the kids. I never did. I had old school style teachers in school and they were the ones who taught me things that I still remember. She has loved them all and excelled. Those older "mean" teachers push their students. She also learned respect from them as they did not put up with nonsense. I backed the teachers up until they completely did away with corporal punishment in schools 2 years ago. She saw me sign the permission form each year that was followed up with the same warning. You get paddled in school you will get another as soon as you get home. She has never been sent to the principals office. I cannot say the same about myself, paddled 3 times before 4th grade, but I needed them. Her favorite teacher so far in high school she is in one of his classes a 2nd year. He was her physics teacher last year and this years forensics teacher. Let me tell you that child has earned her grades in that class and he would have killed me. Monday through Friday homework that needs to be turned in by midnight online. He grades it, no oh you did it you get full credit. If it is wrong points taken off. Weekly quizzes and a test every 2 weeks. We are not talking small assignments either, in physics it was 2 full pages of problems. Definitions and outlines. Same with forensics. 1st 9 weeks of forensics she got a 89.85, he does not believe in rounding up. That is ok, I know how hard she has worked and if she is proud of that grade and believes she did her best I am happy with it as well. He is actually becoming a mentor for her and she goes to him for advise. She wants to work in forensics when she is done with school. He is retired military and then was a cop for 20 years before he took up teaching. In his forensics class he brings first hand knowledge of the procedures and she comes home and tells me everything. The 2 of them are mapping out what classes that are offered at the high school she NEEDs to take and he is advising her on colleges. Her favorite day so far was when he had a former collogue bring a lie detector test to the school and demonstrate it. She came home and said Mr. Hunt got put in the hot seat and I had fun. The drawback, she is no fun anymore watching favorite tv shows like CSI or NCIS. I get, it does not work that way, that is wrong. Dang you Mr. Hunt.

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Squirrel is finally finished with her molt and is beautiful again.
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Woah! Squirrel may or may not be the most beautiful chicken I've seen. Seriously, look at that face! Look at her stance and body shape, and those eyes. Shes so confident, like shes struttin' down a runway. Squirrels face is just soooo pretty..... Thanks for sharing. Squirrel, you are ALL THAT and then some.