Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

What prompted todays quick photoshoot was @BY Bob photo's of Lady F and her spots. I adore Lady F, love her spots. I know with both Jubilee Orps and Speckled Sussex the older they get the more spots they get. It is surprising to me, although maybe not to those who have had sussex in the past that the sussex are so spotted so young. Lady F has a year age difference on Spot and Dot so I would expect her to have way more spots then they do.

Pictures from this afternoons photoshoot.
Dottie, heavily spotted but less so then her sister. She is also lighter in build at the moment. She may be on her way to committing crimes against her owner during the day but, at night she enjoys a good crop massage on the roost.View attachment 3694945View attachment 3694946View attachment 3694947View attachment 3694948View attachment 3694949
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Dottie, do NOT do it.
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I mean it Dottie.
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Here, let me touch you, see how you like it.
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I thought so
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I was surprised at how few spots Lady Featherington had at first but at this rate of change she is going to look like Glynda in a few years.

Glynda

 

[notabitail]

What does it feel like first thing in the morning before she gets off the roost?

I am not sure what stinky feed smells like. Does it smell like anything else you can think of?

I'm sleeping when those things wake up. My sister can check though because she wakes up at the rooster's crow.
It smells like, well, stinky chicken feed. And all the others have the same smell, so I think it's normal.

 

[BY Bob]

Sour Crop. Beetov-hen.
We think Beetov-hen has a sour crop. It's big and squishy. What should we do with her?
(I would sing the Ode to Poo by Barbara Beetov-hen, but she never gave me the music).

Sour crop has an odor. Do you smell anything?

 

[BY Bob]

I understand that completely. I got lucky and my mom lived here. When I busted out of my dad's house in PA, she came and brought me here. My first Thanksgiving I were a tank top and shorts. It was 83. I was shocked

That would be shocking compared to PA.

 

[featherhead007]

Not surprised. I'm stealing your spotlight, am I not?

Take that spotlight. I was starting to sweat too much! Thanks!

 

[BY Bob]

Nice to see them all together getting along

Surprisingly there was no fussing at all when they were all in the coop the whole day. I was very pleased with them all.

 

[notabitail]

I wouldn’t know about McDonalds milkshakes. Their machines are always broken!

 

[notabitail]

Sour crop has an odor. Do you smell anything?

Her breath smells like stinky chicken feed. It smells like the others.
She has a big, liquidy, squishy, crop. Any ideas as to what on earth is going on?

 

[BY Bob]

Wait, what? Sample size of 2. Does this mean Lady F will be getting a spotted sister soon?

I have 1 and @Sally PB has 1. That equals 2. Nice try. No new chickens here for a long while (I hope).

 

[notabitail]

I hope the tax collectors ask for tax before they read this message.
Tax for ice cream machine comment:
Abigail, the Speckled Sussex. The only hen I had to compare to your speckled ones (I still don't have that Speckled Sussex I want).