Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

I'm off to ebay to buy princess diaper.

@notabitail
Thank you for the conversation see you soon

 

[notabitail]

I'm off to ebay to buy princess diaper.

@notabitail
Thank you for the conversation see you soon

See you soon, Marie!

 

[BeastBaby]

Squeaking in with plenty of time technically left on the clock for “Thirsty Thursday”, but I know you all are a buncha early risers and prefer your photos first thing:

I also took Rural Mouse’s advice to use nipple waterers exclusively in the run- but the moment they get out into the extension, Quincy beelines for a sloppy cuppa water.

For fun, here are before and after-ish molt photos of Dottie my speckled Sussex.
Before:

After (more like the mid-way point, she still has a buncha feathers growing in):

 

[RoyalChick]

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.

OK. Or you could set your alarm clock.
It needs to be examined before she has got off the roost and had any chance to eat.
These days that isn’t very early.
Sour crop is an unmistakable smell like yeast. Smells like a brewery or like bread dough.

 

[RoyalChick]

Who of us have the Speckled Sussex / Suspects and who the Jubilee Orpingtons? I am so confused...

It is simple. They are all extremely pretty spotted chickens!

 

[RoyalChick]

Well I can tell you as of yesterday morning showing my palm to Diane-Ida first does not stop her biting it. She grabbed the looser skin by my thumb and pulled! I did then reach over and tap her moderately hard on the back as she ran away. Since then however, she has not tried to bite my hand, though she has lightly pecked my gloved hand. She has looked at flesh but then side-stepped away. She will still eat feed or treats from my bare hand, and I gladly feed her. She can leap onto my hat and hang out up there. She is welcome to peck and pull on my clothes, test out my drawstrings and whatnot. She can help clean off any little fuzzballs or bits she thinks need tidying up, and see what's in the folds. Just no biting of flesh please. So far, she hasn't gone for my hand again. Yet!

Keep us posted. I may need to try that with Bernie and Tassels before I lose a finger.

 

[RoyalChick]

GIMME! NOW!
(Oh wait-Do I have room? I think so. Maybe next spring. Get Agathae broody again).

Tassels lays green eggs but much darker.

 

[rural mouse]

I have a speckled Sussex!

Mental note: more SS than I thought! Sweet birds (well, they all have their own personalities )

 

[rural mouse]

Come and pick us up on the way @Ponypoor

Gotta see this wheeled rig that can drive on water!

Tax

Taken Dec 4, 2022

 

[rural mouse]

It is simple. They are all extremely pretty spotted chickens!

Agreed!