Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Poor cheetah !

He actually has NEVER seemed miserable. Wondering if he got far enough through the moult to push it finished.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Two for Tuesday

Marty and Curly
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The chicklets
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I have seen it and experienced it multiple times now and yet it never ceases to amaze me just how fast chickens grow up! Wow they are beautiful babies

 

[knoturavggrl]

We have bald eagles here that nest close by. There was a couple, then last year they had a juvenile, and it is still around although normally I think he should have left for his own territory. They do take chickens, just pick them and fly off, and the ones we have here are not afraid of humans at all. I’ve had the disturbing experience of one swooping for a chicken when I was just three or four meters behind and it was difficult to make it leave. Beautiful birds in the sky, strikingly ugly close up.

Two for Tuesday pictures :
Théo and Piou-piou don't get along every day, but today they were sweethearts.
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A very close, though undesired, two in the nest situation for Nieva and Mélisse. (My coop is an old stable in our basement and some of the nests are holes in the walls, like this one.)
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Nieva and Lulu. Lulu started laying last week at 29 weeks ! Like @Sally PB's Robin, on the coop's floor. Not an issue for me, as long as it's not under the roost !
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Beautiful photos as always

 

[featherhead007]

I’m running a special today. I’ll rub anyone’s wattles for $29.95

 

[rural mouse]

Today's groupings


Cheetah: Lark, Blanche, PITA, Cuckoo

Whiskey: Pear, Storm, Cardhu, Cumulo, Nimbus, Maizie

Hector: Jessica, Indigo, Chia, Shan, Havoc, Enigma, Nellie

Tuff: Primula, Belladonna, Mera, Pippa
(In the coop)

Off on her own: Twirp
(Near both Cheetah and Whiskey groups)

Color codes:

Black: oldest 3 years
Red: 2 years (including lone hatch)
Orange: 1.75 years
Green: 1.5 years
Blue: this year's incubator hatch
Purple: this year's broody hatch

These groupings will be all mixed up and changed again, even today.

 

[BY Bob]

Check Out This Beauty

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Oh, thank you so much for letting me know, I have been making this stupid translation mistake forever ! (And likely I have yet to discover a bunch of others. I am still not over calling my track barrow a thermal barrow ). No, then you are definitely right, we don't have bald eagles here. They have been spotted a few times in the last 20 years and every time it seems it was either a mistake or they were birds held in captivity that escaped. So I was indeed talking about golden eagles.

Well, for golden eagles actually. And maybe don't tell the chickens to run, since I just learned on Shadrach's thread they chase mostly by tracking movement, which is why sometimes chickens freeze on spot instead of running to hide.

I also feel responsible for a terrible chicken death. I try to balance that feeling by reminding myself that she had mostly a very good life.

Some wattles for Wednesday. I know it's not really a FBA thing but the weather is so grey today that it sounded like the easy way out.

Gaston
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Laure. Pretty impressive for a 7 months old pullet !
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Talking about raptor birds, I just saw a red-tailed hawk out! Chickens freeze on spot? Clever, but my chooks seem to run to the mulberry bush.

 

[featherhead007]

Check Out This Beauty

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Wow, those new feathers!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Check Out This Beauty

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Some amazing feathers she has!

 

[rural mouse]

Today's groupings


Cheetah: Lark, Blanche, PITA, Cuckoo
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Whiskey: Pear, Storm, Cardhu, Cumulo, Nimbus, MaizieView attachment 3704503

Hector: Jessica, Indigo, Chia, Shan, Havoc, Enigma, NellieView attachment 3704501

Tuff: Primula, Belladonna, Mera, Pippa
(In the coop)

Off on her own: Twirp
(Near both Cheetah and Whiskey groups)

Color codes:

Black: oldest 3 years
Red: 2 years (including lone hatch)
Orange: 1.75 years
Green: 1.5 years
Blue: this year's incubator hatch
Purple: this year's broody hatch

These groupings will be all mixed up and changed again, even today.

See?

And a good profile of tailless Cheetah. May his splendor grow back quickly.