Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

Sis came over again yesterday afternoon to spend time with Grandma and go with mom down to her house to look for a few things she wanted. She also came for her 2nd green egg. Little Owly did not deliver hehe. First thing this morning she ran straight to the box and laid her 2nd egg. I will get to keep this one for a bit, she has to work today so will not be over. I thought I was bad about collecting chickens, Sis is becoming a terrible enabler. Before she moved out she complained about the chickens, too noisy, why did I need so many and a egg was a egg and store eggs were best. Then she actually tried my girls eggs and has not ate a store egg in 3 years. She also appreciates pretty eggs now and will pick and choose through the cartons for the prettiest ones when she comes to get 1 or 2 dozen at a time. She moved out almost a year and a half ago now and really appreciates my eggs and claims I do not have enough hens and groceries are expensive. She calls it highway robbery at the prices of store eggs now that taste like crap as she puts it. She also misses my roosters crowing and her townhouse is too quiet. It was her and Rosie's prodding that pushed me to get a EE. Now she is taking it to a whole new level, one I have to admit I have been contemplating myself. I mentioned a month ago that I thought Owly and Bubba would make some pretty olive eggers if she laid blue or green eggs. Yesterday Sis showed me a picture of Olive eggs on her phone. She then informed me she looked up olive eggers and realized with Owly laying a green egg she could get one if I bred her to Bubba. She offered to bring back the egg if I would toss it in the incubator. Enable much. I had to tell her I would not even think of hatching Owly's eggs for at least a month. Her response had my grandma laughing. She said "fine, wait a month, then you will have about 10 broody hens fighting you, give one of them a dozen of her eggs." Sigh, Sis needs to find the right house and buy it. It is time she has her own flock of hens.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Fluffy Butt Acres Weekly synopsis for the week ending Feb 10th
Last week's synopsis is available here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27469598


@BY Bob brought us some big news from FBA.

Aurora turned 5 this week and there was a big party. With cake and many other delicacies!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27478429
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27478625
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27478646

Also Phyllis is turning grey
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27482157

In other hatchday celebrations, @fuentemoon celebrated two beauties who turned 6. My goodness what gorgeous girls!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27483399
For those of us, like me, with a weakness for black chickens @BY Bob provided a helpful summary
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27472793


STRIPES were the big theme of the week. Even though I don't want any more chickens right now, these gorgeous stripes had me flipping through hatchery websites daydreaming!
Lovely stripes provided by @BY Bob, @Ponypoor, @Desertvalleychickens, @Grandma The Chicken, and @featherhead007.

@BY Bob was particularly excited about the stripes this week:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27471569
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27473770

And reminded us about Ned
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27469640
Although that was the last picture we have of Ned with BY Bob, we did get an update from him once he was with @CrazyChookChookLady
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-25494616

Here are the rest of the stripes, including, of course, Sydney
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27469937
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27469713
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27470823
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27473425
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27477605

Spots also made an appearance from @Ponypoor and @BY Bob, and also set me off daydreaming!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27473444
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27473556


@LhickenChicken stopped by for a visit and gave us an update on her flock that included sad news about Ginger
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27475034

In more sad news, @Pastel The Rooster has to remove Gumbo from the flock one way or another. He seems like a wonderful rooster and several of us are saddened to think he will end up as dinner
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27469609
At the time of going to press his fate is unknown and Pastel is grounded to focus on her grades.

In happier news, @Ponypoor has chick fever (isn't it always the case?!).
She has a plan to enable herself to get more chicks.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27472766
Remember, you can ignore the impressive numbers because all of her current flock have names, so according to the rules of Chicken Math, she doesn't actually have any chickens at all!
Pony is being discerning and only wants one kind of chick. Or maybe two types. Or make that four. Maybe more?
She seems to want a lot of different chickens. I can't keep up!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27478206
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27475521
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27475388


@RebeccaBoyd gave several updates from her lovely flock
Owly (who I think is a stunningly beautiful chicken) may be laying pink eggs
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27478317
Or not:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27480376

Poppet is a challenge to photograph
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27479118
Unless she is watching TV
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27482613


Several of us were weather challenged this week and in the case of @rural mouse, that came with some cute chicken pictures/video.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27471761
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27477619
Her chickens got bored all cooped up against the snow so one of them tried writing in cursive
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27477422

And although it wasn't this week, I just love this picture of chicken footprints from @Ponypoor
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27472008


@RoyalChick (oh, that would be me!)
Finally managed to implement her idea for hawk deterrent netting over a couple of places next to the Chicken Palace, but then got a bit distressed at how hard it is to outwit the hawks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27479814

As well as hawks, there has been a crime spree at the Chicken Palace
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27482357

Fortunately the time I have spent watching Police shows was not entirely wasted
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27482654

Apologies to anyone whose news I missed.

Thanks for the synopsis!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

ALL HAIL THE QUEEN!
Today is her 5th Hatchday! All the tribe wanted to celebrate with her! It is no surprise that while Hattie's 5th party was very proper, Aurora's was a free for all. Sydney refused to wait for Aurora to even get there and just dived in.

More photos to come as the celebration goes on!

Happy belated hatchway Your Majesty!!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Which one?

The one labeled, "Photogenic Lighting".

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Okay, yesterday Crystal (I think.) gave me a really pretty light colored egg. It’s her first ever egg, so I know that she can change the color and shape up a little.

Today I got another egg, but it’s slightly darker. It’s not my BPR pullet Ruby, because her face is not very red. I think it’s Crystal again, just because she is really heavy now. I want to say it’s Opal because of the color difference, but when I picked her up, she wasn’t super heavy. Could both of these be Crystal, or is the darker one Opal?

Here they are side by side for color and size comparison.

They are really small eggs! Here they are next to Splotches egg from today. Splotch does lay huge eggs though…

 

[LhickenChicken]

Yes. I’ve been asking everyone I see if they want a sweet rooster. All of them say no.

You can say you're mistaken that he's a rooster, and say he's a hen

 

[LhickenChicken]

The one labeled, "Photogenic Lighting".

Good eye for chicken breeds! Lightning looks like an Egyptian Fayoumi, but sadly, she is simply an interesting-looking crossbreed between some mutts. I would not get a Fayoumi, because of the really cold temperatures here, but if I lived where you did (in a desert) I might consider them!

 

[RoyalChick]

Well I didn’t fool the chickens. Let’s hope the crows are at least curious enough to come find the peanuts!

I just tried my crow call. It sounds pretty realistic to me and gets good reviews from turkey hunters who claim it makes the wild turkeys believe there are crows in the area.

The idea is to call the crows a provide peanuts for them out in the middle of the field where the squirrels are less likely to venture.

No crows have responded so far. But the chickens all froze in place. They stood stock still like this for several minutes after I sounded the crow call.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Mister Chitta

 

[fuentemoon]

Keep nuts close to you all the time so when you see a crow you can toss it in its vicinity. I feed crows anywhere i see them, they talk to each other! It was after Bill started feeding the crows at work that we first started seeing them more at our house, which was several miles away.

Well I didn’t fool the chickens. Let’s hope the crows are at least curious enough to come find the peanuts!

I just tried my crow call. It sounds pretty realistic to me and gets good reviews from turkey hunters who claim it makes the wild turkeys believe there are crows in the area.

The idea is to call the crows a provide peanuts for them out in the middle of the field where the squirrels are less likely to venture.

No crows have responded so far. But the chickens all froze in place. They stood stock still like this for several minutes after I sounded the crow call.
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