Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[knoturavggrl]

I took this one when i had the first Fluffy snow

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I love these photos! So cute to see their little track’s everywhere.

 

[knoturavggrl]

CSI Chicken Palace

I have analyzed security camera footage, psychologically profiled the chief suspects, and mapped the locations and sizes of the eggy footprints.

Piglet and Pooh returned to the scene of the crime several times today. Suspicious!

There is a gap in the camera footage at the crucial moment (which turned out to be last night after lockup but before bed). Suspicious.

There are eggy footprints of at least three different individuals and they extend up to high shelves and door handles.

Please note. Egg on the floor is a serious slipping hazard!

My conclusion is that Bernie was helping Pooh find a good nest site for her first egg. In doing so she managed to push open the door between the nest box and the servant quarters.

She looked around but came out quite fast and went to bed.

In the morning Pooh went in and invited her friends Tassels and Calypso to look around. All three came out and Pooh settled down to consider laying an egg.

Piglet the meany, not content with bullying Sylvie, went after Poo and chased her into the servant quarters. Kerfuffle ensued and the door got slammed shut trapping them both in there.

Somewhere along the way Pooh did lay her first egg. It is a similar size to Piglet’s but a more brilliant blue (ink supplies are full).

Congratulations Pooh on your first egg. I realize the mayhem wasn’t really your fault.
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What a beautiful egg! She really does lay on that blue. Congratulations

 

[RoyalChick]

I have a concern for mold - why not sweep that up and keep it dry...or not let them eat it past a day or two after getting wet. Whatever the overnight mice leave, that is!

I have that worry when it snows into the hanging feeder. I even swapped the feeders around so the one with a lid is in the least sheltered run.
But I think they will eat up the wet pellets pretty fast.
I don’t think Bob is doing any sweeping. It is all under several inches of snow by now.

 

[Sally PB]

They are standing in there and lapping up the snow from the underside of the hardware cloth!
They really like pecking at snow

Whenever I went into the run with snow on my shoes, they ran over to peck it off.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I went out to bash the snow off the newly installed hawk netting in the chicken garden.
Quite an adventure. I measured the snow at just about 8” and it is still snowing hard.
The netting is holding up quite well - basically the PVC flagpoles are very bendy. I bashed the snow off and I think it will cope with the rest of this storm.
Lots of snow inside the chicken runs. And one of their hardware covered runs is so caked in snow that the dirt underneath is snow free. They are standing in there and lapping up the snow from the underside of the hardware cloth!
They really like pecking at snow but had ZERO interest in joining me in the ankle deep stuff outside.

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That is quite a bit of snow! be careful out there!

 

[RoyalChick]

And my twofer Tuesday picture.
Piglet and Sylvie.
It is the best I could get today.

 

[knoturavggrl]

New Nest box - none of girls would use the lovely nest boxes I purchased last year and they were all laying in the bedding in the coop instead. We decided to try this and they absolutely love it. I may end up putting in a divider but for now all seems well. The big girls (the jubilees) seem particularly happy about the space.

Some photos from today:
Lore:

Flours fluffy butt:

Brownie and Flour paling around

Brownie came to visit me:

Look behind the tree

Action shots:

Avalon:

Most of the crew pecking around:

 

[RoyalChick]

New Nest box - none of girls would use the lovely nest boxes I purchased last year and they were all laying in the bedding in the coop instead. We decided to try this and they absolutely love it. I may end up putting in a divider but for now all seems well. The big girls (the jubilees) seem particularly happy about the space.
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Some photos from today:
Lore:
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Flours fluffy butt:
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Brownie and Flour paling around
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Brownie came to visit me:
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Look behind the tree
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Action shots:
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Avalon:
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Most of the crew pecking around:
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The ‘look behind the tree’ photo is hilarious!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Happy Valentines to everybody a day early.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Valentines to everybody a day early.

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Beautiful eggs!
Do you always wash your eggs?