Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I have been wrestling with an egg mystery which I think I have finally solved.
So we can congratulate Calypso for laying her first egg. The event occurred on Wednesday.
Maybe that is why she has suddenly got all grumpy and aggressive to Piglet?

Anyway the mystery was this.
I collected 6 eggs on Wednesday. Only one brown so either Bernie or Sylvie didn’t lay. Probably Bernie.
4 blue. 3 identical like Piglet and Pooh’s eggs. Smallish, very smooth, pretty blue. The 4th was bigger, the size of a Bab’s egg and slightly rough as hers often are. But the color had a hint of green unlike her usual egg.
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So, did I have 3 identical blue eggs because I missed collecting a Piglet or Pooh egg the day before? Or did I have a new blue egg layer?
Who laid the mystery egg with a hint of green? Was it Babs with new ink? Or did I have a new hint-of-green layer?

Today all became clear: Babs has filled up her ink cartridge with a slightly different shade, and Calypso has started laying and her eggs are identical to Piglet and a Pooh’s eggs!
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Congratulations Calypso - but really there is no need to be so mean to Piglet - it’s not her fault you have to lay eggs!

Awwww - she thought she was getting off easy.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

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How do I get them to stop laying in here?!!!

Instead of laying in a nice safe nest box my larger hebs decided to lay here in the dirty and extremely dangerous rusty barrel in the woods!

 

[Ponypoor]

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How do I get them to stop laying in here?!!!

Um put a lid on the bin!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Um put a lid on the bin!

Would if I could

 

[Ponypoor]

Potty humor is just a given for those of the male persuasion.

Not sure why we are laughing Janie - I feel like the guys might faint if they were witness to the ‘underground’ chat

Oh wait ya right - that’s why we are laughing hahaha

Silly Tax

Caturday Missy - enjoying being outside

 

[Ponypoor]

I have been wrestling with an egg mystery which I think I have finally solved.
So we can congratulate Calypso for laying her first egg. The event occurred on Wednesday.
Maybe that is why she has suddenly got all grumpy and aggressive to Piglet?

Anyway the mystery was this.
I collected 6 eggs on Wednesday. Only one brown so either Bernie or Sylvie didn’t lay. Probably Bernie.
4 blue. 3 identical like Piglet and Pooh’s eggs. Smallish, very smooth, pretty blue. The 4th was bigger, the size of a Bab’s egg and slightly rough as hers often are. But the color had a hint of green unlike her usual egg.
View attachment 3773756

So, did I have 3 identical blue eggs because I missed collecting a Piglet or Pooh egg the day before? Or did I have a new blue egg layer?
Who laid the mystery egg with a hint of green? Was it Babs with new ink? Or did I have a new hint-of-green layer?

Today all became clear: Babs has filled up her ink cartridge with a slightly different shade, and Calypso has started laying and her eggs are identical to Piglet and a Pooh’s eggs!
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Congratulations Calypso - but really there is no need to be so mean to Piglet - it’s not her fault you have to lay eggs!

Congratulations to Calypso

 

[Ponypoor]

She is very brave for certain.

Alas it isn’t to be…..

She belongs to the lady 3 houses up, she has 2 little boys. And 3 other chickens 1 is a very naughty polish Roo, and another polish hen, and another little bantam hen.

She had them outside yesterday and she went to get lunch for her little boys and when she went back out the hen was gone! She expected the hen got caught by a fox. She was so eggcited when she learnt I had the hen I thought she might cry.

My BIL told me he thought he heard a rooster crowing on that property yesterday when he went for a walk. So I went there.

So the lady her little 5 yr old and I went back over to my place to get the hen. And no wonder that hen is so quiet, the little boy walked up and picked up the hen and carried her off hahaha so sweet

I have a feeling Lakshmi might be a bit hard for a 5 & 3 yr old, but Lucky may be easy. Seems the boys have been calling her all sorts of names.

In the end I am thrilled it all turned out well.

 

[featherhead007]

Um put a lid on the bin!

problem solved

 

[featherhead007]

Alas it isn’t to be…..

She belongs to the lady 3 houses up, she has 2 little boys. And 3 other chickens 1 is a very naughty polish Roo, and another polish hen, and another little bantam hen.

She had them outside yesterday and she went to get lunch for her little boys and when she went back out the hen was gone! She expected the hen got caught by a fox. She was so eggcited when she learnt I had the hen I thought she might cry.

My BIL told me he thought he heard a rooster crowing on that property yesterday when he went for a walk. So I went there.

So the lady her little 5 yr old and I went back over to my place to get the hen. And no wonder that hen is so quiet, the little boy walked up and picked up the hen and carried her off hahaha so sweet

I have a feeling Lakshmi might be a bit hard for a 5 & 3 yr old, but Lucky may be easy. Seems the boys have been calling her all sorts of names.

In the end I am thrilled it all turned out well.

So, you are happy with the outcome?
Come down here and fix my fence

 

[Ponypoor]

So, you are happy with the outcome?
Come down here and fix my fence

Oh Alex I would love to visit and see you and chooks and help you fix the fence between your place and your neighbour.

Here is what I plan on doing with my horse side fence the flying bad girls like to go over.

I will screw some 2’ lengths of 1/2” x 1” strapping upright, to the posts; next I will cut some netting I have here to 2’ widths; then I will staple the netting to the 2’ upright strapping - this will make a barrier that they can’t fly over or through. And because chickens generally like to fly up onto and then down off of fences the very thin netting will not hold their weight so they won’t want to fly up onto it.

I would think this would work for your place also likely.

The netting I have is 7’ x 50’ and was inexpensive - $30 if I remember.

I should have enough to make 2’ widths x the 50’ length to go down the one side easy.