Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Weather tax

July 2023, the ladies enjoying the flooded ponding in the lawns - lots of nice bugs there
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Awwww - my favorite pictures!

 

[micstrachan]

I’m worried for your whole family. Especially Flash. She’s the reason why I chose Rocks over other breeds.

Thanks, Alex. The Leghorn gene is strong. It’s such a shame. I just love their personalities. But the health issues…

 

[micstrachan]

Awww poor chookie, I am now giving a bunch of mine calcium at night every other night. I give 1/4 of a calcium 660mg tablet every other night. Seems to have helped my girls that have been giving me egg issues.

I use a pill splitter to cut them first in half then the halves in half.

Thanks, Kelly. Flash and Flo each got a full calcium citrate this morning.

 

[RoyalChick]

For some reason nobody was thirsty today - even though it is hot and Thursday.
So all I got was sunbathing.
Piglet likes to make sure both sides are evenly tanned.

 

[rural mouse]

Hey everyone.

Well, it is time to break out old Bessie and set her up. Bessie by the way is my incubator. Some of you already know but a secret has been kept between @Ponypoor and myself. I may have hinted a bit the last month when she talked about her plans with hatching silkie eggs by her niece and my desire for a Teddy x Marty chick.

Look what arrived this morning
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All but 2 eggs safely made it, including 2 bonus Betty eggs. They are sitting now resting for 24 hours and at Noon tomorrow I will load up the incubator. I am also tossing in at least 5 of Poppets eggs as this will be my only hatch this year.

Cross your fingers and say a prayer everyone for a good hatch. I am not even going to pray for all pullets. A Teddy x Marty son would be welcome.

What about a Teddy x Curly frizzle?

 

[rural mouse]

I hate when my phone goes off for tornado warnings, ‘Meep meeep meeeep meeeep’

I have two phone ls, there are 5 others in here that each have 2 phones - good lawrd all mighty!

That scared me more than the tornado it self (have I mentioned I live in the Goldie locks zone here) - 5 tornadoes over the years all around me within a few miles - none has damaged my place (knock on wood). I aim to keep it that way - GO AWAY STORMS!

today’s warning, round 2 heading this way. This is the same system that caused such wide spread devastation yesterday in Iowa and area so sad for everyone
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Sounds like your house sounded like Walmart when an Amber Alert is issued....

 

[notabitail]

Sounds like your house sounded like Walmart when an Amber Alert is issued....

I can imagine how that would sound .
Pretty much the majority of the phones in our house went off when that test alert thing happened last year. My Dad wanted me to disable the alerts, but you couldn't turn off those kinds. I warned him. He still got scared. And no, it wasn't a government spy tactic.

 

[RoyalChick]

Piglet living her dreams - food so tall she can barely see out!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

What happened in Iowa yesterday?

Severe thunderstorms.

 

[featherhead007]

I can imagine how that would sound .
Pretty much the majority of the phones in our house went off when that test alert thing happened last year. My Dad wanted me to disable the alerts, but you couldn't turn off those kinds. I warned him. He still got scared. And no, it wasn't a government spy tactic.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine!”