Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Twofer Tuesday
Eclipse and Morning Star finishing up the watermelon.
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Great photo!

 

[featherhead007]

13+ Yrs saga cont'd:

(June 2016) After losing our beautiful "Taffy" the Blue Wheaten Ameraucana (my BYC avatar pic) we were left with 3 backyard hens again and 3 is not a good flock number IMO.

Violet, Phaedra, and Mini foraging around backyard remodeling debris.
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A sweet but too small a flock.
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So we thought how great if we could get another Blue Breda since we loved our Phaedra's temperament so much!

...to be cont'd

Bated breath

 

[featherhead007]

Bated breath

Hey, I’m following along with the 13+ saga!

 

[lightm]

Poopy and Honey: No humans shall pass!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Great photo!

Thanks!

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Investigating the new straw...

And Onaga knocking sense into Stormfeather...

 

[micstrachan]

Hi everyone,
I thought I should share the initial results of a recent purchase for the hens. A little background… we are having our first heatwave of the season. I knew it was coming, and I don’t want to lose a chicken to the heat, so I bought them an evaporative cooler. We are fortunate that it’s usually dry heat here, in which case, evaporative coolers can be effective. So I got one!

I set the cooler up in the run, as they are not meant for confined spaces. For reference, my weather app says it’s 96°F. I measured 97.2°F in the shade outside my kitchen door, 95.9°F under the walnut tree, 104.7°F in the sun, and…. wait for it…80.4°F in front of the evaporative cooler! Only one chicken is even panting. One of my best chicken purchases ever!

 

[featherhead007]

No

Well can they? Suspicious minds want to know.
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Speckled Suspects available from that breeder in Fresno. They only carry certain breeds.

 

[featherhead007]

I thought maybe today, she might be stopping, but sadly I was wrong

I wish Xzit would stop being broody

she just doesn’t know when to quit!

 

[RoyalChick]

Hi everyone,
I thought I should share the initial results of a recent purchase for the hens. A little background… we are having our first heatwave of the season. I knew it was coming, and I don’t want to lose a chicken to the heat, so I bought them an evaporative cooler. We are fortunate that it’s usually dry heat here, in which case, evaporative coolers can be effective. So I got one!

I set the cooler up in the run, as they are not meant for confined spaces. For reference, my weather app says it’s 96°F. I measured 97.2°F in the shade outside my kitchen door, 95.9°F under the walnut tree, 104.7°F in the sun, and…. wait for it…80.4°F in front of the evaporative cooler! Only one chicken is even panting. One of my best chicken purchases ever!

WOW!
Can you post a link to the one you got?