Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Lady Featherington's Chick

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Lady Featherington's Chick

Congratulations!

 

[Ponypoor]

Everybody Has a Chick!

View attachment 3883600

Awesome! So pleased. What colour polish are they going to be?

 

[Ponypoor]

Lady Featherington's Chick

Awwwww so adorable

 

[Sally PB]

There’s a something happening here, what it is I ain’t exactly clear.
It’s time we stop, hey what’s that sound?” (“A whole lot of chirpin going down!”)

When our dog Freya is pesting in the kitchen, I sing,

"There's nothing happening here! What it ain't is exactly clear!"

Without looking it up, do you know the title of the song @featherhead007 and I are alluding to? Stephen Stills and Buffalo Springfield are the singer/writer and the group. I never knew what the title was until I was looking up the exact year it was released (1966).

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Hello everyone.
Trying to cope with this deadly heat right now, 120 degree highs killed two more of my hens, Sunfeather and Onyx. My fan malfunctioned yesterday sometime in the middle of the day yesterday and is still not working. I have to go outside every few minutes to mist down my chicken coop and water down the dustbathing holes.
Here is a video and some tax.

Tax:

I want to post more tax but it won't upload. Maybe it will work better later

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Everybody Has a Chick!

View attachment 3883600

They are so cute!

 

[Ponypoor]

When our dog Freya is pesting in the kitchen, I sing,

"There's nothing happening here! What it ain't is exactly clear!"

Without looking it up, do you know the title of the song @featherhead007 and I are alluding to? Stephen Stills and Buffalo Springfield are the singer/writer and the group. I never knew what the title was until I was looking up the exact year it was released (1966).

Stop chil’rn what’s that sound everybody look what’s going down…

Chirp chirp peep peep chirp peep
Chirp
Chirp
Peep peep peep

 

[Sylvester017]

Mine have been so effective at eating them I don’t see any these days. I used to have a plague!

Our beetles loved fruit trees. The fig tree we had was infested with them, not to mention squirrels and rats loved the sugary fruit so we tore it down.

Years later we planted only citrus which bugs and rodents seem to avoid -- lemon, grapefruit, and pomegranate trees -- no sweet soft fruits like peach, plum, apricot or berry bush/trees and no more beetles. The trees provide chicken shade and hiding.

Meyer Lemon w/3 hens in shade bottom left

Wonderful, Ariana, & Angel Red Pomegranates

Rear wall - Rio Red Grapefruit. Front - Meyer

If a Japanese happens to rarely stumble into the yard the Silkies do a Whirling Dervish in circles to catch the wayward beetle in flight! So far all hens avoid bees whether flying or dead on the ground.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hello everyone.
Trying to cope with this deadly heat right now, 120 degree highs killed two more of my hens, Sunfeather and Onyx. My fan malfunctioned yesterday sometime in the middle of the day yesterday and is still not working. I have to go outside every few minutes to mist down my chicken coop and water down the dustbathing holes.
Here is a video and some tax.

Tax:
View attachment 3883936
I want to post more tax but it won't upload. Maybe it will work better later

Oh gosh I am so sorry to hear this how sad. Everything is Topsy turvey lately on here with sad news of our dear feathered friends passing.

Can you get you hands on one of those evaporative coolers like I have? They would work good where you are.

I sure hope you can get some relief from that heat dome down there