Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Palindrome!

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metronome: (just saying)

 

[notabitail]

metronome: (just saying)
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[Sylvester017]

Xzit finally started laying eggs again after that long broody spell. Coco didn’t lay one today (that I am aware of)
The rest of the tribe are just waiting for cooler temperatures I guess.

Are you a good cook/baker w/ the eggs you collect? DH makes creative recipes w/ours - pastry shells are not his thing so he gets gluten-free ready-made pie shells to make spinach-mushroom-bacon quiche, or adds egg to a quick stir fry over pre-packaged cooked brown rice, or uses eggs in pre-mixed gluten-free pancake batter or microwaves on low a couple sunny-side-up Silkie eggs placed atop packaged gluten-free waffles. He does short-cut cooking for me in this heatwave while I recuperate from the broken arm.

Eggs from a decade ago when we had Breda, Ameraucana, and Silkie eggs before we realized we needed an egg skelter!

 

[featherhead007]

I went to the coop and got my Wyandottey Rudy.
He wasn’t too happy about me grabbing him out, but I need to spend time with him.

 

[Sylvester017]

Castor is going to get himself in BIG trouble. Morning half-light, taking food out for chickens, he's following me.... early bird hummingbird is hovering around the mint, no more than 3 feet from me. Castor starts stalking it. He won't hunt the mice hiding under the bush next to the mint, but he'll go for my hummingbirds?! Cat, you'll be living in Sherlock's doghouse with him (just because you don't like him) if you keep that up!

After we caught 5 rats now w/ the humane trap cage & saw only one rat caught by a stray cat we're beginning to wonder about how effective cats are about rodent patrol! Our old cat brought us presents of dead rodents but also birds and lizards too! I want my lizards and hummies alive! not dead!

Back in the '70's we bred Persian cats - they were too valuable to be outdoor cats/kittens cuz of the pool but while indoors the momma cat would swat flies w/her paw against the glass sliding door and EAT them! Never needed a fly swatter!

momma Persian "Scheherazade" (& "Myrtle the Turtle")
c.1973

 

[BY Bob]

@BY Bob does the chick in this thread look like Aster? Does she (Aster) have a pea comb or a straight comb?


https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/white-chick-breed.1636225/

She has a straight comb.

Otherwise that chick does look eerily familiar.

 

[featherhead007]

Rudy says, “no hugs, no kisses. What would my ladies think about that if they saw me doing that?”

 

[Sylvester017]

Rudy says, “no hugs, no kisses. What would my ladies think about that if they saw me doing that?”
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Gorgeous boy!
Chickens are all so different. We had 3 Dom chicks all the same age but from day one already had different personalities!

 

[featherhead007]

My Rudy loves the grapes that I feed him.

 

[BY Bob]

Thirsty Thursday

We finally have rain here. The first bands from Hurricane Debby are here and we have WILD WATER!

Aurora is taking advantage of flavored wild water.