Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

metronome: (just saying)
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Oh, and here’s the Astrodome

 

[featherhead007]

Or Dome of the Rock if you prefer:

 

[Themellowyellows]

Today I had 7 wild turkeys visit me, could not help but feed them some corn kernals!

 

[Ponypoor]

Or Dome of the Rock if you prefer:
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Hippodrome

 

[rural mouse]

She has a straight comb.

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Otherwise that chick does look eerily familiar.

In doing some more research into mystery chick identification, I'm not seeing very many white chickens without feathered feet, crests, not straight combs or beards. Of those, the American Breese has blue legs (like Cheetah, Blanche, and PITA). I'm leaving off all the other white egg layers. That leaves Rhode island white, white rock, and austra white.

The austra white: cross between white leghorn and black australorp. Lays cream to light brown eggs. As an adult looks like someone dripped a little black ink on the otherwise white body.

White rock: build just like Sydney, but white. Same egg color.

RIW: originally rose comb, mix of wyandotte, cochin, and Rose comb white leghorns. 2010 brought straight combs into the livestock conservancy accepted list. Description: much like Plymouth rocks, except body shape: "built like a brick."

There are of course the ones with no breed standard (like swedish flower hens) also.

 

[rural mouse]

Rudy says, “no hugs, no kisses. What would my ladies think about that if they saw me doing that?”
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He's going to be a HANDSOME dude!

 

[rural mouse]

Oooo naughty Casper, my mum would clobber you of you went for her hummingbirds!

I threw a handful of birdseed at his face.

 

[rural mouse]

Two-fer Tuesday.
Four chickens piled by my door waiting for me to bring my lunch over to the office. They are in groups of two so it counts.
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It's Thursday....

And if I need a SHRA pic,

 

[rural mouse]

I just brought a knife to a gun fight.
Gardening gloves were totally inadequate.
And how does she manage to peck my left and right hands simultaneously?
Tomorrow I need to break out the long leather gauntlets.
Meanwhile, I have beaten a tactical retreat to the safety of the garage.

Been there. My sympathies, but she may be the one you break down and get chicks for if she's this violent already.

 

[Lilion]

Beyond reason, I cooked a bbq chicken today. The church insisted that I take one of the frozen chickens they received from USDA
Food supply. So I cooked it and the chickens ate it.

They do that. It is not chicken to them. I have had mine run around with pieces of turkey from my turkey sandwiches before. Thankfully they didn't steal today's turkey sandwich.

It's a little disturbing how much chickens like poultry. I resisted giving them meat on the bone for the longest time. But now their run has its share of bones in it. Little feathered Piranha can strip a drumstick in minutes!

Speaking of which, they're almost sharing run space!

The new coop is coming slowly. Hubby's been under the weather, so I've been doing it alone.

Some wire is up and the door is nearly complete. It's slow work by myself.

But I'm quite proud of the nest boxes. Entirely too many for 7 hens, but I used old cabinets from a remodel. I left the doors on the backs, so I can just take eggs from the back and not go in.

I just wish it was done so I could get them moved.