Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Mice on a coffee break tax:

 

[Sylvester017]

Every year there seems a different abundance of garden pests ~ either earwigs, crickets, water beetles, slugs, rats, squirrels, spiders, June bugs, wasps, feral cats, sparrows, Cooper's hawks, or cutworms, etc. Each species chooses one year to be an abundant pest!

Tx
Ginny helped herself to the millet storage

 

[RoyalChick]

Ew ew ew! Now you still have to worry about mom coming back! Where are the cats? I thought you had some?

Snoring on the sofa of course!
To be fair - this was an outdoor storage area and they are housecats.

 

[RoyalChick]

Wouldn’t it have been more beneficial for the mice to break into a feed bin? Not a box of coffee mugs. (Unless those little rascals were in need of a caffeine boost)?

That is why I thought it was OK to use a plastic tote. No food involved. But I guess a mug makes for a good place to make a nest.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Snoring on the sofa of course!
To be fair - this was an outdoor storage area and they are housecats.

Ahhh, makes perfect sense! One can't blame them for something that didn't happen in their domain!

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Snoring on the sofa of course!
To be fair - this was an outdoor storage area and they are housecats.

Reminds me of this:

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Tax: Gasp, my weakness! Baby Easter Eggers!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Baby chick spam
I'm seeing some pink combs already


The Einstein stage of polish chick growth is so funny



Yep, the GORGEOUS dark partridge cochin is most likely a boy.

Einstein has an impressive comb already too






Samara wanted me to get a picture of her beard


The birds are doing well

 

[bgmathteach]

Yes, EE/Americauna boys and girls both have fluffy beards and muffs. I'll try to get a pic of my EE boy tomorrow - it will be later in the day - but I will post!

It is just that more people on here have girls and no or few roos

Okay, I fibbed. Went out today to take a picture of him.....and realized it would not help you see just how full of a beard and muff boys have. He is moulting badly, and has hardly any muff - just a naked chin with a few pin feathers coming in - and one lonely tail feather!

So, I am doing the next best thing, I found an EE rooster pic online and am posting it:

 

[Lilion]

That's so weird that your area is in a heat wave while ours has been cooling down?

Do these articles help at all?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/chicken-poop-all-there-is-to-know.77547/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/chicken-droppings-what-is-normal.78090/

A bit. Sounds like a "keep an eye on it" sort of thing.