Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Is that where Easter eggs come from?

Happy Monday and Happy Labor Day to my fellow (USA) Americans. Gotta love 3-day weekends.

Everyone was alive and well this morning in the new digs. They'd shuffled thru the nest boxes a bit...I did the golf ball thing and they were on the floor. I freaked them out a bit with the broom, but they calmed right down when the food came out. I really don't want mice...so I hope to be able to sweep up most of the spills...and spill they will. I really need proper feeders. But it's only for a couple days.

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Rodents (rabbits, rats, mice, squirrels, gophers, etc) are the scourge of city & farm life ~ the buggers have teeth that chew thru anything except metal! We caught 9 rats in the cage trap just in August & a cat caught one. We leave the trap out at dusk after the hens go to roost. We thought rats were too clever to trust entering a cage but follow instructions & it works! Then DH drowns the rodent while still inside the trap using a deep water-filled trash bin. He doesn't trust opening the cage till the rodent is dead. Those darn things move quick when alive! We tried sticky traps outdoors but were a waste ~ all we caught were crickets, spiders, lizards, & sparrows!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I need to go out and get new pictures. Everyone on here loves Mr. P. Deservedly so, he is a handsome and good boy. Thanks to my dear friend @Ponypoor I have a Mr. P son

Happy Mugs Monday and Labor Day everyone

 

[Sylvester017]

I did not get Poppet until she was supposedly 5 months old. I felt at the time she was too little to be that age and guessed her to be more along 3 1/2 to 4 months as she also still had the chick cheep. Well, she could have been closer to 5 months old now that I think about it. I have 6 of her offspring, 4 of them tiny. I will have to watch their growth rates. With these I know exactly when they hatched.

Poppet the day she arrived.
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She was tiny, look how little she was next to Branch.
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She arrived in October last year. Due to her small size she was not released out to free range unsupervised until the end of January. She grew, but she is still my tiny little terror. The last picture I have of her and Branch together.
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Poppet is definitely a phenomenon being so tiny. Curious what size gene the offspring will inherit? Such a cutie couples pic! DH & I chuckled in the video where you tried to get her into the coop!

We have Ginny (buff partridge) who hangs outside after dark & has to be coaxed to go to roost!

 

[SimpleJenn]

I need to go out and get new pictures. Everyone on here loves Mr. P. Deservedly so, he is a handsome and good boy. Thanks to my dear friend @Ponypoor I have a Mr. P son

Happy Mugs Monday and Labor Day everyone
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Jealous of that lil goober! I'd love a Mr. P baby, or a Poppet baby, or a...well many of you people's chickens babies haha.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Poppet is definitely a phenomenon being so tiny. Curious what size gene the offspring will inherit? Such a cutie couples pic! DH & I chuckled in the video where you tried to get her into the coop!

We have Ginny (buff partridge) who hangs outside after dark & has to be coaxed to go to roost!

Now that she is no longer a broody banshee, we have once again resumed our nightly bedtime ritual. She is the last one to go to bed and will still follow me to the coop only to make a U-turn a few steps away.

 

[RoyalChick]

I need to go out and get new pictures. Everyone on here loves Mr. P. Deservedly so, he is a handsome and good boy. Thanks to my dear friend @Ponypoor I have a Mr. P son

Happy Mugs Monday and Labor Day everyone
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Stunning!

 

[Sylvester017]

I need to go out and get new pictures. Everyone on here loves Mr. P. Deservedly so, he is a handsome and good boy. Thanks to my dear friend @Ponypoor I have a Mr. P son
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This pic is BYC calendar worthy!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

This pic is BYC calendar worthy!

Maybe next year I will enter it. This year I entered Owly and a couple of Momma Hen and 1 of her chicks.

 

[Sylvester017]

Now that she is no longer a broody banshee, we have once again resumed our nightly bedtime ritual. She is the last one to go to bed and will still follow me to the coop only to make a U-turn a few steps away.

DH & I can relate! Ginny has always loitered after dark cuz she wants to seek out the crickets that crawl out in the yard at night!

 

[bgmathteach]

Thanks so much.

How are the others doing so far??? Well, I am hoping!