Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Came home today to find most of the tribe surrounding the chokeberry hedge. Didn't see much for fruit this year, so not sure if they found stuff I hadn't seen or were just checking it out and showing the new generation the time to check it out. Figured they earned a treat.

View attachment 3943868Twirp, Mera, Pear, and Pippa

View attachment 3943864Blanche, Lark, Blurr, Havoc, Whiskey, Rose, and Mera again

View attachment 3943865Daisy, Focus, Cheetah, Shan, Whiskey, Nimbus, Nellie, Chia, Indigo, Pippa, Hyacinth, Violet, Hetty, Pear, Blurr, Storm, Jane

View attachment 3943866Indigo, Cheetah, PITA, Cumulo, Shan, Tuff, Hetty, Whiskey, Lark, Pear, Nellie

Whiskey was oddly irritated...I suspect he's got pinfeathers prodding him.


Rain earlier this week also brought thisView attachment 3943876Robins and meadowlarks left just before and immediately after the rain respectively. Saw bluebirds gathering this evening. Expect they will be gone tomorrow. Hummingbirds have been gone for 2-3 weeks.

All the birds are migrating here also, swallows have been gone from the barn for a couple weeks. Geese and ducks are on the love, song birds also.

And my HUGE visitor from yesterday. More on that in a bit.

My gang is also moulting, Petunia lost her last tail feathers, and is starting on her wing primaries. Sophia is a mess also.

Tis the season…

 

[Ponypoor]

It's a really dark grey day today we have had a bit of wind and we've had some rain. It's a stark contrast from the lovely day we had yesterday.

Princess has had lot's of goodies. Apple and eggs this morning with this new mixed food too forage for with a few sliced courgettes.

She's enjoying out the back a lot more and I took ages getting her onto the front garden yesterday. She was loving it out there so much. But not today, she's on her perch in the coop run at the moment.

Princess after her apple earlier
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Is she moulting? Looks like she has lost some tail feathers.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hello everyone. I did fairly well at market today and my hubby's gramma stopped by with souvenirs from her europe trip!
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Fortunately for us they tire a bit quicker than the average human! I remember chasing that hen around new years time for almost a half hour before catching her!
And...drumroll please...
Coop in progress!
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Chooky door
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Cleanout door
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Inside. Hubby did hinge the chicken door too but it was dinnertime so I didn't get a pic. We had to go pick up supplies and I got a hamburger kid's meal, my new favorite haha.

I started a new medication this week that is quite literally changing my life, and it's just blowing my mind that I have lived nearly 34 years being tied down by my medical issues.

I need to print that sign and put it up in the barn

 

[Ponypoor]

A parrot can be too needy for companionship if owners are gone all day & they are loud & screechy enough to annoy other apartment dwellers. Parakeets or budgerigars or canaries would be better caged birds & take less human time & care. Our friend had a small parrot Rosie but she screeched like someone was killing her!

Yes they can be really noisy! And expensive to boot. A cockatiel may fit the bill though!

 

[Marie2020]

Is she moulting? Looks like she has lost some tail feathers.

Yes I added this photo earlier

I found them in the run this morning

 

[Ponypoor]

Princess is still moulting. I was so sad seeing all her beautiful tail feathers had come out.

I'll take a photo of her later. She has beautiful white feathers coming through but I hope she stops moulting soon it's getting chillier here
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SHRA tax

Mr LC surveying his domain last week.

Brr it was chilly he was warming up his other foot. Smart birds, and lucky they have built in foot warmers!

 

[Ponypoor]

We had our final horse show of the season tonight. I am dead, but after another cup of coffee heading back down to pick up the trash.

I heard some wonderful news from the show proprietor. The stray black rooster that showed up with Randy. I had not saw him since the last horse show 3 weeks ago. I honestly feared he had been taken by a predator. As soon as I arrived she informed me she spent all day after that show and managed to finally catch him and take him home. A week later she decided he was lonely and found a black hen for him. She showed me pictures of the coop and run she built for him and the hen looks to be another Australop like he is.

Well, we got to talking after the show when we had down time. She wanted another hen for him and was hoping her hen would one day hatch chicks. Her coop and run is big enough and nice enough it could hold 20 easily and only has 2. I told her if she wanted a future momma I had the perfect hen for her who constantly went broody.

Karen has a new momma. She may not go broody the rest of this year as it is late in the season and I have already broke her up 6 times this spring and summer. Karen is desperate to be a momma, the time just was never right. The next time she is broody she is going to get her chance.

When I came home and got her for her and brought her down she was in tears with joy. She did not know chickens came in a chocolate color. She marveled over her feathered feet.

Betty has been good to me, I am happy to give her a good hen and pleased to know she has went to a good home.

Such a wonderful gift for her. I hope she send photos of any chicks, and of her new flock. Maybe invite her to join BYC

 

[Marie2020]

Yes they can be really noisy! And expensive to boot. A cockatiel may fit the bill though!

How about this little tantrum

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

Yesterday afternoon around 4:30 the chickens were all huddled in the top corner of the run and yard under the Jack Pine, all growling and doing their ‘quiet warning’ call.

My uncle and I couldn’t see anything in the sky so we were unsure what was going on. While walking back to the barn chatting I happened to see this great big lovely fly to the back of the barn.

I knew it had landed back there so I told my uncle ‘quick follow me and shhhhh be quiet!’ We went through the barn and looked out the back door and found this beauty roosting on the fence.

I am very leery about any type of water bird hanging around here so I was glad when it flew off. It spent a while preening and then flew off.

Crane? I think Heron.

 

[featherhead007]

Pony Sunday

Yesterday afternoon around 4:30 the chickens were all huddled in the top corner of the run and yard under the Jack Pine, all growling and doing their ‘quiet warning’ call.

My uncle and I couldn’t see anything in the sky so we were unsure what was going on. While walking back to the barn chatting I happened to see this great big lovely fly to the back of the barn.

I knew it had landed back there so I told my uncle ‘quick follow me and shhhhh be quiet!’ We went through the barn and looked out the back door and found this beauty roosting on the fence.

I am very leery about any type of water bird hanging around here so I was glad when it flew off. It spent a while preening and then flew off.

Crane? I think Heron.
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Nice to see herons. All I have around me are morons!