Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Here I am sitting in my comfy chair, catching up with BYC and letting the chooks stay out a wee bit longer (it’s lovely out there), I have done my usual chores of cleaning stalls, hen houses, and swept floors. Plus my weekend get 500lbs of feed and slug it in from the truck to the barn and put it in the bins, and throw down hay for the week.

So I figured I would relax a bit and who joins me? Sophia. She is moulting and not happy with the boys, I allow it, but you know what happens them right? Everyone else wants to also come on in!

Oh crap - now Babe just hopped up on my lap with those nails of hers digging in my legs!

Oh sorry am I disturbing your nap there Babe?

Sophia, Flopsy and Topsy where they should be on the floor!

Babe still thinks she’s a chick! But she weighs a ton! She’s a good sized hen!

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m holding my rooster Rudy, and I can’t figure out how he keeps his head up with such a large comb? View attachment 3959465

And those wattles!

 

[Ponypoor]

Teeheehee sleeping beauty

 

[featherhead007]

Here I am sitting in my comfy chair, catching up with BYC and letting the chooks stay out a wee bit longer (it’s lovely out there), I have done my usual chores of cleaning stalls, hen houses, and swept floors. Plus my weekend get 500lbs of feed and slug it in from the truck to the barn and put it in the bins, and throw down hay for the week.

So I figured I would relax a bit and who joins me? Sophia. She is moulting and not happy with the boys, I allow it, but you know what happens them right? Everyone else wants to also come on in!

Oh crap - now Babe just hopped up on my lap with those nails of hers digging in my legs!

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Oh sorry am I disturbing your nap there Babe?

Sophia, Flopsy and Topsy where they should be on the floor!

Babe still thinks she’s a chick! But she weighs a ton! She’s a good sized hen!
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Rudy says “wow! More girls in this little box dad is holding.” (iPhone)

 

[SimpleJenn]

Mealworms, the great equalizer. I sat out there for a half hour, scattered wormies and let the chickens do as chickens do.
Every single bird came close enough for me to get a good look at them, except for the four olive egger cockerels.

I think this is a female pure cochin. Biscuit is the name

Hubby says if this one is female her name is Hawk

Just Babbin' around

Cream is a delight. Small and adorable. She is 2 and prefers to sleep in the nestboxes.

Cuddle puddle

Three "ermine" olive eggers, a pure cochin in the middle (birch boy) and Bab bein a babber.

this one is Hawk I think.

Birch boy.

Versace looks like a peacock compared to the rest, his tail is HUGE
the she-devil herself, Morinth!

Cookie butt

BOrp butt

Cookie face. My mother in law says she looks so soft and feminine.

Ric Flair said "nah boy you're bigger than me, so you're in charge. Leave me my girls and we're cool."

Hubby says this one is Eagle if a girl.
Shiba-san being a cutie patootie

The size difference between Cream and Nocturne is CRAZY

This eye is half black
this eye is all gold. Partial heterochromia!

He's a tall lad

Ric Flair seems like he would rather be a subordinate rooster to be honest, he's very mellow and passive to the boys but will step between even the larger hens if they squabble
nyx!!! And that dark cochin cross is Peregrine (if a girl)

Poor fella is a mess of pins

The more dominant Legbar cockerel. He sleeps with the hens, and Ric Flair currently follows him around.

Black beauties. Shep glows purple and Nocturne green. I looooove it.

Everyone crowding my feet, I kept petting Ash and eventually she stopped moving to the side haha.

"I know you have a bigger bag of wormies...go get it"

Boy? Girl? Hawk?

I hope this one is a girl, the colors are so pretty! Peregrine

I love being surrounded by a whole flock of birds.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I heard a boy attempting to crow, and then what sounded like a turkey gobble.

 

[featherhead007]

Mealworms, the great equalizer. I sat out there for a half hour, scattered wormies and let the chickens do as chickens do.
Every single bird came close enough for me to get a good look at them, except for the four olive egger cockerels.
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I think this is a female pure cochin. Biscuit is the name
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Hubby says if this one is female her name is Hawk
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Just Babbin' around
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Cream is a delight. Small and adorable. She is 2 and prefers to sleep in the nestboxes.
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Cuddle puddle
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Three "ermine" olive eggers, a pure cochin in the middle (birch boy) and Bab bein a babber.
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this one is Hawk I think.
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Birch boy.
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Versace looks like a peacock compared to the rest, his tail is HUGE
View attachment 3959481the she-devil herself, Morinth!
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Cookie butt
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BOrp butt
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Cookie face. My mother in law says she looks so soft and feminine.
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Ric Flair said "nah boy you're bigger than me, so you're in charge. Leave me my girls and we're cool."
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Hubby says this one is Eagle if a girl.
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The size difference between Cream and Nocturne is CRAZY
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This eye is half black
View attachment 3959494this eye is all gold. Partial heterochromia!
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He's a tall lad
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Ric Flair seems like he would rather be a subordinate rooster to be honest, he's very mellow and passive to the boys but will step between even the larger hens if they squabble
View attachment 3959499nyx!!! And that dark cochin cross is Peregrine (if a girl)
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Poor fella is a mess of pins
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The more dominant Legbar cockerel. He sleeps with the hens, and Ric Flair currently follows him around.
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Black beauties. Shep glows purple and Nocturne green. I looooove it.
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Everyone crowding my feet, I kept petting Ash and eventually she stopped moving to the side haha.
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"I know you have a bigger bag of wormies...go get it"
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Boy? Girl? Hawk?
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I hope this one is a girl, the colors are so pretty! Peregrine
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I love being surrounded by a whole flock of birds.

Ever seen Alfred Hitchcock’s
“The Birds” ??? Maybe you went into a different movie theater “Bambi” perhaps?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Ever seen Alfred Hitchcock’s
“The Birds” ??? Maybe you went into a different movie theater “Bambi” perhaps?

Chickens don't count as birds!

 

[rural mouse]

Hi all! Everybody here is overall well, three one-year-old Buff Orps Tedi, Annie, Diane Ida-Biter, and two four-year-old Buckeyes Hazel and Popcorn.

Hazel is okay, but seems to want to rest more often than anyone else, a few times every day more than the others. She is molting right now and is extra cautious, maybe she doesn't feel great. But she's eating well, eats the feed (20% protein layer). Though today I saw her eat a fluff feather, so I gave her a salt-free sardine in water and she ate most of it. So at least this isn't a starvation molt if that's all that's going on.

All Popcorn wants to do is forage for worms and frogs and go sit in the nestbox without laying every day. She’s on a slow molt. Her keel shows her to be fit, while usually she is "over-conditioned", as they say, in other words nice and fat is normal for her. I'm having worried thoughts, as how she's behaving is different for her. Could she be semi-broody? Is she laying internally, has something growing or pressing in there that makes her feel as if she needs to lay? She had been laying infrequently, but now she wants to get out of the run and forage like crazy, or at times she's very intent on getting in the nestbox and gathering eggs under her, making a cooing bok-bok sound. But she doesn't lay anything. Sometimes she even lets out a blood curdling scream, a high pitch that comes down, which she used to do when her egg passed, but then she emerges and there's no egg from her. Her belly feels normal, nothing hard in there and no swelling that I can tell.

Here are the Spuds. Having been very interested in the Summer Olympics, they are now performing Synchronized Sunbathing.
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Big Boy doing a sunbath of sorts also, took this on Saturday
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It does sound as if Popcorn is considering going broody. She's not all the way there, so could go either way.

 

[SimpleJenn]

My broodies would scream randomly.