Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I miss that lil guy so much

He was precious and would have been an excellent rooster, I'm sure of it.

 

[SimpleJenn]

He was precious and would have been an excellent rooster, I'm sure of it.

Yes he would have. He and Ric would have had the flock running smooth and happy

 

[RoyalChick]

Mugs Monday

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[BY Bob]

Don't we all. He's the most handsome boy

And a gentleman

 

[BY Bob]

I'm all for anyone who makes their own pet food. The manufactured stuff is not natural plus they process the heck out of packaged or canned food & have to add additives to get pets hooked on the flavor so owners keep buying it. All about the $$$. My farm folks fed our dogs, cats, poultry, livestock veggies from the garden, meat, milk from the cow, cows were on pasture raised grasses, etc. Maybe alfalfa & hay bales for winter months but basically the animals ate what we ate or grazed/foraged for their own. Nothing was processed like today.

Farm folk c.1930's
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Why is there no rodent-based cat food? Wouldn't cats prefer mouse flavored cat food? Do your friends make mouse based food?

 

[BY Bob]

All moved and happy. They have toys now, a pumice with bell, a mirror, a xylophone, and the cardboard drink carrier.
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Same length as the old one but a foot deeper and a bit taller too.
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Put the bigger brooder plate in as well
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Boy I sure did end up with a lot of black birds! The other colored ones are going to stand out haha.
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We're all very happy

How wonderful!

 

[BY Bob]

I'm sorry you did not have a good experience with your Marans. I have loved every single one of mine. I wonder if could be a "Cuckoo" thing?

I have only had Black Copper Marans. Lovely hens and wonderful stunning roosters. My dad is a hard one to impress and my boys definitely impressed him. He tells everyone for such large roosters he has never met more calm and gentle boys.

In my original 6 Marans I ended up with 4 boys and 2 girls. I kept my favorite boy Drumstick and both girls. Holly who is my last original marans who was the french type and her sister Daisy who was the brittish type with clean legs. Temperaments were the same but egg color was vastly different. Holly and her offspring have all laid darker solid colored eggs. Daisy and her offspring lay the heavily speckled eggs. Daisy's line had the best hackle markings of the hens. They still are not perfect but I wanted feathered legs and good hackle markings with those heavily speckled eggs. I finally got that in Daisy's great-granddaughter Lilly. I swear Lilly is Daisy reincarnated with feathered legs. She is as big as Daisy was, lays gorgeous eggs and like Daisy her eggs are rare. Oh she is laying all right, she just likes to hide them most of the time. I am really tempted to throw her in with the silkie breeding pen this year to break that egg hiding habit she has.

Lilly's egg
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That is a gorgeous egg.

 

[BY Bob]

I went out and snapped a few pictures.

I love this, silkie girls hard at work. That is Patsy and the black one is Lori. Martina the other partridge with the beard has already laid so that is 3 girls hard at work.
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Today's haul so far, Lori has yet to lay she is just making herself comfortable.
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Mrs. E is laying, she laid her first egg yesterday and here is todays. I am pleasantly surprised by the size. I was thinking it would be smaller. I know it is Mrs. E's egg because I caught her in the act yesterday and today.
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Mrs. E herself, my not so bantam, bantam brahma. She is as big as my big girls. I know I say I want a big brahma, but, just how big are those "big" girls?
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Mrs E, Lilly and Holly
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Oh how I have missed the swagger of a silkie roo strutting his stuff. Work it Davy.
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My main man George.
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I'm surrounded by roos, hello Bosa.
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Lilly
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A tiny terror in the making, Turkey! When I say tiny, I mean tiny.
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I wore crocs out today, Bosa was curious but seeing as how there was no shoe string, he did not peck my feet. So, it is a shoe string fetish he has.
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What is it with these silkie boys. They have all fallen head over heels for the too big for them cochin girls.
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Where are you going mom, I must follow every move you make.
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George's shadow is very cool!


I feel the need to share my Lilly....

 

[RoyalChick]

Why is there no rodent-based cat food? Wouldn't cats prefer mouse flavored cat food? Do your friends make mouse based food?

https://www.muridaepet.com/

and for Germany and the UK
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Alternatively (tax)

 

[notabitail]

https://www.muridaepet.com/

and for Germany and the UK
https://lucky-kitty.com/en?srsltid=AfmBOor7FPkxevD8kx97YwW4X0slP30LmN9_Ifcew3LvIbL1fE9wlpQG

Alternatively (tax)

Mmm, rat steak.