Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

That is so sweet...& born in snow weather! How do they stay warm enough? Must be a hardy breed

As long as it’s not raining they do very well. Rain is the enemy to horses and cattle.

 

[Ponypoor]

I was just surprised that it looks so cold for calving. I just assumed mammals like deer, elk, bovine, equine, feline, etc, birthed in warmer parts of spring & not winter. Those fur coats they wear must be protecting.

Deer, elk, moose etc are usually born in April up here, and still plenty of snow, the big problem is with rain. Snow isn’t so bad, cold is ok, dry is best.

Around here calves born in the Spring are usually brought inside the barn for their first week.

I have had foals born in the rainy springtime and they do not get outside if it’s raining until they are about a couple weeks old. I let them out for an hr or so if it is t raining but the mud is very bad for their hooves.

Hooves are made for hard dry and rocky ground, not mud.

Sheep also prefer cold dry or hot dry weather.

 

[Ponypoor]

It's fun to see them grow into their names. They grow so f-a-s-t !!!

We gave Japanese names to our Silkies except two ~ one reminded me of a Vogue doll & another one is a combo name after my sis & neice.

Suzu ~ "long lived|crane"
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Keiko ~ "adored one"
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Mika ~ "who is like God"
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Betta ~ "pledged to God|truth" (combination of Betty & Vetta)
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Ginny ~ "pure|chaste" ~ named after the Vogue doll "Ginny"
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Awwwww I love their names Super adorable for dust mops

Right Holley or is that Jolly?

 

[Sylvester017]

Pony Sunday

A few minutes after this video a hawk made an appearance. Looks like a Red Tail, hopefully not taking up residence here.

The crows were very vocal, along with me out there jumping around waving my arms hope my neighbours don’t see me doing that!

We love our crow murders here ~ they keep the hawks away yet never bother our chickens. The only time we get a hawk around the neighborhood are the new juveniles who are still too stupid to know the murders will beat the cr*p out of them!

 

[Ponypoor]

We love our crow murders here ~ they keep the hawks away yet never bother our chickens. The only time we get a hawk around the neighborhood are the new juveniles who are still too stupid to know the murders will beat the cr*p out of them!

The blue jays and crows here like to swoop the chooks and tease them - they have a sense of humour

 

[TOMTE]

Pony Sunday

A few minutes after this video a hawk made an appearance. Looks like a Red Tail, hopefully not taking up residence here.

The crows were very vocal, along with me out there jumping around waving my arms hope my neighbours don’t see me doing that!

Here's a red-shoulder (a lot more prevalent in our immediate area than red-tails) I got video of 2 days ago. "Our" pair is building a nest right now so they're very busy and active. I saw them mating the other day in a tree at the end of our driveway (don't remember if I mentioned it here), and just now as I was typing this my dad called me over and said they were mating again! I just missed it! By the time I got there just a few seconds later they were sitting next to each other on a branch in a tree in our yard!

I've seen the male displaying (courtship) several times, as well as both of them flying back and forth with sticks and dead leaves for their nest (though I think the male spends more time doing it).

Still don't know where exactly their nest is but it's somewhere out back...

I just got video of the female chilling in the tree, I'll post it soon!

It's been harrowing letting the girls out of the run My anxiety makes me extra vigilant and I don't let them go far. The hawks are too busy to go after them for now, especially with me standing watch, but they're going to have several more mouths to feed soon, and they watch the chooks as they fly over. So my girls had about an hour of closely supervised outside time, to be in the sun. It's beautiful outside today!

 

[Sylvester017]

Pony Sunday

A few minutes after this video a hawk made an appearance. Looks like a Red Tail, hopefully not taking up residence here.

The crows were very vocal, along with me out there jumping around waving my arms hope my neighbours don’t see me doing that!

Love your video's. How do you get your barn roof snow off?

 

[SimpleJenn]

What is tail sexing? I am not familiar with it.

Female chicks grow their first tailfeathers faster than males. Might be an old wives tale or only linked to a few breeds, it's just for fun

 

[RoyalChick]

We do have pigeons around here and in old barns especially but I don’t feed them and they can’t get into my loft.

They are very smart and highly adaptable. I like them.

These aren’t scrawny town pigeons. These are living high on the hog pigeons! I will try and get some more pictures. There is a tree very close to the house here and sometimes they sit on the branch and it bends right down to the window ledge and they look in to see what the boom and are up to!
What I love is their coo-cooing. It has a very distinctive rhythm.

 

[RoyalChick]

Pony Sunday

A few minutes after this video a hawk made an appearance. Looks like a Red Tail, hopefully not taking up residence here.

The crows were very vocal, along with me out there jumping around waving my arms hope my neighbours don’t see me doing that!

Wow. Windy!