Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Today is a very sad day. I went out to the coop and found my beautiful Sunny dead on the coop floor under the roost. I bawled like a baby. She wasn't even 2 years old.

Yesterday she was fine, as far as I could tell. I have no idea what happened. I could not bring myself to do a necropsy. Just couldn't. I have her bagged up in the freezer, and I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws. I will not throw her away or let the raccoons have her.

She was my lap chicken. (Pip is too, but less so.) Sunny would let me pet her. I petted her when I took out chickie snack yesterday afternoon.

I cried again when I took out chickie snack today, because she wasn't there.

Fly high and free, my beautiful Sunny Girl!
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Sorry to hear about Her.
Sometimes we just never know

 

[rural mouse]

Pretty photo; however those aren't sparrows... they're pesty poopy vultures in our yard!
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They're alarm sentinels willing to go after larger birds....like hawks.... They're quite welcome around here.

 

[featherhead007]

Is it too noisy? It seems to have a bark issue from here.

That was a clever retort!

 

[rural mouse]

I told hubby I was going to dream of that rooster and he made fun of me! How RUDE

He's quite the looker. I'm going to be dreaming of him too. Note the owner. Contact them next year.

 

[rural mouse]

Today is a very sad day. I went out to the coop and found my beautiful Sunny dead on the coop floor under the roost. I bawled like a baby. She wasn't even 2 years old.

Yesterday she was fine, as far as I could tell. I have no idea what happened. I could not bring myself to do a necropsy. Just couldn't. I have her bagged up in the freezer, and I'll bury her in the garden when the ground thaws. I will not throw her away or let the raccoons have her.

She was my lap chicken. (Pip is too, but less so.) Sunny would let me pet her. I petted her when I took out chickie snack yesterday afternoon.

I cried again when I took out chickie snack today, because she wasn't there.

Fly high and free, my beautiful Sunny Girl!
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[ValerieJ]

I popped a lavender Orp and a Marans hybrid under my silkie hen. She is a good mama. And it was hilarious when they were bigger than she was, trying to snuggle under her
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Laverne the Orp is twice her size now, and Shirley the Marans (ya she turned out to be a he) is about 4 times her size!

So it's silkies then. It sounds like such a great way to raise chicks!!! They look so cute with her.

 

[Sylvester017]

Here’s a loaf of Breda:



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But it's not BLUE...!

BLUE Breda hen!

 

[Sylvester017]

A BFTP Mug - Ginger (Wellsummer)
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I LOVE Wellies! Got any egg photos?

 

[rural mouse]

But it's not BLUE...!

BLUE Breda hen!
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That's a path you DON'T want him going down....


Blue bread tax

Rose is now twice the size of PITA.

 

[Sylvester017]

They're alarm sentinels willing to go after larger birds....like hawks.... They're quite welcome around here.

I'll take your word for it. Here the sparrows in tandem will attack a single crow by pooping on it till it's wings are all wet & can't fly. The little sh*ts are too cowardly to chase more than one crow. Our crows are more desirable here to chase off hawks in the city than the vulture sparrows who do absolutely nothing beneficial here except breed more vulture sparrows!!