Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ILoveDaffy]

Going to go pick up the chicks shortly! Fingers crossed all in the box are doing well! They sound healthy, I heard them in the background of the phone call. They definitely have good sets of lungs!

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs Monday

 

[RoyalChick]

Mugs Monday

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What a fine looking lady she is!

 

[Ponypoor]

I thought I saw wattles on him....

Oh yes - I zoomed in this time - yes and a lovely comb. Though I am not overly confident in this variety of chook. So they have large wattles on hens?

Ooooo a rabbit hole to explore

 

[Ponypoor]

View attachment 4080792the other day....rooster mugs

View attachment 4080791and Pear and Storm yesterday....along side the deer

Snow
Than no snow

Hopefully my gang can get out this afternoon, though with the snow I am sure I will get an earful!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I mean this gently but... Diane sounds psychotic like a brain or injury pain?! We had a problem of a large bully hen attacking a small Silkie any chance she got. Before learning about the CBD we rehomed her cuz she was ok w/ people... just not other hens. Diane is beyond average aggression if she is causing injury. I'd wear goggles myself just in case she decided to go for the eyes. Chickens can jump high & fast to attack. I've even seen two normally gentle Silkies jump 4 ft in the air at each other when in a broody mood!

Two normally sweet Silkies who jumped in the air at each other seen here toodling around in better moods 2013 - 2014
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You sound very gentle, no worries. Since I don't know how to get any CBD hemp for her to eat right now, I bit the bullet and ordered organic distilled CBD oil yesterday from Cornbread Hemp in Kentucky. It has the least amount of THC I could find. I looked there and elsewhere, and for CBD oils for pets, but this for humans actually had the least THC, and I was sold on the supposed organic quality and no other added ingredients, and the two small-business owners. Hopefully it's all as they say.

She was on relatively good behaviour yesterday, very much calmer, to a surprising degree. But I am aware how changeable she is and on watch for any escalation.

She is first to "greet" me when I come into the run, even trying to peck my hand through the wires unlatching the lower door. Yesterday I picked her up right away, and held her while I unlatched the door to the further penned-in area so they could all forage outside supervised. I do keep my eyes away from her when holding her close, ever since she pecked my cheek, but I think that peck, which was light, was because there's a mole there on the side of my face, and that's exactly where she pecked. It's hands that get her riled up right now. Both Hazel and she do some light fashion work on my clothes, and that's okay.

But I keep a lookout as to what might be interesting them or bothering them whenever I hold any animal.

Another song I sing to her sometimes is "Psycho Chicken" a la Talking Heads...DH calls her "Tire-Biter", a reference to Firesign Theater.

 

[Ponypoor]

Going to go pick up the chicks shortly! Fingers crossed all in the box are doing well! They sound healthy, I heard them in the background of the phone call. They definitely have good sets of lungs!

Eggciting! Can’t wait to hear for an update!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Saw robins back almost a week ago.View attachment 4080281bluebirds came back Thursday, saw the meadowlark on Friday

View attachment 4080278and more than normal this morning...
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View attachment 4080277and noontime Sherlock walk. Deer stayed put.

That bird looks to me like an Indigo Bunting, not technically what is a Bluebird, though maybe you all call these birds bluebirds? The all-blue breast, and the hard-to-see but possibly chunky beak and the flatter head all point to a bird here in the East that would be an Indigo Bunting. Are you in Montana? That does appear to be somewhat out of range, but you could have one passing through or blown off course.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Indigo_Bunting/photo-gallery/297333661

Tiny truck!

 

[rural mouse]

Oh yes - I zoomed in this time - yes and a lovely comb. Though I am not overly confident in this variety of chook. So they have large wattles on hens?

Ooooo a rabbit hole to explore

At this age NO hen should have wattles....I think....

 

[rural mouse]

That bird looks to me like an Indigo Bunting, not technically what is a Bluebird, though maybe you all call these birds bluebirds? The all-blue breast, and the hard-to-see but possibly chunky beak and the flatter head all point to a bird here in the East that would be an Indigo Bunting. Are you in Montana? That does appear to be somewhat out of range, but you could have one passing through or blown off course.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Indigo_Bunting/photo-gallery/297333661

Tiny truck!

It's a mountain bluebird, about the same size as a chickadee.

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/mountain-bluebird