Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Yep, wattles and only just started growing the tail

I'm thinking boy too.
They are 3.5 weeks old right now, so it's getting to where I can tell girls and boys.

Already that old! Wow time flies

 

[Ponypoor]

I like the Chicken Attack video. Do I dare share it? Maybe just look it up. That guy can yodel!!!

Now I need to go take some photos of my chickens to get out of jail.

This guy?

Takeo Ischi The Japanese Yodeler - Chicken Attack​

 

[Sylvester017]

Happy Monday everyone.
Here is Piglet’s mug just before she got bowled over by the wind yesterday.
I am a big fan of her post-molt feather patterns.

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Pretty feathers! Moults can really change a chicken's appearance & surprise us! I love new moults to see pretty feathers before they get worn & tatty & discolored especially from sun bleaching, dustbaths & muddy weather.

This was our Silver Partridge (Gray) Silkie chick who after 5 years of moults doesn't look the same any more. She's more of a dark gray all over now w/a stained silver belly. Her underdown is light but outer feathering darker & rust-stained from damp dustbaths

2020 ~ Silver Partridge/Gray chick "Suzu"

2021 ~ Silver Partridge is Suzu

Once we let the chicks go outside Suzu started staining her feathers ~ late 2021

Damp garden soil dustbathing 2022

Damp dirt bathing really discolored her feathers

2024 ~ Suzu doesn't look the same w/ all her Silver markings stained from her garden bed dustbaths and darkening moult feathers ~ at 1st we thought it was gold leakage but she loves being a chicken & loves her damp dustbaths. I'll have to get more pictures of her or have DH take some current pics. The Dominique gets a bit dingy rust too before moult.

We had a Black Silkie "Mini" whose black feathers would fade rusty from sun bleaching & dustbaths but the next moult they would come in shiny black again.

Black Silkie ~ Mini w/faded rusty feathers 2015

New Moult ~ Mini 2017

W/ our Silkies I never knew they were moulting cuz their moults weren't obvious like smooth-feathered breeds... until one day I notice new crest pin feathers & cleaner colors w/ no stains!

Our golden feathered breeds didn't show as much obvious rust discoloration & was dusty gold & not as noticeable, they just lost shine till the next year's new shiny moult came in.

There must be a lot of iron in our soil cuz our White Leghorn would get dingy stained feathers too until her moult when pretty white feathers came in again.

 

[featherhead007]

A jacuzzi does sound nice. Decades ago I had one but when you're younger it's not appreciated. Now I'm too old to crawl into one .

Exercises are tough/painful... but if no pain, there's no gain. Therapist has extended another 4 weeks of appts.

BTW ~ the chickens in bed are not mine... it's an internet pic

Oh sure they aren’t!

 

[featherhead007]

It’s “Chicken Talk'' By Richie Kavanagh - Irish

I figured you would know that!

 

[featherhead007]

Ah, thank you! The size difference is significant.

I won’t go there.

 

[Sylvester017]

Mugs Monday

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Calandar girl

 

[featherhead007]

Calandar girl

She’s beautiful, but she doesn’t show enough gams for a calendar girl picture

 

[Sylvester017]

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.

We know our animals best & do our best for them. I hope something works out for you guys. We gave our bully every chance before rehoming her... except she was the opposite of Diane ~ good w/ people but not w/ chickens.

Her new owner & home

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

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Ooo la la! Very snazzy! She is a beauty