Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

(Shakespeare: Julius Caesar)

This is from the scene were Marc Antony is speaking at the funeral of Caesar, casting Brutus in a very unfavourable light! One of my favourites - talk about stabbing someone in the back!

Ok ok here’s is the Shakespeare tax….

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Like this?

Tax (for @featherhead007 )

 

[rural mouse]

An elder and 2 young'ens

haven't caught them that far out again.

 

[featherhead007]

Like this?

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For me? Don’t blame me for that one.

 

[knoturavggrl]

So cute! I love that little Toupee.

Thank you, he is a character for sure. I am torn between keeping him or Fennel. They are making it hard to choose for sure! I wish I had a crystal ball to tell which boy is gonna be nice or naughty.

Monday Mugs

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Oh wow their head poofs are really coming in!! Beautiful just beautiful

Happy Monday and for those in the US, Memorial Day.
Here are mugshots of a broody Tassels eating a cheeseburger. I wasn’t expecting her to come out of her trance so fast and grab the food from the bowl while I was carrying her outside!
Calypso has a ‘swallow it whole’ approach to fries. Hope she will be OK, the others at least pecked them in half first.

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That last picture lol she looks like she is saying: I know I shouldn’t but it’s sooo yummy!!

I chose them based upon head poof. Trying to sex them by poof. Who knows how I did?

So far they do look like girls to me. The boys in pics seem to have “stringier” head poofs in all the photos I have seen. The girls are nice and rounded like yours are. Keeping my guess at both being girls.

I remember the next line from a parody of this:

Someone in the crowd: "What do you have in the bag?"
Marc Antony: "Ears."

Appropriate tax:
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Brave you are so brave. Mine always want to perch on my shoulder but I take em right back down. to close to my eyes for my comfort. I fully recall @Ponypoor getting pecked near her eye. I don’t think they mean harm but … they do peck anything interesting

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Good morning everyone.

I have been silent and I am sorry. I have been mourning the loss of dear Owly since Friday morning. My brother hit her while leaving to go to work. I do not blame him, he was in as big of a wreck as I was. I also do not blame George anymore. Owly was a few days into being broody for the first time and had come off her nest. George was doing what roosters do and Owly was just running from him. I finally forgave George yesterday evening while sitting out back and he came and hopped up on my lap for his cuddles. It has been hard to even look at him since Friday. I guess in that moment it dawned on me that I came very close to loosing him as well. It was not malicious in his part of chasing her. I have saw it happen 1000 times when a broody hen comes off the nest that first week or so. Every one of my boys have done it in the past. They chase the girl for a few seconds and then stop when they realize she wants nothing to do with them.

Fly high my friend. You are with Grandma again and I'm sure she was thrilled to have you back.

 

[TOMTE]

Good morning everyone.

I have been silent and I am sorry. I have been mourning the loss of dear Owly since Friday morning. My brother hit her while leaving to go to work. I do not blame him, he was in as big of a wreck as I was. I also do not blame George anymore. Owly was a few days into being broody for the first time and had come off her nest. George was doing what roosters do and Owly was just running from him. I finally forgave George yesterday evening while sitting out back and he came and hopped up on my lap for his cuddles. It has been hard to even look at him since Friday. I guess in that moment it dawned on me that I came very close to loosing him as well. It was not malicious in his part of chasing her. I have saw it happen 1000 times when a broody hen comes off the nest that first week or so. Every one of my boys have done it in the past. They chase the girl for a few seconds and then stop when they realize she wants nothing to do with them.

Fly high my friend. You are with Grandma again and I'm sure she was thrilled to have you back.
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I'm so sorry!

 

[RoyalChick]

A 2-fer 4 Tuesday.
Pooh is napping in the sun. She really likes the sun! Piglet is keeping watch for her.

And here we have the two black sisters (Tassels & Calypso) plus Pooh photobombing!

Tried again but it got worse. So now it is 2+2/2 for Tuesday.

And a rainbow that showed up yesterday evening. Just because.

It appears to be chicken choir practice right now so I need to go in to get away from the racket. They definitely need practice!

 

[RoyalChick]

Good morning everyone.

I have been silent and I am sorry. I have been mourning the loss of dear Owly since Friday morning. My brother hit her while leaving to go to work. I do not blame him, he was in as big of a wreck as I was. I also do not blame George anymore. Owly was a few days into being broody for the first time and had come off her nest. George was doing what roosters do and Owly was just running from him. I finally forgave George yesterday evening while sitting out back and he came and hopped up on my lap for his cuddles. It has been hard to even look at him since Friday. I guess in that moment it dawned on me that I came very close to loosing him as well. It was not malicious in his part of chasing her. I have saw it happen 1000 times when a broody hen comes off the nest that first week or so. Every one of my boys have done it in the past. They chase the girl for a few seconds and then stop when they realize she wants nothing to do with them.

Fly high my friend. You are with Grandma again and I'm sure she was thrilled to have you back.
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Oh @RebeccaBoyd, I am so sorry for your loss. Owly was such a lovely lady. We will all miss her.

 

[notabitail]

Good morning everyone.

I have been silent and I am sorry. I have been mourning the loss of dear Owly since Friday morning. My brother hit her while leaving to go to work. I do not blame him, he was in as big of a wreck as I was. I also do not blame George anymore. Owly was a few days into being broody for the first time and had come off her nest. George was doing what roosters do and Owly was just running from him. I finally forgave George yesterday evening while sitting out back and he came and hopped up on my lap for his cuddles. It has been hard to even look at him since Friday. I guess in that moment it dawned on me that I came very close to loosing him as well. It was not malicious in his part of chasing her. I have saw it happen 1000 times when a broody hen comes off the nest that first week or so. Every one of my boys have done it in the past. They chase the girl for a few seconds and then stop when they realize she wants nothing to do with them.

Fly high my friend. You are with Grandma again and I'm sure she was thrilled to have you back.
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[knoturavggrl]

The NOT Chicken (Silkie) “problem”

So, as everyone knows, I managed to procure two very fancy “reject” Silkies from the show barn that my DD was 1000% set on. (Shaking my head at the lengths parents go to make their kids dreams come true .) I am not certain by any means but I do have a strong suspicion Pebble is a boy. So, this leaves me in a pickle as I can’t rehome Pebble my daughter would be heartbroken.

Having listened to the sage advice of @Sylvester017, I came to the conclusion that I must get more girls somehow. Straight run was all I could find though and every single hatchery was sold out completely and they are the only ones that would guarantee sex. So I put myself on the waitlist for every color silkie they offered.

Today, was the day I got an Availability email AND I managed to actually nab some. They are from Meyer hatchery which is here in Ohio, they will be shipped at least they will not be going very far. It’s about 3.5 hrs away.

All this to say: 8 Silkie chicks will be shipped to us on the June 16th. All are supposedly guaranteed to be pullets. I ordered 4 Coukoo Silkies and 4 Blue Silkies.

You’re welcome Pebble - hope you’re pleased with yourself!