Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

 

[Sylvester017]

A classic picture of a classy lady

You wondered why I was still awake after midnight? Why are you still awake at 2:52 a.m.?

 

[Sylvester017]

Still have one and it works!

That's good! When cell phones just came into existence their useage was iffy so we kept our landline phone to plug-into the landline service whenever cell phone satellites would go on the fritz ~ so, we could still could call out on the landline!

 

[Marie2020]

A classic picture of a classy lady

I loved that grumpy face and her stern look

 

[Marie2020]

lift up that handle up boys omg

 

[Sylvester017]

So we're going to have to put up the trellis netting over the top after all

Don't you know? The grass is always greener & the bugs are way juicier on the other side...

 

[RoyalChick]

The bearded are cute for show purposes but for safe free ranging the eyes/muffs need trimming anyway so I figure why not just have non-bearded from the beginning ~ they are just as smart & industrious as any other breed if their vision is not impaired. Our Silkies trim each other's faces ~ it's not feather picking, we saw our original 1st Silkie stick her face into another bird's beak asking to be facially groomed. The tradition has been carried on w/successive Silkies. We've trimmed the juveniles once we turned them loose in the yard but the older Silkies quickly trained them to trim each other's brows/cheek muffs.

Old Violet (in the garden bed) took it upon herself to be the Silkie beautician ~ her own face was always groomed clear of fuzz
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I confess I am confused. Why is it the beard that makes it hard for them to see? Isn’t that underneath the beak? I would think it is the crazy topknot that is the issue with line of sight.

 

[Sylvester017]

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They are land foragers & you have the perfect land I love the greenery of Spring but now summer is here our water restrictions will kick in soon

 

[bgmathteach]

@RebeccaBoyd @Ponypoor & @RoyalChick
You all mention your broodies....well...
I have 3 'moms' brooding chicks right now (2 with 2 chicks each, 1 with 1 chick. Thankfully the 1 chick mom's chick hatched shortly after my gentler hen with 2, so the 2 moms & 3 chicks are being raised in the same broody coop/pen - so the lone chick has some friends to grow up with & play with.

I also have 4 that are sitting on eggs, and 3 more that keep thinking about hatching, but I steal their eggs, and they go back to laying then go broody again. thankfully, my 1/2 broody girl quit!

I will say, these last few weeks my egg production has definitely gone way down, what with so many broody girls!

And @RoyalChick ... you will never guess who is sitting on eggs this spring/summer.....

Crop girl went broody again this year - after a year off. She is a fierce defender of her nest (pecks the heck out of me when I check to see what has been gifted to her during the day!), but she was a great mom, so I am happy about this

 

[Sylvester017]

I confess I am confused. Why is it the beard that makes it hard for them to see? Isn’t that underneath the beak? I would think it is the crazy topknot that is the issue with line of sight.

The beard under the beak grows up the sides of the beak causing the muff hairs to block vision worse than the top crest. Some muffs are so long they go into the wet eyes & the annoyed Silkie will scratch at it. Not usually a problem but it can happen w/huge muffs. We had a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana w/ huge bearded muffs growing upwards into her eyes but our old Silkie beautician Violet kept the Ameraucana's muffs trimmed! Birds are smarter than given credit!

Blue Wheaten muffs