Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Sorry, I was busy with my ice queen ELSA. I played the whole YouTube song for her, and she was mesmerized, her beak stuck to my iPhone watching it. Hilarious! Let it go!

Video of that! (Personally, I think a video of Elsa glued to the screen watching that would be worth quite a few tax pics, but that would be up to tax man @BY Bob )

 

[micstrachan]

The new Buckeyes eleven days old (Hatch Day June 2nd).
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Little Brow, who has the marking above her left eye, on the right side. She is friendly and interested in me when I approach, always jumps up first to see what's what. Doesn't mind being picked up to be lifted and shown things, and steps on to my hand.
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There are two sort of "twins", one of which is also very interested like Brow, and this is one
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Oh, yay! You got Buckeyes again! LOVE them!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Good one

But needs tax

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He is just gorgeous. Those fail feathers are very pretty, did he pay for detentions at the rooster salon?

Breakfast with Phyllistines

They look happy together. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the full integration goes as well as it can.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Someone wanted to help me clean the other day.

 

[Sylvester017]

It is always important to remember that every chicken is an individual. Breed characteristics are just generalizations. They can indicate a trend but outliers always exist.

Yep, just sad we didn't have the same experience betw our friends' birds or ours. You'd think we'd collectively get at least ONE good Buff Orp experience out of 3 different flocks .

 

[Sylvester017]

Depends upon direction. Over the fields line of sight or by road?

Well on our folks' farm they talked of their nearest neighbor by number of acres away while their more distant relatives' farms were gauged by how many road miles away they were . My folks' neighbor walking distance to their house was 5 acres while the nearest relatives' farm was approx 5 miles away .

 

[Sylvester017]

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Well here's mine! It's a small board. Now a ramp from the brooder to this covered bed. They get a couple little excursions out each day.

That is great!

 

[micstrachan]

Someone wanted to help me clean the other day.
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What a beauty.

 

[micstrachan]

Me too

I miss my Margo, too.

 

[Sylvester017]

In Albis would groom me. If I bent down while reading she would pick at my hair.

Dana will peck at our pant leg to get our attn... but gently. Or she'll start talking in a certain tone. Either way is so cute... we often carry on conversations w/ each other even if we haven't a clue what the other is saying