Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

A walker. A WALKER!!!

Now I know what to do with my mom’s original walker!

Oh yes! Note you can attach all kinds of perches on it too! And - the old commode seat frame is also doing perch duty in the pullet's little coop run!

Is it normal that the Momma hen talks constantly. I don’t think Tassels has been quiet for more than 30 seconds since I let them all out.
She is talking to them not me of course, and they are running around playing tag!

Aren't the chicks talking constantly too, or can't you hear them over Momma? Everybody is in constant communication. Sonar systems all go. Maybe an ancient jungle adaptation. No chick left behind! Very important.

@RebeccaBoyd :best wishes with your surgery. PLEASE, PLEASE do not push it. IT is bad of your boss to be pushing you (though I understand why) - do not cave and go to work until you are physically in an okay place for that. One wrong twist or stumble and you could do a whole lot of damage. I KNOW you well enough to know you will be going a bit stir crazy BEFORE you are physically ready to go back - even 'just for running the register.' Next thing you know - oh, can you just refill my coffee - oh, Can you just get me a muffin.....yadda, yadda, yadda.

Stay home and snuggle with your chickens, watch the babies and the mommas....get a chaise lounge chair that you can put right outside the silkie pen, and have it adjusted right for reclining.....and watch the adorable and entertaining 'Silkie Chicken TV'

We love you and want you to HEAL properly and completely.

Trust me, I know how hard it is to follow my own advise....just ask Hubby when I had surgery......

Ok so Jenn is the most observant - I thought for sure on the weekend she would figure out I was priming you all for the broody buster chicks.

These are Noirans, a hybrid of Marans developed in France by Hendrix Genetics. They lay very dark brown eggs like Marans, and have feathered legs.

There were 5 but when I picked them up I noted one had passed during the trip to the store.

I have placed these under Georgie and Holly, Georgie is very good, Holly is not too sure what’s going on but so far she has been good.

Hopefully they will stop this foolishness of being broody for a couple months to get through this heat and humidity. And get Holly to start eating and put on some weight.

Wait till Marie sees this hahaha

Black Beauties!
I was catching something from you, seeming a weird wavering on chicks, but couldn't really tell! You've spoken of Hendrix before, I recall.
This picture is awesome though! The silkie feathering against them is beautiful. Can you lighten the chicks a bit to see their faces better? In any case it's POW, Calendar, and Wall-Worthy!

 

[kattabelly]

Love it!

Oh how I miss having chicks around….

I know! I need Guinea Fowl! That’s what I need!

I keep thinking turkeys look like they could be real characters to have around the place.

Luckily we're only allowed to keep chickens at the community garden, so I don't need to keep reminding myself I don't have the space for them.

 

[Ponypoor]

Go for it!

As I said if I could toss them under the broodies I would have.
Now that I know they can get them in I will make sure next to read up on them and maybe get a couple.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh yes! Note you can attach all kinds of perches on it too! And - the old commode seat frame is also doing perch duty in the pullet's little coop run!

Aren't the chicks talking constantly too, or can't you hear them over Momma? Everybody is in constant communication. Sonar systems all go. Maybe an ancient jungle adaptation. No chick left behind! Very important.




Black Beauties!
I was catching something from you, seeming a weird wavering on chicks, but couldn't really tell! You've spoken of Hendrix before, I recall.
This picture is awesome though! The silkie feathering against them is beautiful. Can you lighten the chicks a bit to see their faces better? In any case it's POW, Calendar, and Wall-Worthy!
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I have a photo of Fluffy and Curly with chicks that are all snuggled in the fluff like that, I’ll see if I can find it.

And forgot how tiny they are!

 

[Ponypoor]

I keep thinking turkeys look like they could be real characters to have around the place.

Luckily we're only allowed to keep chickens at the community garden, so I don't need to keep reminding myself I don't have the space for them.

They are awesome, and we have wild turkeys here. They can fly!

 

[Ponypoor]

I keep thinking turkeys look like they could be real characters to have around the place.

Luckily we're only allowed to keep chickens at the community garden, so I don't need to keep reminding myself I don't have the space for them.

Are there many others who have chooks in the gardens? Is this an allotment?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I have to say, I have been using those feeders for well over a decade without them coming apart like that. I am currently hanging them all with no issues. I have 4 of them in use right now.

Which feeders do you mean? The little red one in the first post and your little blue one don't hang, there's no loop to attach to, unless you rig up something.

I have both those types, the blue one I find is hard to clean - shaving get it all bunged up. But if places on a brick paver this fixes that problem.

The little ones with round holes that sit and don't hang - the one I got the very bottom separates from the holes by way of sliding tabs, it's easy to clean because of that. Yours does not come apart?

 

[RoyalChick]

When she's upset, she'll be a screaming banshee flying at whoever she's upset with (not the babies....until she's DONE)

She isn’t a screaming banshee at all. She didn’t even flare up at Pooh who was mingling with the chicks and sharing the food.
She did manage to get them all to come back to bed so I guess they do listen to her!

 

[kattabelly]

Are there many others who have chooks in the gardens? Is this an allotment?

Basically an allotment, yes. I'm the only one keeping chickens there at the moment but other people have in the past. I've taken over someone else's setup after it sat unused for a few years - some bits were still more or less usable and I'm rebuilding the rest.

The site rules say chickens are the only "livestock" that can be kept there but a few of us have been thinking bees probably don't count as livestock. It's not a very easy place to keep bees though, so I'd want to spend a couple of years planning and planting first to ensure they had enough food and shelter from the weather.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have to say, I have been using those feeders for well over a decade without them coming apart like that. I am currently hanging them all with no issues. I have 4 of them in use right now.

It could be I didn’t fully twist so the tabs were locked in. Or that the chickens pecking untwisted it. I would be happy to try again except I can’t find it!