Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

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!
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Very normal. Mum clucks are constant.

 

[BY Bob]

@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......

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

If anyone else goes broody here I will freak out!

Same here.

That said, I found something yesterday. Poppet, all to herself in a corner. Pancake, growly Poppet. I lifted her up and low and behold, 1 egg. I candled it out of curiosity. Crap, about halfway through developing . I give up and raise the white flag. Keep your precious egg Poppet. I have nothing else to do for the next few months. I might as well spend it watching babies grow.

At least I should have have eggs this winter as the girls should snap out of motherhood and be back to laying when everyone else stops this winter.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh Phyllis you are looking awesome, I do so love zebra chickens

And is LadyF moulting yet? I cannot wait to see how many more spots she gets

Phyllis?! That's Sydney.........

Lady F is not yet molting.

 

[BY Bob]

She and her sister are both so pretty. She's a fancy hybrid. I was going to see if you all could figure it out. She's called a Rainbow Egger. Excited to see what color eggs we will be getting. They didn't have pictures, so I had no idea what they were going to look like. We bought them from Dunlap Hatchery.

This is her sister: Crystal
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They were quite white with a little gray, but now they are starting to show a bit of creamy yellow. This beauty has a gray shawl across her back!

They are gorgeous.

 

[BY Bob]

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

No polish? I am very excited to see these grow up. Congratulations!

 

[BY Bob]

Very lovely.

I have a few Azure Blue which are a leghorn x Auracana. They lot lovely blue eggs.

One has a topknot and they all three are Splash, this year they are getting even more black spots.

Two have floppy combs, and one has a straight comb.

Topsy has the topknot and floppy comb
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Twister has a straight comb
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Flopsy has a floppy comb also
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Beautiful ladies.

 

[TOMTE]

Sybil found herself a nice perch earlier

 

[BY Bob]

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.

These ones are hanging.

You can see there is not a lot of spillage on the ground.

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?

Yes. The bottom also separates on mine for easy cleaning. I usually only utilize this one with chicks. It's filling a gap in my coverage right now.

 

[BY Bob]

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!

That is an excellent sign. Now you can sit back and watch mum work. There is nothing better.