Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

What a fun morning. Shared this on my thread, but had to share it here too!

Finally lap chickens! With bribery anyway...lol I had 4 in my lap today!

Nom, nom!
Willow and Phoenix!

I love that last photo! Awesome!

 

[BY Bob]

I don’t have the stamina for this!
At 1pm I noticed that the little orange dish of chick feed was getting a bit covered over with bedding.
You can just see poking up it in this picture - to the left of Tassel’s backside.
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So I decided to go out and add another pot of feed, retrieve this pot and put it somewhere more secure.

IT HAS GONE

No sign of it. Admittedly Tassels and her army of teeny, tiny excavators have been doing some major digging.
But the thing is ceramic coated cast iron. It is heavy. Completely gone. I have raked over that whole area!

And if that weren’t frustrating enough, Pooh has moved into the Tassels/chicklet cardboard home. She is fine sharing it with the little ones and several have been in and been hanging out with her.
I don’t know yet, but I suspect she is going broody in there.
I have no idea how Tassels will react come nightfall.

Here is Pooh inspecting her new accommodations.
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Your hens truly are nutters.

 

[BY Bob]

Wednesday Wattles

 

[RoyalChick]

Wow, I wonder what happened to it!

Pooh just wants to share mothering duties!

Turns out Pooh wanted to lay an egg. I can see the appeal as the little chicks are much less bothersome than the broody hens occupying the usual egg-laying spot.
Pooh also did me a service by finding the 4th fake egg that I had failed to retrieve from under Tassels when I gave her the chicks. She was so wildly pecking I decided it was better to leave it than disturb her any more.
Pooh found it and arranged it nicely with her own egg in the chicklet box.

 

[drstratton]

There are no losers as I get to carry them.

I showed your girls to my friend today. She is a very brittle diabetic and will be having her toes removed on the 28th, due to a blood cot, from diabetic complications. Anyway she told me she's always wanted chickens with a Phyllis Diller hairdo. Your girls totally brightened her day.
If she was where she could have one, I'd get it for her. I might eventually be able to get a pair for her to keep at our place.

 

[drstratton]

There are no losers as I get to carry them.

Definitely a win, win!

 

[drstratton]

Woohoo!

Gucci was a Buff Laced Polish
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What a beautiful girl!

 

[The Sniper]

Coffee Wednesday
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socks? dirt? socks? dirt? are we gonna ignore this

 

[drstratton]

Yes their hen looks eggsactly like her, and she’s a really sweetie like Gucci

Don’t know which eggs are which as they have all their hens and two Roos running together.

I had hoped for a few Hmong eggs but their Hmong aren’t laying at the moment. So the three Polish eggs and the 3 ‘other’ eggs…. Any guesses?

S=Silkies I'm afraid I'm not very creative sometimes...lol

 

[drstratton]

socks? dirt? socks? dirt? are we gonna ignore this

Works for me!