Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

I wonder why the second photo doesn’t show? Does anyone else see it?

I can see it. She's got Sass!

 

[featherhead007]

I can grow flowers outside. I actually enjoy it and worked in a greenhouse for a few years long ago. I'm enjoying my foray into aquatic plants and doing ok. House plants, no, they die. Well, I can keep a spider plant alive but that is about the extent of it. I had a venus fly trap when I was a senior in high school going on 23 years ago. I kept it alive for I think 8ish months before it died. Interestingly enough, while yes they will catch a fly they require more care then just flies.

We used to have beautiful flower beds along the front of the house. My brother and his group of friends along with my sister and her group of friends all playing ball in the yard were death to the beds. Add in the fact that we were spending a small fortune keeping diseases and bugs off our roses. Did not help that my neighbor also had roses who did nothing to hers. They were always infested with aphids which would then come to mine. Never ending expensive process.

I decided if I'm going to spend a small fortune on something, let's spend it on the chickens.

That being said, I'm eyeing something. Been following a page on facebook. They have chickens and donkeys and such. This year they planted dahlia's. This fall they hope to offer some tubers from some of their dahlia's. If I have a weakness besides roses it is dahlia's.

Beings that we are spilling out our hearts, i like the daisy flower type.
Huge sunflowers are very pretty also and when they seed, … instant sunflower seeds

 

[featherhead007]

I can grow flowers outside. I actually enjoy it and worked in a greenhouse for a few years long ago. I'm enjoying my foray into aquatic plants and doing ok. House plants, no, they die. Well, I can keep a spider plant alive but that is about the extent of it. I had a venus fly trap when I was a senior in high school going on 23 years ago. I kept it alive for I think 8ish months before it died. Interestingly enough, while yes they will catch a fly they require more care then just flies.

We used to have beautiful flower beds along the front of the house. My brother and his group of friends along with my sister and her group of friends all playing ball in the yard were death to the beds. Add in the fact that we were spending a small fortune keeping diseases and bugs off our roses. Did not help that my neighbor also had roses who did nothing to hers. They were always infested with aphids which would then come to mine. Never ending expensive process.

I decided if I'm going to spend a small fortune on something, let's spend it on the chickens.

That being said, I'm eyeing something. Been following a page on facebook. They have chickens and donkeys and such. This year they planted dahlia's. This fall they hope to offer some tubers from some of their dahlia's. If I have a weakness besides roses it is dahlia's.

I have a cactus collection! There, I came straight to the point !

 

[bgmathteach]

Day Lillie’s are also very nice and there are varieties the flower a couple times in the summer. Not sure if they are poisonous to the chooks but as you’re not free ranging anymore they should be fine.

I am going to move my rhododendrons up here and plant in the ‘Rooster Run’. I think someone here posted that their chooks were hiding amongst their rhododendrons a while back and got me thinking again of moving them here. I trust the chooks not to try eating them!

As for roses, the Japanese beetles have decimated ours. And nothing seems to work at keeping them away. I do collect them for the chooks to enjoy, but there are so many of them. Seems to be more and more invasive species lately. We never used to have possums here, or stink bugs, long horned beetles, Asian beetles…. I am waiting for those Joro spiders to arrive! Wonder the chooks will think!

Daylillies aren't toxic. You can actually eat the tubers - but do so only in little amounts, as for some people, they can be a bit of a purgative.

@RebeccaBoyd Dahlias are not only beautiful, but the chooks cna eat the flowers (the year I grew them, when the flowers were getting enar the end of their attractive life, I would cut them off and toss them in to the chickens). Supposedly the tubers are also edible as well, but those I haven't tried myself.

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh my, Geronimo is wearing a shawl. Very fetching.

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday
Blanche

Wee chickie

Dorothy

Holly

It’s a horse of course! Truly looking for pears the chooks are eating off the ground

And video of the silkie babies - the oldest is 4 days old and the youngest 3 days old

 

[Sylvester017]

Update on wee silkie babies. They were all out having a drink and eating when I did chores. I checked out wee Chippy-choo (I guess that’s her name now haha) and her butt is clear now. And the umbilicus looks dry. I’ll keep a close eye on her next few days.

They seem to be thriving, it’s supposed to be nice and warm here today so I will get Whiskers off the nest so I can get her and the bebes moved over to the pen in the Summer House.

Here are a couple of other baby mugs; I need to name these ladies if they elate going to stay.

Red Girl
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Pretty Girl
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They grow so fast!

Pasty butt? Our 8-yr-old Dana was a pasty butt runt chick but today she has outlived her 2 Dominique sisters. Pasty butt doesn't worry me so much as other chick issues but it does need care.

Dana ~ homecoming 2017 ~ only needed to clean her tush once when we brought the chicks home & she was fine after that.

 

[Sylvester017]

Well, according to chicken math...and their size, they are only 1/2 chicken

I personally think they are WHOLE personalities and might even count as double chickens, based on what others have said about them, though!

200% !!!

 

[featherhead007]

200% !!!

Personality doesn’t make a mop into a vacuum cleaner! But a mop with personality is a good mop!
Silkies are not real chickens.

 

[Sylvester017]

Bucky (who is very hard to get photos of) has astonishingly orange legs.
Maybe she isn’t a Buckeye after all?!
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I can't believe a reputable hatchery would make any mistakes... Buckeyes... or any breed can all have little differences between them, i.e. like different comb shapes, different feather color intensities, size, shape, etc etc. Bucky is a gorgeous color! So glad you chose a rarer breed to preserve. It's independent flock owners like yourself that saved the Dominiques from extinction when breeders found 3 remaining Dom flocks in the USA in the 1970's & brought them back from extinction w/ a concentrated revival program. As much as we loved our Leghorn temperaments our Dominiques were even better & have become our favorite standard breed.

3 busy dizzy one-month old Dom chicks finally at rest ~ 2017