Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

You sent your rain down to us today

No thanks needed. I aim to protect and serve!

 

[featherhead007]

Took Hazel out of the big coop and put her in the big run with Diane and Tedi after setting up privacy screens. Annie is back in the big coop laying, when she’s done I’ll go get her too. I think this is going to be the next couple of days’ arrangements least.

I believe the only solution right now is divided runs. I’m not sure how to do this & integrate the coops. The best way to attach the coops is on one side and end of the big run which is longer than wide, the hill I partially excavated this summer. Maybe a division down the middle…

The coop attachment and run division problem is knotty but the aviary area & forest area are well- suited to division.

Hazel did a lot of loud calling at first when she got back in the big run. Shehnai shadowed her and the BO’s from outside, tidbitting and bukking. Hazel could hear him and stuck with the BO’s. It wasn’t bad, she tended to retreat to the corner but also move with the BO’s. She was standing and preening and ate and foraged a little.

I want Hazel to get her bearings and to feel safe. She also hasn’t had a dust bath in two days. I called to her and took a scoop and scratched around in the bath. Also gave her some dandelion leaves. After I left I observed her and one of the BO’s in the dust bath, yes! But it was a short session. Hopefully she’ll indulge later on after a few hours of safety in there.

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Yesterday

After Hazel made low vocal sounds from the big coop Shehnai realized she was in there and went nuts trying to figure out how to get in, going all around the coop and little run a few times, weirdly totally ignoring going into the run and through the pop door, which was open, probably because that route was not direct.

Then later when I was tending to the poop a pullet managed to jump up and squeeze by me. Once in, she made hostile sounds, so did Hazel, and they faced off, Hazel rising from her nestbox and approaching, then they scuffled. I couldn’t tell if Hazel fought and then ran, or just tried to run past her. Got the pullet out, then Shehnai tried to jump up to the edge too but couldn’t get by me and didn’t have a good grip on the edge and slipped off.

Let me know how the separation goes. I’m in need of ideas to separate my tribe.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Hazel with the BO's this morning

A short dustbath, she's the brown bit the blue doggie pool behind the insulated waterer, I don't have a camera in a good spot for there

 

[rural mouse]

Windy wattles
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Waiting wattles (she's desperate to get in there but I know she just wants to terrorise the new girls like she does the rest)
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Why is this weirdo watching us washing? wattles
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I have one very similar to the front one in the last pic.

smaller crest, more gold

 

[rural mouse]

Snow is gone

Mortimer finally posed

and has wattles

 

[Ponypoor]

76 yrs ago I got sent home from kindergarten on the 1st day for a whole year cuz I spoke half my sentences in Russian & half in English ~ there were no ESL remedial classes in that era. My parents were told to speak English only to me at home. Not only did they speak English but I was taught to read & write it too. While Pop was at it he also taught me to read Russian & write in cyrillic too so I could distinguish between the two languages. Big mistake ~ when I got to first grade the following year I was correcting all the students who couldn't read the Dick & Jane primers!

To be bilingual is an amazing thing, my french sucks, but I can get by. I can speak cat, horse and now chook. Hahaha.

Holly don’t you give me any of your lip sister, stop being broody!

The brat, laid a few eggs then went broody again!

NO MORE BABIES EVER!

 

[Ponypoor]

Ugghhh! I think the trick is put the trap in the rats ‘path’ take all the food and water away so that the rats hungry for the bait. Maybe put a crate or something on the top to make it feel more secure?

Yep I need to lean a board up against the wall were they run, crests a tunnel for them.

I haven’t seen any rats on the barn cam in a bit. Usually see one a night. Is this a good thing?

 

[Ponypoor]

My cats version on the bed

Is that a cat spat?

I have chickens that do that on the hay bales! Fighting over who gets to sit on the bale.

No one that’s who! I say so! Because this is what happens! A cache of hidden eggs!

 

[RoyalChick]

Snow is gone

Mortimer finally posed

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The clown car and the steps never get old for me.

 

[notabitail]

To be bilingual is an amazing thing, my french sucks, but I can get by. I can speak cat, horse and now chook. Hahaha.

Holly don’t you give me any of your lip sister, stop being broody!
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The brat, laid a few eggs then went broody again!

NO MORE BABIES EVER!

"Chat, j'ai pété"

Say that and it sounds kinda like "ChatGPT".