Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

We have a new game

So cute... more of them plz

 

[Sylvester017]

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We have snuuuuuuu

& they don't seem to mind it at all !!!

 

[rural mouse]

So cute... more of them plz

 

[Ponypoor]

We have a new game

I love how she fluffed up her tail - and she can run!

 

[Ponypoor]

That tail cracks me up!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

Snow

It’s not unusual this time of year and generally doesn’t stay. And did you all know that this first snow is great for the soil as it contains nitrogen e call it poor man’s fertilizer. Some farmers will aactually plow it into their fields.

 

[kattabelly]

Hamburgs
They're about the smallest standard size bird. Cheetah is a gold penciled one. Lark and Indigo are his daughters and kept the size. He's supposed to top out at 5 pounds with the ladies at 4 pounds. Same stats for the silver spangled versions. I haven't weighed them, but with all the ranging they do, I don't think he's more than 4 soaking wet and the girls are smaller. They're very active, alert, agile and quick. They're also very much "dont touch". Cheetah has accepted assistance without complaint when he's moulting particularly miserably, but otherwise it's hands off...but willing to hang out near by. They're also much more of the type to avoid, dodge and put space between birds rather than thump

I'm not sure exactly how they compare to Hamburgs size-wise, but Fayoumis or Campines would fit this description too. Fayoumis are also meant to be more disease resistant than a lot of breeds.

Both are usually described as flighty, although the one young Fayoumi I have here mostly flies onto my head so she can work her way down to my shoulder and then to investigate my pockets She takes off like a helicopter though and could definitely fly away from a terrestrial predator better than most chickens. The breeder I know with Campines can't pick one of his cocks up without the other getting jealous and jumping up on his shoulder for cuddles too.

 

[rural mouse]

That tail cracks me up!

Me too. She'd ALWAYS thinking...and the tail never stops moving