Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

Yep looks scary to me!

I would hope so!

 

[Ponypoor]

2fer

with cat.....
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This is a great photo! I think it needs to go in the caption contest

 

[Ponypoor]

Two-fer Tuesday

Two wild calling birds

Two French hens

And a partridge in the barn

“Hooman are you crazy? There are no partridges here. And BTW I saw you eating Cayenne’s spicy supper - I am telling Queen Aurora!”

 

[Sylvester017]

See the below for answers:

Post in thread 'Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock' https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-26412746

TeeHee! Very cute, Sweetie But guess our tribe will continue to stick w/ protein for muffs/beards/crest/body/leg & toe feathers... as the following pic shows

2024

 

[Sylvester017]

It’s hard calling them Mr P G or C as they all sound so similar! At least Mr LC is different sounding.

Mr P does know his name, I tried calling Clyde Mr C but Mr P would look at me expecting something!!

So Clyde stuck.

At the moment I have been calling Gomer ‘cute little man’ though last night he was being bad not going to bed so I yelled at him ‘Gomer get your arse over here’ of course he just ran off to dig in the horse stall. Brat! I had the stall doors closed so he was SOL, too dangerous they get right under the horses feet! I had to scoop him up - he’s a snuggler, and likes to tuck his head under my arm and tuck his feet up - then he starts that cute chortling they do when they are snuggled under mama hahahaha - good thing he’s contagious and can’t be sold off! It would be hard for me to part with him!

Gomer is indeed a rare one... not just for being a rare Red Pyle Silkie... but for being so darn cute... always makes me sad we couldn't keep our only Silkie roo in 2011. It was so heartbreaking to return him & that's when we never got straight run Silkies ever again The DNA-sexed females allowed us to never get heartache again (roo zone restriction)

2011 ~ our cockerel "Trumpet" was such a gentleman escorting Violet around the yard. He was such a promising boy, it breaks my heart to this day that we couldn't keep him. He didn't have a mean bone in his little body.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

My Olive Egger and my Welsummer - my Twofer contribution. They are two of the four that DH calls the "brown chickens" because he can't remember their names.

 

[Sylvester017]

Someone is Molting

Spoiler: Who is it?

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It looks like Niamh is going through some kind of molt. She has been dropping feathers around. Not a lot, but it is an odd age for her to molt, isn't it? She is about 9 months old.

It is not this lady.

View attachment 4270730Aster has not yet noted this year, from what I can tell. It's starting to worry me.

Welcome to the worrying community. We've had 15 yrs of chickens... 15 yrs of constant worries right from the start

Your Aster has been a healthy spitfire from the start but Niamh had a somewhat rocky few days this yr that may have speeded her moulting schedule? Just never know what kind of background/diet/etc our birds had before we get them? We trust/hope the breeders did right by their breeding or from hatchery programs. Plus breed genetics/hardiness plays a large part too

 

[Sylvester017]

My Olive Egger and my Welsummer - my Twofer contribution. They are two of the four that DH calls the "brown chickens" because he can't remember their names.

Color Twins

 

[Sylvester017]

Two-fer Tuesday

Two wild calling birds
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Two French hens
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And a partridge in the barn
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“Hooman are you crazy? There are no partridges here. And BTW I saw you eating Cayenne’s spicy supper - I am telling Queen Aurora!”

You can always borrow an assortment from OUR partridges... they look different after every moult