Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

Marty - she is giving the youngsters the evil eye.

And @rural mouse you can see she has some gold neck feathers.

Mr P - sheesh I wish he would thump those ladies who pick at him!

Curly - had to look close to see if it was Betty - no wattles though!

Holly - little stinker gets under foot - trips me up. She’s moulting and coughing. Tylosin tonight for her.

Petra - also moulting so I put her about the same age as the Noirans. I help her with her topknot, removing the feather sheaths.

She’s looking good, and has some heft to her!

 

[featherhead007]

No

You need to candle the eggs to see if anyone has been sitting on them, and if anything is developing.

If you don’t see anything developing then no chicklets.

It’s difficult when they are out and about isn’t it? I live in fear of finding a Mrs LC nest with 1200 eggs in it!

My fear is a friend buying an egg, with a partially developed chick inside. I would certainly loose a customer, possibly even a friend!

 

[featherhead007]

I candled all those eggs, (the ones that had a shadowy look) I set apart and cracked open. No chick growing inside, so I scrambled them, and ate breakfast with them and sourdough bread.

 

[Ponypoor]

My fear is a friend buying an egg, with a partially developed chick inside. I would certainly loose a customer, possibly even a friend!

Candle the eggs. Then you will know for sure.

I actually toss any eggs that I find in hidden spots as I have no idea how old they are. Though I do check the regular hiding spots daily especially now that it’s freezing cold out.

But I make my gang go to bed in the henhouse so no one is left to hide out on a nest. And I remove eggs daily from the broody brats.
No. More. Babies!

 

[Ponypoor]

I candled all those eggs, (the ones that had a shadowy look) I set apart and cracked open. No chick growing inside, so I scrambled them, and ate breakfast with them and sourdough bread.

Good!

And here is the SHRA tax I owe

Dreams of warmer days….

And a couple more mugs

Mrs LC

Cayenne

 

[Ponypoor]

My cameras are down in the the barn. And it’s likely due to the stuff I have on the one circuit. I am sure I blew a fuse, hoping my water isn’t frozen too much in the trough. That de-icer is likely what tripped it.

I’ll need to balance out the load tonight. Just hoping my heater in the feedroom isn’t on that same circuit.

Have I mentioned how much I detest winter lately?

Winter whining tax

Hahahaha last winter these guys tried to follow my uncle up to the house

Hmmm that was 28 Dec 2024, almost a year ago.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Snapped this just before ThanksgivingView attachment 4262652he posed just right!

You really do live in paradise. You just maybe need a little less snow!

 

[Labsandchickens8]

I'm happy to see that Mugs Monday is still a thing, so I have a contribution. I should probably confess that I have been reading this thread from the beginning, so sometimes I'm gone for a few days when I get engrossed in something. In the last few days I've been caught up in the story of Legertha and Sylvie ( I actually cried), which then made me start researching Coopers hawks. I watched the video Bob took of the murderous hawk sitting on the tool shed, and told my husband about it. He said that when he was five hunting with his father on the old family property in Mississippi, his dad told him to shoot what he called a chicken hawk while they were hunting. Turns out that's what they called Coopers hawks in the old days in Mississippi and they were shot in sight.
Here's Mirabel inspecting my daily poop clean out of the big girls' coop for Mugs Monday, and below is Easter Egger Emily, who is just beautiful but very standoffish:

 

[Sylvester017]

I hate it, when they do that!!

It's not just hatcheries that make cockerel/pullet shipment mistakes. I've had private breeder shipment mistakes sent to me too ~ sometimes sick birds on top of that!

 

[Labsandchickens8]

I'm going back to December of 2021 now.