Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[notabitail]

I feel like the sun is going down in the wrong spot or something. It's dark-ish in here.

Well, it's now very windy and the dust is moving, so it is brighter.

 

[Sylvester017]

I feel like the sun is going down in the wrong spot or something. It's dark-ish in here.

No dust here but darkish & intermittent rain sprinkles for us...& the sun is slowly moving as Spring approaches.

 

[Sylvester017]

After almost 4 1/2 months this was a sight for sore eyes today.

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Left is Corona, right is Holly. Top is my mix Squirrel and bottom is my other Marans mix Raven. I love all my girls, and I appreciate every egg they lay and they all taste the same. My heart skips a beat when I get those dark and speckled eggs. If silkies have one downfall, it is that mine lay white eggs.

Beautiful brown eggs!

Silkie eggs are unpredictable from cream to almost brown but once a Silkie lays a color she keeps that color all thru her years.

 

[Sylvester017]

Yes, the wait can indeed be long especially for show quality birds or rare breeds or even really pretty egg colors. I am on a waitlist for the SFH’s I just HAD to have

I can imagine it’s even crazier if you’re showing or trying to get breeding stock for sale/show.

Ooooo! Swedish Flowers! Greenfire Farms video'd them years ago & they were not in the least afraid but curiously followed the cameraman as he circled their pen. Some birds (like our Silkies) hate a camera or phone in our hands & run away but not our Dominique. I always imagined SFH would have similarly good temperaments.

 

[Sylvester017]

I'll never be that advanced in chicken tending. Only been into it for 9 years, and no idea how many more I have.

We keep it pretty simple here. I just love my big docile girls, mostly BO's, Australorps, LO's, and a few mixes. Cannot again leave out my Leghorns, of which I only have one left. But she does seem healthy enough at the moment.

Nothing wrong w/ simple. We sampled a few rare breeds over the years & now we are simply Silkies w/ one older Dominique leftover from a previous flock.

 

[ValerieJ]

No dust here but darkish & intermittent rain sprinkles for us...& the sun is slowly moving as Spring approaches.

We are actually having a sunny day here in the PNW. We've had several this winter. Very nice indeed!

On the chick front, they all seem to be settled in. I don't have a screaming Mimi anymore.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I haven't asked at my local TSC. I wouldn't be surprised if people are buying chicks "to save on eggs." This is very similar to 2020, when a lot of people got "pandemic" chickens.

To be honest, we got chicks in March of 2020. But I'd wanted them for a long time and when hubby said, "Maybe we should get some chickens....?" I jumped on that and drove to TSC.

Me, too, though decided later in the spring, May 2020, after researching a lot. Into birds my whole life, and realized chickens would be a way to be closer to at least one type of bird, and learn about them and interact with them “in person”, more than training chickadees to land on my hand.

I always liked the agricultural building at fairs, and my mother and I often went to bird rescue places together too. Sometimes mom would say it puzzled her why I didn't have chickens. She would have loved to see and visit the chickens here, but she died in 2018.

 

[ValerieJ]

Nothing wrong w/ simple. We sampled a few rare breeds over the years & now we are simply Silkies w/ one older Dominique leftover from a previous flock.
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I thought about silkies, but it is so rainy here. I'm afraid they would always be all wet and muddy, so I've never tried to have them. Yours are so sweet looking!!!

 

[ValerieJ]

Me, too, though decided later in the spring, May 2020, after researching a lot. Into birds my whole life, and realized chickens would be a way to be closer to at least one type of bird, and learn about them and interact with them “in person”, more than training chickadees to land on my hand.

I always liked the agricultural building at fairs, and my mother and I often went to bird rescue places together too. Sometimes mom would say it puzzled her why I didn't have chickens. She would have loved to see and visit the chickens here, but she died in 2018.

So sorry for the loss of your mother!!!

I think chickens are a great way to have interactions with birds. I love learning about their community, and they certainly do have one.

 

[Sylvester017]

How is your arm doing? How is physio going?

TY 4 asking ~ Surgeon removed restrictions for lifting but therapy exercises are needed to build up strength & mobility. Still have to use Bone Stimulator another 2 months. 4 therapy appts per week for 6 weeks & my house looks like a gymnasium w/all the little exercise gadgets DH gets me each time he sees what the therapists use on me ~ teehee

I still can't hold a Silkie but DH brings one in daily for me to give treats & pet. Adorable little buggers!