Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

She can just trim or pluck the feathers!

As a chicken helicopter parent it can be a nervewrackimng challenge trimming fuzz around Silkie eyes. That's why we were so glad old Violet showed each successive generation of Silkies how to trim each other's eyebrows.

Old Violet ~ bftp 2020

 

[Sylvester017]

I have a game rooster needing a name

Should be Mordecai... goes w/ Esther It was a partnership, those two.

 

[Sylvester017]

Hope she is doing better today. Did you get a cool down there?

We have had a huge cool down. Yesterday it was 31C today 19c, at the moment it is 16C (61f). The forecast low is 8C tonight, this weather is crazy.

Mind you the chooks and horses are much happier. But I had to shut the one window in the Hen House A, the wind was howling through it.

The next few days look cooler so the animals will be more comfortable. The extremes this year are very worrying, I have never seen such extremes ever here.

Our July weather is always quirky here ~ cloudy days, humidity, rain, heatwaves... changes day-to-day... & then the solid heatwave weeks follow thru Autumn. Must have something to do w/ the earth tilt during hemisphere season changes.

 

[Ponypoor]

As a chicken helicopter parent it can be a nervewrackimng challenge trimming fuzz around Silkie eyes. That's why we were so glad old Violet showed each successive generation of Silkies how to trim each other's eyebrows.

Old Violet ~ bftp 2020
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I pluck the feathers around the eyes and trim their head poofs.

I need to trim poofs and butts tomorrow.

 

[Sylvester017]

This clever fluffy butt just laid her first egg

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(And now I feel like a total pervert for upskirting a chicken)

Ranger hen? She looks so much like a New Hampshire Red or a Rhode Island too.

 

[Sylvester017]

We had an escapee today
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There's his fluffy butt
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Dad and kiddo flanked, and I was able to grab him out of the air by a leg. He scratched me pretty good but he's back in the run now
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Can you blame him for escaping though? This is the field out back and the woods directly behind the coops...a free roamer paradise.

FREEDOM!!!!

 

[BY Bob]

I figured... she's one of my favorites too. Some storybook sample pics for my Sunday kids... they loved the Disney-esque drawings... I always put animals in the pics but couldn't figure how to incorporate chickens in a palace
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Tx ~ Ginny sunning at the door. She's calmed down & the flock looks peaceful w/ her finally.. but since she dragged Suzu by the neck feathers, just in case Ginny goes nuts again, Suzu keeps her distance...
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Those are wonderful drawings very well done

 

[Sylvester017]

@BY Bob and for everyone else, here's Grandma eating cake. Flavor? French Vanilla.

That's both funny & cute at the same

 

[Sylvester017]

Taking a few of the pullets to the swap meet tomorrow. I need hardware cloth money, that stuff is ridiculously expensive.
This weekend the coop is being moved across the field to my house.

Eeeeek it's so exciting!!!

Is Periwinkle going?

 

[rural mouse]

Flipped a couple of pavers and discovered those flying ants I mentioned a couple of days ago.

the light red aren't winged and they won't eat them. The dark ones have wings and Daisy, Blurr, Rose, and Hector snapped them up (well, Hector had a few, then let the ladies enjoy them)

Blurr and Hector

Daisy

Rose (and a thirsty Maizie butt) and one of the sparrows who also love those ants