Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Hand feeding my broody Samara a bit of apple. I'm being offered free hatching eggs...doubt hubby will go along with it but the thought is there.
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She's a much more angry broody than Morinth was.

Yes they can be aggressive. Dorothy who is normally very mild mannered is a biting maniac now she is broody!

But she is easy enough to get off the nest if I need to get her off it. She will eat drink and then after about 10 min run back - silly girl.

 

[lightm]

Hi everyone. I will try and follow along but I won’t be on much.
Babs died unexpectedly yesterday and I am a bit of a mess.
I will post a tribute to beautiful Babs when I can look at pictures without crying.

I'm so sorry RC!
I hope you are better today and so are your princesses.

 

[Ponypoor]

Stil really steamy here, very unusual for this early in the year. Today is the summer solstice, from now on dayligjt hours will start to get shorter.

It doesn’t get dark now until about 9:45pm, I have my window blinds in place so I can sleep.

All this daylight makes the chooks not want to go to bed. Last night I caught Fluffy wandering around just before I went out to do evening chores - the chase was on to get them all to bed.

 

[lightm]

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To help the ladies cool off, I've been dumping water out in their favorite dust bath spots. The dampish dirt is cooler.

Your ladies are looking great!

 

[Sally PB]

Last night we had some rain. I think it wasn't much but enough that I don't have to water stuff today. It's still really hot; I have been taking extra water out to the run to pour onto the favorite dust bath spots to make them cooler. I haven't gotten any Wild Water pictures, but yesterday, I did get this:

After they pecked at the melon, there was a puddle of melon juice. They really liked that.

 

[BY Bob]

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To help the ladies cool off, I've been dumping water out in their favorite dust bath spots. The dampish dirt is cooler.

I do the same thing every morning.

 

[featherhead007]

Stil really steamy here, very unusual for this early in the year. Today is the summer solstice, from now on dayligjt hours will start to get shorter.

It doesn’t get dark now until about 9:45pm, I have my window blinds in place so I can sleep.

All this daylight makes the chooks not want to go to bed. Last night I caught Fluffy wandering around just before I went out to do evening chores - the chase was on to get them all to bed.

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Summer solstice? You’re not going to jump around with a broom in one hand and slinging a dead rat in the other, are you?

 

[featherhead007]

Summer solstice? You’re not going to jump around with a broom in one hand and slinging a dead rat in the other, are you?

And possibly even singing Oh Canada, where there’s no desire, because the ice turns to fire and the Maple Leafs crumble under the weight of the Girl Guides boots .” Sorry, but I’m not a musician

 

[BY Bob]

Congrats!

 

[rural mouse]

Summer solstice? You’re not going to jump around with a broom in one hand and slinging a dead rat in the other, are you?

This is @Ponypoor you're talking about. That's not the solstice behavior. That's the "I caught another one of you dirty buggers and I'm showing the rest what's going to happen to them" dance. (While cleaning the barn)