Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Forget tomorrow. I took my headlamp out and got some pictures. Her voice is changing and she sounds like a goose so she is young. What do you all think, Brahma or Cochin? She has to be between 4 to 5 months as their is no sound of a chick peep so she is not a large fowl.
Also, excuse the coop, clean out day is tomorrow.

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She is pretty - love the feather pattern (which might be called lacing but I have forgotten what @rural mouse taught me already).

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm...kind of here. Thanks for all the sympathy, it's been devastating. Had a good long cry today because I got up, got my boots on, and was to the gate before my brain caught up to me that there's nobody to get up.
I think I'm most upset about losing Nyx. She had just started crouching for the boys, they still had no clue what to do about it but she was ready.
Hubby is telling me that I will have new birds in spring, he had already arranged hatching eggs for kiddo's birthday last week before everything happened.
We will clean, and disinfect, and replace the dirt, and put in anti-dig barriers...there's plenty to do now that it's empty.

Awww.

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs!

 

[BY Bob]

Yup! Run has a roof! 10ft in the back and 7ft in the front so snow and rain slide off

Excellent!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

It's not like he's a hen that's supposed to lay blue eggs and instead lays beige eggs.

Careful there, you are in dangerous territory.

That is Queen Aurora you are talking about. She was never supposed to lay a blue or green egg. Green and blue are inferior colors. Beige and pink are far superior and queenly.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Pea comb and dark brahma coloring. You have a dark brahma there.View attachment 3991651She's a pretty little thing (btw)

I hoped so. I thought maybe by the coloring I was right. Hehehe, it also means that due to that coloring being a dark brahma, for sure a pullet and I do not have another stray cockerel. Now the next big question. Little lady, are you a bantam and going to stay small, or in the next week are you going to shoot straight up and be a large fowl. I really do strongly suspect bantam though.

 

[BY Bob]

No

You can drive up and see mine.

 

[BY Bob]

Carpenters yes

The chooks like when I sing to them. Of course most of you know I like to make up words to songs and sing to them

I love when you sing to them.

 

[featherhead007]

You can drive up and see mine.

Long drive from California to you

 

[BY Bob]

Chicken Abigail. She was late to get her tail. When her tail grew in, Mom called her Abitail. I made up the story that she insisted she was "not Abitail". Hence the username.

This is my favorite name story.