Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Happy Friday everyone. Tassels is back in full fluff.
And I got a bit very good picture of Pooh with her new spotted chest. She didn’t want to look up because the sun is out and the white stuff has mostly melted leaving nice damp diggable dirt.
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Tassels is looking glorious in her new feathers

And Pooh always makes me smile with her jaunty comb and topknot Loving the spots too!

 

[Sylvester017]

So long as you can get the camera app open on your phone, you can use one of the volume keys to take a photo.

DH tells me there are gloves that can touch keys too. I learn something all the time. Now, if only I can remember too.....

 

[Ponypoor]

Good thinking! Facial bleeds always look worse.
Here's my lovely face bleeds after falling teehee! The eye got even blacker, purple, red, & took a few weeks to get back to normal.
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Gosh you ladies are stressing me so! Be careful please!

Meanwhile I tripped on a chicken last night and just about broke an ankle trying not to hurt the beastie!

There was some swearing (from Ruth the little Pecker), I apologized and reminded her that while she was a lithe athlete, I was a bungling Hooman and she needed to get out from under my feet!

She gave me a peck on the shin as retaliation. Ow….

I presented her with a bowl of scratch grain as restitution for my serious transgression.

(Ankles fine shin has a bruise)

 

[featherhead007]

Little Nacho and her three, are making themselves right at home in the coop. They are helping me clean up the scratch grains I spilled

 

[Sylvester017]

Gosh you ladies are stressing me so! Be careful please!

Meanwhile I tripped on a chicken last night and just about broke an ankle trying not to hurt the beastie!

There was some swearing (from Ruth the little Pecker), I apologized and reminded her that while she was a lithe athlete, I was a bungling Hooman and she needed to get out from under my feet!

She gave me a peck on the shin as retaliation. Ow….

I presented her with a bowl of scratch grain as restitution for my serious transgression.

(Ankles fine shin has a bruise)

No denying it...we're getting clumsy in our old age or else the vision is going too!

Fluffy Butts ~ 2015

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh lucky chooks - I hope my gang isn’t in Beak Book seeing your gang out in the sun enjoying themselves! Might have a mutiny on my hands!

Don’t worry. Snow back on Sunday and then three days of very very cold Arctic blast. Calypso still has two days to grow feathers (and stop losing them)!

 

[Sylvester017]

X4 - I was putting the coop & run together while they grew in their brooder box!

 

[RoyalChick]

Next stages of preparation for the Arctic blast are underway. Hope they are more successful than wrapping the metal bracket!
Daytime warming station is set up but not yet switched on. It is relatively warm today. Believe it or not I managed to get the cord safely into the human area using chopsticks to run it through a small gap in the framing of the hospital/brooder box.
I will add food in that area and an open waterer which they do prefer to the one with nipples that I have on the heated stand.

Next up is proof of concept for the hanging umbrellas. I figured how to hang them (I have three in total) and I sat outside with the umbrella open feeding the Princesses sunflower seeds. Hopefully they won’t freak out when they see it and refuse to go in the hen house. It isn’t quite in the right place but I had an easy attachment in place so thought I would try it out. To get it in the place over where they sleep will require me to toss some rope over the collar ties but I need to take a lunch break first.
I think it looks rather jolly. I realize that I have not thought about how to get it down again!

Arctic blast tax: Pooh enjoying the sunshine.

 

[featherhead007]

I just received a phone call from the sheriff’s office. They say that they have apprehended a vagrant rooster, matching the description of Rudy my lost roo.
But they have him in a kennel and said they will hold him for 72 hours (legally) if he’s my rooster buddy, I will pay all his fines and court fees, if necessary and bring him back home. If he isn’t my rooster, I won’t take him. I don’t want to train another rooster for fear that he’ll be violent with humans

 

[Ponypoor]

Little Nacho and her three, are making themselves right at home in the coop. They are helping me clean up the scratch grains I spilled

I bet!

Do you have any ideas on the gender of the wee ones yet?