Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

So a normal day eh? for me at least!

Well Georgie laid another egg today, I told her thanks I would add it to the 21 dozen I now have….

Thankfully my regular weekly client is back from Florida, so he will get 4 dozen on Monday, I’ll give a few dozen to my neighbour and 4 dozen to my Vet’s son. That takes care of 11 dozen…. Of course by Monday I’ll have another 2 or three dozen



Now that’s real chicken math!

All 5 of our Silkies are laying so DH promised me a quiche next week. I love mushroom-spinach-bacon-green onion quiche w/3 cheeses

 

[Sylvester017]

I am thinking the dumplings are non-bearded, of course I can’t remember what Georgie and Clyde were like at that age. Hmmm I’ll have to check in the morning.

Bearded chicks will definitely have a lot of fluff under their beak in addition to fluffy side cheeks fluff almost growing into their eyelids.

 

[Sylvester017]

I noticed something like a growth on one of Nacho’s little ones. It doesn’t seem to slow it down however, so hopefully it isn’t a cancer or something else that is dangerous or life threatening.

I will try to get a picture. But you know babies, they don’t hold still for long

Where on the body is the growth? head? foot? toe?

 

[Sylvester017]

Lost my last Auntie 94-yrs-old January 2024, today my 90-yr-old sis just got released from ER & has to see a Gi specialist for the painful polyp/cyst on her liver, our 84-yr-old friend passed away a couple weeks ago, & I have a bevvy of therapy appts coming up. I'm really feeling my old age

My 11-yr-old sis & me 1-yrs-old
c. 1945

 

[bgmathteach]

I was surprised when my egg ranch uncle told me eggs sometimes get stored up to 6 months before going to market. Of course, ranchers like him coated the eggs w/ a thin spray film to keep eggs from drying out for such long storage.

It is illegal now.

Farmers have a maximum of 30 days from when the egg was laid to 'crate it'. They have 30 days from when it was processed to sell it (if have a 'sell by' date on it - 45 days after processing for a 'best by' date). So, eggs can not be sold more than 60 days after it was laid - MAXIMUM.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/eggs/shell-eggs-farm-table