Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Sentinel shots

on the rock

even on Castor's house (trying to raid his food)

 

[TOMTE]

Does math count for pony Sunday? I have the quadratic formula stuck in my head. Why? I have no idea. It just happens sometimes...

Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a...

 

[knoturavggrl]

FBA chicken's weekly synopsis
1-8 march 2025​

Last week's synopsis by knoturavggrl

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@BY Bob

Purchased eggs have been known to create mystery chicken.
Back to the past with beautiful Lilly.
Explaining why no more leghorns.

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@bgmathteach

Has a mysterious pullet looking just like Rural mouse's Nellie.
Chicks coming in a week !

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@ChicoryBlue

After lap nap.
Hazel had another symptomatic episode of her recurrent disease.
She seems better but it still raises difficult questions.

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@featherhead007

Golden latte picture for tax
Intergenerational coop drama !

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@Grandma The Chicken

Grandma loves Vivaldi.
Just for By Bob !

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@ILoveDaffy

Getting everything ready for the chicks !

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@LhickenChicken

Has new chicks ! But no pictures..

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@notabitail

His family has chicken night fever !

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@Ponypoor

A huge fright - for no reason ?
SHRA tax : pictures to make you laugh !
Clyde is wheezing , his breathing sounds difficult. He will get Sulphatrim, aspirin, and peppermint or eucalyptus, which seem to help. The cold weather may be the cause.
Fluffy cute dumplings Holly and Jolly and beautiful Laverne.

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@RebeccaBoyd

Miss E may possibly be a standard Brahma and not a bantam.
The Silkie coop project had a temporary drawback but Rebecca is still making her plans happen. And after some hassle for nothing...all ended well, and the project was completed !
Pictures of the brand new Silkie pen ! George is adjusting to separation.

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@RoyalChick

A tip to make a chick sleeping shelf on top of the brooder plate

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@rural mouse

How big do Brahmas get ? Answer in pictures
Do the chickens appreciate their coop clean out?
Replies to Bgmathteach : Nelly is a ....
A very detailed breakdown of how the gene of barring (z) is often used for sex-linked chicks and could be used to create an auto-sexing breed.

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@Sally PB

A BFTP that should make the grumpiest of us smile !

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@SimpleJenn

A few more named babies and more poofy cuteness from a polkie cuddle bug!
Not feeling good, but day 5 is supposed to be the worse before a turnaround.
Some babies get adventures!
Sad news, a penguin chick passed. The others are thriving and bringing a lot of happiness to Jenn and her family!
Close up of Cadet and Navy.

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@Sylvester017

Have found their Silkies hardy and had long lives for smaller chickens.
From the past, a roo named Trumpet !
Using shavings rather than straw for chicks.
The definitive answer on what colour are Silkie's eggs

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@TOMTE

A stomach issue with eating their girl's eggs ?!

• A sample of answers from Rural mouse, Rebecca, simple Jenn and Ponypoor

Also asked for tips to clean and trim butts, with a lot of different helpful answers :

• Off the roost at night, just a trim could be enough. But Using dawn to wash is very safe ! Could go better than expected in daytime...And look at those crazy spa pictures!

Speckled eggs, or oyster shell indigestion?

Congratulations for your member interview ! Your enthusiasm and sincerity shine through, and the pictures and story of the discworld hens are wonderful.

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@ValerieJ

Had to say goodbye to her little unwell leghorn, leaving only Turvy of her four leghorns. Every chicken keeper know how difficult and sad that decision is .
An interesting post about raising chicks in the coop.
Three babies ! One of which is very "vocal" , but how cute are the three sleeping beauties!
Sharing beautiful bittersweet memories from their first Australorps.

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Days of the week in Pictures !

Pony Sunday from :
Ponypoor
Lhicken chicken
Rural mouse
Sylvester

Mugs Monday :
A very funny mug from Notabitail with a bonus, a lavender Hattie from By Bob, of masks and mugs by ponypoor, some regal faces from Rebecca. Mugs from rural mouse (with a bonus cat food raid!).

Two for tuesday :
BFTP from ponypoor, two hungry ladies from Rural mouse, Tuefer with a bonus from Notabitail

Thirsty Thursday :
From By Bob, back to the past. Newfoundland's version of thirsty !

It's Friday!
Rural mouse's fluffy butts, lightm shares Inky's fluffiest butt, Felicita's fluff is almost scary ! The FBA fluffy butt crew say happy Friday .

Wonderful synopsis, thank you so much!

 

[TOMTE]

Does math count for pony Sunday? I have the quadratic formula stuck in my head. Why? I have no idea. It just happens sometimes...

Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a...

Is this chicken math?

 

[featherhead007]

Here are the photos. I wanted to get some time with chicks.
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Breezy baby
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Something interesting, little guy?
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Chocolate has some pretty feathers coming in
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At least one penguin is okay being held. The others will allow chest rubs but do not want to be picked up.
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Slowpoke!
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They have such a severe face, but a total sweetie
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Nosy Posy is too wiggly to get a picture of while holding them haha.
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Crowding the door!
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Marble and Buffy, he's been crowing a couple times today!
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"We can't figure out this water bottle! Waaaah!"
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Much better.

I needed a Sunday morning chick fix, so I looked at this post again and again .

 

[TOMTE]

BFTP. I think I may have shared this already? Whatever. Baby Aliss on my head

 

[featherhead007]

I went and re-dosed the wee monkey, he wasn’t too thrilled. But this time I mixed 70mg with 1.5cc of water. Hopefully his breathing improves soon.

While I was out there I check Mr P’s left eye which is on the side his topknot hangs over and has created a skin fold, he eye was a wee bit icky and the skin fold had some crud in the crease. So I cleaned the eye and the crease, and put some moxidectin ointment there. And for his head I checked the new feather growth coming in, and put some polysporin on the top of his head to help with the skin keep it moist and help heal some of his picked feathers.

Poor guy.

 

[featherhead007]

? a red one?

No, I think she looks better in the pink one with the little hearts on it. JMHO.

 

[featherhead007]

I double bagged her, but removed the bags before I buried her. I could have buried her that day; the garden was thawed. But it gave me a chance to find a really nice place for her.

A bit better. I realized with the nice weather we've had recently (not that common for March) how often I said, "Oh, what a nice sunny day!" And then my heart seized a bit and I had to turn my sob into a cough so that I wouldn't start crying on our morning dog walk.

Fly high and free, Sunny Girl! You will live on forever in my memories and my heart.

Makes me feel this way. RIP Sunny girl

 

[Ponypoor]

Does math count for pony Sunday? I have the quadratic formula stuck in my head. Why? I have no idea. It just happens sometimes...

Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a...

Bgmathteach will appreciate it