Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I see they were dredging the mouse in preparation for you to fry it up, @BY Bob

Good one!

 

[BY Bob]

Lovely Bernadette (RIP) had long legs.
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Yes she did. Great gams!

 

[Sylvester017]

Goldie bird, you are getting very handsome
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I don't know what I'm going to do with you, or the silkie boys.
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Nosy Posy is just adorable, and look at that perky polish tail!
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Buffy is still rumply, she hasn't molted or laid an egg in my care. Maybe she's one of those disheveled old ladies that race shopping carts and threaten people's car doors with their canes? (Yes this is from experience, my gramma is a wild lady)

Wild old ladies? Like these Red Hats...

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Good evening, everyone. Here's a late Caturday.

Tomorrow, there will be chicken pictures and I'll explain what's been happening. I have been active on BYC, so I haven't disappeared.

 

[featherhead007]

Chocolate mousse?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Remember, Poppet took her time.

That she did, over 11 months, almost a year. Well worth the wait though as she is a 100% pullet producer so far. Her daughters, they were a little over 7 months to 8 months before they started laying. Not nearly as bad as their mother. That being said, I would have happily waited 11 months on them as well if they would be pullet producers like Poppet. Time will tell if they indeed took after their mother.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Well, we are at the halfway point until my chicklets are due to hatch. It is a good thing as well because I am starting to get chick fever.

I also sold this past weeks silkie eggs. 32 eggs to the same buyer. She met me at the diner today to pick them up and she had to drive over a hour to meet me. We were a little busy when she arrived, but we had time to make arrangements that if I have extra eggs that do not sell contact her on Friday's and she will meet me there on Saturdays. She has a 300 egg incubator and hatches out weekly for her family's feed store. She reloads her incubator every Sunday. She has a source for "ugly white" silkie eggs close to her, but she and their customers have been wanting colored silkies. Now, if my girls cooperate and refrain from being broody I have a weekly source for their eggs up until at least the middle of July.

*Glares at every single girl in that pen*
JULY...do you hear me. Do NOT even THINK about it until JULY!!
REBA, GET OUT OF THAT BOX NOW!!! I need you back laying!


Also.....I need more silkies, several more pullets for next season. Ideally, next year I start the year off with 12 hens. In colors other then white.

 

[Ponypoor]

Beat you by 2 minutes

Yes I noted that. I dreamed I was trying to buy a polish hen, and there was a lovely bantam Cochin Roo with her. And a bunch of babies not theirs but some other variety. I awoke though, so guess I didn’t buy them!

 

[Ponypoor]

That she did, over 11 months, almost a year. Well worth the wait though as she is a 100% pullet producer so far. Her daughters, they were a little over 7 months to 8 months before they started laying. Not nearly as bad as their mother. That being said, I would have happily waited 11 months on them as well if they would be pullet producers like Poppet. Time will tell if they indeed took after their mother.

I am just going to send in the gender dna for Jolly. I am so worried she’s a cockerel.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes they did! They were the only ones in there.

Wow! It’s Fluffy all over again with the snake!