Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Annnnndddddd look at this:

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Just for perspective:

Large is the egg above, middle is a regular duck egg, small is a average size (large) chicken/marans egg.
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Delilah laid her first egg!!!

Actually, while it is very exciting, I am not sure that I like her laying now. Supposedly, Sebastopol Geese only lay about 30 eggs/year. I'm concerned that she is starting to lay too early in the season - I didn't expect her first egg for another month!

Congratulations on the first egg.

 

[RoyalChick]

New Rule
This has nothing to do with anything anyone has said personally. This is just me. The term "flighty" is being thrown around a lot here lately since @RebeccaBoyd got leghorns. I find it offensive. It is a sloppy way to describe leghorns started by people who do not view them as anything other than little egg machines who frustrate their efforts to keep them confined in tiny places.

Therefore we now have a New Rule on this thread.

The use of the word "Flighty" to describe leghorns is officially banned.
I will defend the reputation of the leghorn to my last breath. It is a sorely misunderstood chicken breed. A breed where human beings have destroyed their genetics to benefit us and not the birds. A breed which is called flighty because they somehow are clever enough to escape human efforts at keeping them in captivity. A breed where the vast majority of their kind spend their entire lives in tiny cages so humans can save a dollar on eggs.

I will stand for it no more. If you wish to disparage leghorns go start your own thread. None of our many leghorns has given us any trouble outside of dying too young.

Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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Exhibit C
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And Exhibit D, THE GREATEST HEN EVER!
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And just because, Exhibits C & D together.

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Got it.
However, like @RebeccaBoyd I had not realized flighty had negative connotations.
I took it to mean energetic and able to fly and therefore prone to escape fencing.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Got it.
However, like @RebeccaBoyd I had not realized flighty had negative connotations.
I took it to mean energetic and able to fly and therefore prone to escape fencing.

I'm taking it as prone to escaping predators.

 

[BY Bob]

@BY Bob
There could be a relation to Chicken Math and your people/ house rule now that I think about it more, but I think you have it backwards. Cats and people are like bantams and full-size chickens. You ought to be able to fit at least two to three times as many cats as there are people in the house....

Another August 2020 pullet pic
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I believe Mrs BY Bob is following RCs rule regarding rooms. No matter what I am clearly not in control.

 

[ValarieF]

New Rule
This has nothing to do with anything anyone has said personally. This is just me. The term "flighty" is being thrown around a lot here lately since @RebeccaBoyd got leghorns. I find it offensive. It is a sloppy way to describe leghorns started by people who do not view them as anything other than little egg machines who frustrate their efforts to keep them confined in tiny places.

Therefore we now have a New Rule on this thread.

The use of the word "Flighty" to describe leghorns is officially banned.
I will defend the reputation of the leghorn to my last breath. It is a sorely misunderstood chicken breed. A breed where human beings have destroyed their genetics to benefit us and not the birds. A breed which is called flighty because they somehow are clever enough to escape human efforts at keeping them in captivity. A breed where the vast majority of their kind spend their entire lives in tiny cages so humans can save a dollar on eggs.

I will stand for it no more. If you wish to disparage leghorns go start your own thread. None of our many leghorns has given us any trouble outside of dying too young.

Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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Exhibit C
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And Exhibit D, THE GREATEST HEN EVER!
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And just because, Exhibits C & D together.

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I love leghorns I think they are a beautiful smart chicken.

 

[Ponypoor]

I want a polish roo!

Likely not a good mix with other Roos - they are fairly docile and they can't see very well with their topknot feathers covering their eyes! By the time I get home Mr P will be desperate for a hair cut I bet haha!

 

[Ponypoor]

I can't tell you how lovely it makes me feel having you and my fur babies. No one understands how I'm not lonely. I love the little I have in my world

Good night sweet lady

So sweet to say so

OK its gone midnight there - you better be sleeping!

 

[BY Bob]

Got it.
However, like @RebeccaBoyd I had not realized flighty had negative connotations.
I took it to mean energetic and able to fly and therefore prone to escape fencing.

If someone called you flighty would you like it?

 

[featherhead007]

I am going to need some time to absorb this post (130,995) I’m not sure the motivation is behind the “new rule”.
I hope this was not brought about by any anger or malice aforethought caused by anyone.

 

[RoyalChick]

If someone called you flighty would you like it?

Sadly I am well past my flighty days.


According to the dictionary it means fickle and irresponsible. I still think with birds it invokes actually flying.