Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I'm sorry, @Ali James . It's an Aussie in~joke to tease tourists with because everyone thinks everything here is out to kill them. Drop bears don't really exist. They are an imaginary, vicious relative of the koala bear.

drop bears do exist!

 

[MaryJanet]

135 dead now i hope other ports are checking their stores today. I would hate to see it happen again.

Aussies, following up on this thought, I was just reading about the ammonium nitrate made and stockpiled in Newcastle in Australia for making explosives for the mines. For a long time, residents have been campaigning to have the plant removed.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020...ern-about-newcastle-ammonium-nitrate/12527546

 

[BY Bob]

My 'eldest' is a black and white moggy and he is my fur-baby. As much as I fantasise about getting a pure bred fancy cat in the future I think I will go for a rescue next. Apparently in the UK all-black cats take the longest to be adopted - as they do not photograph well

I did not know that. We once had an all black cat. He was so sweet.

 

[BY Bob]

The pictures aren't all that clever I'm afraid. Didn't take them until low light.
So, these are Lock's legs. I can't find the before pics. Suffice to say there were two large growths a good inch long on each leg where that final piece half hanging off is,
The legs still look rough but they are a vast improvement on how they were. As soon as that last bit is off I'll be coating them in coconut oil and the raised scales in Betadine.
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Lock is the only bantam that will let me touch her during daylight hours without looking extremely nervous.....apart from Barking Bracket of course, but she doesn't count because she's barking mad.
While it's difficult to see with such low quality pics she is a remarkably healthy looking hen.
Good clean ears and nostrils. Good comb and wattle colour. Her feathers are in better condition than all the others.
She went on escort duty with Mag today. Mag adores her.
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She is one of my favorites of yours. I do think her legs look significantly better than when I last saw them.

 

[BY Bob]

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[BY Bob]

Chickens Using Microsoft Teams

We joke a lot around here about the chickens getting together on beakbook. Well today one of my hens crashed a web meeting I was in. Well maybe not crashed. But someone took a picture of their computer screen and sent it to me as proof of what happened.

About 6 weeks ago my group was reorganized and split off to join some other groups and form a new business unit. I have many friends in the group I left and I haven't spoken with a lot of them since the split. They were having their Wednesday team meeting today and it was still on my calendar. So I decided to sneak onto their call and listen in. I did not even turn my camera on so sneaky I thought I was.

It was to no avail. The saw me pop in and right away started excitedly throwing questions at me. What was their number 1 question?

Can we see the chickens?!

Why would they want to see the chickens?

When Covid hit I decided to host a social hour web meeting every Thursday after business hours. Everyone could grab the beverage of their choice and join my call if they wanted to and we would then play those games you use to introduce people to each other. I thought it would help keep us close and we could learn about each other along the way. Of course I hosted the calls from my backyard with the chickens. I guess the chickens were popular. I know the call seemed to be. I always had plenty of people and we all laughed a lot.

So they all knew I had chickens, hence their question.

I was at my desk working but I thought why not. I picked up my iPad, luckily I was not logged in on my computer, and headed out.

The ladies were excited to see me and all swarmed around. I pointed the camera at them and everyone on the call excitedly called out each of their names as they saw them. Well one of my hens decided to hog camera time. You will find out who in a moment.

One of the gentlemen on the call decided that he would change his view of the video stream from little blocks with each person in their own square to what they call auditorium view where the program cuts you out of your video feed and puts you in a seat in an auditorium. He then shared his screen with everyone just so they could see this picture. I have it because someone took a photo of their computer with their phone and sent it to me.

I have blacked out everyone's face to preserve their privacy.

It looks like one camera hog of a hen has gone to college.

 

[Ribh]

Chickens Using Microsoft Teams

We joke a lot around here about the chickens getting together on beakbook. Well today one of my hens crashed a web meeting I was in. Well maybe not crashed. But someone took a picture of their computer screen and sent it to me as proof of what happened.

About 6 weeks ago my group was reorganized and split off to join some other groups and form a new business unit. I have many friends in the group I left and I haven't spoken with a lot of them since the split. They were having their Wednesday team meeting today and it was still on my calendar. So I decided to sneak onto their call and listen in. I did not even turn my camera on so sneaky I thought I was.

It was to no avail. The saw me pop in and right away started excitedly throwing questions at me. What was their number 1 question?

Can we see the chickens?!

Why would they want to see the chickens?

When Covid hit I decided to host a social hour web meeting every Thursday after business hours. Everyone could grab the beverage of their choice and join my call if they wanted to and we would then play those games you use to introduce people to each other. I thought it would help keep us close and we could learn about each other along the way. Of course I hosted the calls from my backyard with the chickens. I guess the chickens were popular. I know the call seemed to be. I always had plenty of people and we all laughed a lot.

So they all knew I had chickens, hence their question.

I was at my desk working but I thought why not. I picked up my iPad, luckily I was not logged in on my computer, and headed out.

The ladies were excited to see me and all swarmed around. I pointed the camera at them and everyone on the call excitedly called out each of their names as they saw them. Well one of my hens decided to hog camera time. You will find out who in a moment.

One of the gentlemen on the call decided that he would change his view of the video stream from little blocks with each person in their own square to what they call auditorium view where the program cuts you out of your video feed and puts you in a seat in an auditorium. He then shared his screen with everyone just so they could see this picture. I have it because someone took a photo of their computer with their phone and sent it to me.

I have blacked out everyone's face to preserve their privacy.

It looks like one camera hog of a hen has gone to college.

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I love that girl!!!

 

[featherhead007]

Told you so! How can BLU compete with that?

 

[BY Bob]

I love that girl!!!

She has that nack it seems. I know some people who have it. Apparently chickens do as well.

 

[RoyalChick]

Same here. My rescue friends are always promoting their black cats as they take ages to adopt. I'm not a black cat fancier myself but I have a B&W. I have taken to calling him *Killer Kirby*. If it moves, it's dead!

Poor black cats. My vet told me that the shelters sometimes don't let people adopt black cats around Halloween because people do unspeakable things to them - she had one that had a firework tied to his tail.
I have always had black cats it seems and my current big beautiful boy is Nightshade and they let me adopt him at Halloween because they knew me from donating things to the shelter.
Just makes me so upset that people are that cruel to animals.