Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Good morning friends! out of all my chickens I expected to sell I didn't expect the first one to be a rooster! Today I say goodbye to Maggie the copper maran bantam. He is going to a great breeders who recently lost his original breeding roo to a hawk. He is excited but also a bit confused about going to his new home!
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Don’t worry Maggie, we’ll get parole for you very soon!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

He is a handsome boy! I'm glad you were able to place him so quickly and in what sounds like a wonderful home!

It is a really good home! He will get a huge part of the field where the breeding pens are! However knowing Italians when he gets old he will be dinner...

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Don’t worry Maggie, we’ll get parole for you very soon!

The only place he will be released to is the dinner table...(when he gets a bit too old)

 

[featherhead007]

The only place he will be released to is the dinner table...(when he gets a bit too old)

But he’s a beautiful Roo!

 

[featherhead007]

My rooster is so small, I couldn’t eat him. All he’d be is one chicken nugget!

 

[bgmathteach]

It is a really good home! He will get a huge part of the field where the breeding pens are! However knowing Italians when he gets old he will be dinner...

Honestly, it sounds wonderful - he should have many years of a good life before he 'gets old'. And, if they care about their birds like it seems they do, the end will be quick, and he will be providing them with a good meal.

We are omnivores, after all, so while it is hard to think about that when they become pets/like family, it really is a natural thing. In the wild, the young and the old/slow/infirm tend to be the first to be another animals dinner - either because they are smaller (chicks) and easier prey, or because they aren't as savvy, or, they are older/slower (though usually smarter!)

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I need a SHRA tax…

Spot the chicken….

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That’s Sue the baby at the back wall snoozing she has been doing this the past few days.

Aww, well now it is official that you have to add Sue to the keeper list. For her to be that comfortable to sleep in the stall with the horse in it, those 2 are now friends. This is how it starts, horse and chicken become buddies. Chickens start napping in horses stall. One day said chicken lays a egg in stall under the protection of the horse. Next thing you know crazy hen decides to go broody in said stall. Horse is very protective of his or her chicken future momma and resorts to headbutting you when you mess with the future momma to be. Chicks hatch, horse is proud Uncle, or in your case aunt who passes out cigars. Crazy human, me or now you get paranoid about teeny tiny chicks running around the stall so remove the family for a few days while they get bigger and stronger. Momma is angry, horse is angry but for our sanity we do it. The minute momma and chicks are allowed to free range they run straight back to horses stall and stay there. Now you have a new nightly ritual that you did not need. Close up coop and or barn gets a added step. Removing chicks under a pecky momma and headbutting in the behind horse from corner of stall and packing them to the coop to sleep. Angry momma follows you halfheartedly trying to attack the back of your legs and horse protests by hollering. In the morning you open things up, momma and chicks run straight to their Uncle or Aunt horse and share dropped grain breakfast.

 

[featherhead007]

Honestly, it sounds wonderful - he should have many years of a good life before he 'gets old'. And, if they care about their birds like it seems they do, the end will be quick, and he will be providing them with a good meal.

We are omnivores, after all, so while it is hard to think about that when they become pets/like family, it really is a natural thing. In the wild, the young and the old/slow/infirm tend to be the first to be another animals dinner - either because they are smaller (chicks) and easier prey, or because they aren't as savvy, or, they are older/slower (though usually smarter!)

You might be an omnivore, but I’m an aviator and sometimes even a pedestrian!

 

[featherhead007]

You might be an omnivore, but I’m an aviator and sometimes even a pedestrian!

 

[featherhead007]

I’d even be a thespian, but I’m not thought tolerant enough!