Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Happy Friday!

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Lady Featherington brings Fluff to a whole new level!

 

[CCsGarden]

 

[bgmathteach]

Lunch Invasion.
I was eating some sourdough bread with butter on it for lunch (@CCsGarden made it). Well, In Albis walked by the door. I thought she deserved some. She ended up demolishing a piece the size of her head. After that, I let her go, and turned my chair so she couldn't see it. As I am eating, I hear a loud noise, followed by something smashing into my keyboard causing the desktop to switch to a different screen. In Albis tried eating the piece with peanut butter and jelly on it. I tore off a small piece and sent her on her way.
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You know, making it 'not visible' doesn't work with chickens. They have cognition that recognizes/understands 'object permanence'. They know you are just trying to hide it and keep it for yourself - and that makes them even more determined to get it. ( I know you have seen 'chicken keep away'...it makes them want to snatch it and devour in one large gulp (so you can't take it back), or grab and run!)

I've found what works best for me is to tear off small pieces, and toss them as far away as possible - so I can 'gobble down' more of it while they are running their little legs off back & forth! (tee-hee-hee....meanie mommy!)

 

[notabitail]

You know, making it 'not visible' doesn't work with chickens. They have cognition that recognizes/understands 'object permanence'. They know you are just trying to hide it and keep it for yourself - and that makes them even more determined to get it. ( I know you have seen 'chicken keep away'...it makes them want to snatch it and devour in one large gulp (so you can't take it back), or grab and run!)

I've found what works best for me is to tear off small pieces, and toss then as far away as possible - so I can 'gobble down' more of it while they are running their little legs off back & forth! (tee-hee-hee....meanie mommy!)

I figured it out quite a while ago. Even the quietest plate scraping noise is enough to summon In Albis. She saw my green napkin and the plate, put two and two together, and demanded bread. I gave her the bread, then plopped her on the floor. She's jumped up several times, but even if I throw the food out the door far far away, they come right back or stay by the door in the hopes of nabbing another piece.

Mine think I am a rooster, and they also got mad yesterday while being shoved away from a poor lizard I found in the yard.

Chicken keep away is funny sometimes. I have had large chunks of broccoli before. In Albis would grab the whole thing, run around the yard, get captured by me, then open her mouth like a dragon and swallow. I don't like her doing that (choking hazard), but it looks funny.

 

[bgmathteach]

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Are those Ring Neck doves and Mourning Doves? Do the Ring Neck doves make similar cooing sounds to the Mourning Doves, or are their vocalizations completely different?

They are pretty birds! In the second picture - that looks like a 'mad-hatter broody dove"

 

[Ponypoor]

I know this full well!

How is your eye?

 

[bgmathteach]

I figured it out quite a while ago. Even the quietest plate scraping noise is enough to summon In Albis. She saw my green napkin and the plate, put two and two together, and demanded bread. I gave her the bread, then plopped her on the floor. She's jumped up several times, but even if I throw the food out the door far far away, they come right back or stay by the door in the hopes of nabbing another piece.

Mine think I am a rooster, and they also got mad yesterday while being shoved away from a poor lizard I found in the yard.

Chicken keep away is funny sometimes. I have had large chunks of broccoli before. In Albis would grab the whole thing, run around the yard, get captured by me, then open her mouth like a dragon and swallow. I don't like her doing that (choking hazard), but it looks funny.

Chickens are definitely smarter than I ever thought before having some myself. They can be sneaky and good problem solvers! (oh, how can I escape....oooohhh, look, I can flap to here, fly-walk the vertical fence, and.....etc, etc. Darn things!!! LOL)

 

[notabitail]

Chickens are definitely smarter than I ever thought before having some myself. They can be sneaky and good problem solvers! (oh, how can I escape....oooohhh, look, I can flap to here, fly-walk the vertical fence, and.....etc, etc. Darn things!!! LOL)

I apologize if this is on the gross side, but I have had a few express their displeasure at being herded to the coop by stopping with my foot right behind them and trying to poop on it. Those things plan ahead of time, I'm sure.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Yup, they love the eyes.

I keep mine away from them now - those chicks are quick though and can give a quick peck in the eye, just like that!

Oi, I forgot to mention that Parmesan might also do the eyes as well, so if we ever come in contact with her, we keep our faces away. This is why I call her "The Biter".

 

[CCsGarden]

Are those Ring Neck doves and Mourning Doves? Do the Ring Neck doves make similar cooing sounds to the Mourning Doves, or are their vocalizations completely different?

They are pretty birds! In the second picture - that looks like a 'mad-hatter broody dove"

They are white winged and Eurasian collared doves. Ring neck look almost the same as Eurasian collared doves. They all make different sounds

This is a white winged

This is a Eurasian collared

This is a mourning dove

And Inca dove

These all come to my yard for dinner that's how I get pictures of them.