Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I have questions for the AARP.
1: how do you find your glasses, when you can’t see?
2: how to get out of bed when your body chooses not to cooperate?
3: are chickens allowed in heaven?

I can answer number 3.

Father Mahoney says your pets await you in heaven.

 

[featherhead007]

Lots of strange things show up at my house from Amazon. Including 10 lb boxes of meal worms!

I wonder who ordered those? I’m not accusing The Queen, so maybe it was Sidney?

 

[Sylvester017]

Those House Sparrows are a scourge around the neighborhood. We're constantly spraying them w/ cayenne pepper water & it keeps them away about an hour & then they're back! They attack all the gentle House Finches, Yellow Finches, Brewers Blackbirds, Mourning Doves ~ only the Black Phoebe & Mockingbird aren't intimidated. House Sparrows will even gang up on an individual Crow. Sparrows are nasty little armies.
More window gazing ~ parked in front of the window door to watch the Sparrows
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Here comes old Violet outside
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Awwww ~ she chased the Sparrows away!
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"Hey, do you see those guys outside? They don't know how to smooze the humans into bringing them in and giving them meal worms." Tee hee hee!

There's my winner caption

 

[Sylvester017]

Thanks, it’s a big worry with Lulu, unlike Laverne I can’t just pick her up and carry her around!

She’s having a snooze right now.
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And the chooks are all sleeping - I have 4 on the top of the door tonight - brats!
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Pretty soon you won't need to remove the door...the weight of all the birds alone will pull the hinges right off the wall

 

[Sylvester017]

We're up to about 18 inches...looks like more on the peaks overnight...and I walked down with Sherlock to get the mail. Didn't get that far...found a package almost 5 feet long mostly buried in a snowbank, addressed to youngest (in 2nd of 3 schools for military...on the east coast)View attachment 4054110

Makes me glad that USPS is the only one transporting live animals and they hold them at the post office.


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I wish it was true that USPS holds live bird shipments at the post office! My order of 2 Buff Leghorn pullets ~ the mailman thought it okay to have the birds in a carrier box riding & bouncing around in the Jeep postal truck all morning during a heatwave when postal policy is for birds to be picked up at the post office by the customer. I knew the birds were due to arrive at our post office & for 2 days in a row I called them to check if the birds had arrived there yet. The worker who answered said, "Oh yeah, they're out on the mail truck for delivery now." I said, "Are you crazy putting boxed birds in a tiny mail truck during a heatwave! You were supposed to call me for pickup! Get that truck right back to the post office before they die!" I rushed to the post office to wait for that truck who was promptly summoned to return! Our post office is crowded w/ live chicken boxes, crowing roosters, & peeping chicks every Spring ~ no excuse ~ they were too lazy to call customer for pickup as my phone number was clearly included on the shipping documents!

After that close encounter I asked future breeders to scrawl in giant markers on the shipping box to ''CALL CUSTOMER FOR PICKUP" w/ giant telephone number & most breeders followed my request before shipping an order cuz even a concrete postal policy can be ignored by lazy human error.

 

[ValerieJ]

I have questions for the AARP.
1: how do you find your glasses, when you can’t see?
2: how to get out of bed when your body chooses not to cooperate?
3: are chickens allowed in heaven?

Your asking the wrong group on that last one. I think that's up to God. He says yes, btw.

 

[ValerieJ]

Lots of strange things show up at my house from Amazon. Including 10 lb boxes of meal worms!

Those 10 lb boxes are 11 lb bags here and they show up in pairs!

 

[Sylvester017]

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Very similar to our San Gabriel range ~ Looks like someone sprinkled powdered sugar on them

 

[Sylvester017]

I have questions for the AARP.
1: how do you find your glasses, when you can’t see?
2: how to get out of bed when your body chooses not to cooperate?
3: are chickens allowed in heaven?

We didn't renew AARP & opted for AMAC instead.

 

[RoyalChick]

Can you get out your driveway?

I managed to do so today. Bit of a luge run but doable.