Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[LaFemmeKatia]

This week has had epic proportions.

Amen to that!

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I’m sure someone else has already got this, but poisonous kills you when you ingest it, venom is injected into you through a bite or sting. Komodo dragons have recently been found to be venomous (not just in possession of incredibly bad oral hygiene as previously thought)... one of the few venomous lizards. Bees inject you with a venom when they sting as well (which is beneficial against some inflammatory diseases like arthritis) mushrooms, berries, and frogs are often poisonous. Snakes are ok to eat, even venomous ones, and thus not poisonous. If my memory servers me the platypus is also venomous... I think it’s spurs? But I could be wrong... it’s late here and I can’t fact check that just this moment. We have a rattler here too, well in select areas of my province (not my specific location, though I have seen them in person)

I have learned something new here!
I never knew that Komodo dragons saliva was venomous! That explains a lot. I knew they had the worst oral bacteria known to man, but this makes more sense.
As for venomous bugs, fire ants, which are abundant where I live, not only bite, but they sting, and I am allergic to their venom. I have to have medical treatment if I get even one single ant bite! It’s crazy!
I am also allergic to the sting of yellow jackets, but not brown wasps, now how weird is that?
As for the snakes, I know people eat rattlesnakes, and they are not poisonous to eat. I wonder if someone actually ate the venom what would happen.

 

[BY Bob]

Models

it appears that my ladies have been doing some modeling work without me! Sydney is even on her favorite, Purple Corn!

I did not get Sydney's best side on that last one but I am not a professional photographer.

 

[BY Bob]

I wonder if someone actually ate the venom what would happen.

I believe nothing unless they had an open mouth sore or stomach lesion. That was the old theory of sucking the poison out of a snake bite. Stomach acid would likely break it down.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I also could not and would not do it. I just put Patsy to rest. I could not bear to have that done to her when whatever it was clearly not involving anyone else in the flock. I know that seems odd for someone of my training and background.

I feel the same way, Bob.
In fact, I don’t think I could raise meat birds, because even though I eat chicken, I could never eat MY chicken.

 

[BY Bob]

I feel the same way, Bob.
In fact, I don’t think I could raise meat birds, because even though I eat chicken, I could never eat MY chicken.

I have eaten chickens that I raised but I was very careful not to name them or grow attached to them in any way. I was very young then. I could not do it now.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

The New Roost is Up

I installed the new small roost for Phyllis today. It is up high enough that Aurora cannot reach her from the ground and small enough that if Phyllis is on it, there is no place for anyone else to land. It is also small enough to be uncomfortable for any of the bigger girls to squeeze onto it. Here it is.
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So did Phyllis use it tonight? What do you think?

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Is Phyllis using her new roost?

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Yes, platypus is crazy venomous... and yes, it’s the spur things on its flipper or whatever it has at the back end.

I guess maybe what I meant to ask is if there are varying levels of venomous. Can an animal be more or less venomous? It seems more like the venom is more or less toxic, if that makes sense. I am not clear on whether an animal with highly toxic venom is “more venomous” than an animal with mildly toxic venom?

I never knew about the platypus before, either.
And from what I read here and there, some venom is more deadly than others.
I see this written about certain snakes for example. Like the venom of the black mamba is more deadly than say, a copperhead.

 

[BY Bob]

Is Phyllis using her new roost?

Not yet. I need to put her on it. I may also try to lower it a little too make it easier for her. She has looked at it but not gotten up on it yet.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

Not to worry Kris. I just fall into the Baby Boomer creche & we're being blamed for all the world's ills these days. Though I should like to point out we had several centuries help getting here!

Yes! As a “baby boomer”, I find myself maligned often. This is after a lifetime of being “watched” grow up by sociologists and psychologists everywhere. They used to love us. Now we are chicken sh!t. Lol.