Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Shadrach]

There are advantages to an all hen flock...

There are advantages. It isn't a way of keeping chickens I am interested in but in different circumstances I might consider it.

 

[Shadrach]

Actually, when I said "ancestors" I was thinking pre-domestication .

I'm just jealous that we can't have them in the house here.....although I suppose we could rip the carpets up.... I don't know what the hubby would think though

Since when has the opinion of ones marital partner mattered when it comes to the really important things like keeping chickens.

 

[Shadrach]

When we first moved to the island our closest neighbours were the farm & the chickens went in & out of the house as they pleased.

Lots like that in these mountains. The house doors are rarely shut during the day. It just isn't practical if you keep livestock to take off your outside shoes and clothes everytime you enter the house so you make the ground floor easy to clean. Lots of the old farm houses here have dirt floors at ground level.

 

[Ribh]

There are advantages. It isn't a way of keeping chickens I am interested in but in different circumstances I might consider it.

I'm not a fan of lots of male hormones running rampant. I had 3 teenage males @ one point...Under different circumstances I might consider a rooster. One.

 

[Shadrach]

I'm not a fan of lots of male hormones running rampant. I had 3 teenage males @ one point...Under different circumstances I might consider a rooster. One.

Wasthematterwivya, you lived to tell the tale.
In the interest of a balanced perspective I had two daughters and their hormone tribulations wasn't all that clever.

 

[Ribh]

Wasthematterwivya, you lived to tell the tale.
In the interest of a balanced perspective I had two daughters and their hormone tribulations wasn't all that clever.

Oh, I did the girls too! They were a breeze by comparison. But getting a phone call from the lad @ sea to tell me he was scurfing behind his trawler in Great White country ...

 

[BY Bob]

This was eviction attempt #3 this afternoon as I was unloading the Jeep

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All day long I was luring chickens out of various cars and trucks! As well as telling them the trailer is for cats and humans... “not for chickens! Out!!!”

What is up with all these birds? They want to be everywhere humans are!

 

[BY Bob]

Bob, my girls like to sit along the edge of the verandah in summer, facing into the wind & letting it ruffle their feathers. When it gets to dinner time they turn around & stare through the glass @ us until I go feed them.

I would love to see a picture of them facing into the wind, maybe even a video. Any chance?

 

[BY Bob]

Some fluffy butts for you Bob.

This is Tsuki and Deana looking for worms in the "grazing tyre" that I just took the cover off.

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O that white fluffy butt. You be you Tsuki! Deana has a beautiful fluff as well. I miss my white butts though.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[BY Bob]

But they are just looking to see if you left any snack's in there for them!

I found 91 likes from you this morning when I woke up. You are definately working your way through. Have you made it all the way yet?