Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Thanks for covering my chicken tax! Data reset is on the 26th we went a little overboard watching a cartoon series called “Trollhunters”

Any time!

 

[Kris5902]

Trailer park chickens gone wild

 

[RoyalChick]

Not a very good quality picture because of all the glare but I love Diana’s outline and the brilliant red of her comb.
this is about an hour after she was eating the mouse this morning and felt the need for a second breakfast!

 

[WhoDatChick]

They make their own choices anyway in the end.

So very true!!

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Beautiful! I’m so jealous right now of everyone’s big fat fluffy gals!! Mine are all looking shabby and skinny... almost all are in molt! I’ll have to get a pic of Daffy.. she looks horrible... but I’ll warn you first RC

Daffy? I had a Daffy! What breed is she?

 

[Kris5902]

which raises that old gorgon as to who actually *owns* children ~ the parents or the state?

I believe that it’s the parents primarily responsible for the welfare of the children, and less a matter of “owning” them, to be clear. And that it’s basically no one else’s business, right up until you are hitting the point of extreme indoctrination (as you see in cults) which threatens the physical welfare of a minor. So basically any faith group encouraging or participating in child marriages below the legal age of consent, or activities that are actually physically harming the child. Bountiful BC, and the Heavens Gate Cult come to mind for me. Or children being trained/exploited as soldiers or weapons. Things like that. There a whole lot of grey areas between those sorts of extremes and just say raising your child as Catholic, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, or even as a Satanist. Where can you draw a clear line between being raised in a super conservative sect of a faith, and a damaging cult? For me at Harm to the Child.

 

[Ribh]

I believe that it’s the parents primarily responsible for the welfare of the children, and less a matter of “owning” them, to be clear. And that it’s basically no one else’s business, right up until you are hitting the point of extreme indoctrination (as you see in cults) which threatens the physical welfare of a minor. So basically any faith group encouraging or participating in child marriages below the legal age of consent, or activities that are actually physically harming the child. Bountiful BC, and the Heavens Gate Cult come to mind for me. Or children being trained/exploited as soldiers or weapons. Things like that. There a whole lot of grey areas between those sorts of extremes and just say raising your child as Catholic, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, or even as a Satanist. Where can you draw a clear line between being raised in a super conservative sect of a faith, and a damaging cult? For me at Harm to the Child.View attachment 2412795View attachment 2412811View attachment 2412817View attachment 2412822

And then you have Hitler... Just sayin'.

 

[BY Bob]

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Do you use layer pellets for everyone? I couldn't find pellets for flocks so they moved to crumbles when I got the Little Princesses but there is certainly much more waste.

I switched to crumbles because it takes them longer to eat them. It is more work for them to eat and takes them more time. It has been shown that being able to gobble down their food rapidly can lead to behavioral problems in chickens. Therefore I switched to crumbles. It is messier though for sure.

Caged hens get pellets.

 

[RoyalChick]

I switched to crumbles because it takes them longer to eat them. It is more work for them to eat and takes them more time. It has been shown that being able to gobble down their food rapidly can lead to behavioral problems in chickens. Therefore I switched to crumbles. It is messier though for sure.

Caged hens get pellets.

I hadn’t thought of that aspect. Hmm. Maybe I should stick to crumbles.

 

[BY Bob]

Despite what Shad seems to think homeschooling actually encourages independent thinking ~ in my experience. Again I will give you an example so you know I'm not making this stuff up or just throwing out an opinion.

YD wanted to do some drama so she joined the island drama group. Mixed ages & backgrounds but everyone else went to a public school & YD found herself on the end of a bit of bullying for as the kids put it: watching tv all day & eating icecream! It used to peeve the child no end. They were supposed to do some Shakespeare & while I would be the 1st to agree a working knowledge of Shakespeare is not essential to getting a job for a high school student to not be able to read a Shakespearean sentence in a comprehensible fashion & understand it's meaning is deplorable.[Yes, YD could. Naturally. That's my degree stuff.] So that got scrapped & they did mime instead. A whole term of practice to do a public mime @ the swimming pool. There were 25 kids who all handed in their permission slips to do this. When the day arrived the only one to show was YD. Nothing deterred she did the miming all on her own because every single other child had chickened out afraid of what their peers would say!!!! Sorry but peer socialization is rarely all that positive. It's group think of a not very high standard. And I think I should probably back out of this discussion now. I get quite wild about what's happened to education in my country.

And here's my chicken tax picture.
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Thank you for sharing that.