Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Yeppers!! Check out his eyebrows

SO HANDSOME!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Keeping him out of coop was as easy as leading him in to the area we call home ATM. Call and walk. Cows will follow, because I always bring them to nicer grass... and they trust me. Hungry cows scavenging chicken feed problem solved.

You do make it sound easy, but there's a lot of ground work that goes into reaching this level of trust and understanding. You are a good animal behaviourist Kris.

 

[micstrachan]

Mass Extinction

If all goes as planned, a meteor has just struck the Yucatan peninsula of Le Rat's world.

As always, I had an audience.
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The master entry was uncovered and all others were plugged.

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Cardboard was put in place to protect the vinyl shed and 5 lbs of dry ice meteor deployed.
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The dry ice was covered up. Nowhere but down for the CO2 to go.
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Bye bye Le Rat and your little rat friends. I am sorry to have met you.

Do let us know how it goes!

 

[micstrachan]

Story time!!!

I worked in Urology, we would get medication shipped and packaged with dry ice. We usually would dump the dry ice in the "dirty" sink (used to clean instruments and such) to melt away. One day the lab tech wasn't looking and dumped about 300ml of saline in the sink over the dry ice. Of course it steamed up and she panicked, and ran hot water thinking it would melt. It did not. All the pipes were frozen and the room(closet) was just full of vapor. I had to go in and pull out as much as I could using a pail and dumped it outside. Needless to say we had a "protocol" put into place on the proper disposal of dry ice after that.

Ha! That’s quite a story!

 

[micstrachan]

This post requires a chicken tax. Sorry I forgot.
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Absolutely STUNNING chicken tax photo. You’ve been saving this, haven’t you?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Aussie-Chookmum said:
That looked like a male to me...

Can you really tell???

Yep. Males and females look different. Kind of like chickens do.
Nope, I appear to be thinking that the sexual dimorphism in ostriches applies to all large birds. I'll just hand in my Aussie credentials now......

Quick! To hide my embarrassment I shall distract everyone with a funny picture!

How to tell the difference between an emu and an ostrich (or other big bird)

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

It really is well suited to this in this climate, and has been living here for years. It's covering several miles a day. We still have a lot of corn and soybeans standing so it won't want for food.

Apparently they have a pair of Emus and it looks like the female returned home, but the male is the one out roaming.

Darn! I should have read ahead. I definitely could have pulled it off.

"Hmmm. Yes, yes, definitely a male"

 

[micstrachan]

When they take my blood, I show them exactly which arm, and which vein (I have to, mine are hard to locate)

I have very big, visible arm veins. I think I could be a phlebotomist’s dream!!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Brown snake? Koala... damn it... I should know this one.... Kangaroo? Lol and no Aussie guesses! That would be cheating

Gotta be a Roo.

Right third time Kris and first time Bob.
Emus and kangaroos supposedly cannot walk backwards so they are our coat of arms supporters. "Advance Australia Fair". Or at least that's what I was told.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

One day... I will make it to the fabled land of drop bears, and scaly things that can kill you but are “really no big deal“. I plan on keeping my distance from the kangaroos and other scary things like spiders though!

Not all Aussie animals are scary Kris.

Consider the Quokka.