Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Kris5902]

The numbers of Australian species wiped out by introduced species is uncountable but understood to be very high.

Sadly if Joe is carrying something we don't yet have, he could accidentally wipe out 1000s amd 1000s of other birds. Do we prefer one death or many?

Actually I prefer quarantine, if his owner is willing to cover the costs. As a racing pigeon, his owner would be easy to find and if they can't pay for quarantining Joe they may prefer that he's killed. I can't recall the cost of quarantine but when I looked at it for fertile chicken eggs, it was rather high because of the duration required.

I do honestly understand, but from the sounds of it the owner in the USA isn’t taking calls about the lost little guy... and the person whose backyard he’s taken up residence in isn’t interested in starting up a coop for racing pigeons either. Granted, as he apparently landed on Boxing Day, and has been hanging out with the local doves, you could think that the damage, if any, has already happened. Maybe Mr Depp could be persuaded it would be some much needed good PR? Lol

 

[BY Bob]

UPDATE

The pigeon is not a racing homer and is wearing a fake ring.

I learned so much from this video about teaching pigeons, fake bands, and kinds of pigeons. I guess Josephine is actually one of your own.

 

[biophiliac]

I do honestly understand, but from the sounds of it the owner in the USA isn’t taking calls about the lost little guy... and the person whose backyard he’s taken up residence in isn’t interested in starting up a coop for racing pigeons either. Granted, as he apparently landed on Boxing Day, and has been hanging out with the local doves, you could think that the damage, if any, has already happened. Maybe Mr Depp could be persuaded it would be some much needed good PR? Lol

The owner of the missing racer has said Joe is not his bird. Joe is not a racing homer(probably a Turkish tumbler). Joe is a hen and was undoubtably bred in AU. So although I'd love to know a pigeon could make that trip, what we have is fake news.

 

[Kris5902]

The owner of the missing racer has said Joe is not his bird. Joe is not a racing homer(probably a Turkish tumbler). Joe is a hen and was undoubtably bred in AU. So although I'd love to know a pigeon could make that trip, what we have is fake news.

Yep... always the fake news isn’t it? Too bad, as it was quite the story. At least now we are all a little better informed about the world of pigeons, and maybe little Joe will get herself a stay of execution? I was late to getting to your video in exposing the fraudulent “racer”; or as we all too often say now with how fast the chat goes “I should have read ahead!”! I’m hardly able to keep up, And if I miss a day? it’s crazy pages appear as I’m trying to get caught up almost as fast as I read them it seems!

 

[MaryJanet]

UPDATE

The pigeon is not a racing homer and is wearing a fake ring.

So the whole thing was a storm in a teacup

 

[LozzyR]

I learned so much from this video about teaching pigeons, fake bands, and kinds of pigeons. I guess Josephine is actually one of your own.

Although the uni student in me was asking "Where is your referencing...?"

 

[Kris5902]

Ok, yet another baby goat post... she’s at least 7 days old and trying to eat everything, especially plastic, paper, and metals. She licks at the cat dishes and tonight was all up in my face as we were trying to eat dinner. I hope she isn’t too young for it, it’s sort of a grain? You guessed it! Spaghetti. She loves it. If it doesn’t upset her tummy too much I may have a new training technique...

Today we were practicing some basic obedience. She knows her name, down, come, and most importantly “pee pee on the James Jacket” going to need to build on consistency though, and definitely work on heeling. Yep, I’m potty training a baby goat. Just two accidents today: one first thing in the morning after her bottle, and a second accident after 3 hours in the truck running errands and coming home to make dinner. I started the water to boil for her dinner bottle and our pasta, then went out to put up the chickens; I had just come back in and started the sauce when she started getting a little antsy... I quickly realized the essential jacket was still in the truck and she was looking for her place to go (the jacket is mostly done for anyway).

also convinced her to nose the goat feed a bit, she may have even accidentally eaten some while going for the noodles. So progress is being made, and I plan on having this little goat trained better than the farm dogs at the very least. Maybe I “can’t” have a dog... but this little goat is going to be much cheaper to feed and better trained than most of the dogs here! I might be giving up on her rejoining the feral herds, she seems a little too imprinted on us, but we will have to see how it goes as she gets older.

So, maybe there is something to be said for the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster after all? Not only do you get to wear a super cool colander on your head for your drivers license photo, but what better to unite humanity than pasta, eh? Chickens, Cats, and Goats all agree as well! But that still doesn’t solve the sauce/gravy dilemma, perhaps it will resolve like the Catholic/Protestant situation as two similar branches?

 

[Kris5902]

And I’m going to have to be juggling goats and cows, and chickens, and trying to get some decent pictures to cover the taxes on those last few post!

 

[LozzyR]

Ok, yet another baby goat post... she’s at least 7 days old and trying to eat everything, especially plastic, paper, and metals. She licks at the cat dishes and tonight was all up in my face as we were trying to eat dinner. I hope she isn’t too young for it, it’s sort of a grain? You guessed it! Spaghetti. She loves it. If it doesn’t upset her tummy too much I may have a new training technique...

Today we were practicing some basic obedience. She knows her name, down, come, and most importantly “pee pee on the James Jacket” going to need to build on consistency though, and definitely work on heeling. Yep, I’m potty training a baby goat. Just two accidents today: one first thing in the morning after her bottle, and a second accident after 3 hours in the truck running errands and coming home to make dinner. I started the water to boil for her dinner bottle and our pasta, then went out to put up the chickens; I had just come back in and started the sauce when she started getting a little antsy... I quickly realized the essential jacket was still in the truck and she was looking for her place to go (the jacket is mostly done for anyway).

also convinced her to nose the goat feed a bit, she may have even accidentally eaten some while going for the noodles. So progress is being made, and I plan on having this little goat trained better than the farm dogs at the very least. Maybe I “can’t” have a dog... but this little goat is going to be much cheaper to feed and better trained than most of the dogs here! I might be giving up on her rejoining the feral herds, she seems a little too imprinted on us, but we will have to see how it goes as she gets older.

So, maybe there is something to be said for the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster after all? Not only do you get to wear a super cool colander on your head for your drivers license photo, but what better to unite humanity than pasta, eh? Chickens, Cats, and Goats all agree as well! But that still doesn’t solve the sauce/gravy dilemma, perhaps it will resolve like the Catholic/Protestant situation as two similar branches?

I wanted to give this post both the 'love' and the 'laughing hysterically' emojis! I love the thought of a well-trained pet goat! You will have to take some video of her as well as photos.

 

[MaryJanet]

Although the uni student in me was asking "Where is your referencing...?"

If it helps the ABC is reporting the fake tag too.