Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[fuentemoon]

They are so cute. How big is she?

At last measure 42"

 

[fuentemoon]

Remembering your “you think chickens are hard” broody/grumpy etc post from... oh, my... how many pages back? She’s so pretty!!! I’m so jealous... and aren’t you so glad you got a girl? (Assuming you got her as a baby) I volunteered with a reptile rescue at one point and the number of juvenile/young adult male iguanas is just awful... reminds me of all the “aggressive rooster” threads I’ve read; but featuring a four to five foot long, muscular tail lashing, with expectionally sharp teeth for a primarily herbivorous lizard as the “villain”. Research, research, research, people!!! Don’t just randomly acquire a high maintenance animal... looks at own chair with a quickly growing baby goat in it...

Well, I knew it was a bad idea from the get go... but I just couldn’t not take her in.

I have wanted a green iguana since the Movie “Terminator” came out. And before that, a pet snake... but I stopped my mom from getting me a Burmese python (as a young grade schooler) because I already knew that they don’t “grow to the size of their enclosure” (nice try pet store lady) and that we weren’t set up to properly care for one!

shoot, now I owe even more chicken taxes!

The sweetest iguana I ever met was male, but breeding season does bring out their aggressive nature! Funny thing is it is the only time of year Ruka will let me handle her.
Ruka is a 13 year old green iguana. She is at last measure 42" long from nose to tip of tail. She is currently gravid and I expect she will lay a clutch of around 40 infertile eggs in 3-6 weeks.

 

[featherhead007]

The big question is: does a laying hen feel post pardom depression? My Hen-Rietta is mad at me, for taking her eggs

 

[fuentemoon]

And yes she is missing the ends of toes on each of her front feet, all but one of those were gone when I adopted her 9 years ago. The other she did to herself

 

[featherhead007]

The sweetest iguana I ever met was male, but breeding season does bring out their aggressive nature! Funny thing is it is the only time of year Ruka will let me handle her.
Ruka is a 13 year old green iguana. She is at last measure 42" long from nose to tip of tail. She is currently gravid and I expect she will lay a clutch of around 40 infertile eggs in 3-6 weeks.

I think she’s smiling at me

 

[fuentemoon]

The big question is: does a laying hen feel post pardom depression? My Hen-Rietta is mad at me, for taking her eggs

Every time I take a chickens egg I show it to them and tell them what a great job they did and say thank you, that seems to help.
Well, unless they are broody....

 

[featherhead007]

Every time I take a chickens egg I show it to them and tell them what a great job they did and say thank you, that seems to help.
Well, unless they are broody....

My leghorns have never been broody. If they were, I wouldn’t take their eggs

 

[featherhead007]

How old must a chicken be, before having to pay taxes?

 

[featherhead007]

The sweetest iguana I ever met was male, but breeding season does bring out their aggressive nature! Funny thing is it is the only time of year Ruka will let me handle her.
Ruka is a 13 year old green iguana. She is at last measure 42" long from nose to tip of tail. She is currently gravid and I expect she will lay a clutch of around 40 infertile eggs in 3-6 weeks.

As far as iguanas go, I think Ruka is the prettiest one I have ever seen. And I have had a few

 

[featherhead007]

But where are all the little children of the corn? Is it just me or has anyone else noticed a tendency in the horror genre to have a corn field? It’s never a soy bean field, or a wheat field, or even a permaculture food forest... the bad stuff always happens in, near or comes out of a corn field? Maybe the anti GMO crowd has something there? What is so creepy about corn???

Count your blessings. Here in central California they grow pot!!!