Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

The problem is, where does a person go to get the chickens they want. I admit, I bought mine from TSC, and they are healthy and really pretty chickens. Some of the locals sell chicks on Craig’s List and from the pictures alone their whole operation seems sketchy.

I was very lucky using CL to get my beautiful friend Jaffar

 

[BY Bob]

Actually no! There is an article here somewhere on chicken math, and if I recall correctly, bantams count for 1/2 of a chicken! Hahaha!

I remember that. I believe that you are correct. There is also some 1/2 counting when you are replacing a lost one I believe. We need to find that article again.

 

[Shadrach]

She’s so beautiful Shad. How’s her crop?

We got her crop sorted Lozzy. It took a few days but it's empty enough in the mornings. I still don't think she is extracting enough nutrients from what she eats though. She eats the commercial feed but I'm givng her a lot of other stuff as well, mostly fish and egg which she loves. She's getting to her grave now and what I have to do is make it as quick and comfortable as possible.
She wouldn't survive without help now, mainly due to when she does fall over, she can't get back up. I have to check regularly. I've found her on her side a couple of times now and the rest of the tribe have moved on. I've got a few pictures of the problem. Could do with a video really.

 

[Ribh]

So lovely. I do so love that girl and she has not been getting enough screen time lately.

It's like the writers over there at Ribh's D'Coopage are over fascinated with the new stars. So much so that they are ignoring the established stars and have deemphasized their plot lines.

The writers over @Ribh 's are very busy with sick chickens & removing snakes. Be grateful for what you get & that I even remember it's Monday on your side of the world!

 

[Shadrach]

Comb Size

I just read the following sentence in the comb article from 2016 that is featured on the front page. It was kind of a throw away line but it caught my attention. Here it is:

"Usually, birds with the larger combs will be higher in the pecking order rank."

Does anyone believe that comb size has anything to do with pecking order? I am very curious and I am going to try and see if there is any actual research on this when I have a moment (I will add it to my long list of half started projects).

I am seriously asking everyone to look at their tribes and if you know their pecking order, compare it to their comb sizes. I would seriously like to know what you uncover.

It's nonsense. It seems to have come from a couple of really badly researched rooster studies. Body weight on the other hand does matter. The big heavy hens here tend to be the most senior. Occasionally, when a tribe is well established and a hen has been the senior hen for some time, even heavier additions have no dislodged her. Blue Spot comes to mind.

 

[Ribh]

Comb Size

I just read the following sentence in the comb article from 2016 that is featured on the front page. It was kind of a throw away line but it caught my attention. Here it is:

"Usually, birds with the larger combs will be higher in the pecking order rank."

Does anyone believe that comb size has anything to do with pecking order? I am very curious and I am going to try and see if there is any actual research on this when I have a moment (I will add it to my long list of half started projects).

I am seriously asking everyone to look at their tribes and if you know their pecking order, compare it to their comb sizes. I would seriously like to know what you uncover.

Nope. Bigger heavier girls @ the top. In the middle it's all about who has the most attitude. Titania & Olivia come to mind. How those two managed to rise so high so fast is a mystery to me but attitude they have in spades!

 

[RoyalChick]

I like that. Strimmer. I could never have guessed it.

I think I am tri-lingual. I understand all three and have no idea what I normally call such a tool!

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm @ 24. About a 1/3 are bantams though so do they count as whole chickens?

I dunno Ribh - seeing how they behave and their personalities I think your bantams may count as more than a whole chicken!

 

[Ribh]

I dunno Ribh - seeing how they behave and their personalities I think your bantams may count as more than a whole chicken!

I have to admit they're shockers. Lessons learnt from Campines perhaps?

 

[Shadrach]

Imo part of the problem with much of the 'science' for most other species is the assumptions that underpin the test or experiment. If you set a twenty year old human a test for a fiive year old they can only ever score the maximum a five year old could; if you get my drift.
It's only been fairly recently that the test have been complex enough to demostrate higher levels of intelligence.
Then there is that terrible pitfall that much of other species science falls into and that is the test environment. If you isolated a few humans in a lab and ran tests the results one would get would be nothing like the same test, if possible carried out in that creatures 'natural' environment.
We can't even come to a satisfactory definition of human intellegence let alone devise a test that would encompas a wide enough range of skills/atributes whatever.