Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Good grief. No wonder so many people have completely the wrong idea about chickens. Someone needs to take this person to one side and teach her to watch rather than make pretty videos.

What did she get wrong Shad? I hope not the 'contented' noises because I interpret those the same way in my tribe!
I also enjoyed the slo-mo peck on the head.

 

[BY Bob]

Almost as bad as humans then...

Very similar.

 

[RoyalChick]

Camping chickens.
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How wonderful.
I hope the people camping weren't nasty to them.

 

[BY Bob]

How wonderful.
I hope the people camping weren't nasty to them.

I wonder if they are like @Kris5902 chickens and have a camper or if they use tents when they are camping?

 

[RoyalChick]

I wonder if they are like @Kris5902 chickens and have a camper or if they use tents when they are camping?

I think the chickens would prefer to go camping in a camper - more things to roost on.

 

[Marie2020]

It seems cruel, but FireAnts are a seriously invasive species. Where I live there is no getting rid of them. And I am allergic to their sting. Even one ant bite sends me to the urgent care for steroid shots. It’s a mess.

I hope @featherhead007 is ok

 

[Marie2020]

That was really good

 

[Shadrach]

Oh, is it no good? As I said, I haven’t watched it all the way through.

I’m just going to take one example of this nonsense and that’s the idea that roosters dance for their hens and the purpose of this is to entice the hens to mate with them. It would have helped a little if the women in the video could differentiate between a cockerel and a cock or rooster….nvm.

In all the years of watching chickens I have never, and I mean never, seen a rooster and hen mate after the rooster, or cockerel has done this “dance”. I mean not once, never, zilch, zero, nil, times. It would be reasonable to expect to see mating after the dance if that was it’s purpose say 50% of the time even for a rooster who was a crap dancer wouldn’t it? I suppose I could have watched lots of roosters who couldn’t dance well enough, or perhaps all the hens had headaches. Come on. Evidence. Where is her evidence for this assertion? She’s got a good clip of a rooster trying to mate with a hen who wasn’t interested didn’t she. The rooster chased the hen round the garden ffs. Maybe he should have done a dance!

This so called dance is for herding the hens. A show of dominance if we must use that word.

I’m sure the women is a very nice caring person and all that, but she doesn’t know shite about chickens.

 

[BY Bob]

I hope @featherhead007 is ok

Me too. Those bites are quite awful and they were pretty high up his body. He must have a lot.

 

[micstrachan]

All my plans for today have been cancelled I’m still pretty swollen (and had a pretty hard time sleeping last night)

Oh no! I missed this post. So sorry, Alex.