Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Gourmet Chickens
On the menu today at the Chicken Palace: Slow cooked venison 'au jus' with mashed cauliflower in a toasted egg-shell crust.
@Shadrach did remind us many pages back that chickens like meat, and mine are clearly carnivores at heart. It was pandemonium for a few minutes after this dish was served (I only gave them a bit so I will need to try and get video next time. They simply went nuts for it!).
It was a good way to use up the venison that has been languishing in the freezer because the guy who hunts the deer gives me way more meat than I am really able to eat.

 

[RoyalChick]

I would like 1 big snow storm, 20+ inches to remind me what either is about. Then let's melt it and get on with spring.

I am sort of with you but really am hoping to get the Chicken Palace finished before that happens.

 

[BlueBaby]

I used to have a minimum of two mobile phones when I was in the UK. It's very difficult in many lines of work to operate without one.
I've had computers (3 here atm) for a very long time but they weren't connected to the Internet.
I've never owned a TV.
I'm not at all anti technology and I'm quite good with most of it although the so called smart phones would have me guessing.
If the Internet fell to bits I doubt I would miss it much. It would make keeping in touch with my daughters and family more difficult but otherwise the Internet is much like TV; a great idea not reaching anything like it's true potential.

We do have a TV, but DH is the couch potato that's watching it mostly and control's the remote controls for it. For me, I can really take it or leave it for the most part, except when it's time to watch the new's. I prefer to listen to a talk show radio program here instead.

 

[BlueBaby]

As I look at the time stamps, the skunk was around the coop for 40 minutes! That seems like a long time. There is nothing there to eat. What was it doing?

Maybe it know's there's chicken feed in side the coop and is trying to find a way to get inside of it?

 

[BlueBaby]

Do tell what you find. 40 mins does not feel like a casual passer by. I think skunks can kill or hurt chickens - I think they are opportunistic rather than either strictly scavengers. Do be careful trapping a skunk though - it will stink the coop and house and everything around.

Yes, and skunk's can also have rabies, too!

 

[BY Bob]

I am going out now to check for digging. Its the only way it could try to get in.

No digging anywhere. I wonder what it was up to? I am going to try and deploy a yard wide camera tonight to see if I can see patterns of behavior from that.

 

[BY Bob]

Do tell what you find. 40 mins does not feel like a casual passer by. I think skunks can kill or hurt chickens - I think they are opportunistic rather than either strictly scavengers. Do be careful trapping a skunk though - it will stink the coop and house and everything around.

I do not know how I can safely remove a skunk in a suburban neighborhood without angering everyone. I may just have to continue armoring the run.

 

[BY Bob]

Yep! That's exactly what I want too. Start on a friday so I get a long weekend.

Agreed. That way all you can do is lay around the house and watch it snow.

 

[BY Bob]

Gourmet Chickens
On the menu today at the Chicken Palace: Slow cooked venison 'au jus' with mashed cauliflower in a toasted egg-shell crust.
@Shadrach did remind us many pages back that chickens like meat, and mine are clearly carnivores at heart. It was pandemonium for a few minutes after this dish was served (I only gave them a bit so I will need to try and get video next time. They simply went nuts for it!).
It was a good way to use up the venison that has been languishing in the freezer because the guy who hunts the deer gives me way more meat than I am really able to eat.

Mine love any meat but they especially love fish. I just can't figure out why. There is no way they would ever catch one in the wild.

 

[RoyalChick]

Mine love any meat but they especially love fish. I just can't figure out why. There is no way they would ever catch one in the wild.

Though it conjures up hilarious images of chickens 'spear fishing' - standing up to their fluffy butts in the middle of the stream and stabbing with their beaks