Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

Are you going for an implant anyway?

Yes. It’s done.

 

[BY Bob]

It was and is. The better bit is I'm wrong a lot.
I sincerely hope you can get it to work Bob. As you know, I'm not a fan of mixed flocks, despite having one here to all intents and purposes now.
I'm concerned about Phylis mostly. Peoples whose opions I respect have mixing polish with other breeds down as a definite no. It doesn't mean it can't work and I'm sure people can cite examples of where it has in their flock.
It's a bit like game roosters in a mixed flock. Some people get it to work it seems but most experienced keepers where I live at least will tell you it just isn't worth the trouble.

I would agree with you but I need to make this work, so it won't be from lack of trying. So far she is doing quite well with the other two. So that gives me hope.

 

[Shadrach]

Love the reference. I'm going to go slip the vinyl onto the turntable. My wife will live coming home to that!

You still dragging a piece of semi precious stone around a plastic groove then Bob.

 

[Ribh]

I still listen to them. I've got Wrecking Ball by Grace Slick which isn't bad. The Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun is worth listening to.

Ok. Folk was always my thing. Once the modern scene moved into disco & hard metal & punk they lost me. When my youngest started music I moved more into classical so I've missed a lot of stuff.

 

[BY Bob]

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[Shadrach]

Ok. Folk was always my thing. Once the modern scene moved into disco & hard metal & punk they lost me. When my youngest started music I moved more into classical so I've missed a lot of stuff.

When I finished college and started work the first thing I bought was a decent stereo. It's been about the one constant in a fairly, erm, liquid life. I built a lot of the stereo equipment I use and at last count I had almost 2500 albums. I don't have TV nor want one so my evenings are spent listening to music. Chickens out; music on.

 

[Ribh]

When I finished college and started work the first thing I bought was a decent stereo. It's been about the one constant in a fairly, erm, liquid life. I built a lot of the stereo equipment I use and at last count I had almost 2500 albums. I don't have TV nor want one so my evenings are spent listening to music. Chickens out; music on.

The albums are gathering dust because the stereo was fluid*. You tube is great though. I don't watch much tv but the men in my life do fishing & sport. You'd think they'd get enough of fishing in real life but, nope, gotta do it virtually too!

 

[RoyalChick]

And the colored ones.......... don't forget the colored ones.

I am in the UK on a quick trip and what did I see for sale at Marks & Spencer food place? BLUE EGGS!!! Very prettily displayed (though I disapprove of plastic packaging). A half dozen eggs: 2 blue, 2 dark brown and 2 lighter brown like my Princesses give me. I have never seen blue eggs for sale in a store before. Made me think of you @BY Bob!
And thank you @Shadrach and @ValerieJ - I will continue to observe and see if I can figure this pecking order thing out. When I am home I might try a few days where I remove the food and bring it back and see what happens. I am keen to understand this - not just out of general interest but because I really want more chickens and I feel I need to understand that whole dynamic.
I wonder if the space they have available impacts it at all. Do free-range chickens have as many squabbles as cooped up ones?

 

[micstrachan]

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So awesome! What is that great space you have them in?

 

[Shadrach]

Do free-range chickens have as many squabbles as cooped up ones?

Now that is an interesting question. I've been chatting to my Finnish friend about just this. He has both free range and contained. He's involved in a repopulating endangered breeds project.
He tells me that free range birds have more disputes. He reasons that it doesn't take an intelligent bird long to realise that the consequence of aggression can't be escaped from. If half your options are shut off; fight or flight, then one may be a bit more careful about behavior. This makes a lot of sense to me and chickens, being the masters of adaptation and social living, are I would have thought, likely to come to an arrangement. There is no pecking order in jungle fowl and feral flocks I'm led to believe. It's an adaptation to keeping circumstances.