Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Or chicken!

SHRA.
Tax: Maggie doing her giraffe impression.

 

[featherhead007]

If you seriously want to know, I can pm you the instructions.

I’m not serious. I burn boiling water. I will be buying my yogurt, but thank you anyways.

 

[featherhead007]

To me, the tubers looked a little like soursob bulbs (oxalis) which are considered an exquisite delicacy by the hens at my house.

https://www.globalnetacademy.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/oxalis.jpg

MJ, a Tuber to me, is a big fat guy in an inner tube at the river, (holding a beer)

 

[featherhead007]

I'm laughing because somehow an obscure bit of Aussie trivia got into your memory somehow and it makes me happy!

Whispers “ Drop bears”

 

[BY Bob]

I think we can all align that we wouldn't criticize anyone who wears chickens on their head. It is the ultimate BYC fashion statement!

So true!

 

[BY Bob]

But I think @Shadrach has mentioned his theory that the wind affects their being able to hear everything well too.

But now that I think of it, I do know that wind speed will also affect songbirds' ability to forage - fly here and there, etc., and do their rounds. But I think that kind of wind is greater than just a breezy day. Of course the smaller birds are affected first with increasing wind speed. I think I read a study on that and what the wind speeds were for each type of bird... from ability to fly across fields, from tree to tree, fly/jump from branch to branch, to essentially being grounded / seeking shelter and not moving (sheltering in pine trees in the case of chickadees...)

But a breezy day would create more noise in general, so sound interference theoretically would be a problem for chickadees and songbirds. There is a whole system of warnings that get transmitted through forests. Chickadees keep their flock/tribe in contact with each other through peeps and whatnot as they forage, and they rely on this system too. I wonder if they also forage closer together and are more nervous on breezy days? The radio gets a lot of static...

Chickens need to hear each other and hear the other species around them. So it seems to me that in general chickens that have the genes or a predilection for more caution on windy days would have better chances to individually survive and thus their species to survive.

Excellent breakdown of the situation. Well reasoned.

 

[featherhead007]

That moniker is taken.

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I understand that your hen was “The greatest hen ever” but Beetov-Hen is my greatest.

 

[BY Bob]

Yes - I realized this a bit late - I now keep a calendar in the Chicken Palace and mark eggs each day including who I think laid them and what condition they are in (relevant to the broken ones Elizabeth was laying).
Your math makes sense and tomorrow I can go to the calendar and count 'since records began' (earlier this year). I know there was a time when I was getting 2 Roadrunner eggs a day - so they may have hit their quota for the year.
Thank you for helping me out with this!
On Minnie's diarrhea - does wait and see feel OK for a few days at least?

I always wait for consistent diarrhea. By that I mean nothing but diarrhea for 48 hours.

For example, I need to do a float on Aurora. Remember we thought it was grapes. Well Aurora would have to be eating grapes all day long for several days now. While that's possible it's unlikely. So I will probably test tomorrow.

 

[MaryJanet]

SHRA.
Tax: Maggie doing her giraffe impression.

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Best giraffe I've seen all week!

 

[featherhead007]

There is a big difference between targeted advertising and an e-mail about caring for furry animals. It sounds like the email might have been from a BYC moderator perhaps?

Not my email. It came as a text from the ASPCA I prescribed to. Probably a coincidence.