Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

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A songwriter friend paid tribute to man who was, amongst other things, a chicken champion.

https://sydneysentinel.com.au/2021/...qnw7F1ekGZIQgHGssYnaGfBFY#shared-counts-email

Wonderful tribute! I loved the Ted Talk, too.

 

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Good night peeps

Good night, Alex.

 

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Ms. Meatbird and her cute mug for Monday View attachment 2877831

Beyond precious!

 

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@BY Bob
I've been thinking about your hawk problem.
The hawks from what I can recall arrive and perch on your fence and wait for an opportunity. One way to prevent this is to make your fences hawk unfriendly.
You can do this by fixing two wires on top of the fence about an inch above the fence top and the next an inch above that. A six inch screw driven a couple inches into the top of the fence every three feet should enable you to get a reasonable tension on the wire and the thread in the screw once you winf the wire around it should hold the wire at the correct height.
You could do this quite easily all around your yard if necessary.
It wont prevent an attack but it will force the hawk to make it's move when it arrives at your yard if it can't find any easy perch from which it can fly off from.

Brilliant!

 

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Lima.
She and Similie have a very strange relationship. Similie is the Legbar without any tail feathers.View attachment 2878068View attachment 2878069View attachment 2878070View attachment 2878071

I’m just glad they have each other.

 

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Drizzly day makes for muddy feet....
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Doesn't seem to faze them in the least.
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Are those California Whites in the last photo? California Grays? Dorothy was supposed t ok be a California White, but only had a few tiny flecks of black (gray, really)

 

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Here is a pic of RIP Bob cutting loose, everyone down the on the bay and up the hill could hear him, he was VERY good at his job, a bit to good, Attacked me just one to many times-- I love Roosters but I have way to many chicken pocks on my legs from Bob-- I am hoping if I get a Brown LG rooster he will do better with humans

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He sure was beautiful!

 

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Some chickens are real mudders. Aurora loves a rainy day.

Flo has this strange habit of not shaking out her feathers after a dustbath. She just leaves a trail of dirt as it slips out at its own rate.

 

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I received the saddest news today. I may or may not have had my favorite pollet chai die, she was let out of her cage without my knowledge (while I was away). When I got home I was told that she had been missing for several hours, when typically she wouldn’t be more than 10 feet from her mother who is always around. I looked all over the place. And although there is hope, I seem to have lost it.

Aww, I’m so sorry. I hope she shows up!

 

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The more I see of these poor hens the more angry I get at how this has ever been allowed to happen. It's not just the Red Sex Links; the Legbars are just as badly bred.

Yep. It’s brutal. My favorite breed in looks and personality, but nope. Not getting anymore due to crappy genetics.