Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

metropolitan chic (is is that chic-ken

I love it! Well played!

 

[BY Bob]

I believe it's called lack of investment. This is certainly the case in the UK.
Unfortunately the current UK encumbants want to adopt a private care system like in the USA.
There hasn't been a worse idea in the last 100 years. Why is it the UK tries to import all the American crap but never imports the good bits.
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Like me.

 

[MaryJanet]

This is going to seem very inconsistent of me but by not putting her back that first night I think you now need her to let her make her own decision to go back to the roost. She may have decided it's warmer there.

I stopped trying to put Hattie back on the roost a long time ago. While she roosts most of the summer, most of the winter she sleeps on the coop floor so she can get up and eat in the dark when she is hungry.

I love that she organises her life to create midnight snacking opportunities

 

[BY Bob]

Found it!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...tion-submissions.1345170/page-6#post-22114003

That was funny!

 

[MaryJanet]

I believe it's called lack of investment. This is certainly the case in the UK.
Unfortunately the current UK encumbants want to adopt a private care system like in the USA.
There hasn't been a worse idea in the last 100 years. Why is it the UK tries to import all the American crap but never imports the good bits.
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Yes. Underfunding drives some perverse decision making.

Tax!

 

[MaryJanet]

Waiting for Santa

Many of you will recall in that in 2019 3 of my 4 hens got to see Santa. When you got to PetsMart, you had to wait in your car with your "pet" until it was your turn to see Santa. I realized today that I took video of Aurora patiently waiting in the car for her chance to see Santa. You can see the excitement and expectation in her face. Watch along with me.

Here is her photo with the big guy from 2 years ago today.

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I had forgotten about this!! Thank you for sharing it again

 

[Shadrach]

Keeping Watch over her Flock
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From My Chair!

I would love to have been there to see how these changes came about.

 

[MaryJanet]

That was funny!

Hehehe it really was! I was so bewildered

 

[BY Bob]

I love that she organises her life to create midnight snacking opportunities

Midnight! I wish. She was eating at 9:30 pm last night!

Here she is up eating before the sun arose on Monday morning.

 

[BY Bob]

I would love to have been there to see how these changes came about.

I wish I would have had the cameras on them 24hrs a day. All the signs to me were quite subtle at first but it is very obvious right now. She only gives way to Lilly. Frankly she has been a lot less of a terror lately as well. Much like Lilly the job seems to have mellowed her a little.