Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

I know somewhere you do understand Ribh because of something you wrote earlier in this thread when I rather bluntly pointed out a series of events that happened at Fluffy Butt Acres. I can't find the post atm, but you pointed out that for me it was about what happened to the chickens while most others were concentrating on extending their sympathies to Bob.
It's about the chickens for me, not about the people. People have chosen to keep chickens, the chickens didn't get a say in the matter. When it all goes wrong it's the chickens that suffer yet all the empathy, whatever one may think it's worth, goes to the human who was, albeit sometimes unwittingly, the cause of whatever happened to the chicken.

I have a brief recuring conversation with the person who manages the allotments. It goes something like this.
C, "I do appreciate you helping me out with the chickens."
Shadrach. "I'm not trying to help you out, I'm trying to help the chickens."

I realise it's very hard for people to understand. I don't know how I can explain it any better.

So, it isn't pragmatism and it's not that I don't feel emotional connected to the chickens which should be obvious to anyone who has read the stuff I've posted and all the pictures and obsevations etc etc. It's that step that for Shadrach the chickens are more important than the people that people seem unable to take.
Take that step and you will all understand me.

Ah...yes, that bit I do get. I do feel for the people too though. I'd much rather people cared than shrug it all off as *it's just a chicken*.

 

[Ribh]

Attack Thwarted

I just stopped the Cooper's Hawk. The girls were out gathered around me like this.
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The Hawk was coming in from the left, above the shed.

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I saw it and took two steps forward to put myself between it and the ladies. It aborted and flew off to the right.

It is NOT gone.

Not a song bird to be found today.

@Shadrach @MaryJanet @Ribh

Oh Bob!!!! I like hawks but this one needs to go! I have no suggestions. It's not a problem I've ever had to deal with.

 

[micstrachan]

Thanks, everyone. I opted for euthanasia. Poor Ester.

 

[featherhead007]

Thanks, everyone. I opted for euthanasia. Poor Ester.

Sad, yes. But maybe you are saving her such discomfort, she’d be better off. Poor Ester.

 

[featherhead007]

Sad, yes. But maybe you are saving her such discomfort, she’d be better off. Poor Ester.

It does sadden me too.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

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Hi from Reenie and Truly, we like to eat pine trees and the paint off our human's truck

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Fluffy McNugget says she likes digging up pine tree roots, and if she were allowed she would also eat the paint off her human's truck

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Hi from Reenie and Truly, we like to eat pine trees and the paint off our human's truck

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Fluffy McNugget says she likes digging up pine tree roots, and if she were allowed she would also eat the paint off her human's truck

Fluffy is cute. I hope you really want a roo because from what I can see of the tail it's sending off warning signs. But then to me after this past chick season everything I see is a male to me.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Thanks, everyone. I opted for euthanasia. Poor Ester.

I'm so sorry, I wish the outcome could have been better. RIP Ester.

 

[bgmathteach]

Thanks. I am grateful they are squeezing her in before and/or in between surgeries.

Please let us know how it goes...I'm rooting for Ester...and you.

 

[micstrachan]

Sad, yes. But maybe you are saving her such discomfort, she’d be better off. Poor Ester.

Yes, I think that is the case. Poor baby.

 

[Ponypoor]

Fluffy is cute. I hope you really want a roo because from what I can see of the tail it's sending off warning signs. But then to me after this past chick season everything I see is a male to me.

Hahahaha Fluffy McNugget is most definitely Hen - she lays these awesome pinkish eggs.

This is her chicklet who most definitely is a roosterlet : Dixie Chixie, his Dada is an Easter Egger.