Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Might as well set a place for them at Thanksgiving!

I'm thinking of that story about Lily and the pie

Dear lord I hope not another cherry pie.

 

[BY Bob]

Come on! You love us

I love you folks so much that I must come to see your wonderful country. You are all great people and represent you homeland well. I need to meet the people in person who can live where everything is trying to kill them and still have such a wonderful outlook on life.

Look out! Is that a killer magpie?

 

[featherhead007]

We are going to start collecting dream tax unless the dream was about a chicken.

@featherhead007 @Marie2020 and anyone else.

 

[BY Bob]

That's a really lovely floor I may copy that over this part of the world

Mrs BY Bob picked it out. I just installed it. I will let her know how much you like it.

 

[BY Bob]

Around here we find it easier to clean out poop when it's all frozen into little icebergs beneath the roost. It all comes out in one, hard-as-a-rock blob. No fuss no muss!

That is truly a unique but I imagine very effective strategy.

 

[BY Bob]

Bob, this is filtered out at work. I’ll check it out later.

Who knew my videos were so disruptive as to need to be blocked!

 

[featherhead007]

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My dream/ my nightmare!

 

[Kris5902]

It can be really hard to engage on the socials when things are tough.

It might be because most people display a sort of false positivity on social media. I try not to do this. Honesty is hard sometimes, but it makes social platforms more welcoming of those who are living through nightmares.

Some people are not necessarily portraying false positively" in my personal approach I don't like making people feel depressed, life is tough enough
So as a rule i try to keep my upsets too myself online and in my life here
I will only share a fraction with those who i feel can be trusted and those I feel have respect for other people's feelings plus whatever circumstance...

We all have hard times, that's all part of life unfortunately.
As the English say, stiffer upper lip. Not that I agree with that at all.

I try not to do that too much, FB gets pretty darn toxic, opposed to most of the people here. I mean this thread and chicken friends are awesome, but I’ve seen some pretty nasty stuff here on BYC too (mostly the preadator and meat bird forums). So I don’t want to burden anyone, or seem overly negative, add in all of the overwhelm and… not good.

There’s also the fear of negative backlash from not portraying the expected positivity. Right before my big social media purge, we had some issues with flooding, and supply chain issues, which led to of course more panic buying and general nonsense here. So, being alone without transport, and off grid (yes, eventually even I run out of my carefully stockpiled fuel…) so they put a 30L (7 gallons) limit on gasoline. No biggie, if you can get to the gas station. Some of my FB “friends” were being obnoxious about people complaining about it. I (stupidly) thought elaborating on how it affected me might add some different perspective about things like accessibility and need. I got absolutely lambasted by this person, told I didn’t understand rationing, mocked, and called a stupid snowflake… all while dealing with DH in the hospital, being physically trapped by flooding, losing my pet, and a nasty little cold snap. Really kicked me when I was pretty down but still trying hard to stay upbeat, publicly at that, and then several of her friends (complete strangers to me, started in on me too). Just for trying to give a different perspective on the fuel rationing situation.

So, I did a massive FB purge, 300+ people unfriended, and most of them won’t even notice I am gone. Over 3/4 of my “friends” gone. I kept family, really close friends with shared interests, anyone who lives on the same (literal) island as me. The result? I’m not bombarded by a bunch of peoples opinions on everything, especially current “events”. I have more peace of mind, honest positivity, and feel better knowing if I make a post that isn’t all about fake positivity and “flexing” my lifestyle, the people who will see it are ones that matter to me.

Some Additional info about my living situation for any new friends here… I’m completely off grid, on an island with one, questionable at the best of times, road access to our side of the island. I run a Gas powered generator to charge my batteries for RV lights, the water pump, and electric heat when the generator is running. (RV is a mid 90’s model! So not a spring chicken or a three season either, because it’s “temporary” while we build our house). Being off grid, I stock up a little at every shop to keep a decent supply of basic stuff. So we don’t need to panic but when life sends us hiccups, not even TP! I usually have on hand about 120L (31 gallons) of gas, one (now two with my heater) jerry can of diesel, and we have 5 20lb BBQ, and 3 taller 30lb propane tanks (we also have a propane heater, fridge, stove/oven. When it became clear a resupply was going to be problematic, I immediately started rationing my supplies (we won’t even go into the chicken feed situation! I have a lot of chickens) and only treating myself to the bare minimum 1-2hrs of generator power to keep everything functioning. I went basically one month with no supplies or shopping, and oh boy, was it nice when DH finally got home with feed and gas!

Long story short FB is evil… BYC is way better.

 

[Kris5902]

Social media Ranting Tax Payment

 

[lightm]

Alarm!

While I was filming the girls snacking the other day, Hattie sounding warning and Aurora picked it up. This video is 3 minutes long. They stood stock still for almost the entire 3 minutes. Hattie had 1 foot only 1/2 way on the ground and she never finished her step. You will see Hattie and Aurora on my right with Sansa frozen behind the pool heater. Sydney was to my left.

The initial alarm sound (a short squeak repeated once), which is not loud, came from Hattie and then Aurora takes charge, makes the loud warning and maintains what I call the "rumble".

I've been suspecting for some time that Aurora has been picking up more Sentinel duty from Hattie. This may be an example of them working together while on duty.

Hello Bob. I am a forever lurker. You are a very good story teller. I am going to be very frugal on commenting or replying on this thread because I am currently at page 1960, and I don't want to give myself more to read.

Anyway, I just played this and my house chicken (injured, you may remember from Shad's thread) totally responded and made the same squeaky sound that Aurora did. It was interesting.

PS: I have calculated that I will be able to catch up in half a year (including the new ones of the half year) if I can read about 3.5 days worth of pages every day. Currently I am doing far better than this.