Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ManueB]

We were talking about this just last night and thought that when driving, people see other *cars* on the road they don't see other people (in cars) on the road.

Somehow the cars alienate us from each other.

It's an interesting perspective but I'm afraid it's not enough to explain the southern french driver's attitude, as he will very often not only never stop for a pedestrian but also forget to stop at red lights or start his car before the light turns green. And as a cyclist I have several time barely escaped from serious harm by drivers who acted like I didn't have the right to be in their way.

I'm thinking it's something much more Faustian. This car creature brings endless possibilities of roaming around and seemingly gives a new freedom but in fact there is a price to pay and it takes a bit of your soul in exchange .

I do believe it's a cultural thing also. I spent my 11th grade in Berkeley with my family and the things that amazed my parents the most was the way people drived. It was all so slow and polite! And there were highway patrol every where ! (That and the fact that people who barely knew each other hugged to say hi ... )
Granted it was California 1992 but I think the difference of attitude on the road probably remains.

 

[RoyalChick]

When Vanille was really ill cucumber was all she would eat, in fact it's what lead me to post for the first time on BYC .
She's been unwell for the last three days after passing two soft shell eggs in a row, and with the heat. She has eaten nothing yesterday but today we gave the girls a zucchini that had overgrown and she's been pecking at it like crazy.

We've talked about how they choose to feed before when they are sick with Minnie. It's still pretty much a mystery to me if it's just individual taste preference or if they do have some instinct to get things that are right for them.
When humans are sick a bit of both happen.. sometimes you don't feel like eating and your body needs to fast for a while, or to only have broth. And sometimes you actually do need to eat to get better.

I cannot get the link to your first post unfortunately, but yes, do they know what they are doing or do we need to save them from themselves. It is a dilemma.
Zucchini - genius! I will try that too.

 

[RoyalChick]

It's an interesting perspective but I'm afraid it's not enough to explain the southern french driver's attitude, as he will very often not only never stop for a pedestrian but also forget to stop at red lights or start his car before the light turns green. And as a cyclist I have several time barely escaped from serious harm by drivers who acted like I didn't have the right to be in their way.

I'm thinking it's something much more Faustian. This car creature brings endless possibilities of roaming around and seemingly gives a new freedom but in fact there is a price to pay and it takes a bit of your soul in exchange .

I do believe it's a cultural thing also. I spent my 11th grade in Berkeley with my family and the things that amazed my parents the most was the way people drived. It was all so slow and polite! And there were highway patrol every where ! (That and the fact that people who barely knew each other hugged to say hi ... )
Granted it was California 1992 but I think the difference of attitude on the road probably remains.

I will never be able to find it - but years ago I remember reading a study about the psychology of drivers and how they see the world differently when in the car vs not in the car.
I don't recall the details now, but what I remember is that it had to do with being sealed off from the world like an isolation bubble. One of the examples was people picking their nose - drivers apparently often pick their nose even when stopped at lights only a few feet away from other drivers - and it is something they would never do if they were the same distance from other people in a store, or on a bus or even in the street.

And I certainly owe nose picking tax. Here is Lulu advising Bernadette on which pellet to select and how to eat it. She went on to advise Bella on selecting cucumber seeds. Lulu is turning into quite a character - she is always poking her beak into other’s business and then running to the next group to tell them all about it. Constantly on the move and constantly chattering!

 

[Ponypoor]

That's excellent! I'm glad she likes it.

Good morning Marie how is Flexi today?

 

[Ponypoor]

Terrible people. I taught my girls that a vehicle was a weapon when they were learning to drive. To ruin so many lives so callously.

It really angers me. Sorry everyone.

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Agreed

Good morning beautiful ladies everyone looks so content

Morning to you too Bob

 

[Ponypoor]

It is official, angry Chiquita is broody and is on 2 eggs. I would like to give her more but I really do not need more chicks, and I had not properly been storing her eggs for setting. She has today's egg and Thursday's egg. Rosie ate yesterday's egg darn it. I also do not want her to have any of the big girls eggs as they just grow too fast for her to properly cover the chicks for more then a week or so. When I went out to check on her I had the 2nd egg in my hand. She was in the corner of her hiding spot so I set the egg down for a second and she hopped off the nest and rolled it to the other one and settled right back down. For my records I will count tomorrow as the official day 1.

Oh I am so egg-cited

I wonder what's going on with Alex's Xzit?

 

[Ponypoor]

Nearly all my bantams & 1 or 2 others. My large standards all go in the shed as they are meant to. I have 16 hens so not quite the majority. The Japs & D'Uccles are wonderful to handle. They are very easy. No muss, no fuss.

I loved how the one gal would keep coming out haha.

My youngest an my three silkie are like that

 

[Ponypoor]

I will never be able to find it - but years ago I remember reading a study about the psychology of drivers and how they see the world differently when in the car vs not in the car.
I don't recall the details now, but what I remember is that it had to do with being sealed off from the world like an isolation bubble. One of the examples was people picking their nose - drivers apparently often pick their nose even when stopped at lights only a few feet away from other drivers - and it is something they would never do if they were the same distance from other people in a store, or on a bus or even in the street.

And I certainly owe nose picking tax. Here is Lulu advising Bernadette on which pellet to select and how to eat it. She went in to advise Bella on selecting cucumber seeds. Lulu is turning into quite a character - she is always poking her beak into other’s business and then running to the next group to tell them all about it. Constantly on the move and constantly chattering!

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Must be a gossipy old hen

 

[Ponypoor]

I always had this thought that in the US you have weapons, but here we have cars.
I hate cars, I don't drive, and in the south of France I feel like cars do some kind of bad magic to 75% of people -when they step into the driver's seat they suddenly become their evil self that no one ever sees other wise. They feel allowed to do things that in no other circumstances they would ever, ever do. Many people claim they feel like their car is their space of freedom, I find this so sad and even more sad to see what they make of it.

Tax from June 2020, the girls were still establishing pecking order.
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I imagine that is a lovely sun trap looks so cozy there.

Re: vehicles I feel the more expensive the car the more stupid the driver. When I was driving home yesterday I was cut off by no less then 7 vehicles! All of them high end sporty cars, Carrera (? Spelling), Audi, some other small zippy little speed bump I do not recognize, and a couple Mercedes...

What the heck! I drive a honking big truck! What are you doing cutting in front of me and then .... Stopping! You are but a speed bump to my truck with its 21" tires which are bigger then your wee little toy car

Oh I owe so much tax

 

[RoyalChick]

Must be a gossipy old hen

In training! She is still a teenager.