Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I haven't caught up with her yet. I'm sure you can imagine the chaos with two huskies tearing around, the stupid women a hundred metres further up the land calling the dogs and blowing a whistle, which the dogs completely ignored. I just wanted her and the dogs off the property as quickly as possible. She wouldn't climb down the bank where one of the dogs killed Ruffles and just stood at the top shouting at it. I went down and chased the dog up the bank.
The last I saw of the women she was crying because I think I may have said a few unpleasant words in a not very friendly tone of voice and because I had ripped one of the dogs ears dragging it off the ewe.
I've got the Park Wardens trying to track her down. I've asked in the village but nobody seems to know her. Apparently her dogs had also been to the next farm North but their dogs had driven them off.

Feels like she should be counting her blessings that she still has dogs. Any farmer where I grew up would have shot them immediately

 

[MaryJanet]

That is the ultimate compliment for any photo. Your stamp of approval is desired by all.

You're getting funnier by the minute!

 

[WhoDatChick]

@WhoDatChick It's Petsmart this weekend, not PetCo.

Oh, okay.. Petco is near me not Petsmart.. sooooo... they are building a Petsmart so it’ll be here soon...
And, I wasn’t sure who I’d bring but now that I think about it it would’ve been my Lilly ... she and Maggie are my most personable at the moment but Maggie can still be slightly nervous so I wouldn’t want to freak her out... well, maybe next year

 

[Cheryl W]

I, however, am still getting none. Good thing I got those EE pullets to get me through this winter with good eggs.

Do EE hens always lay the same color egg each time or do they sometimes lay blue then green , etc?

 

[BY Bob]

There isn't really an amount of money that could compensate for Ruffles death; not for me anyway. I was there when she hatched. I've been there for every chick she hatched, she's been my friend for almost nine years. I've spent more time with these chickens than I have with any person in my life excepting my childhood possibly. You can't compensate for that degree of loss. In a court Ruffles would get assessed as a chicken; a few dollars if that. Much the same for Thistle the ewe.
Justice might be to make the women come here and do what I do for eight years. I think she might understand after that, but I wouldn't count on it.

There are some things that just can't be made right. The bell cannot be unrung or the scales balanced. The best that you can hope for true contrition and changes so it never happens again.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh, okay.. Petco is near me not Petsmart.. sooooo... they are building a Petsmart so it’ll be here soon...
And, I wasn’t sure who I’d bring but now that I think about it it would’ve been my Lilly ... she and Maggie are my most personable at the moment but Maggie can still be slightly nervous so I wouldn’t want to freak her out... well, maybe next year

O bummer. I was looking forward to your story. Maybe next year.

 

[BY Bob]

Do EE hens always lay the same color egg each time or do they sometimes lay blue then green , etc?

Egg color does not change. My EEs will always lay brown eggs.

 

[BY Bob]

This is most of Tribe 1. Treacle and the two pullets Moon and Tap are on the left out of the picture.
Guess where they are going.

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These photos are awesome. I love the way your rooster is standing watch over them all. I'd love to see more like that. Very cool.

 

[BY Bob]

Nope.

Very sad. Hopefully the woman learns a lesson and does not put her dogs in a position to ever hurt another living being. That is the only good that could still come from this.

 

[Cheryl W]

Egg color does not change. My EEs will always lay brown eggs.

That’s what I thought but was talking to a chicken enthusiast today and he told me the colors can vary. Maybe he meant one EE might lay blue eggs and another pink eggs but that’s not what he said. Thanks for the response.