Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

You mean the Declaration of Independence?

No. I mean the universal declaration on human rights that so many nations are signatories to. The UN is the parent organisation.

UDHR. https://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx

Edit: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/UDHRIndex.aspx

 

[Shadrach]

I've just shared a few posts with Nifty-Chicken on the update discussion thread about ads and I've been convinced that the ethics shaping byc are sound, so I paid for premium membership to cover my share of running the site and opt out of ads being served to me.

He's good at what he does. The online niche forum is quite difficult to make profitable, mainly because it is a niche and consequently isn't likely to attract the same amount of traffic that a general chat format like Facebook does.
Nifty has a few going, They all seem to be family orientated.
http://www.ludcon.com/

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

This is why I won't have the high production breeds & my poor man got a lecture when he started thinking about meat birds because I refuse to have CornishX on any property I own. What a thing to do to a bird! My poor man is still trying to recover from how calm & easily handled my girls are & goes round muttering that the usual methods of keeping chickens makes them psychotic. My birds are lots of things but psychotic they are not!

When I did a course on animal behaviour , with a view to training dogs, it included a unit on training a species other than dogs using positive reinforcement and operant conditioning. Our class was teaching pigs to touch targets but in previous years chickens were trained.

If you spend enough time with an animal one gets to know their ways and they yours. My girls all know the sound of the bin lid where the meal worms are kept!

 

[Shadrach]

All living things give off heat. It's the inevitable result of converting one form of energy to another. Living with ones animals was used to provide heat for humans for many years. We've got a bit fussy in our hyper clean modern age.

 

[Shadrach]

My style exactly. I know what I like and I stick to it. I’m not in the mainstream workforce anymore so I only have to dress for myself and my chickens.
I don’t have duplicates, per se, and I have been known to wear the exact same thing two days in a row. But I will draw the line at stinking. I don’t stink even wearing the same clothes. But then again, I wonder what I’m comparing myself to? My chickens?

I like the smell of chickens.

 

[MaryJanet]

When I did a course on animal behaviour , with a view to training dogs, it included a unit on training a species other than dogs using positive reinforcement and operant conditioning. Our class was teaching pigs to touch targets but in previous years chickens were trained.

If you spend enough time with an animal one gets to know their ways and they yours. My girls all know the sound of the bin lid where the meal worms are kept!

And I've heard a frequnetly set assignment for first year vet science students is "train a chicken to [do something] in six weeks."

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Until a predator got hold of one. I would love to raise my chickens that way too, but they wouldn't last a single season. I know. I have a neighbor who replaces his chickens every year because he free ranges.

What? All of them? That's a lot of predation!

 

[Shadrach]

It is very creepy! When I get home from some place my phone sends me a message asking.. How was such and such place today

And people ask me why I don't have a mobile phone and various other electronic gadgets.

 

[MaryJanet]

And people ask me why I don't have a mobile phone and various other electronic gadgets.

I'm trying to buy things that don't erode my data privacy, but it's not always possible.

Actually, it's usually impossible.

That said, I did pretty well shopping for a robovac recently. It's not even on the internet. It doesn't have a camera. It doesn't make a map. As far as contemporary tech goes, it's as dumb as a brick and that's why I love it!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I'm sorry everyone. I was away today visiting my parents who have returned from my brother's in Florida.

I gave them a cabbage today

Perhaps I should read BYC when I'm not tired. I thought you were giving your parents a cabbage because you didn't have any free range eggs for them Bob.

The way my mind works