Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Pasta!

 

[Shadrach]

Me too. I use a 'headlamp' (a torch/flashlight strapped to my head) because I often end up needing to do chores after dark in the winter because of work. They always wake up (I guess because of my light) and they always stare down to the floor from the roost with a look like 'what the hell is going on here?' and then they settle back down making the contented little chuckles that I just love listening to.

Head torches...I love them. My daughter bought me a new one a couple of years ago. It's a Petzl and it's been excellent.

 

[MaryJanet]

there is one person at work who thinks I’m crazy for spending hundreds of dollars on a chook, they are just primary producers to her, and when they’ve stopped earning their keep, she takes them somewhere and abandons them to predators, just so she doesn’t have to pay anything to feed them or have them put down.

What an utter jerk.

 

[MaryJanet]

Pasta!

Yay!! They're so happy!

 

[Shadrach]

The fifteen minute time frame. At this light level they will fly out of the trees if I call them for supper. This is about midway in the time frame. Once it gets much darker I have to lift them out because they won't risk the flight.

" I'm not sitting, honest".

 

[Shadrach]

What an utter jerk.

My last rescue was a dumped in the woods job.

 

[MaryJanet]

My last rescue was a dumped in the woods job.

Some people have no conscience.

 

[Ribh]

My last rescue was a dumped in the woods job.

I do not understand this! But then people used to expose unwanted babies... I do not understand people.

 

[Shadrach]

I think I should make some of the language I/we use clear.
When a hen goes broody here we say she sits. I don't think the Americans use this term.
What makes it more confusing is we use the word set, or setting, when the hen sets the eggs in the right position to sit on them.
Broody here extends from the first show of intention to sit right through chick rearing.

 

[Ribh]

I think I should make some of the language I/we use clear.
When a hen goes broody here we say she sits. I don't think the Americans use this term.
What makes it more confusing is we use the word set, or setting, when the hen sets the eggs in the right position to sit on them.
Broody here extends from the first show of intention to sit right through chick rearing.

Yep. We use those terms too.