Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

The usual suspects.


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You truly have a fine looking flock! What a line up.

Number 1 Step forward and state your name, "Bok"

Number 2, same. "Bawk"

Number 3 step forward and your name please, "bakawk"

Number 4 please turn around and stare your name, "bok bok"

It's Number 1 I tell you! She knocked me off the ramp 4 times. Nearly broke my wing. She's a menace!

Numbers 2, 3, 4 can go. Take number 1 to holding.

Tsuki: I can see you back there! I know who you are and where you roost! You will regret this! You think these coppers can hold me! You just watch when I get out! YOU JUST WATCH!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

They are so pretty no matter what they do !!

Thank you Grammy.

Did you notice that they are lined up in the order I have them in my signature?

Except for pepper. She ran off .

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

You truly have a fine looking flock! What a line up.

Number 1 Step forward and state your name, "Bok"

Number 2, same. "Bawk"

Number 3 step forward and your name please, "bakawk"

Number 4 please turn around and stare your name, "bok bok"

It's Number 1 I tell you! She knocked me off the ramp 4 times. Nearly broke my wing. She's a menace!

Numbers 2, 3, 4 can go. Take number 1 to holding.

Tsuki: I can see you back there! I know who you are and where you roost! You will regret this! You think these coppers can hold me! You just watch when I get out! YOU JUST WATCH!

She's one tough bird. That's why no-one will share a roost with her!

 

[Grammy60]

Thank you Grammy.

Did you notice that they are lined up in the order I have them in my signature?

Except for pepper. She ran off .

Yep, I did they really are very pretty always has to be one

 

[BY Bob]

She's one tough bird. That's why no-one will share a roost with her!

Tough as nails!

 

[HappyClucker7]

You truly have a fine looking flock! What a line up.

Number 1 Step forward and state your name, "Bok"

Number 2, same. "Bawk"

Number 3 step forward and your name please, "bakawk"

Number 4 please turn around and stare your name, "bok bok"

It's Number 1 I tell you! She knocked me off the ramp 4 times. Nearly broke my wing. She's a menace!

Numbers 2, 3, 4 can go. Take number 1 to holding.

Tsuki: I can see you back there! I know who you are and where you roost! You will regret this! You think these coppers can hold me! You just watch when I get out! YOU JUST WATCH!

 

[BY Bob]

Watch It Song Bird!

Unfortunately my back yard is a major source of food for not only chickens, but wild animals too. The bird feeders not only draw song birds but also squirrels. What now seems to be, millions of squirrels. So many that Lilly and Phyllis have given up trying to chase them off. They are so aggressive they are in the magnolia tree next to me lined up for snacks at the bird feeder. I could just grab them right out of the tree.

Fall is not just affecting the squirrels but also the song birds. So much so that the song birds are now trying to snatch food that i have put out on the deck for the chickens.

Yesterday a song bird tried to take food from Sydney. Now everyone takes food from Sydney including Phyllis if she can be quick enough. I saw something yesterday I had not seen before, ever.

Sydney pecked the tiny song bird to run it off.

This first peck was very kind. It was clearly not meant to hurt but to say, " kindly move on, this is my food"

Astonishingly, the song bird did not leave. It hopped back again.

The second peck was with more purpose. As if you say, "this is mine, I'm not joking"

The song bird bounced away and then CAME BACK AGAIN!

Sydney is over 100 times bigger than this pesky little songbird. The third peck was designed to permanently implant that message in the song bird's head. I was sure it was going to be dead. However the song bird dodged the strike and flew off. Sydney was left with her food.

I don't know if the song bird was "counting coup" to impress her friends or was really that hungry to risk getting pecked by a chicken. No matter what, she has brass ones.

So today when I spotted a song bird at the chicken snacks on the deck I thought "good for you". Of course, if it was the same bird (no way to be certain), it either had more respect for Sansa or learned its lesson yesterday. When Sansa spotted the bird with a piece of food, Sansa decided to take the food from the song bird. Before Sansa ever got into beak range that song bird was gone.

 

[BY Bob]

I’ve been posting more over here lately anyway, easier for the chatting!

When I saw this I meant to say that I am honored that you chose my thread. I really have missed you and it is great to have you back again.

 

[Shadrach]

That's no good for the chooks or the dogs.

Do people think that your property is part of the park?

Would "Private Property. No trespassing" signs help?

Or maybe just "Livestock in area. All Dogs must be kept on leash. Unleashed dogs will be shot" signs!

It's a strange thing but there are no tresspass laws here. If you don't want people on your property then you need to fence it. That's not to bad on some half acre plot, on 12.5 acres that's a major expense. So, yes, they do think it's part of the park. We have dog on lead signs but they are on the tracks North and South. People arrive here from all sorts of directions.

 

[BY Bob]

It's a strange thing but there are no tresspass laws here. If you don't want people on your property then you need to fence it. That's not to bad on some half acre plot, on 12.5 acres that's a major expense. So, yes, they do think it's part of the park. We have dog on lead signs but they are on the tracks North and South. People arrive here from all sorts of directions.

Interesting. It's hard to imagine not having trespass laws. So how do you force someone to leave your property when they are unwelcome?