Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

I might do that to keep food nice and dry. But the issue isn’t the feeder it is the Princesses.
I didn’t pay enough attention to table manners when I brought them up so they scatter food everywhere. The rodents don’t go near the feeders because there is so much to eat along the way!

I'm very interested in this topic because I need to know what to do in case mice breach the perimeter one day. So far, snap traps sound like a good option. I might be able to close my eyes and toss the whole thing out.

 

[2000096904]

Thank you, I love this..

@starri33 what breed if chicken do you have as as your icon it looks like my hen and we do not know her breed

 

[BY Bob]

Let's Leave Her with Him

I just let the girls out to free range and Lilly chose a spot right behind my chair to station herself.

Everybody just went right past her and left her with me. She complained, but they kept on going. I guess I am ok to be Lilly's guardian.

I should go in the house and see what happens. That would mess them up.

Well Lilly decided to go to them.

 

[MaryJanet]

When my daughter studied abroad in the Netherlands she hung out with a lot of Aussies and said your system of higher education was much better than ours. What it cost for her to go to law school was astronomical.

Was it astronomical in The Netherlands or in the US?

 

[BY Bob]

I studied an emerging technology called a brain-computer interface to see whether it disrupts privacy (a bit of a no-brainer but I produced evidence for it from quantitative data) and how it disrupts privacy (a much more complex question because privacy is a social construct that varies from person to person and from context to context, so the answer was of course complex and multi-faceted and I drew it from qualitative data).

That's cool.

 

[MaryJanet]

My sky ❤ Bottom one was at 5:45 ish and top one was at 6:15

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I looove all the amazing photos you share Grammy!

 

[BY Bob]

Was it astronomical in The Netherlands or in the US?

In the US, even though she was on scholarship. Still ridiculously expensive

 

[MaryJanet]

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Not a lot of room on that box Bob. I'm on it a lot.
It's one of the things my parents got terribly wrong. Not everyone is suited to university. When I was of that age, it was what middle classes aspired to. I wanted to learn a trade but got directed to university. I didn't learn much of any use and left thinking that the clever people didn't go to uni.

Work-related snobbery is always a mistake. The trades are a brilliant option. My brother went straight from high school into his apprenticeship and it's been a rock-solid foundation throughtout his whole life.

 

[MaryJanet]

In the US, even though she was on scholarship. Still ridiculously expensive

I guess it was not a state funded university. I know someone who got his tertiary education from a state-funded university in... Maryland I think it was, and it's been no barrier to success. He's now running an enormous research group in Auckland in New Zealand which he was targetted for, and advises government on health data policy.


I forgot to add the next bit: please tell me more about the public-private divide.

 

[Shadrach]

What more important control point than food? If he is going to exert Romina wouldn't that be the place with most impact?

It is one of the puzzling things about Aurora's behavior. She will eat with Phyllis, Sydney and Sansa. Does it all the time. Why is roosting the thing she is trying to withhold from them? It means something and I am frustrated that I cannot figure out what.

It is, but it's not really an effective strategy here but I can't get this through to Cillin!!
Not one single hen has deserted her rooster because he lost a fight, not one.
Notch for example gets terrorised by the three bantam males. Donk, Myth and Knock stick by him like glue.