Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[goldenfingers]

We are so grateful to have you here. You manage your participation how you would like. I am glad that you find this to b your place. We should all feel really good that you do.

Thank you!

 

[micstrachan]

I am with you on the grandma names - I considered Flo for one of the Little Princesses (Dotty and Minnie) and I may add a Flo next year. Flo looks gorgeous and yes, I remember that you lost Bagheera. So beautiful.

Haha! You know I also have a Minnie and Dorothy was so named because she was supposed to have “dots.”

 

[Shadrach]

Lock is quite stunning, I think the PC thing now for transgender is to say: they are a beautiful chicken!

If I cared what she is I might care about being PC. I don't care about either.

 

[Kris5902]

Tug-of-war
WARNING - SOMEWHAT GRUESOME VIDEO

In big news Maggie successfully won a tug of war with Diana and now is in full possession of the mouse.
Sorry, I know I said I would spare you the gruesome details - but the tug-of-war is funny I had to share.

So not fair... I hope I can find this and the Raccoon zapping videos after the 26th... I know it’s my own fault for watching too much tv over data, but I really wanted to see how another flock handles Rodent control!

 

[Shadrach]

They were a cult & quite mad. View attachment 2414146​

Going to have to report this one Ribh; them ain't chickens.....

 

[Shadrach]

Henry VIII started it. But didn't Bill Clinton win a nobel peace prize for ending it? He was at least up for one. My point was that since Clinton you hear nothing about it.

Look how beautiful these two were right after their molt was complete.
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Still hear plenty about it in the UK.

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach I saw this posted and thought of your Lock. Maybe you want to check it out, maybe you don't.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...hen-due-to-gender-dysphoria-disorder.1429338/

I did.

 

[Shadrach]

Thank you. You as well please. I am going to start baking Thanksgiving cookies tomorrow! I may mask up and go to the grocery store today!

I remember the days when you only masked up when you were going to banks.

 

[Shadrach]

Updates for the Buckeyes & me -

I have been gathering dry material for the run floor and finishing weatherizing it all in anticipation of the cold front that was coming. Wood chips, oak & maple leaves, pine needles built up to three inches thick. Messing with clear tarps and shower curtains, zip ties, bungee cords, and old house construction wood. Hauling concrete blocks to the base it so it doesn't blow over in the wind gusts. Driving 10" stakes in a few key spots to help (more to do there). It looks bad all cobbed together but it held up well for this latest. I will take pictures tomorrow. My concern is ventilation for the run while keeping the floor dry for them, and without having major drafts on the inhabitants. The chicken inspectors were pretty tough however, carefully inspecting every nook and cranny (there are many of those) as it went up. Treats and gossiping and tidbitting greenery won them over. Also, they really enjoyed the leaves.

I have missed a lot in the meantime. So I jumped ahead. What is this about a Chicken Tax? Discussions of very dark and intense subjects & existential worries, such as poo. Interspersed with hot chicken pics. The moderators are probably having their minds blown, algorithms flagging suspect items, yet there are beautiful pictures of beautiful chickens. And some posers called Giant Land Chickens.

What are Giant Land Chickens doing on this site? Don't they have their own forum? And who let them call themselves Chickens??? This must be flagged for the moderators.

Buckeye Chickens do not like being condescendingly compared to other beings (even if favorably), and being compared to sheep in particular. I have been instructed to tell everyone, these exact words: "Bok-kawk, bok bok, baaawwwk....baaaaawwwwk, bok-kawk!! [translation: There IS NO COMPARISON!].

So in regards to sheep vs. chicken poo: let us not even go there, down into the gutter, so far down there, where the sheep are. Chicken poo is obviously pristine. Let us not sully the Majesty of Chickendom!

Just look at these beauties enjoying the sun and barely one inch of wood chips. See that Half-Twist Neck-Spin? What natural flexibility!

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Can one honestly compare them with this admittedly very nice, very handsome (and very flexible) but decidedly un-Chicken-like being? He lives in the Big Coop here, and his name is Big Boy. He likes boxes. He is way bigger than that box. It didn't stop him though. I give him points for thinking "outside the box", even if it is halfway.

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What a great post.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

What a great post.

Thank you Shad! Hmmm I don't see the pics either...will try to post again -

Here's the cuddle puddle with one doing the Amazing Buckeye Neck Twist! I took away a box with dirt and ash in it when I discovered they like to do these things all in a group. The box is not big enough for all four, so it was taking up space.

Here is our cat Big Boy!