Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[CrazyChookChookLady]

It needs a mysterious name now. Like Nessy........or is that Nessie, I digress.

Maybe Emmie? You could then tell all the city folk (you know people from where I live) "Be careful, you don't want to run across Emmie when out in the woods" You could do bumper stickers "I've seen Emmie". You could wind up with a Discovery Channel program, "The Hunt for Emmie" or "The Legend of Emmie.

You guys need to hop on this gravy train before it is too late.

We're pretty sure it's a male and everyone's been calling him Doug.

I really feel like I should call the news or something...LOL

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Can you imagine the snap from that broody hen! Yikes!

That would give @Ribh a run for her money!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Who is jumping on its back, you or Rich? I am picturing this in my head now.

There is a nice episode from a TV show about a vet - 'Dr Pol' - where he wrangles two emu. From that I learned that you need to bend down and not tower over them and also that they chest bump which can send you flying.
I am not volunteering to help!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

There is a nice episode from a TV show about a vet - 'Dr Pol' - where he wrangles two emu. From that I learned that you need to bend down and not tower over them and also that they chest bump which can send you flying.
I am not volunteering to help!

Sounds like a regular Saturday night!!!

My first horse was a wild mustang from Nevada. He was completely wild and used to buck and rear up like crazy! I trained him myself, but not without a lot of bumps and bruises. I could totally ride an Emu!!!

 

[RoyalChick]

We're pretty sure it's a male and everyone's been calling him Doug.

I really feel like I should call the news or something...LOL

Oh Doug. Of course! Though shouldn't it be LiMu?
Sorry, our Ozzie friends likely don't get the joke.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

If anyone is on Facebook and interested, his Facebook page is Elusive Emu Sightings. It is a public group.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

OMGosh!!!

You accidentally did the cat/cucumber trick with your chickens and a mouse!!! I have to say I have never had @RoyalChick level success with “mouse steaks”. The only one they have ever eaten was one a girl in Bob’s tractor managed to catch alive. And I have tossed mouse corpses aplenty to my free range girls. They just ignore them, despite that calls, human tidbitting, and wiggling the body. Sigh, at least my Ravens appreciate the rodent bounty.

What is the cat/cucumber trick? I love the name! I have a cat, and sometimes a cucumber...let's roll!
Yup the crows here sometimes take care of the mouse remains. They used to be here on the regular but not so much lately. They do nest here though.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Ask and ye shall receive!!!! @ChicoryBlue

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've been missing other people for a long time now. Lately the chickens have not been great company either. Soon the weather will have me locked indoors as well. I'm concerned about navigating this winter well.

You aren't traveling like you used to, correct? Maybe some more (safely done) day trips in your car is in order. That will get you out and about some.

I'm a musician and this pandemic has been horrible indeed. We cannot make music with other musicians in real time and enjoy that feedback loop of creativity. We cannot play for the public in real time, and have that feedback loop either. I work on original tunes some, and play along with music files to keep my chops up (failing there), learn new tunes, and wait.

Calls and weekly Zoom sessions with friends, exercising and otherwise getting outside as much as possible into the natural world, and the interesting news, pictures and great people on this thread have greatly helped me. I am making little projects fixing the chicken's quarters, and even just tending them is interesting, but I am a newbie of course, and all the Buckeyes are getting along pretty well. I garden also and may try to start little green trays for them.

I also realized I enjoy that the chickens are up during the day and our cat Big Boy comes alive in the evening. So when one in the animal world is frustrating or a block, sometimes there's the other. What's going on with your cats? Davis and the other cat to the rescue? Do they need some new toys, a new area to explore (do you have any cat shelving?) or a special grooming session with you? Just ideas...

 

[featherhead007]

You aren't traveling like you used to, correct? Maybe some more (safely done) day trips in your car is in order. That will get you out and about some.

I'm a musician and this pandemic has been horrible indeed. We cannot make music with other musicians in real time and enjoy that feedback loop of creativity. We cannot play for the public in real time, and have that feedback loop either. I work on original tunes some, and play along with music files to keep my chops up (failing there), learn new tunes, and wait.

Calls and weekly Zoom sessions with friends, exercising and otherwise getting outside as much as possible into the natural world, and the interesting news, pictures and great people on this thread have greatly helped me. I am making little projects fixing the chicken's quarters, and even just tending them is interesting, but I am a newbie of course, and all the Buckeyes are getting along pretty well. I garden also and may try to start little green trays for them.

I also realized I enjoy that the chickens are up during the day and our cat Big Boy comes alive in the evening. So when one in the animal world is frustrating or a block, sometimes there's the other. What's going on with your cats? Davis and the other cat to the rescue? Do they need some new toys, a new area to explore (do you have any cat shelving?) or a special grooming session with you? Just ideas...

Just don't get the cats cucumbers!