Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Wow. Best dinner I had in a while. Steak and potatoes. Mmmm.
All I need now is Jaffar, and a good movie to watch. (No Jaffar tonight though) Spare room is taken.

Consolation, it is full of chicks!

 

[fuentemoon]

I just had a tasty dinner too, cajun spiced shrimp and creamy cornmeal polenta
Gave the ladies the last piece of quiche today, they were afraid of the dish it was in so had to hand feed it to them, or toss bits to them, so no pics.
Did spend a rare afternoon with my other dinosaur letting her have some time in the front window.

 

[Kris5902]

"Corn with guns" !!!

Vegetarian’s beware!!! Your food has armed itself and is ready to fight back!

(See how far away from the GMO debate I’m staying? A decade at WholeFoods has scarred me deeply with all the misinformation, propaganda, and militant Vegans and Vegetarians “saving animals and the planet”)

Shoot! *shoves soapbox back into a dark corner* maybe no one noticed? I’m going to have to lure my poor west-coast pansy chickens out into a polar vortex for tax purposes now? (it’s below freezing here!!! Not fair, I’m from Vancouver, it’s the “southern gulf islands” it’s NOT supposed to do this here! as all you dealing with actual blizzards, hoar frost, ice storms, and worrying about actual frostbite roll your eyes in exasperation ) note that means I’ll also have to go outside in sub zero Celsius weather!

 

[WhoDatChick]

I just had a tasty dinner too, cajun spiced shrimp and creamy cornmeal polenta
Gave the ladies the last piece of quiche today, they were afraid of the dish it was in so had to hand feed it to them, or toss bits to them, so no pics.
Did spend a rare afternoon with my other dinosaur letting her have some time in the front window.
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This is so cool!!

 

[Kris5902]

I'm going to have killer corn nightmares tonight!

But where are all the little children of the corn? Is it just me or has anyone else noticed a tendency in the horror genre to have a corn field? It’s never a soy bean field, or a wheat field, or even a permaculture food forest... the bad stuff always happens in, near or comes out of a corn field? Maybe the anti GMO crowd has something there? What is so creepy about corn???

 

[Kris5902]

I just had a tasty dinner too, cajun spiced shrimp and creamy cornmeal polenta
Gave the ladies the last piece of quiche today, they were afraid of the dish it was in so had to hand feed it to them, or toss bits to them, so no pics.
Did spend a rare afternoon with my other dinosaur letting her have some time in the front window.
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Remembering your “you think chickens are hard” broody/grumpy etc post from... oh, my... how many pages back? She’s so pretty!!! I’m so jealous... and aren’t you so glad you got a girl? (Assuming you got her as a baby) I volunteered with a reptile rescue at one point and the number of juvenile/young adult male iguanas is just awful... reminds me of all the “aggressive rooster” threads I’ve read; but featuring a four to five foot long, muscular tail lashing, with expectionally sharp teeth for a primarily herbivorous lizard as the “villain”. Research, research, research, people!!! Don’t just randomly acquire a high maintenance animal... looks at own chair with a quickly growing baby goat in it...

Well, I knew it was a bad idea from the get go... but I just couldn’t not take her in.

I have wanted a green iguana since the Movie “Terminator” came out. And before that, a pet snake... but I stopped my mom from getting me a Burmese python (as a young grade schooler) because I already knew that they don’t “grow to the size of their enclosure” (nice try pet store lady) and that we weren’t set up to properly care for one!

shoot, now I owe even more chicken taxes!

 

[LozzyR]

You promise you have investigated them and this is real. For sure.

They are a legit charity, there is a Aust. government website where you can look up whether they are allowed to receive charitable gifts or not, and they are.

 

[RoyalChick]

Roosting mystery solved
I think I have figured out why Minnie and at least once, Dotty, roosted all alone.
Apologies in advance for the long videos.
It all starts with Dotty stuck on the end and Minnie not giving up her spot. Until she realizes what being next to Maggie means in practice and she escapes. Dotty is not content just to win the spot she was looking for, but feels the need to drive Minnie away entirely.

But Minnie returns

Now roles are reversed and Minnie drives Dotty off the roost.

Rinse and repeat. This happened multiple times like shuffling cards in a deck. Either Minnie or Dotty would drive the other off based on who was on the end.

And then for no reason ... ...

Awwww.

 

[LozzyR]

They are a legit charity, there is a Aust. government website where you can look up whether they are allowed to receive charitable gifts or not, and they are.

 

[micstrachan]

Ummm... did everyone see that @Aussie-Chookmum ’s Alice won the molting contest??? Congratulations!!!

My Ester tied for third, too!