Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

Pastor said “you become, what you hang around with. Good or evil “. Does that make me a chicken?

Yes. Me too. It's a great life!

 

[Shadrach]

Don't ask. I don't know. She hasn't laid an egg for almost a year. She still chucks the youngsters out and has a bit of a sit.

 

[MaryJanet]

Tegan looks like she runs around with her shoelaces undone!

Feathered feet are adorable! Peggy's are slippers, Ivy's are boots.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh know what guys?! I'm thinking this.. is .not..a Barney! But a Partridge Rock! . I had a Barney though.

Oh no. that is too funny.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh dear. How confusing.

I was learning myself. It's interesting.

 

[BY Bob]

I was very surprised when I found a blue egg one day, most unexpected!

That will happen with Bitsas

 

[BY Bob]

Java, is all that, and also the new name of my last unnamed baby chick. She looks black like lava, so....... Java

I love that. Great name! It is as the fates desired.

 

[BY Bob]

Don't ask. I don't know. She hasn't laid an egg for almost a year. She still chucks the youngsters out and has a bit of a sit.
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Lilly still does the same. I truly wonder what it is about.

 

[MaryJanet]

I was learning myself. It's interesting.

I'm thinking the most interesting is humanity's capacity for administration (observing something in nature and deciding to administer it by naming, breeding, culling, going to meetings, organising, breeding, culling, breeding, showing, ad infinitum). There's some research somewhere that says administration creates more administration.

I have no argument with early breeding within subsistence farming but working on officially recognised breeds is a different thing, right?

An interesting hobby.

 

[BY Bob]

I'm thinking the most interesting is humanity's capacity for administration (observing something in nature and deciding to administer it by naming, breeding, culling, going to meetings, organising, breeding, culling, breeding, showing, ad infinitum). There's some research somewhere that says administration creates more administration.

I have no argument with early breeding within subsistence farming but working on officially recognised breeds is a different thing, right?

An interesting hobby.

Officially recognized breeds in chickens is much like dogs and cats. Only I think chicken genes may be much harder to work with. I find it all quite odd. However, as a scientist, I love to classify things based upon observation. This falls right into that.

I also find it interesting how we do things like drop the Plymouth. Barred Plymouth Rock becomes Barred Rock. White Plymouth Rock becomes White Rock. I had no idea that the White Rocks we raised for meat birds were the same genetic line as Sydney. I never would have guessed that.