Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

Whose chickens, Shad? They're not your sisters. She has a Swedish flower hen & a silkie if I remember correctly.

I should have had my coffee first... Chicken tax.

 

[featherhead007]

I have heard that phrase “no FAT chicks”, but I have never heard of “No FLAT Chicks”

 

[LozzyR]

I’m just going to take one example of this nonsense and that’s the idea that roosters dance for their hens and the purpose of this is to entice the hens to mate with them. It would have helped a little if the women in the video could differentiate between a cockerel and a cock or rooster….nvm.

In all the years of watching chickens I have never, and I mean never, seen a rooster and hen mate after the rooster, or cockerel has done this “dance”. I mean not once, never, zilch, zero, nil, times. It would be reasonable to expect to see mating after the dance if that was it’s purpose say 50% of the time even for a rooster who was a crap dancer wouldn’t it? I suppose I could have watched lots of roosters who couldn’t dance well enough, or perhaps all the hens had headaches. Come on. Evidence. Where is her evidence for this assertion? She’s got a good clip of a rooster trying to mate with a hen who wasn’t interested didn’t she. The rooster chased the hen round the garden ffs. Maybe he should have done a dance!

This so called dance is for herding the hens. A show of dominance if we must use that word.

I’m sure the women is a very nice caring person and all that, but she doesn’t know shite about chickens.

I’m really going to have to watch it now! Obviously through a Shad lens though.

 

[RoyalChick]

It is 95 degrees. I came out to replenish ice cubes in the drinking water. Naturally Maggie thinks it is appropriate sunbathing weather.

 

[LozzyR]

I will back that up. I never once saw Jabber mate with a hen after doing the wing dance and I never saw him do it with his #1 partner Hattie. He was always wing dancing with Lilly or Patsy. The dominance battle between him and Patsy was quite real.

Jabber gives Patsy wing

Patsy gives Jabber a smack down

Patsy didn’t take any crap, did she?!

 

[LozzyR]

Well, folks… Ruby continues to respond well to tubing. However, her hormones have already returned and she’s quite swollen. I’ll likely have her euthanized soon, as she did not tolerate the last two drainings very well and I don’t think I’ll put her through that again. As of today, she seems happy with good body language and vocalizations, but I’m bracing myself.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I will back that up. I never once saw Jabber mate with a hen after doing the wing dance and I never saw him do it with his #1 partner Hattie. He was always wing dancing with Lilly or Patsy. The dominance battle between him and Patsy was quite real.

Jabber gives Patsy wing

Patsy gives Jabber a smack down

Great video, I hadn't seen the first one. Maybe you or @Shadrach can answer - it seems with Jabberwocky the step is sort of forward and to one side, and the wing is let out on the opposite side of the step? Here and in the lady's video the hen, the audience of the dance, is on the step side with the wing on the other. Is it always arranged that way?

 

[BY Bob]

Haha yes that got pretty far afield! I think some people do crochet hen saddles, aprons, sometimes tutus, bonnets, etc. Sadly there were no pictures of anything with chicken models, only people coverings. I have interesting Hazel pics from the two previous photo shoots so I can pay some tax for them

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It looks like she is wearing Vitalis!

 

[BY Bob]

It is 95 degrees. I came out to replenish ice cubes in the drinking water. Naturally Maggie thinks it is appropriate sunbathing weather.
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That hen must always be cold. Amazing!

 

[RoyalChick]

That hen must always be cold. Amazing!

I wonder if she needs to keep her vitamin D levels up - it is noticeable that both the other two older Princesses have issues with thin eggs and Maggie doesn't - her shells are good and strong. Of course they are different brands too so it may be nothing to do with that but it is striking how obsessed she is with lying in the sun.