Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

This song survives multiple listenings, thank you! I also played along with it. I find myself thinking about how one might extend it for dancers if so inclined while playing it out. Good song!

It's actually a great song, (and a nightmare to others) but that's the proof of a great artist, brings peoples emotions out in the open! that,.... I solute Lozzy for!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Hazel, We all love you anyways (What's a few feathers among friends)?

Hazel is actually a complicated case, because she has become quite timid over food. She hangs back when I'm giving treats out. She doesn't like the pandemonium? I put out two plates of mash calcium yogurt balls. They all get some, two share a plate, and sometimes switch plates, everybody gets some, no pandemonium. Then they walk away. There's some left that they usually go back to every now and then and later. Just today Butters shouldered Hazel away from the last remaining mash balls.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I called my veterinarian, and she will see Xzit at noon tomorrow. The injury is worse than I thought. I cleaned out the wound, and wrapped it up with sterile cotton gauze. The vet is 2 hours away by car. She will be spending the night with me in the house (in the Animal carriage)

It's good you caught it early, the cleaner the wound is I would expect the less painful it is too. I know you'll update us tomorrow, thanks!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

It's alright, Carolyn died in a plane crash instantly, while coming to see me from Quebec. She was in school in Canada at the time. I met her in DC. yes it was love back then.

So sorry, Alex.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

It wasn't a SHRA problem it was a 'what day is it where' problem. I get confused because it is always the next day in Australia so when you said tomorrow I thought that was now.
I will just let myself out.

Well there's an SHRA excuse I hadn't thought of.

 

[featherhead007]

Hazel is actually a complicated case, because she has become quite timid over food. She hangs back when I'm giving treats out. She doesn't like the pandemonium? I put out two plates of mash calcium yogurt balls. They all get some, two share a plate, and sometimes switch plates, everybody gets some, no pandemonium. Then they walk away. There's some left that they usually go back to every now and then and later. Just today Butters shouldered Hazel away from the last remaining mash balls.

That’s why, I normally feed all my chooks by hand, and still leave feed out. Nobody starves here at my place (except me sometimes) I have 12 spoiled feathered brats on my hands! Not to mention, the town is full of brats (Human) that I babysit all the time! They have never given me the “key to the City” but I was lucky enough to get the bathroom key!

 

[featherhead007]

Well there's an SHRA excuse I hadn't thought of.

Then think again!

 

[featherhead007]

I brought Emily in, to keep Xzit company tonight. Emily is my gentlest hen. (Buff Orpington) mutt! And Jaffar’s “main squeeze” but hey, I’m still top rooster here, and the chooks know it!

 

[micstrachan]

@micstrachan's post made me recall this story. I'm thinking about run shapes, escape routes and sight blocks.

Hazel chased Popcorn around the breakfast log in the greenhouse run a few days ago. At least that's when I became aware of a chase. The chair/log/chair setup was closer to the right side then. I've since moved it for better use of the legs as barriers, and I thought it safer, away from the aviary netting (which is semi-tight) in case a hawk attacks through it (there was one lurking just yesterday while I was out with them). She ran around the breakfast log, then got away into the wired run.
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Popcorn turned right and went to the right corner, essentially hiding behind the feeder rain blocks.
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Hazel, though she couldn't see her, had seen her go that way. Apparently feeling rather determined, she slowly walked to the wired run, and then zoomed around the corner as soon as she spotted Popcorn. They both took off.
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Popcorn ran further up, now into the coop run and then under the coop, Hazel hot on her heels. She was near the end of the run - she ran out of runway, eh @featherhead007? - so she turned and dodged Hazel by using the ladder as a block and ran back past her on the other side of it. She kept going, cause Hazel gave chase back down the run.
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They ran clear through the wired run back into the greenhouse run. Popcorn then jump-flew up onto the raised log and jumped to the higher chair arm.
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Hazel stopped and didn't go up after her so it ended there. She's never been keen on jump-flying up to things if she doesn't have to, and that is one of Popcorn's (and Butter's) strengths.

Popcorn with a dandelion leaf in her mouth. A late Monday Mug! She has the pinkest comb and lobes of the group right now.
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Hazel's back feathers have a bunch of lighter ones splashed on there these days. Hazel: "Who, me?"
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Hazel: "And don't look at my tail, I know there's only a few feathers back there right now! Here, look at all these other great feathers!"
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Fantastic post and what a chase!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I brought Emily in, to keep Xzit company tonight. Emily is my gentlest hen. (Buff Orpington) mutt! And Jaffar’s “main squeeze” but hey, I’m still top rooster here, and the chooks know it!

Good thinking, she won't be lonely tonight! Will she accompany Xzit to the vet too?
I don't remember Emily is a Buff Orpington. Can you post a picture of her when you get a chance, please? Thanks!