Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

I have to watch, my crazy dogs like and will eat the chickens’ food.

Mine will even eat their poop

 

[Marie2020]

Okay, here's one I found first - March 2018 at a ski area in the Catskills. It was sunny and cold, about 30-32F, I'm with one of the bands I play in. We were in the sun against a brick wall for a wind block, so it was above freezing for us. The drummer took the picture - he had recently given me his daughter's cast-off boots, thus the pose for him to show her. They were nice and warm! View attachment 2820177

I would love to hear you play that guitar

 

[Shadrach]

Ruby Check-in

It’s not really an update, as we are pretty status quo. Here is a long (4-minute) video of Ruby getting herself up onto the shelf followed by her jumping up to a roost.

 

[Marie2020]

Possibly. Probably a lot of the great masters were on the spectrum and were undiagnosed because it wasn’t a thing back then!

What I find amazing is the things people can find out centuries later. It’s been documented that (I think) Richard III was apparently ‘possessed’. Then archeologists dug up his skeleton and between that and the writing, they determined he’d suffered a stroke.

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I think I read that he had severe scoliosis.

How on earth can they figure out a stroke after so long

 

[Marie2020]

I’m so worried about my eggs since I’m a begginer it would be the best if someone experienced could help through all my brooder problems and solutions

I hope you find your answer soon and get back to us with all you have discovered.

This is why I love BYC there is so much in the way of guidance.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Leaping Walnuts!

I feel like today requires a slow motion video. Thanks Aurora. One take only. I love how she lines up her leap.

Yes, Aurora lines up the grab so her beak's in the plane as the edge of the walnut closest to her. Very cool!

 

[Shadrach]

I cheated and Googled it! I know I am severely under-read when it comes to Lewis Carrol. Truth is, I was introduced to Roal Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - by a librarian story-telling session in early elementary school, and I was too young, or too trusting and naive, or something, and was actually rather traumatized by it. After some kids drowned in liquid chocolate I remember suddenly focusing on the rug weave, and the book spines on the shelves near me instead. I couldn't tell you what happens after that, or how it ends, probably badly.

Here was this kindly school librarian, smiling and telling this most gruesome story, in a talking-to-little-kids sing-song voice that I remember to this day. I was afraid of her after that. In a way, that experience was a double-helping of the same dark humor! So, later on when I encountered Lewis Carrol and Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, I smelled another rat. It's only through repeated exposure in adulthood do I have any clue about it. I've always loved the Jabberwocky poem though.

I felt much the same when I got taken to see 101 Dalmations.

 

[MaryJanet]

Leaping Walnuts!

I feel like today requires a slow motion video. Thanks Aurora. One take only. I love how she lines up her leap.

It's been a long time since you've shared a slow mo video but what a great way to get into it again!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I've been Keeping Something from You All

Please forgive us but @RoyalChick and I have plotting behind everyone's back. The breeder where she got the roadrunners has Polish as well. She has obtained 2 Candy Corn Polish for me. Here is what they look like fully grown.

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@RoyalChick has picked them up and she is driving to meet me half way so we can exchange these little darlings.

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I will explain more and update everyone on our adventure once I get them home.
I'm so excited.

Ah you sneaky peeps! I had thought @RoyalChick would have a possibility. Someone had made a comment...
Is Phyllis still broody, so will you introduce them at night, or are you going to semi-integrate them to start, and care for them yourself while they're so little? Either way, yes, pretty exciting!

 

[MaryJanet]

Really? I didn't know that.
I believe he was very socially awkward. I wonder if he was on the autism spectrum?

I just assumed he was very imaginative and creative. I've been reading up on Oxford lately (he lived there for a while) and it seems to me he may have been intrigued and inspired by many of its charms, eg the 'underground' river Trill Mill Stream (it was culverted before his time).