Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Here in the UK and from what I can gather in the US most poultry dusts are DE.
It's not a matter of being harmfull although chickens breathing in DE or any other chemically treated dust can't be good for them.
The problem is, if they have mites and the "average" keeper has noticed this the problem is likely to warant more than a bit of anything.

This is correct. Most "dusts" are DE. If you have a dust with premethrin in it then that might be effective but I'm not down with DE as a killer of parasites. I don't agree with the "science".

 

[BY Bob]

Did they come from the same hatch/clutch?

I think it is safe to say that they come from the same hatch.

 

[BY Bob]

I like some collective naming in addition.
I have ‘The Roadrunners’ (Dotty+Minnie). I can tell them apart but most people can’t and they mostly hang together so I have conversations like “one of the Roadrunners pecked at my ankles” (bound to be Dotty) and “why do the Roadrunners like Kiwi fruit when everyone else turns their beaks up at it” (Lord alone knows).
So I think ‘the Tripping Hazards’ could be a collective name for a sub-group. Could also be a band.

Great band name for sure!

 

[BY Bob]

Two for Tuesday

Sorry everyone I forgot.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Well of all times Butter is just starting her molt, and from the way it looks its going to be a bad one with bald patches. I hate the timing as its already getting cold and it looks like a murder seen with her dropped feathers. Yesterday morning at breakfast time dad thought I would have a chicken missing due to the amount of feathers on the ground. At least with a hard molt it seems to be over with quickly. She is in a perpetual bad mood but instead of not eating she is eating everything in sight so that is a plus.

 

[rural mouse]

Too late for me!
My grandfather spoke I think 7 languages. Towards the end of his life he would start a sentence in one and finish it in another with a couple of random words from a third thrown in for good measure. I was only a kid and I could understand him perfectly. We were very close and would chatter away like that.
Fifty years on I still miss him.

You were exposed to the languages as a kid. You would have an easier time learning one of those languages than someone of comparable age who had never heard the language (or any of those related to it). Studying one of the languages he played with you in would also bring up more memories of your time spent with him. Could be wonderful, could be emotional. Studying Chinese in college brought back vocabulary unrelated to the lesson but related to the words/phrases through my memories in childhood, many unexpected and unanticipated.

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[rural mouse]

Well of all times Butter is just starting her molt, and from the way it looks its going to be a bad one with bald patches. I hate the timing as its already getting cold and it looks like a murder seen with her dropped feathers. Yesterday morning at breakfast time dad thought I would have a chicken missing due to the amount of feathers on the ground. At least with a hard molt it seems to be over with quickly. She is in a perpetual bad mood but instead of not eating she is eating everything in sight so that is a plus.

Is it possible the cold encouraged her to drop/grow them in a hurry? Glad to hear she's eating well and no one's missing!

 

[Blazinga]

That’s actually Tegan and she stands like that a lot. I was concerned for a while but I don’t think it’s a pain posture, she just stands like that. She’s been broody for the last 3-4 weeks and she did see Dr Nikki just before that who gave her a check-up, and she said she seemed fine.

Gosh dangit. I'm sorry.

 

[Blazinga]

I sound like a native (learned as a child) but vocabulary and comprehension are limited due to lack of use. Still, it comes in handy for messing with people and calling the kids (they hear the language and come running even though they don't understand). If I were immersed again, I think it would come back again.

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I've been learning simplified and mandarin for 3 1/2 years. I think our book encourages a Beijing accent.

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[RoyalChick]

Nothing to worry about. I appreciate the language issue.

I will say that Sansa is being a total chicken. She is eating well, scratching hard, running around, chasing the littles, and was feisty as all get out when I was trying to weigh and check her over. She fought hard at one point when I was trying to check her feathers.

That is a very good sign.