Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

I forgot to mention one of the bigger things going on lately. A couple weeks ago, a friend asked me what I thought about the recent bill that they are trying to pass (Senate Bill 2195). I was very confused because I wasn’t familiar with this bill. When I looked into it, I saw that they are trying to pass a bill in Hawaii to eradicate feral chickens throughout the state of Hawaii for those of you who know me, you know that all the chickens I write about are all feral chickens. That is Kauai and the rest of the Hawaiian islands are known for

Gasp! This is horrific! Why???

 

[micstrachan]

They are claiming that roosters are a noise nuisance They are also saying that feral chickens are harmful (spread disease) to the native Hawaiian birds, but in reality it’s feral & domestic cats that are the biggest threats to the native Hawaiian birds. One thing the bill as noted is that the feral chickens are a road hazard

I don’t know if it’ll pass. I do know that the Red Jungle Fowl is protected in Hawaii. A lot of the feral chickens are descendents of the Red Jungle Fowl.

If this bill passes it’ll be in effect starting July 1st. It’ll be a 5 year pilot program in Oahu and will spread to the other counties.

Heartbreaking. I hope it does not pass. Does @Shadrach know about this? I think he’ll be horrified. As an American, I’m embarrassed by it!

 

[micstrachan]

Thirsty Thursday

As there is no way to catch up before i post this. Before the day ends I give you late night sips from Hattie.

Absolutely heart melting.

 

[Ponypoor]

Heartbreaking. I hope it does not pass. Does @Shadrach know about this? I think he’ll be horrified. As an American, I’m embarrassed by it!

I would have thought feral pigs and goats a more huge issue for Hawai'i, maybe they should get rid of them instead.

 

[Ponypoor]

FBF
Buttercup has a lovely derriere

And Penelope sashaying around Mount Poopmore

 

[Ponypoor]

Welcome… and yes keeping up here is a little challenging, but everyone is quite kind, and understanding when you miss a few days, or months. A few brave souls even try to keep up and catch up from the beginning! Lol I would be totally overwhelmed if I tried that…

I love the multi cultural thing we have going on here, it’s always so interesting to see the differences in chikenfolks in different places, and I have learned so much… especially from @Shadrach who was in the most similar to me situation…

The nice thing about that, and all the Aussies here is that when I finally finish up my evening chores and get online again… there’s sometimes even people still awake on here! I’m on the west coast of Canada, so I wake up to a bunch of Eastern morning chat, and many people are already asleep by the time I pop back in in the evening! I try to pop in about three times a day, but sometimes life gets in the way of chicken gossip!

Good morning Kris

I slept last night! Finally! I checked chickies at 3am and fell back to sleep. Everyone is still jockeying around for position on roosts now that the Roos are gone - I just checked now and some repositioning since 3 am.

Ok everyone have a great day, time for chores and get my butt off to work

 

[BY Bob]

Is Lily an amercuana? She's stunning

Lilly's heritage has been bandied about but I beleive she is a Black Copper Maran. She has been given honorary status a such by @RebeccaBoyd or resident Maran expert.

I will never really know as I rescued her.

Thanks for asking.

 

[BY Bob]

@BY Bob : I'm surprised to see her without a pipe today, given she is a smoker and all

(P.S. I have to say, this particular picture/angle/pose makes her look like she is broody!)

I thought broody when I took it. Hattie has never been broody though.

 

[BY Bob]

Has more of a butter taste. I kinda like it.

There you go.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You don't like light colored chickens! Let me make certain I have this right. Single combed light colored hens are not preferred.

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Right?

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If I had set out to get EE, I would love one like Aurora. The bin my 3 came out of had 2 breeds in it. 1 was the bearded americaunas, and the other was the supposed to be Cinnamon Queens. I actually tried to talk her into one of the bearded chicks because they were so cute. It did not work. My problem is, if I were to continue to try and pass them off as Cinnamon Queens, how can I do that with a light chicken? Another reason I'm hoping they are a red color is mom was hoping for chickens the color of her boys Louis and Russ. Red and orange is her favorite color in animals. We have a golden retriever, 2 red horses and a orange cat. I've been nagged at why didn't we have red/orange chickens.