Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

2 babies have hatched under Poofy Jr with 5 or 6 more eggs remaining. 6 eggs in the incubator are pipped.

 

[BY Bob]

Freeloaders
I have accepted my lowly place in the pecking order.
I have accepted that I barely get enough eggs for my personal needs.
I have accepted that pecking my legs is regarded as normal behavior.
But I have finally been pushed over the edge. TICKS!
The one safe place on my property should surely be the Chicken Palace compound. But no! I got a tick while sitting inside the Chicken Palace itself.
Do your job ladies or your union demandsView attachment 3087593 will count for nothing!

That is so unacceptable. I would withhold treats until the offending insects are eradicated. No exceptions!

 

[BY Bob]

Um, guinea fowl eat ticks.
We are hired for worms, grubs, and the occasional fly or moth, plus turning the top layer over in your garden to prep it for another growing season...ticks are disgusting and for the lower cast to manage...guinea fowl, we say!

I will find any ticks and my team will eradicate them forthwith!

 

[BY Bob]

2 babies have hatched under Poofy Jr with 5 or 6 more eggs remaining. 6 eggs in the incubator are pipped.

Woohoo.

 

[GregnLety]

I will find any ticks and my team will eradicate them forthwith!

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Very funny and quite the coincidence that I have a dozen guinea eggs ready for the incubator

 

[Ponypoor]

Sorry, but I took that as quite funny.

Yup I can find the humour in it...

All winter he was going on about the Vax, he wasn't worried, he wasn't going to get sick, blah blah blah. Been over 3 weeks now he is sick . My aunt had 2 days of 'minor cold symptoms' .... Poetic justice? Or tempting the Fates ??? I would have kept my head low and mouth shut, I have tempted the Fates before - that is how I ended up falling on ice, out for a run, and dented my sacrum, which now causes me untold problems!

Ever wonder how it never works the other way??? If I said today 'watch now, I'll win the lottery' I just know I won't! BUT if I said 'oh good I made it into the hay loft without imcident' I just bet I will end up with some sort of injury

Bad Kelly, bad bad Kelly! It's like Beetlejuice! I said it too many times now I will end up cracking my head on a beam or something this afternoon while tossing down hay,! Hahaha!

Anyways I told him he got vaxed the hard way .

Speaking of which I seriously need to get my Vet out to get my horses Vax for rabies and West Nile - seems I got my wish and it's mosquito season now ha!

....wonder how much that will cost, I am never gonna afford my new chicken run at this rate!

 

[Ponypoor]

2 babies have hatched under Poofy Jr with 5 or 6 more eggs remaining. 6 eggs in the incubator are pipped.

Can't wait to see pics!!!

 

[Kris5902]

Ya I don't get the rationale regarding not liking the coloured eggs, people really have no idea where their food comes from!

Next it will be only have Hereford cattle for meat

I sometimes write the names of the hens who laid each egg so people have a connection to them.

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Herefords or Angus… to be clear my Lowland rant was specific to this farms goals, climate, and patterns of behaviour, nothing against other breeds. I mean, sheesh, if you want smaller cattle at least get heary coos! I would love to see highlands here… brushing a highland would be so relaxing… scritching between the pointy bits, brushing out the silky long cow fluff… it’s just they did the same thing with the sheep for the same reason the Rams are big and scary, let’s get smaller ones because that will be safer. Ten generations in of selecting for smaller rams “why are our lambs all so small now? They are 10kg lighter… it must be the pastures are all getting ate down by the goats and cows”. Nothing to do with the fact the parents are 1/3 smaller than twenty years ago. Of course like weight loss etc, the changes happen slowly and with animals you’re seeing constantly, so you don’t really notice it. And you only bother to monitor the weight and condition of the animals for slaughter… not the adults kept for breeding. Going to have to get some tax pictures today, aren’t I?

 

[Ponypoor]

Freeloaders
I have accepted my lowly place in the pecking order.
I have accepted that I barely get enough eggs for my personal needs.
I have accepted that pecking my legs is regarded as normal behavior.
But I have finally been pushed over the edge. TICKS!
The one safe place on my property should surely be the Chicken Palace compound. But no! I got a tick while sitting inside the Chicken Palace itself.
Do your job ladies or your union demandsView attachment 3087593 will count for nothing!

You tell em!!!

Meanwhile in the barn there isn't a spider, fly or any other bug on the bottom 2' of the walls hahaha, above that is the spider domain hahaha!

I noted the mosquitoes out now and was wondering if anyone had any issues with West Nile in their poultry?

 

[Ponypoor]

Herefords or Angus… to be clear my Lowland rant was specific to this farms goals, climate, and patterns of behaviour, nothing against other breeds. I mean, sheesh, if you want smaller cattle at least get heary coos! I would love to see highlands here… brushing a highland would be so relaxing… scritching between the pointy bits, brushing out the silky long cow fluff… it’s just they did the same thing with the sheep for the same reason the Rams are big and scary, let’s get smaller ones because that will be safer. Ten generations in of selecting for smaller rams “why are our lambs all so small now? They are 10kg lighter… it must be the pastures are all getting are down by the goats and cows”. Nothing to do with the fact the parents are 1/3 smaller than twenty years ago. Of course like weight loss etc, the changes happen slowly and with animals you’re seeing constantly, so you don’t really notice it. And you only bother to monitor the weight and condition of the animals for slaughter… not the adults kept for breeding. Going to have to get some tax pictures today, aren’t I?

So true on selective breeding

I for one am glad for the mixed coloured eggs I get,!!!