Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I know the answer to that! It’s a (Woody Woodpecker)

 

[featherhead007]

I tried

 

[featherhead007]

I tried

I can’t come up with anything funny about a woodpecker. They are an animal, that spends whole life, banging its head against a tree. (Ever wonder if they get headaches?)

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

What a beauty, what sort of woodpecker is that?

I'm not really sure what kind it is. It does not seem big enough to be the red headed woodpeckers we have. This one visits several times a day. It mostly stays on the power pole but when the chickens are not looking the sneaky devil drops down for a few pieces of whole corn.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Ah so not Emus but Polish, definitely a dozen!

No not Emu's sadly. I wish I could have 1 or 2, but I know I do not live in a place that I could have any. I do know of a place a little over a hour away that people visit that have Ostriches and Bison. I have never had a desire to see a Ostrich so never visited. Emu's are definitely a different story. And nope not a dozen Polish, I do not need a dozen. Frankly I do not need a pair of Polish but if things settle down with her and she accepts that she has to stay with us I will find a way to get her a polish hen. Thanks to a phone call from her neighbor she is more determined then ever to go home and I could strangle the man. All she cares about is her garden that was planted the day she had the stroke. Had her convinced that she was unable to take care of it anymore when he called this past Wednesday. He informed her that not only were her peas up, but he'd planted tomatoes, cucumbers and pepper plants for her and wanted to know if she needed anything else planted. We are literally back to square 1 with her again.

 

[bgmathteach]

I'm not really sure what kind it is. It does not seem big enough to be the red headed woodpeckers we have. This one visits several times a day. It mostly stays on the power pole but when the chickens are not looking the sneaky devil drops down for a few pieces of whole corn.
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I think it is a Red Bellied Woodpecker. I love to see woodpeckers, but sometimes they can be annoying and/or damaging. Last year a male pileated woodpecker decided that the speed limit sign across from our driveway was a GREAT drumming post to attract a mate. Started at about 5:15 every morning! Thankfully he hasn't done that this year.

 

[bgmathteach]

Thanks to a phone call from her neighbor she is more determined then ever to go home and I could strangle the man. All she cares about is her garden that was planted the day she had the stroke. Had her convinced that she was unable to take care of it anymore when he called this past Wednesday. He informed her that not only were her peas up, but he'd planted tomatoes, cucumbers and pepper plants for her and wanted to know if she needed anything else planted. We are literally back to square 1 with her again.

 

[bgmathteach]

I have never had a desire to see a Ostrich so never visited. Emu's are definitely a different story.

I thought they were related...are they really all that different? Slightly different size, yadda, yadda, yadda.....but wouldn't have thought so different as to make that big of an impact on you...

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I still might just let them out in it when I am home, so I can keep an eye on things.

Yes, because though it will keep most ground predators out it won't protect against aerial predators at all, and it restricts the chickens' escape in the event. Besides Queenie who was grievously, seriously attacked against the fence (and she got away and tried for the coop but died from injuries on her way there or got jumped again), likely the same hawk came after Butters some days later while I was standing in the doorway supposedly watching, but I had just looked at my phone! I saw the motion peripherally - saw this thing descend on her, and saw her see it at the last second and squirm away out of it's feet. As I ran the hawk jump flew over to her, and she kept going another couple feet and went up against the fence. The hawk saw me and jump flew up to a chair back and paused, considering what an easy catch she would be I think, but then I was ten feet away and it flew off before I could smack it.
@Ponypoor @RoyalChick

 

[BY Bob]

Ok, contacted them and spent a hour messaging back and forth. I found out they will not have hatching eggs available next spring as they are selling out in the fall and moving out of state. I explained my situation, and how I really only wanted 1 hen. We added each other as friends and when he is ready to sell out, and if grandma is still living with us this fall I will purchase 1 hen from him. Things with her now are just too up in the air for me to commit to hatching eggs or even buying a hen now. I will say this, the hens he has in photo's and videos are gorgeous. Blueberries shade of blue with full white crests.

Any chance I could see a picture?