Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ManueB]

Terrible people. I taught my girls that a vehicle was a weapon when they were learning to drive. To ruin so many lives so callously.

It really angers me. Sorry everyone.

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I always had this thought that in the US you have weapons, but here we have cars.
I hate cars, I don't drive, and in the south of France I feel like cars do some kind of bad magic to 75% of people -when they step into the driver's seat they suddenly become their evil self that no one ever sees other wise. They feel allowed to do things that in no other circumstances they would ever, ever do. Many people claim they feel like their car is their space of freedom, I find this so sad and even more sad to see what they make of it.

Tax from June 2020, the girls were still establishing pecking order.

 

[featherhead007]

I’m trying to keep up with BYC, my mind is on seeing my chooks tomorrow, though I’m going to miss my sister very much, as I head home tomorrow. Parting is always hard to do, when I’m visiting my family.

 

[Kris5902]

Almost 20 pages of catch-up after only two days? thanks Rogers random network issues and work at the market… ho can I keep up with this crazy paced thread?

 

[micstrachan]

Just because she's lovely
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Awww… sweet, lovely girl!

 

[Kris5902]

It's too hot for mine to only have layers mash or ferment . flexi would die if I don't offer anything else. I'm hand feeding her layers wet .

When it gets really hot here (32-38 celcuis considering our usual climate yes, that’s hot here @GregnLety , Don’t laugh!) I will give frozen corn, veg, watermelons etc in moderation as treats. In addition to ample fresh clear water, and just their regular layer Pellets and a bit of scratch. Maybe 1/2 to 3/4 a watermelon between 130+ birds to give an idea of the ratios of fruits to commercial rations.

 

[Kris5902]

Marie! You are nearby! All you have to do is say hi in a msg (now granted I might be working or some other useless thing and can't answer right away...) - it's the 21century everyone is close by now

If anyone is wondering… this is classic Newfie culture here… in addition to @Ponypoor just being an awesome person! It’s a thing. Don’t show up within two hours either side of supper or you WILL be fed lime it or not and it might include salted fish and pork fat, if you need a hand or a kick in the arse…they will be there for you! Lol, but yes that why we are here, and a huge thank you to everyone for being such a wonderful bunch of friends here and having such a lovely supportive community. Everyone here is such a blessing to know.

 

[micstrachan]

Oh my gosh! That is a little scary! I would have done the same but I hate doing something like that as well. Any other snake I would have let go.

Same, Bob! This is the only venomous snake we have here, so I would have let anything else go. We have gopher snakes with similar coloring, but the don’t have gge skinny neck, triangle head or (obviously) a rattle. The tiny little snakes are chicken snacks. Maybe I can find a video of one of my chicken swallowing one.

 

[micstrachan]

I would give all i had to be nearby you. You are soo uplifting ❤

She really is, isn’t she? A real gem.

 

[micstrachan]

Twiggy and George are 6 weeks old today. I brought Twiggy in to get some pictures.
Rosie claims that when Twig stands upright she/he looks like a emu. Twig also has one stray feather coming in that is giving off the impression of a tiny mowhawk.
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OMG, that’s funny. She actually does look like a miniature emu.

 

[Kris5902]

As I typed that I chuckled because half the country here is without internet, and yesterday my land line went down so I am waiting for Bell Canada phone line tech to come out and check the line to my house. Seems the line is broken somewhere, likely darn squirrels chewed them!

So today I am quite thankful I am with Bell Cellulose (and not Rogers haha), otherwise I would have no phone and no internet!!

What would I do then?!!

Haha yep play with the ponies and chickies
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Answer to what would you do. Spend 10am-1pm wondering why the phone is STILL not working. Consider checking a radio in the car to see if SHTF and it’s the end of the world. Muddle in confusion for a few hours until DH arrives and says that according to the store there’s a massive cell outage. Spend the rest of the day confuse and lost without your phone and trying to remember the 80’s and 90’s score you were so attached to a random gadget and the net. Work on various projects while forlornly checking the phone every few hours and feeling so alone and disconnected from the world, while simultaneously trying to convince yourself all those doomsday prepped folks are wrong, without the comfort of the WWW at your fingertips 24/7.

I think imma gunna owe some taxes on that one, eh?