Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Tax, tax, and more tax:

 

[featherhead007]

Tax:

 

[RoyalChick]

You can eat poke when it's still green, we did every spring in Kentucky. Once it changed color we let it be. When it's green the leaves are very similar to mustard greens.

Just the new leaves right? Not the berries.

 

[LozzyR]

as @LozzyR would say: she has a crop boob!

Food boob but yes, she was definitely sporting one. Snowy’s the same, she’s a massive guts!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You can eat poke when it's still green, we did every spring in Kentucky. Once it changed color we let it be. When it's green the leaves are very similar to mustard greens.

And while young you can take the stalks and fry them like fried okra. I think it actually tastes better then okra and I love fried okra. Ok, hillbilly Kentucky roots showing here.

 

[Ponypoor]

Raw throat - not menthol, you want phenol for numbing action, it's an oral pain reliever - the stuff in chloraseptic spray....

Have that, did a spray Thursday night and hit the wrong spot in my throat, and kicked of the gag reflex, and more vomiting… ugh! Next time I will spray some in a cup and take it that way.

Also have a prescription gargle, Benzydamine Hydrochloride which I have been using. And I think it was RC who suggested aspirin dissolved in water gargle which I also did.

The nicest thing ? Cold jello, slowly swallow and it adheres to the back of your throat and slowly slides offering a lovely cool soothing effect til you have to finish swallowing ha!

My biggest upset right now are my barn cams being down. I really really miss seeing my fur and feathered babies my mum bless her has done chores for me yesterday and the day before. I went out yesterday afternoon but I got so nauseous and dizzy, I stepped on poor Penelope’s foot, I was really afraid I would hurt one of them. I they crowd around your feet begging for treats, wanting attention….. Mum yelled at me told me she was quite capable of feeding chickens

And don’t get started with the horses! When we let them in Truly ran in and just about knocked me over. More being yelled at….

I hope today I can haule the transmitter and receiver down and get them paired up. All assuming I can stand upright! Maybe do that when mum isn’t looking!

Meanwhile I have been enjoying everyone’s photos and stories, thanks all for sharing. Esp the baby pics

 

[Ponypoor]

And while young you can take the stalks and fry them like fried okra. I think it actually tastes better then okra and I love fried okra. Ok, hillbilly Kentucky roots showing here.

Ohhh food sounds wonderful. I love spinach, fried with onions Ok that’s Newfoundland roots

You know my chickies like spinach, Brussels sprouts etc, but absolutely will not touch broccoli, cooked raw mixed with stuf…. Won’t even touch it. Is there something about it which is poisonous to them?

 

[Ponypoor]

What kills some people and animals is not necessarily bad for chickens, a fact which is astounding to me.
I looked up this plant just the other day while on a bike ride, used Google Lens on my phone. It is White Baneberry ("Dolls Eyes"), in the Buttercup family. Apparently it's really deadly to humans, BUT NOT AT ALL to birds, which are the main vector for helping to spread it.
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Oh yea we have that here I never knew what it was! Ok good to know!

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm not convinced this is correct, but this is what came up in a quick search.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ses...9i57j69i60.1311j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Lulu is lovely!! Just don't tell her, is might start running around like the town crier telling everyone I said so.

I must check my place for this…

 

[Ponypoor]

I have some poisonous herbs on hand in case I need them

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Babies so cute, need babies here