Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

That is true. It's been too long. Lots of dog photos. Where are the chciken pictures @GregnLety

How about a mama and babies

 

[featherhead007]

Listen, Kentucky may get made fun of for having hillbillies or rednecks, but in truth we take things seriously. Those regulations are just for my zoning area. In other area's of the state you can kill does during rifle season. It depends on the populations. If you buy your deer tags you get 2 doe tags and 1 buck tag. In truth several years ago before blue-tounge hit my area not a lot of people killed does and we were horribly over populated. 4 years ago the disease hit and devastated the population. We did not hunt that year, and the following 2 years only saw small spikes and 4 points so we let them walk. 6 years ago though my dad tagged out. We ended up giving one of the tagged does to a family member who was not able to hunt that year due to a accident. One thing about it, if we shoot it, we or someone we know eats it. That even includes the tree rats or squirrels.

The way I read the post ( Kentucky has a youth hunt) why hunt youngsters?
I’m not allowed to even look in the general direction of the criminal society here. And no deer to be hunted within 500 miles

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

The way I read the post ( Kentucky has a youth hunt) why hunt youngsters?
I’m not allowed to even look in the general direction of the criminal society here. And no deer to be hunted within 500 miles

Haha your funny. To clarify for those who need it. Youth hunt is for human children under the age of 15 to hunt deer or turkey. If they are 12-15 they need a youth license to hunt. If they are 11 or under they do not need a license but have to be with a licensed hunter.

 

[RoyalChick]

Here in Kentucky bow season opens up in September. In October there is 1 muzzle loading weekend and a youth hunt weekend. This coming Saturday is the start of the I think 11 day rifle season. When this is over it is back to bow only until the end of December when there is 1 final 2 day muzzle loading weekend and that is it. With a bow, you can harvest either a buck or a doe. The state is zoned out, but in my area in our zone the first muzzle loading season and rifle season it is buck only. The final muzzle loading weekend it is buck or doe. The youth hunt weekend the kids can use a rifle and can kill either bucks or does. If you want to go to jail and loose hunting privileges you will use a pack of dogs to hunt deer. I think that has been illegal in my state since I was born. If we shoot one and can not find it right away which has never happened use a dog to track the blood trail and hopefully find the deer. It has been 4 years since we have killed one. There have been plenty of opportunities but me mom and dad have the same philosophy. If the body is not bigger then our dogs it is a waste. We do not send ours off to a processor, we butcher ourselves and there is a lot of time and work that goes into cleaning the deer. My neighbor has already been over asking if we were going to try this year. She knows if we get one she gets the ribs and neck roast which is her favorite part of the deer.
The chicken I used for tax was a young Squirrel.
Tax again.
Squirrels daughter Karen.
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I don’t think hunting with dogs is allowed here either. We have a gun season and a bow season. The bow season starts a bit earlier and ends a bit later.
I think it is roughly September to early March maybe?
I don’t think there is a tag system for deer but I may be wrong on that. My neighbor hunts and butchers and always gives me some for the freezer.
He used to make this fantastic sausage too but he has stopped doing that because the guy whose spices he liked best has moved away. That is a real shame because it was truly memorable sausage!

Hunting tax - headless Diana. I don’t understand her molt - she seems to be pulling out her feathers. She isn’t eating them, just grooming really vigorously and plucking them out. I hope that means new ones will grow sooner. It is another hot day today but the temps are set to plunge next week.

 

[featherhead007]

Haha your funny. To clarify for those who need it. Youth hunt is for human children under the age of 15 to hunt deer or turkey. If they are 12-15 they need a youth license to hunt. If they are 11 or under they do not need a license but have to be with a licensed hunter.

Thanks. That was quite explanatory! But what about fishing? Same thing with licensing?

 

[Ponypoor]

Little Marty has become my favorite of your flock. She reminds me so much in your stories of my sweet Poppy who I terribly miss. If something ever happens I have dibs on that hen. I read that Mr P is finally been caught servicing the laidies. If you hatch out next spring you have to set a Marty egg or two, or the whole clutch.

When I got Marty she was so shy, bottom of the pecking order, scruffy….

Well she laid an egg almost every day for months before she went broody, then she had that miserable molt and came out looking all cute, and then Mr P showed up.

She made him her man and started her run for power after that! Today though she tried to lord it over Blanche who looked at her as of to say ‘you are messing with fire twit!’. And of course Blanche is also starting to mount so not happy. Anyways I told Marty, careful there sister, there is always a bird bigger than you!

And here they are hanging together!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Thanks. That was quite explanatory! But what about fishing? Same thing with licensing?

You can fish for free until you are 16 then you need one. There is one weekend in the summer for free fishing to try to encourage people to get into the hobby.

 

[featherhead007]

Off topic, and down the rabbit hole tax:

 

[Cheetah Chicks]

It's assuring to see, someone out there also share same idea that our chickens are pet, we dont have them for eggs, especially we have roosters. I even got kicked out by the landlord to have chickens at home, he said to us, to get rid of chickens or leave the property. I said, you are not getting the property without a peck. We didn't leave, despite notice expired. And landlord stopped bothering us, assuming we are group of cockey cockerol . Lol

I feel bad when roosters are given out free, because they crow, despite they are the one with distinct personalities than a hen.

 

[featherhead007]

It's assuring to see, someone out there also share same idea that our chickens are pet, we dont have them for eggs, especially we have roosters. I even got kicked out my the landlord to have chickens at home, he said to us, to get rid of chickens or leave the property, i said, you are not getting the property without a peck.

I feel bad when roosters are given out free, because they crow, despite they are the one with distinct personalities than a hen.

Roos need love too!