Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Migraine - and it's all some idiots fault... Safety Chat tomorrow will be:

Running one's diesel truck OUTSIDE SOMEONES WELL-SITE.

My whole wellsite stinks to high heaven of diesel fumes, and my clothes reek, my head is reeling, I can't open any windows because there is a cloud of diesel hanging in the air (no wind of course) from buddy running his truck for 30 minutes.

A hex be upon you Human, I put a pox on you ! In the Chicken World I peck your Eye out!

Chicken World Tax:
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And to top it all off I went to go into the main camp and as I was walking outside I initially thought ‘oh there’s a skunk’ - followed by idiot there are no skunks up here!

Seems someone is playing with fire smoking pot outside my well site!

Chicken Pox Tax
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There need to be consequences and an apology. Ridiculously inconsiderate.

 

[BY Bob]

It is always a battle between being reasonable with costs and providing them all the amenities. I can’t believe that initially very early on in this endeavor I thought I would possibly save money on eggs, ha! Nope it is truly a labor of love.

Welcome to the club.

Chickens are a money pit.

 

[BY Bob]

I was 10, she was 12. I was minding my business when she started messing with me. Once I did it I knew dad would beat me so I popped her in the other cheek and went in the house and waited for dad to get home. Dad took my red rider and beat my butt but I smiled the whole time. View attachment 3343628childhood memory tax

You sound like my youngest daughter. There were many times I saw her calculating what the punishment would be before she went ahead and did something bad. She was willing to do the time if she did the crime.

She is now an Assistant Attorney General,

Bad Child tax

 

[BY Bob]

Woo hoo - @BY Bob - you and I both won a picture competition! It looks like anyone who entered was a winner, but still cool.
The reason I am posting here is because I don't think we have seen the picture of Éowyn here and it is a great one!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/official-byc-mini-contest—pets-with-paws-photo-contest.1553667/post-26370137

Woohoo! Congratulations! Your photo was really cool. Such a regal kitty.

Here is the winning photo!

 

[BY Bob]

Yes, but I have a system with Popcorn when I'm offering things by hand. Not much actual pecks happen here, it's more vocal warnings she heeds. When she gets driven off I'll switch it up and offer it away from where the others are occupied, often out of sight, like under my chair on the other side of my legs or body. I call Popcorn in a certain voice and she knows to come around and look for my "secret" hand. She gets several good seconds of private gluttony this way before the others discover her.

Not so much pecking there, but with roosting tonight she got some strong ones. She went into the coop early (why, when this never ends well?), while Hazel followed to the ladder and monitored her disapprovingly but did nothing at first. I was sitting at the entrance to the Little Run and turned on the coop cam. Popcorn settled down right in the middle of the heating pad, lengthwise. She looked happy. Yay, what a treat! Then Hazel went up in and drove her back out.

Popcorn managed to get back up on the perch near the door to the coop to wait her turn, but Butters eventually pushed her off of that too, like she thought Popcorn was cramping her ladder climbing style. She had to wait at the bottom until everybody was in - Peanut, Hazel, then Butters - and then had to run the gauntlet of some strong Hazel pecks, because Hazel had manned the area just inside the coop door on the right. Popcorn gamely ran by her along the left wall, yelping from the pecks, but once past Hazel she was okay, and nobody bothered her further, at least then.

The Way Of The Chicken is not an easy one, for some chickens!

Peanut's floof does have some single strands coming out. I can't see them well enough yet (close enough yet) to see if they branch near the tips like filoplumes. She kept moving everytime I tried to get a shot.
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She is looking better. Won't be long now until she is covered again.

The way of the chicken is not easy but it works for them somehow.

 

[BY Bob]

OMG - I think I need a drink too!

They take years off your life without even getting into trouble!

 

[Ponypoor]

I was 10, she was 12. I was minding my business when she started messing with me. Once I did it I knew dad would beat me so I popped her in the other cheek and went in the house and waited for dad to get home. Dad took my red rider and beat my butt but I smiled the whole time. View attachment 3343628childhood memory tax

Naughty boy !

 

[Ponypoor]

I got a silky named Silky and a black rooster named Blackie. A gigantic naked neck named Big Boy and my youngest daughter is Kathleen, no middle name. Never seek naming advice from me

Hahahahaha

Ya had a black cat named Blackie

 

[Ponypoor]

Woo hoo - @BY Bob - you and I both won a picture competition! It looks like anyone who entered was a winner, but still cool.
The reason I am posting here is because I don't think we have seen the picture of Éowyn here and it is a great one!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/official-byc-mini-contest—pets-with-paws-photo-contest.1553667/post-26370137

That’s an awesome photo!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, but I have a system with Popcorn when I'm offering things by hand. Not much actual pecks happen here, it's more vocal warnings she heeds. When she gets driven off I'll switch it up and offer it away from where the others are occupied, often out of sight, like under my chair on the other side of my legs or body. I call Popcorn in a certain voice and she knows to come around and look for my "secret" hand. She gets several good seconds of private gluttony this way before the others discover her.

Not so much pecking there, but with roosting tonight she got some strong ones. She went into the coop early (why, when this never ends well?), while Hazel followed to the ladder and monitored her disapprovingly but did nothing at first. I was sitting at the entrance to the Little Run and turned on the coop cam. Popcorn settled down right in the middle of the heating pad, lengthwise. She looked happy. Yay, what a treat! Then Hazel went up in and drove her back out.

Popcorn managed to get back up on the perch near the door to the coop to wait her turn, but Butters eventually pushed her off of that too, like she thought Popcorn was cramping her ladder climbing style. She had to wait at the bottom until everybody was in - Peanut, Hazel, then Butters - and then had to run the gauntlet of some strong Hazel pecks, because Hazel had manned the area just inside the coop door on the right. Popcorn gamely ran by her along the left wall, yelping from the pecks, but once past Hazel she was okay, and nobody bothered her further, at least then.

The Way Of The Chicken is not an easy one, for some chickens!

Peanut's floof does have some single strands coming out. I can't see them well enough yet (close enough yet) to see if they branch near the tips like filoplumes. She kept moving everytime I tried to get a shot.
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Wow the drama is crazy!