Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

My New Favorite TV Commercial

Makes me feel claustrophobic

 

[TX Chick Noob]

@TX Chick Noob :

If they don't take to the xylophone right away, mix a bit of scratch feed with a bit of peanut butter and smear on the keys - that gets them interested right quick!

Thanks for the tip. I have seen a few of them pecking at it, or at the calcium disk and bell on the bottom. There are also a few playing with the mirror on occasion. One of them grabbed a bell that is dangling from it. When she couldn’t get it to pull loose and let go it scared the crap out of her when to started spinning and jingling.

BUT the farmers seem to have a hate on for the Turkey Vultures thinking they kill calves and lambs (sometimes stupid people really irritate me! vultures clean up carrion!).

Actually, this isn’t entirely true. The Black Vulture will eat live animals as well as carrion, and do attack newborn calves. So it is possible the farmers there have heard about vultures eating calves and lambs, and don’t realize it is only Black Vultures that do this.

The only reason I knew this is because there is a breeding pair that lays in an old culvert on our property, so I was curious and researched them.

 

[BY Bob]

Well he is quite a looker. A lot seem to be bantams. This one is regular size.

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My Rooster Cogburn was a game rooster. I had him when I was a wee lad. He tortured my youngest brother. Chased him all over the yard. Other than that he was a great rooster.

Sadly, I have no photos of him though. No one ever took any. This is the only surviving photo of my chickens from back then. This is me with Speck and Brownie.

 

[BY Bob]

Makes me feel claustrophobic

Imagine living your entire life like that. Poor things. So cruel.

 

[BY Bob]

The first picture is wall worthy!

It was marvelous. I loved it when I took it. They passed for me!

 

[Ponypoor]

I don’t have any cute baby chicks!
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But you have rockettes

 

[BY Bob]

You are probably closer to a real number than me, lol. I was going to guess 20.

Those numbers are just staggering to me.

 

[Ponypoor]

I don’t have any cute baby chicks!
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…and is that the barred rock tabbidy kitty I see for a Caturday entrant also

 

[BY Bob]

I love it, Bob!!!

If you go to their website and scan the carton of their eggs you bought it will tell you what farm they came from. It's a new way of being in touch with where your food comes from. I'm going to investigate them more.

 

[Ponypoor]

Nothing to do with the quarter. Personnel issues.

Tax
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Oh dear hardest sort dealing with people.

Ooo-la-la look at that walk! Now that is a strut!

How about this strut, reminds me of one of those dinosaurs on Jurassic park!