Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Anger level 90% !! My roofer has showed up to spot repair the roof leak. But he obviously didn’t consider that I have a nose and can smell alcohol! I sent him home. No one is gonna get hurt on my property. I’m going to need a backup plan for the roofing.
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Inexcusable.

 

[BY Bob]

Such pretty girls. I am smitten with my 5 marshmallows (leghorns). I really love it now that they run around with those tails sticking straight up in the air. Combs are just starting to grow. I hope at least one of them gives me a big floppy comb. Truth be told, I am amazed that they really do not have a comb yet. I thought since they got such a big comb they would have more by now. Nope, first 6 weeks have been spent growing their wings first, and then tails.

Combs are not needed for survival. Wings and tails are.

 

[BY Bob]

I need help with a moral dilemma. Do you feed your chickens, well...chicken? I gave them some rice that had tiny amounts of chicken in it the other day... but it was largely rice. But tonight I cooked a large chicken and there is a significant amount of skin and fat and other waste.

I'm like...we can't put it in with the veggie scraps! My husband, much more practical than I, pointed out that eating your own species is a human taboo and that to animals, meat is meat.

I'm I wrong to be kinda weirded out?

Here's a picture of my sweet little prospective cannibals for moral dilemma tax.View attachment 3426157

Mine do not get chicken but they do get turkey. There has to be a line somewhere.

 

[BY Bob]

Do you feed your chickens eggs? Lots of people do, and for some reason that doesn’t seem to bother them as much as feeding chicken does. But the chickens themselves will happily eat either one, and my understanding is there is no harm in doing so. I have no problem feeding cooked chicken meat to mine.

I am guilty of that. No chicken but eggs are OK. It is just me putting my morals on them. They would gladly eat chicken.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh… the entertainment value of watching your chickens play football/chase with a drumstick is worth it! They love to eat chicken almost as much as every other omnivore out there. Once cooked/processed I have no issues with it anymore, although at first it was a little shocking to me. Even cuter? Let them have a Turkey drumstick… running around like the little velociraptors they are with a giant cousins leg one… adorable. Remember, given half a chance they will happily eat their unborn children as well! Little egg thieves!

Aurora has enjoyed many a turkey leg.

Maybe I can find that video.....

 

[BY Bob]

Aurora has enjoyed many a turkey leg.

Maybe I can find that video.....

Found it!

 

[featherhead007]

Chook for sale cheep! Actually, you can have her free, just get her off my pillow.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I am not going to be able to talk all that much today. I have a horse show on Lenny. Its my first show on him, and the nerves are kicking in. I'm almost at the show grounds, and then I need to get all of the stalls ready. I will get lots of pictures for you all! Wish me luck!!

 

[featherhead007]

Chook for sale cheep! Actually, you can have her free, just get her off my pillow.

Actually, no chance . I love Shenandoah too much to even consider letting her go.
She’s well on her way to being a great armpit warrior. That level of training takes time and patience

 

[RoyalChick]

Chickens in the morning
I have talked (complained) a lot about the Math Majors roosting up in the rafters.
I have not posted as much about them coming down.
Here we have the morning landings. One perfect. One not quite so perfect.