Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I bet Brad would eat tomato worms!

Macho macho man

 

[Ponypoor]

I bet Brad would eat tomato worms!

Gosh I would love to see a chicken eat one of those great big juicy succulent gigantic caterpillars !!!! Gosh I bet they would be a real treat I should check around and see if I can find any. Oh I can picture it now

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Gosh I would love to see a chicken eat one of those great big juicy succulent gigantic caterpillars !!!! Gosh I bet they would be a real treat I should check around and see if I can find any. Oh I can picture it now

I can vouch that our tomatoes are worm free. They are inspected several times each day for worms. I can also inform you all that without thinking mom taught them a very bad habit. She had a tomato turning that had a rotten spot on it. What does she do? Picks it and then squats down and feeds it out of her hand to the chickens. She realized her mistake after they had eaten half of it. Yup, low hanging tomatoes that are now in the chickens reach, once they start turning they start eating them. Thankfully the ones out of their reach are spared. She also is not getting mad at the chickens for it, she admits daily she messed up and she cannot yell at them.

 

[Ponypoor]

I never said anything about wanting Karen. You can sneak Stanley. Ooh, better yet, swipe Karen and Stanley's daughter Janet.

Shhhh! Spoiler alert! I haven’t seen all the videos yet

 

[Ponypoor]

I can vouch that our tomatoes are worm free. They are inspected several times each day for worms. I can also inform you all that without thinking mom taught them a very bad habit. She had a tomato turning that had a rotten spot on it. What does she do? Picks it and then squats down and feeds it out of her hand to the chickens. She realized her mistake after they had eaten half of it. Yup, low hanging tomatoes that are now in the chickens reach, once they start turning they start eating them. Thankfully the ones out of their reach are spared. She also is not getting mad at the chickens for it, she admits daily she messed up and she cannot yell at them.

Next year I think I will again do my garden at the barn, pole beans and tomatoes. Maybe some hanging baskets.

I will use screen mesh to keep them away from the beans and fence in the tomatoes. I used to always run pole beans along the west side of the barn, kept the wall cool

 

[rural mouse]

I never said anything about wanting Karen. You can sneak Stanley. Ooh, better yet, swipe Karen and Stanley's daughter Janet.

Saw one video....she said Janet is growing to act just like her mother. She wishes she'd act like Stanley, but.....

 

[BY Bob]

One of the nieces and her husband have been living here while house hunting. The house hunt just got put on hold for the immediate future. They're staying so he isn't there by himself. Not easy for them either, but together some comfort. They're looking at grandma's garden and her bee hives and attempting to keep them going. Help from the rest of us is readily available too. I'm thankful my FIL won't be out there by himself this winter. Come spring, re-evaluating everything will be possible. Meanwhile, cry, laugh, reminisce, go through 1 day at a time.

This seems like a solid plan. One day at a time.

 

[BY Bob]

For those of you with facebook here is a video for you all. I know it should not, but this video makes me smile. There are some days where I think everybody wants to "be like Brad." It helps that the little sh!t is a silkie.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2305119403016453

That brad is a real jerk.

 

[BY Bob]

Did I ever tell you the story of one of my BR girls?

The chooks were free ranging, and I went inside for a minute, then came back out. One of my BRs jumped up on the step railing to say 'hi' (really, to see if I had any treats). Of course, I loved the fact that she 'came to say hello', and gave her a mealworm (just one). Well every time after that, if she was out and saw me, she would hop up on the railing and give me a little squawk - and I would talk to her and give her a mealworm.

Well, one time I was in a rush to an appointment (hubby was home), came running out the door - she saw me and ran & flew up on the railing - I breezed right by. She turned around and Squawked at the top of her lungs - yelling at me!!!
Hubby just grinned and said 'Hmmm, who has who trained????"

Um, yes, dear, they are pretty good at training me!


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Chicken gossip corner. They are plotting to extort more treats from me.

(P.S. Do you like my 4 legged, headless hen? Pretty special, huh! - one of these days I will get better at picture taking!

Sansa and I had that relationship. With her it was walnuts. Once the Sansa walnuts were used up I don't think I ever got any more.

 

[BY Bob]

What’s with Brad? What’s with her bandaged leg? What a Brat

Probably bandaged from Brad attacking her so much.