Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I have my gang left over turkey from our thanksgiving the other day

My mum didn’t want to give it to them but I grabbed the left overs and threw it into them. Hahaha. And you know I have tossed them roast chicken mash potatoes and gravy which they loved!

One thing through, I never give bones (esp cooked ones) to the critters- they splinter too easily and can get lodged where they shouldn’t.

EDIT - I see that you said the Jones were boiled to the point of being gelatinous, which would be fine - a wonderful treat

Bones

 

[featherhead007]

I don’t have an issue with left over scraps, but really roast chicken rarely last here! If mum cooks one for company we send left overs home with them.

For me, I don’t like to throw out any good and high protein of any sort is good for them, in Newfoundland in my gramma and mums time chickens where given everything, meat, fish, ‘vegibles’, bread there where no feed mills.

My brat son once told me that “if those other countries don’t have any broccoli to eat, then send them mine !”

 

[featherhead007]

I do not. However, it is for an entirely different reason: I do not buy store chicken. All of the chicken I eat are mine ('extra' roosters and older hens) I feel it would be wrong to feed them their friends. Besides, I eat all of what I make/cook, even making broth and/or chicken soup with the remains...so there would be little if anything nutritious left. Plus, cooked chicken bones is a bad combination with a dog. He (Elroy) does peruse the chicken run on occasion - especially in the evening - we put him on rat duty! And, he is good around the chickens - though it is still only when we are out and around that he gets to be in the chicken run!

That said, I think no less of you for doing so - nor should you think less of yourself. You and @BY Bob can choose to do what you feel is right (just as I do for myself), and no one should judge, since neither of you are neglecting nor harming your feathered friends. So, the real question is: can you live with what you have done? If so, fine - drop it. If not, okay, don't beat yourself up - what is done is done, so, drop it! (See: all is okay! Let it pass from your mind either way!)

Wouldn’t a glass of wine be easier?

 

[featherhead007]

No, as much as you don't love the thought of a fox eating a chicken, you also don't want them to be 'stabbed' in the intestinal track by a splintered bone. Though boiling the carcass may someone ameliorate that... roasting dries out the bones and makes them more prone to splintering - particularly since they are hollow (unlike mammalian bones of, say, a cow)

Being Mammalian myself, my bones have never shattered (yet) and I don’t want to tempt fate! I’m careful like that!

 

[Ponypoor]

No more stupid than a cat getting stuck in a tin can! (Just saying)

At least it wasn’t a skunk, the police here rescued a skunk

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/barrie/2019/10/3/1_4622468.html

And the tax owing

Eli-too - 23 weeks

Muffy - 23 weeks

Marty - wish she would moult and replace all those broken feathers.

 

[featherhead007]

At least it wasn’t a skunk, the police here rescued a skunk

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/barrie/2019/10/3/1_4622468.html

And the tax owing

Eli-too - 23 weeks
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Muffy - 23 weeks
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Marty - wish she would moult and replace all those broken feathers.
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I can’t get over Muffy’s eyebrows!

 

[featherhead007]

At least the skunk was stuck in a jar and could see through it.

 

[Ponypoor]

At least the skunk was stuck in a jar and could see through it.

I think it was a plastic cup, I always flatten my cups and such and remove the lids. Cans are recycled here so less a problem.

Tax

Guess who is finally off the nest box! And no egg of course.

 

[RoyalChick]

Taxes owing

This is we’re everyone is today, they have no interest in going outside and why should they? It’s miserable out there, windy drizzly dreary.

Meanwhile I clobbered myself fixing up the run, squashed my fingers, dropped a panel on my toes (yes I do have steel toe boots - but to lazy to put them on), numerous splinters, and they do t want to enjoy the great outdoors.

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I don’t blame poor Misty for staying in.
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But Tippy is young healthy and hearty.
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Ouch! But lovely pictures.

 

[RoyalChick]

No, as much as you don't love the thought of a fox eating a chicken, you also don't want them to be 'stabbed' in the intestinal track by a splintered bone. Though boiling the carcass may someone ameliorate that... roasting dries out the bones and makes them more prone to splintering - particularly since they are hollow (unlike mammalian bones of, say, a cow)

This was rotisseried and then boiled for 8-10 hours. Every bone I touched just dissolved into mush. I think they were long past splintering and I now have a yummy chicken broth I can use for myself.
I think in future I will feel it to the cats once it is all mush rather than the chickens. Not that I have ever bought a rotisserie chicken before so the issue has never come up!