Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sally PB]

Worm food tax:

This is Button. She says, "Mom, you said the word 'worm'.... "

 

[RoyalChick]

Worm food tax:
View attachment 3661203This is Button. She says, "Mom, you said the word 'worm'.... "

She is very cute!

 

[featherhead007]

Some chickens:

 

[lightm]

Now I am feeling bad about doing it.
Does anyone else let their chickens eat chicken?

The cause of the rotisserie chicken emergency
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You shouldn't feel bad. I believe at least Rebecca and Kris do this.

 

[featherhead007]

Doctor said that I’m not in any danger of getting a disease, but said that I should watch for any symptoms of infection. He gave me a prescription for antibiotics and I was given a tetanus booster shot.
Told me not to try saving stray cats unless I wear gloves and eye protection!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I don’t give it to the cats for the same reason. Although after 8 hours of boiling you can smush the bones between your fingers so maybe I should have just chopped it up a bit and treated the cats.
Sigh.
The Princesses did really enjoy it though! I rarely eat meat so there aren’t many meat scraps going.

Been thinking on this more. The biggest reason I don't throw any meat scraps out there is to not have bits scattered all over the run which might attract bear, coyotes, raccoon, fox and whatnot.

What makes a chicken a chicken to another chicken? I think it's a collection of cues, much more than the shape and color and feathers. With Peanut and Butters, once they passed and continued to not act alive, after a point something changed for the others.

After several hours placed in the run I was getting Butters to bury her, and Hazel was close by watching, and I lifted her front to show her Butters' face, and Hazel jumped up with feet out to attack. Maybe the angle of her head was aggressive for her? Me moving her like that freaked her out? Hazel's whole demeanor was different than it usually was with Butters. It felt to me like this was not Butters to her anymore.

You know how it appears elephants mourn their dead, touching the bones, seemingly remembering? Chickens don't do that. Maybe because they live totally in the moment, and maybe a living fellow chicken is way more than the physical presence, it's the behavioral cues....Whatever it is it's not the way we or elephants see things. I think they miss the presence of their friend, their companion flock member, the routines they had with them, I'm pretty sure, but the body itself does not represent the chicken they knew anymore I think.

 

[featherhead007]

Been thinking on this more. The biggest reason I don't throw any meat scraps out there is to not have bits scattered all over the run which might attract bear, coyotes, raccoon, fox and whatnot.

What makes a chicken a chicken to another chicken? I think it's a collection of cues, much more than the shape and color and feathers. With Peanut and Butters, once they passed and continued to not act alive, after a point something changed for the others.

After several hours placed in the run I was getting Butters to bury her, and Hazel was close by watching, and I lifted her front to show her Butters' face, and Hazel jumped up with feet out to attack. Maybe the angle of her head was aggressive for her? Me moving her like that freaked her out? Hazel's whole demeanor was different than it usually was with Butters. It felt to me like this was not Butters to her anymore.

You know how it appears elephants mourn their dead, touching the bones, seemingly remembering? Chickens don't do that. Maybe because they live totally in the moment, and maybe a living fellow chicken is way more than the physical presence, it's the behavioral cues....Whatever it is it's not the way we or elephants see things. I think they miss the presence of their friend, their companion flock member, the routines they had with them, I'm pretty sure, but the body itself does not represent the chicken they knew anymore I think.

I wish I could just live in the moment. But I have a busy past, present , and don’t know what the future holds.
I know that my birds miss their flock mates. I sure do!

 

[notabitail]

 

[rural mouse]

Doctor said that I’m not in any danger of getting a disease, but said that I should watch for any symptoms of infection. He gave me a prescription for antibiotics and I was given a tetanus booster shot.
Told me not to try saving stray cats unless I wear gloves and eye protection!

LEATHER gloves for scratch protection. Vinyl, latex, rubber for disease protection.


Taxes and mugs

Nimbus

Cumulo

Quartz

They posed!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Mugs Monday (it’s been drizzling for the past couple of days ) so I will post some past chick mugs.