Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

RC I think I have asked ths before, sorry, but I don't recall your answer - are those nest bins double-lipped or is it two bins one in the other?

It is two bins. I have a tile between them so it is easy to pull the top one out if I need to clean it.
Cleaning was more of an issue when Diana was alive because she always laid eggs without any shell.
And the reason I need to double up is that if I take the whole thing out I have to shuffle stuff around to fit it back in and get the bedding out of the way. This way I just lift out the top. Clean it out. Restock with bedding and pop it right back. They are dishwashing bowls.

 

[lightm]

But, yes, I have also had IVs on occasion - one most recent was with a 2 day hospital stay last week that still didn't seem to shed light on my reason for being there and then being admitted.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope this gets sorted out soon. I also hope whatever bothers you is mild.

 

[lightm]

A twofer for Tuesday.
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You are so brilliant at repurposing!!

(This can be great at caption contest?)

 

[CCsGarden]

Two for Tuesday!

 

[CCsGarden]

 

[BY Bob]

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Some chickens:

Like "Some Pig"

 

[BY Bob]

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.

Excellent post.

 

[BY Bob]

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


Taxes and mugs

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They posed!

Marvelous!

 

[BY Bob]

it changes words like "ate" to "are" and stuff like that. I find it very infuriating. And it changes a sentence ever so slightly to give it a different meaning.

Surely it bites me all the time. I'm amazed that it doesn't get smarter but actually seems to get dumber the more I use it.

 

[notabitail]

Surely it bites me all the time. I'm amazed that it doesn't get smarter but actually seems to get dumber the more I use it.

It's adapting to your misspellings. You know, even though you spelled it right, your wrong and you're phones right and nose the write words for every sentence.