Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

No ducks! Unless I win the lottery and buy a huge property with a huge pond.

Not too huge a pond, you'll get snapping turtles living there, very bad for ducks!

 

[featherhead007]

@featherhead007
I was looking for this one. Found it!
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Oh no. It’s that “I’m gonna get you succa!” Look again

 

[featherhead007]

The typical California UBER tortoise :

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

@featherhead007
I was looking for this one. Found it!
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I've never seen a chook's eyes so wide!

 

[Ponypoor]

Not too huge a pond, you'll get snapping turtles living there, very bad for ducks!

Yep lots of them around here anyways. They are truly awesome creatures.

 

[Ponypoor]

That's what you would do with lottery money! I don't think a duck pond is too of my list. I suppose you could move someplace warm with a dock pond.

Well no place in Canada is warm. So may as well stay were I know were everything is

 

[Ponypoor]

@featherhead007
I was looking for this one. Found it!
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This needs to go in the caption contest - that is one hilarious photo! I love it!

 

[Ponypoor]

My husband has already said "heck no"
But...this lil maybe roo my cousin has may need a home if he doesn't take to being his dad's subordinate when he's bigger.
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Such a cutie patootie
I definitely can't have any more chickens with the setup I have though.

Awwwww so cute

 

[Ponypoor]

Silkies are just different. How can something look soo fuzzy and yet underneath that layer of fluff be a mass of pin feathers? While I was out refilling the feeders I was watching Branch. He would take a piece from my hand but not eat, he gave it to one of the girls. Did not want to be touched. He then walked away, stiffly, definitely something off with his gait. Ok buddy, like it or not I have to hold you for a second. Pins everywhere, his belly, between his legs and underneath his wings. Just long enough to be throwing off how he walks, I am sure it hurts. He will probably remain in his bad mood for several more days. I'm fine with it now, I know he is not dying.

Oh Fluffy was the same way a couple months ago! So many pins hidden under her fluff! I laughed after I figured out her grumpy attitude. Poor old gal!

But then there was Marty who did a huge moult last year. I wish she would moult and get her broken feathers back

 

[Ponypoor]

I did a quick google check and read a reddit thread question by a Swagbucks participant asking how it is some people talk about making good money and the questioner isn't making much, $700 (US?) over 6-7 years. Apparently reddit hosts a lot of people who do it and have tips on what's currently the best moneymakers, so if I were you I'd research there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SwagBucks/comments/xgwylw

Some activities require spending money to do the better-paying tasks, some require signing up for subscriptions you have to remember to cancel, opening bank accounts & setting up direct deposit for rewards, etc. Some people buy cheap phones dedicated to things like games, & keep several going at once (the writer had 20) and multitask, which keeps it interesting and the boredom down. Apparently some games, tasks, surveys, etc are skull-numbingly boring ("grindy") and the real job is getting through it and finishing it so you can get paid a few dollars.

Highest earners treat it like a job, tracking their tasks and jobs with spreadsheets to make sure they stay on top of things and also to make sure they get paid, some things don't pay right away. The best story was from a guy you did games and did make money, that appears to be the best paying thing, but he was already heavily into games and decided he would trade what he was already spending hours doing for this, so it was a hobby / pastime he turned into dollars.

Sounds like unless you go at it very intensely & thoroughly, and go after the highest paying tasks, you won't make much money, but you can make some.

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Hazel last January
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I love her colouring she is such a rich colour