Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

You are a good man!

I’m a good rooster!

 

[Ponypoor]

Tax:

Pippy, who is very wise.
View attachment 3715827

Hello lovely Pippa

I am glad you recognized your boss was toxic - and that you learnt to take back your life, non of us needs that in our live.

That is what I did last year - I got fed up and walked out of a job, I handed my work phone to the CEO and told him ‘sorry I can’t do this anymore’ and quit and walked out. Best thing ever I did.

Tax

 

[Ponypoor]

So, I know I am preaching to the choir, here, so to speak...but
Chickens are NOT DUMB!! They prove their smarts time and time again. Case in point:

Yesterday I was letting the young boys and some older girls go to freezer camp, and it was well after dark when I finished up. This means everyone got locked up in the pitch black. In the dark, I did not latch one of the coops properly. This morning, my dog convinced me to sleep in a bit and snuggle (about 30 min. beyond my normal 'get up' time. I walk out to the kitchen, and within a few minutes, I hear a rooster crow. Not unusual - EXCEPT - it sounded too loud and like it was coming from the front of the house, not the back/side where the coops are. Hmmmm....get my boots on and go out - and yup there he is. The boy I just couldn't process last year because he was so good to the ladies - and never showed much of the idiot hormonal stage most young cockerels go through. Anyways, I go out and he comes up to me -- I crouch down and chat with him - he gives me little chicken noises back. When I stand up, he gives a short crow and starts walking away towards the corner of the house...he stops after about 5' and looks at me...so I start to follow him. He trots on around the house and heads towards the run (has multiple coops in it, including his.) I stop to pick up a piece of trash that blew in overnight, he stops, comes trotting back, and starts 'chatting with me' - as soon as I look at him and he catches my gaze, he turns around and heads off again - stopping and looking back to be sure I am coming. He runs to the people gate (now, mind you, he is OUT of t he run - he hops the 5' fence all the time...but not now..nope, he keeps going and goes around to the side where the people gate is) He stops at the gate and crows...I let him in and he runs over to where their food dish usually is (that one is a tub that I make mash in for the ducks - and it gets locked up at night due to rats) and he starts chatting again and looking from me to where the dish should be. This is when I see that the latch wasn't fastened properly and he and his 6 girls are, of course, out. (the girls, surprisingly enough, are all in the run) I get the dish out, fill it with food and water, and put it down and fill the nearby water dish....and he calls his ladies over!!

I think he was saying: come on, mom, we are up and my girls are hungry - come feed us! I suspect they can tell time, too (at least in terms of when I usually come out - right about dawn this time of year...and I was late) He was ever the gentleman - not yelling at me, but clearly wanted me to feed his girls!!! I did not need another roo last year, but I am glad I decided to keep him!

My smart, handsome boy:
View attachment 3715837

And his fluffy booty:
View attachment 3715843


He doesn't like to be held, but will come close and 'chat' with me, and if I have treats that I try to give him, he tidbits for his girls to come. I try to hold my hand so only he can reach - but he pecks one sunflower seed at a time from my hand and drops it in front of his girls (and, he makes sure he drops at least one in front of each of his girls - so they all get some!) When there are plenty, and his girls have gotten some, he will sometimes then eat one or two himself. He is a good boy, and it is so nice to see a good Rooster doing what they are meant to do. How can you not love that??

BTW @RoyalChick wouldn't you just love to have a sweet, protective, smart man to add another dynamic to your flock - and to watch over the girls and warn them of foxes and hawks and such?!?!

Awwww what a lovely boy and gorgeous to boot. A good Roo is such a wonderful thing for sure

 

[Lilion]

Greetings all! Happy 123123!

It's a rather lazy NYE. We're headed to my husband's cousin's house tonight and I'm making baked beans. My beans take nearly 4 hours and are, frankly, delicious, if I do say so myself! Nothing healthful about them for sure! I've been good as gold and trying to lose weight, but tonight I'm not counting calories.

All the retirement talk...I was supposed to in 2024. Not gonna happen. We could make ends meet, but not comfortably given the cost of insurance and meds. But, working, we can literally pay off our car in March and our house in about 2 years after that if we throw every extra dollar at it. Our mortgage isn't that big and with me working we have quite a bit of disposable income. So there you go...28 years of payments, or 2? Kind of a depressing no-brainer. I like my job most of the time but I am tired.

On the chicken front, the determination is made. Tres is outta here. I've contacted the fella who took Manny and he'll see if his friend still wants him. I went out and tossed yummy scraps in the run today and Tres actively ran Meanie away from the food and back into the coop. When I went into the coop and put a few meal worms out for her, he came and ate all those himself! There was no nice roo tuc-tuc-tucing for his girls. He just ran her off and gobbled it down. Even with me running him out, he came back twice and took the opportunity to chase her all over before catching her for mating, with her trying to get away every second.

Yeah...he's not a nice roo. If they don't want him I may send him to freezer camp.

 

[Ponypoor]

Another heartwarming story:
Today I was headed home from church. I saw a women’s wallet laying on the street as I drove by. I stopped and picked it up, looked through it to find any identification.
A ladies drivers license was in there, credit cards, hundreds of dollars in cash too, so I followed the address and returned the wallet to the brother of its owner. And I also gave him my phone number so she could call me back to let me know that the wallet is safely in her possession. She called me back minutes later to thank me and asked if I wanted to come to dinner sometime. I said, maybe another time I will take you up on that offer. A very happy thankful woman was in my day today! (And a little police work done by me ).

Awesome good work there kind sir

 

[RoyalChick]

Another heartwarming story:
Today I was headed home from church. I saw a women’s wallet laying on the street as I drove by. I stopped and picked it up, looked through it to find any identification.
A ladies drivers license was in there, credit cards, hundreds of dollars in cash too, so I followed the address and returned the wallet to the brother of its owner. And I also gave him my phone number so she could call me back to let me know that the wallet is safely in her possession. She called me back minutes later to thank me and asked if I wanted to come to dinner sometime. I said, maybe another time I will take you up on that offer. A very happy thankful woman was in my day today! (And a little police work done by me ).

Good job!

 

[RoyalChick]

This story and ones with my cat are so funny. Hey CLeo (or Castor!) it is just ONE chicken - you can fend it off! Nope - the chickens have acted as a group and chased her off - she is NOT messing
with them.

Honestly, with stories like these - it makes me wonder who is smarter - the cat for getting help from the human - or the chicken(s) for intimidating the cat in the first place? With CLeo, if the rooster hadn't sounded the alarm and led a charge of 8 chickens (himself & 7 girls) at the cat - she probably wouldn't have been afraid - I had never seen all of them work together like that before - it was an amazing sight. That rooster was a great/special rooster, too (Sir Lancelot) Unfortunately, his life was cut short by a large neighborhood dog - and all of his girls but my sweet Rosie. He somehow managed to break the fencepost ( a metal T post) and bend a second one - and got into the run. Rosie survived because she was in the coop proper laying her first egg. I still miss my dear sweet Rosie, and her very smart Roo, Sir Lancelot. I wasn't going to keep any roos from that first batch, but as a chick and young adult, he stole my heart and I kept him instead of hen #8 - that is how smart and sweet he was. Rosie lived to be 5 1/2, and died in my arms. I think that is why, though I loved her, I just can't bring myself to get another Partridge Rock (Yes, RM, that is why I was rooting for Pear to end up being head hen - Rosie was a kind but firm leader)

 

[Ponypoor]

Greetings all! Happy 123123!

It's a rather lazy NYE. We're headed to my husband's cousin's house tonight and I'm making baked beans. My beans take nearly 4 hours and are, frankly, delicious, if I do say so myself! Nothing healthful about them for sure! I've been good as gold and trying to lose weight, but tonight I'm not counting calories.

All the retirement talk...I was supposed to in 2024. Not gonna happen. We could make ends meet, but not comfortably given the cost of insurance and meds. But, working, we can literally pay off our car in March and our house in about 2 years after that if we throw every extra dollar at it. Our mortgage isn't that big and with me working we have quite a bit of disposable income. So there you go...28 years of payments, or 2? Kind of a depressing no-brainer. I like my job most of the time but I am tired.

On the chicken front, the determination is made. Tres is outta here. I've contacted the fella who took Manny and he'll see if his friend still wants him. I went out and tossed yummy scraps in the run today and Tres actively ran Meanie away from the food and back into the coop. When I went into the coop and put a few meal worms out for her, he came and ate all those himself! There was no nice roo tuc-tuc-tucing for his girls. He just ran her off and gobbled it down. Even with me running him out, he came back twice and took the opportunity to chase her all over before catching her for mating, with her trying to get away every second.

Yeah...he's not a nice roo. If they don't want him I may send him to freezer camp.

Happy 123123 also (I never heard that one and me always on the lookout for weird numbers ).

I am sure you feel relief at a decision made, and yea if he is not a good boy then beat he go elsewhere.

Re: retirement - I think you are doing the right thing. Get it all paid off and not have any worries. I on the other hand am working on freedom 95

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m a good rooster!

You’re a wonderful Roo

 

[notabitail]

I’m a good rooster!

There's a reason I'm Big Rooster.