Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I’m in love with this little blonde girl, she’s CeeCee and she’s so special.
I thought she’d be all blonde, but she’s showing signs of grey.

 

[Sylvester017]

If it covers your fingers, that means you just get to lick it off! I wish I could bake more often, but I am too busy. Maybe a little bit this summer. I wanna see if I’m good at it.

If you can read a basic cookbook, you can follow any recipe! Really expert cooks/bakers eventually add their own modifications to recipes when they might experiment w/ substitutions by replacing sugar w/ honey or maple syrup, or use almond or coconut or cassava or rice flour to bake gluten-free, etc. My current kitchen is tiny so not good for gourmet experiments so I stick w/ basic recipes.

I grew up on an agricultural farm where everything was basic from growing our own vegetable patch to baking our own bread so I learned basics only in cooking and baking cuz there was so much else to do on a farm -- canning our own fruit jars, pickling eggs or cucumbers, peeling feathers off slaughtered poultry (yuch!), planting fruit trees, irrigating citrus groves and fruit orchards, milking a cow, watching farm animals birth or hatch, feeding poultry/livestock, taking Saturday night baths in a giant washtub to wear the same two dresses alternatively every church Sunday, washing clothes on a washboard and hanging laundry on a clothesline -- boy! what a joy to finally get a used wringer washing machine in the 1940's! We had a horse for pulling a plow but Pop quickly invested in a surplus WWII Caterpillar tractor to pull the plow so don't know where the horse went after that.

But the old stable on the property was a pre-1900's stagecoach depot with an antique stagecoach, buckboard, and various tack mounted around the deserted horse stalls. There was a huge old cob-webbed steamer trunk full of someone's full set of McFadden's medical encyclopedias, a 3D handheld photo viewer w/ Victorian dressed people, personal letters and ledgers all from a bygone Victorian era. I had fun playing in that old stable as a kid never realizing the wealth of history my folks purchased on that property!

Use magnification to see these antique photos

Young chicken lover w/ canning storage shed -- c. 1940's

Remains of old buckboard -- me in a Buster Brown hairdo holding one of many farm cats, the cats loved stalking gophers and mice -- c. early 1950's

Caterpillar tractor hooked to the old horse plow

Old stagecoach stable to the right of dog & goose

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Sweet dreams. Little Wyandotte-ay View attachment 3854985

Are you serious??? I'm honored to witness the unfolding of this lovely relationship. Last i read, it was day 1 and you were watching John wicke, lol. You've come a long way with the little GLW!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

I’m in love with this little blonde girl, she’s CeeCee and she’s so special.
I thought she’d be all blonde, but she’s showing signs of grey.View attachment 3855251

I'm showing signs of grey too. Keep on little sweetie!!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

For you
I name my chickens. But I still did a necropsy on Lady Nacho and Ginger. I've processed meat chickens, laying hens that I've named, and cockerels (who were also named but had extremely absurd names, usually inspired by sounds they made or how they looked - NeckBother was a bother, one of the kinds that you get in your neck after sleeping in a weird position).

The only exception to this rule was Lhicken. She was a really good friend while she lived, and I couldn't think of chopping her up. I did, however, put her down when she was suffering. She was also cremated. (That isn't to say Lady Nacho and Ginger weren't cremated, but not in the same place - they were cremated on the burn pile while Lhicken was in her own place.)

And hopefully your Midnight does well! I would have also (if I had the chance) cut open the Ayam Cemani, just to see (a), if it's a real Cemani, and (b), to see what was wrong with it.

How did you 'put her down'. Havnt had to, and wonder how.....

 

[featherhead007]

I'm showing signs of grey too. Keep on little sweetie!!

But she’s only 12 weeks old!

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Naming and shaming her royal highness

This naughty little madam has been attacking my thyme plants
She ruined two pots and six plants.

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She probably cant see what shes pokin' around in with that comb covering her eyes! Lol. Awww, thyme is easy grow more! beautiful chicken!

 

[Ponypoor]

Best of the past. But I try not to live in the past anymore. Life is for the living. But part of that is remembering the ones I loved. View attachment 3855121View attachment 3855122View attachment 3855124View attachment 3855125View attachment 3855137View attachment 3855135

I love that photo of Jaffar and I also love that last photo - her expression and that funky comb and wattles are so expressive! She looks so stern

 

[Ponypoor]

But she’s only 12 weeks old!

Maybe she will be a ‘platinum blonde’

 

[Ponypoor]

If you can read a basic cookbook, you can follow any recipe! Really expert cooks/bakers eventually add their own modifications to recipes when they might experiment w/ substitutions by replacing sugar w/ honey or maple syrup, or use almond or coconut or cassava or rice flour to bake gluten-free, etc. My current kitchen is tiny so not good for gourmet experiments so I stick w/ basic recipes.

I grew up on an agricultural farm where everything was basic from growing our own vegetable patch to baking our own bread so I learned basics only in cooking and baking cuz there was so much else to do on a farm -- canning our own fruit jars, pickling eggs or cucumbers, peeling feathers off slaughtered poultry (yuch!), planting fruit trees, irrigating citrus groves and fruit orchards, milking a cow, watching farm animals birth or hatch, feeding poultry/livestock, taking Saturday night baths in a giant washtub to wear the same two dresses alternatively every church Sunday, washing clothes on a washboard and hanging laundry on a clothesline -- boy! what a joy to finally get a used wringer washing machine in the 1940's! We had a horse for pulling a plow but Pop quickly invested in a surplus WWII Caterpillar tractor to pull the plow so don't know where the horse went after that.

But the old stable on the property was a pre-1900's stagecoach depot with an antique stagecoach, buckboard, and various tack mounted around the deserted horse stalls. There was a huge old cob-webbed steamer trunk full of someone's full set of McFadden's medical encyclopedias, a 3D handheld photo viewer w/ Victorian dressed people, personal letters and ledgers all from a bygone Victorian era. I had fun playing in that old stable as a kid never realizing the wealth of history my folks purchased on that property!

Use magnification to see these antique photos

Young chicken lover w/ canning storage shed -- c. 1940's
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Remains of old buckboard -- me in a Buster Brown hairdo holding one of many farm cats, the cats loved stalking gophers and mice -- c. early 1950's
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Caterpillar tractor hooked to the old horse plow
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Old stagecoach stable to the right of dog & goose
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I love old photos what a marvellous childhood, so simple and all those animals.

Thanks for sharing