Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Happy Friday

Mums Bums

 

[BY Bob]

Sounds like Randy and Bubba are a team now.

I agree.

 

[fuentemoon]

The ecoburning there is called controlled burns here, and is allowed during certain times of year with weather conditions getting met. In the areas that are somewhat accessible (dirt tire tracks with lots of bumps and holes), the forest service (responsible for managing the wooded areas of public lands, issuing permits to use those lands which includes cutting firewood and mushroom hunting) will go in and build piles of brush to be burned usually during fall, close to winter so the weather helps keep it under control. In dry years like this, the burns don't happen at all. With so much remote land, it can take much longer for ground crews to get in to fire ares to work on clearing to bare dirt. We also have "smoke jumpers". These are wildfire fighters who parachute in from airplanes, fight the fire, and hike out. Highly dangerous, but needed for those remote areas. They usually have "hotshots" working their way in to link up with the smoke jumpers, both of which work closer to wildfires than most of the other crews.

Ranchers and other large property owners (and their employees) tend to be part of the civilian volunteer crews helping with fires especially when the fire is threatening part of their land. They're also frequently first ones to join in Search and Rescue, looking for lost/missing hikers, hunters, campers.

Fish, Wildlife, & Parks is a branch within the Forst Service who deals with the animals. They set the regulations each year on how many (and how big in some areas) fish and birds of each species can be caught in a day, how many tags are allowed for each species of deer and other large animals. For the rarer ones (like moose, bear, bighorn sheep), drawings are held because more people want to hunt them than the population levels will handle. FWP handles that and when each land can be accessed. I talked to one member of the Forest Service yesterday. He said they're getting ready to close lands for something (camping I think) because of fire dangers.


Ok, tax time/fluffy butts

View attachment 3901595The junior crew came up by the house
View attachment 3901596Tuff isn't cooperating on the angle, but Mera and Blurr are working around him....and Mera's providing instruction on how to ignore/evade him. Primula...not so much.

View attachment 3901598Twirp is looking fiiiine!

View attachment 3901600Tuff, is still not cooperative, but definitely likes putting his head inside things to crow.

View attachment 3901602Blurr, demonstrating her name, has a good profile.

View attachment 3901605Jane, also profile.....they've been taught well on avoiding rhe pic I'm going for.

View attachment 3901606See? PITA, Havoc, and Cardhu all avoiding the pics.

Funny about Tuff, Rosie likes to stand facing the front of the house with her beak as close as she can get and caw her head off.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Fluffy Butt Friday!

 

[fuentemoon]

Yesterday the coop got a second roost, will get a pic later.
Alinta is not just done being a mom, she is totally over the chicks and is constantly chasing them this would be less of an issue if then didn't flee everywhere they shouldn't. The garden, outside the front gate, up ladders... Did i mention these girls can Fly ?
Happy fluffy butt friday

 

[Sylvester017]

I never want to find out. CeeCee is a good girl. She is wary of strangers and has to meet people a few times before she likes them. We can do everything and anything to her except her nails. She loves to give her paws for a shake and leg scratch. Try to touch the nail and she jerks it away. She has been snake bit in the face once. That required 2 weeks of cleaning the wound, and medicine. Did not phase her and never once did she so much as growl even though it was painful. Her vet said it is the malamute in her that makes her that way with her nails and her wariness of strange people.

I must remember for future reference not to adopt a Malamute or Malamute mix! Just kidding really!

I had a Rottweiler puppy I spent time obedience training and voice commands with and without leash -- but his temperament was naturally so mild he looked forward to learning new things. His brothers from previous litters had to be muzzled, kept away from people or other dogs.

But my 120-lb gorgeous Toby was a natural beauty inside and out. We entered him in a dog food store contest 2 years in a row where he came in 3rd place one year and 2nd the next cuz the judges were impressed at how he rolled over on his back to let children scratch and pet him. A mother was frightened to see her toddler walk up to Toby to hug and kiss Toby and Toby gave the baby a nuzzle and let the baby do whatever it wanted.



I'm not sure if it was training or just that Toby was a natural sweetie but not all Rotts are the meanies people perceive about the breed.

I wonder how he would've been with chickens if we had them then?

I once was parked alone behind a theatre lot to shift my seatbelt and Toby was snoozing in the back seat. When a man approached my car out of nowhere Toby sprang to his feet and quietly I gave Toby a whisper command that I had never used before and he instantly gave out vicious snarling barking and the man turned from my window and ran! I thought Toby was a milktoast but with training and a bit of instinct he knew what was right to do just hearing my voice tone.

Rotties are dogs that live for work with signal and voice commands. It's no wonder they are good police canines. The sad note is that with many larger dog breeds they have shorter lifespans or develop bone dysplasia. My neighbor's huge Great Dane only lived 8 years

A hiking day with a Rott

Tx-FLUFFY BUTTS (AND FLUFFY FEET) FRIDAY

 

[rural mouse]

Funny about Tuff, Rosie likes to stand facing the front of the house with her beak as close as she can get and caw her head off.

Must have something to do with the sound effects. They're such interesting and smart creatures.

 

[Sylvester017]

Fluffy butt Friday

Shep and her weird butt
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Our Buff Leghorn had a crooked tail!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you both for those informative posts. I didn't have the global picture and it does seem very different from what happens here where 85 to 90% of fires have a human cause.
(Although I just saw in the news that Chico's fire in CA is criminal ).
I realise what rough terrain can mean. My brother is a volunteer firefighter / rescue in one of the mountain valleys across us and he says sometimes it can take up to a day for the foresters to clear them an access to the fire zone, and that's with surfaces that are so much smaller than on the north american continent. It's one of the main reason we mow and clean up dead wood on our steep land and we help my parents with theirs too.

Farmers here had a tradition we call ecoburning, burning the mountain grazing land for the sheeps to clear some of the bad weeds, and now the foresters also do controlled burning in the forest, for the reasons you mention. Ecoburning for farmers is completely illegal now but some of the old-timers still do it and regularly someone loses control of the fire because the weather conditions and the wind have become much more difficult.

When I posted this pic on my thread, @BDutch informed us that the deutsch have a dedicated name for that : cheesy-toe taste .

Out of subject fluffy butt tax :

I'm so glad Piou-piou has got some of her fluff back after a year being almost naked from plucking her feathers!
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Mélisse
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Léa
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Glad Piou-Piou has her fluff back, I have a bunch who have bald bellies too. I guess I will have to wait for them to moult to get their fluff back. Did Piou-Piou have to wait till she moulted to get her stuffing back?

Re: controlled burns, they do occur here, farmers sometimes do this but they have to use a permit.

Forestry persons do this all the time, burn off under brush, and deadfall, and it helps to open seeds to grow saplings.

Your brother is very brave, good for him, his skills are very important.

The california fire apparently started when some idiot pushed a burning car into a ravine.

The ecoburning there is called controlled burns here, and is allowed during certain times of year with weather conditions getting met. In the areas that are somewhat accessible (dirt tire tracks with lots of bumps and holes), the forest service (responsible for managing the wooded areas of public lands, issuing permits to use those lands which includes cutting firewood and mushroom hunting) will go in and build piles of brush to be burned usually during fall, close to winter so the weather helps keep it under control. In dry years like this, the burns don't happen at all. With so much remote land, it can take much longer for ground crews to get in to fire ares to work on clearing to bare dirt. We also have "smoke jumpers". These are wildfire fighters who parachute in from airplanes, fight the fire, and hike out. Highly dangerous, but needed for those remote areas. They usually have "hotshots" working their way in to link up with the smoke jumpers, both of which work closer to wildfires than most of the other crews.

Ranchers and other large property owners (and their employees) tend to be part of the civilian volunteer crews helping with fires especially when the fire is threatening part of their land. They're also frequently first ones to join in Search and Rescue, looking for lost/missing hikers, hunters, campers.

Fish, Wildlife, & Parks is a branch within the Forst Service who deals with the animals. They set the regulations each year on how many (and how big in some areas) fish and birds of each species can be caught in a day, how many tags are allowed for each species of deer and other large animals. For the rarer ones (like moose, bear, bighorn sheep), drawings are held because more people want to hunt them than the population levels will handle. FWP handles that and when each land can be accessed. I talked to one member of the Forest Service yesterday. He said they're getting ready to close lands for something (camping I think) because of fire dangers.


Ok, tax time/fluffy butts

View attachment 3901595The junior crew came up by the house
View attachment 3901596Tuff isn't cooperating on the angle, but Mera and Blurr are working around him....and Mera's providing instruction on how to ignore/evade him. Primula...not so much.

View attachment 3901598Twirp is looking fiiiine!

View attachment 3901600Tuff, is still not cooperative, but definitely likes putting his head inside things to crow.

View attachment 3901602Blurr, demonstrating her name, has a good profile.

View attachment 3901605Jane, also profile.....they've been taught well on avoiding rhe pic I'm going for.

View attachment 3901606See? PITA, Havoc, and Cardhu all avoiding the pics.

Jane looks like my Jaffarra - are these Hoover Hatchery chicks? I can’t remember if you mentioned. If so I would hazard a bet that yours and mine are related.

I just get an updated photo of her - she is really leggy and tall!

 

[Ponypoor]

Must have something to do with the sound effects. They're such interesting and smart creatures.

Meanwhile Mr LC likes to crow when I am standing next to him - right in my ear! I think he does it on purpose….