Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Mine likes sliding his back in the mud down my garden. He'll be back to that soon, he's improving now

Such wonderful news!

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Mugshot Monday everyone

Here is the sassy look that Tassels gave me while I was giving her a lecture about how it was time she stopped being broody.
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But guess what? She was actually paying attention to my lecture. For the first time in a very long time she went to roost with the others last night.


Now we have to see if she tries again in ten days time as usual, or if she recognizes that it is winter.

That is wonderful news!

 

[RoyalChick]

Can you see the last one in the bush?

Well I thought I did. But now not so sure!

Edited: Found it!

 

[Logar]

Contrary to that, the ordinance states that in the R-R zone (rural residential) where I live, roosters and guinea hens ARE allowed. Or, more specifically, they're NOT allowed in R-1, R-2, R-3, L-R, or PUD zones. Nothing about R-R.

I know I've heard roosters around here recently... But I don't know if they were grandfathered in because they were owned before the ordinance or what.

Might have to email the guy again for clarification.

I WANT A ROOSTER!

Well if there is nothing saying anything against it then I would just go for it. Why raise a potential reason to change the thing? Then if they do then you may be grand fathered into it and still be able to keep it.

I am such a good influence

 

[Marie2020]

Yes. And I never get unknown dogs.
I have one neighbor who breeds labs and another who has three Old English Sheepdogs. Both have electric fences.
The sheepdogs sometimes come over but are unmistakable given their size and that the three of them are very roll poly together.
The labs are very well controlled and never leave their homes.
Once, maybe five years ago I had a strange dog come. It was clearly elderly and confused. It was followed by a very apologetic guy who said his dog wandered off and he had been trailing after her to bring her home.
If it is a new neighbor with a new dog, I want to figure out who, to warn them about my chickens and ask that they keep it under control.
The wildlife preserve people (NJ Fish & Wildlife) will also not be happy about a dog on the loose.

Could it have been abandoned or lost. Especially if it's elderly on both counts

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow

So what does the SPCA have to say on this ? It’s an animal welfare situation for sure!

Poor birds all caught in the middle.

The conglomerates are protected by the contract agreements made w/a farmer, one of which a farmer cannot sell their birds to anyone else; therefore the farmers are forced to give away the birds rather than see them die from lack of feed which is contractually provided by the now bankrupt conglomerate who no longer has the $$$ to pay the farmer for expenses or feed for the birds. To wait on the conglomerate & legal processes to get any kind of settlement (if any) can take months/years & the birds would die from starvation in the meantime.

Farmers have gone on Facebook to plead for either feed donations or for people to come get free meat birds rather than see the birds die. Meanwhile the conglomerates say they don't have the $$$ to help the farmers dispose of any starving/dead birds. The farmers have spent as much as $90,000 of their own in housing/heating/water for the birds which then the conglomerate purchases back each bird at which time that reimburses the farmers expenses. The conglomerate says they have no $$$ to pay the farmer for the birds & cannot pay for their disposal either.

The conglomerates (many w/ foreign affiliations) are protected by govt agricultural agencies leaving the farmer high & dry in debt w/100,000's hungry dying birds. The agencies protect the conglomerate which basically cripple individual farmers when they sign up w/these conglomerates. Animal welfare agencies can't do anything immediate to save the birds as legal processes impede immediate action ~ that's why the several farmers signed up w/ the conglomerate have resorted to Facebook to help them save the birds.

Many farmers have refused to sign up w/conglomerates to raise their own humanely raised birds & not the dangerously fast-growing Cornish Cross & prefer to sell their organically naturally grown eggs/meat independently. You may see much higher prices for these private farmers' products in supermarkets but you won't be supporting the cheaper conglomerate prices screwing over conglomerate farmers.

Tax ~ Silkie chicks "Suzu" Silver, "Ginny" Buff/Blue Partridge (2020)

 

[RoyalChick]

Could it have been abandoned or lost. Especially if it's elderly on both counts

The elderly one was years ago and the owner showed up.
The one (now two) that showed up in the last 48 hours are young.
I already spoke to the sheepdog neighbor and she said she was told a dog had been seen wandering around.
The second dog yesterday I saw on camera and thought it was a wolf. I scrambled to run to the chickens and it turned out to be a very friendly German Shepherd. I need to figure out where it is coming from.

 

[Marie2020]

Well I had planned to do some further stuff here in the barn today but I seem to have pulled something in my shoulder. Not sure what I did, but it’s annoying. One minute I am fine the next I can’t lift my arm up! Sheesh!

So I am going to sit here and watch Mallorca Files (on Prime) and re-evaluate after a rest.

I really need to fix the fence that Reenie broke (I swear it am gonna clobber that’s mare!), she is such a devil on the fences.

KELLY STOP WORKING!
If like me you have neck and your shoulders have been in pain, this arms problems could potentially indicate IMHO, that your neck is in danger. A physical warning.

You were a nurse, I don't know if you have studied this kind of nursing but through what I have lived with for many years I am aware. And Not only through my own experiences... a really good G.P gave me a lot of advice on how too prevent my neck giving way, warning me that i shouldn't push too many boundaries, it could leave me either paralysed from my neck down, brain dead or both.

So please rest until this are feels right

 

[Marie2020]

The elderly one was years ago and the owner showed up.
The one (now two) that showed up in the last 48 hours are young.
I already spoke to the sheepdog neighbor and she said she was told a dog had been seen wandering around.
The second dog yesterday I saw on camera and thought it was a wolf. I scrambled to run to the chickens and it turned out to be a very friendly German Shepherd. I need to figure out where it is coming from.

I hope it's not abandoned. So many are these days

 

[RoyalChick]

I tied another two hoops on my living gazebo. Crazy as it sounds, I think this is going to work!
I have to get the shoots at just the right moment - when they are long enough to give a nice high arch, but have not yet turned woody (then you can’t bend them, only prune them).
This kind of structure is normally made with willow which remains pliable, but no harm in experimenting with what I have!
I am now out of the sturdy grocery store ties so need to find my basket of wire.