Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

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Hubby did a thing. He says he left a note that cochins are my favorite.

My decades ago research put Silkies & Pekins (bantam Cochins) in a category as very sweet docile breeds. My guess is the standard Cochins are sweet too. @featherhead007 can certainly vouch for the Cochin roo

 

[Sylvester017]

Anybody near Southern Illinois? Here's a very biosecurity NPIP breeder of some rare breeds ~ hatching eggs, chicks, juveniles, etc. Pretty nice selection of breeds & they Mareck's vaccinate chicks which is a plus IMO & they will ship live birds. Many people are shippers of hatching eggs but few are NPIP certified to ship chicks or birds.

Welcome to the Chicken Scratch Poultry Farm. Our small hatchery is one of only two in US that is regularly testing for harmful poultry diseases like Mycoplasma Gillisepticum, Mycoplasma Synoviae, Pullorum Typhoid, and Avian Influenza.
https://chickenscratchpoultry.com/pages/about-us-and-our-farm

 

[Ponypoor]

This is one of my favorite poems.

It is best read out loud. I delivered it on stage at my retirement bash instead of some sappy appreciation speech (well I did some of that too).

Warning
by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people’s gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.


Getting old tax: Calypso is still pushing out new feathers!
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YES! That will be me actually I am almost there and I get some practice already

And now not only am I the crazy horse lady but also the crazy chicken lady! And my coworkers are already posting hilarious memes around my office

‘And just like that the crazy chicken lady has become everyone’s egg dealer’.

 

[bgmathteach]

I just found out my favorite cat was hit by a car this evening and did not make it. Please pray for my family and I. This is so very hard. Absolutely heartbreaking and traumatic.

It is so hard when we lose our beloved pets - they really are members of our family!

 

[Ponypoor]

Both of my biological grandmothers were in the "red hat society." I don't even know if that's a thing anymore. They went to meetings, had extravagant tea parties, and even rode in a local parade!

Yes they are a thing here still

 

[Sylvester017]

YES! That will be me actually I am almost there and I get some practice already

And now not only am I the crazy horse lady but also the crazy chicken lady! And my coworkers are already posting hilarious memes around my office

‘And just like that the crazy chicken lady has become everyone’s egg dealer’.

They only want the eggs? Not the plentiful manure?

 

[Ponypoor]

Emergence

A second chicken has entered the yard today!

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Brave Sydney

 

[Ponypoor]

In watching videos of different mama chickens they seem very protective at 1st & gradually get more aloof w/ the chicks as the weeks go by. Maybe hens get tired of raising squawking chicks the way tired human moms might feel like throwing their screaming babies out the window sometimes?!

This weekend I am going to open the pen they have been in so they can roam freely with Mr P and the old ladies. I am not worried about the babies they already run around with them and have since day one, I have just been keeping them in the pen for warmth, the sweeter heater in there is set at a lower level for them. I’ll keep that in place for them.

It will give Georgie a chance to get out and about digging around more. And the babies can slowly be weaned.

 

[Ponypoor]

They only want the eggs? Not the plentiful manure?

I tried putting those round horse manure balls into egg crates to sell but it never did fly….

 

[Ponypoor]

Most excellent lifespans for production sweeties!

My mom was a meek lady but after 65 she started speaking up for herself. She said if she didn't raise her voice in the dept store complaint line she would've just been ignored as just another sweet old lady. She got results in her old age Her damaged hutch was replaced & delivered the next day!

Good for her!