Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

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Nancy wakes me up then goes back to sleep

Such a funny pic

That's what happens to my DH when he puppysits my DD's two dogs! Wakes him at 3:00 in the morning & they go back to sleep while he's now wide awake

He's a glutton for punishment ~ he's puppysitting again on July 4th!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Since, he decided to visit with me today,
I took this one for you @rural mouse. I see Black, white, light buff, russet orange at the hackles coming in…

 

[Sylvester017]

I had to cull one of my favorite Barred Rocks. I will never do that again, ever! So sad and the act put my mind out of commission with remorse and regret, with clinical depression for months. Never again will I cull any animal under my care.

I've been traumatized since a child when relatives came over from a neighboring farm to my folks' farm to help dispatch a whole pen of Leghorns for the freezer. Such a nightmare & folks in the old days didn't bother to prepare youngsters for the bloody horror. After that effect Mom kept me away from processing days.

My neighbor couldn't/didn't want to cull in the suburbs & found a butcher who culled & dressed birds for a fee. Our neighbor moved to a rural state & now process their own poultry, goats, & rabbits.

Our birds here live out their lives. No roo so our eggs are not chick potentials.

Our former neighbor bought a gosling to raise for Christmas dinner but he was such a smart watchdog & herder of their wandering farm ducks that Mr Christmas is now a pet.

 

[RoyalChick]

Some depressing news - It’s with a heavy heart I share this. The call to pick up the chicks came today. They were just shipped out yesterday which I thought was great news. However, it wasn’t, not a single chick made it through the shipping process.

They will refund everything but darn if it doesn’t sting. I should have driven up to get them, I knew it and I picked convenience instead. They are three hours away. I feel so guilty and sad.

Fly high sweet babies

Oh no! That is terrible.
So sorry little ones.

 

[RoyalChick]

Logically, I know it’s not my fault at least not directly, but emotionally it feels horrible. Thank you. I think I will just look closer to home, I would rather rehome Roos then open a box like that again.

 

[Sylvester017]

I found a name for this little girl.
I’m calling her Elsa. Because what in the else would I call her? View attachment 4150670

So sweet

We once had an "Ilse" but changed it to "Ichabod" His new owner called him Icky

 

[rural mouse]

Since, he decided to visit with me today,
I took this one for you @rural mouse. I see Black, white, light buff, russet orange at the hackles coming in…
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I want eggs at some point! They're sharing the top of my wish list with Appenzeller Spitzhaubens and Russian Orloffs.

 

[BY Bob]

Some depressing news - It’s with a heavy heart I share this. The call to pick up the chicks came today. They were just shipped out yesterday which I thought was great news. However, it wasn’t, not a single chick made it through the shipping process.

They will refund everything but darn if it doesn’t sting. I should have driven up to get them, I knew it and I picked convenience instead. They are three hours away. I feel so guilty and sad.

Fly high sweet babies

I'm terribly sorry this has happened to the them. It's very tragic.

I have sort of been where you are. I once had some lost by the post office. They arrived 2 days late but alive. I lost each one of them over the next 3 days, one by one, despite my best efforts to save them.

This heartbreak has Mrs BY Bob adamantly opposed to shipped chicks. We won't do it again.

 

[BY Bob]

I found a name for this little girl.
I’m calling her Elsa. Because what in the else would I call her? View attachment 4150670

Let it go, let it go

 

[BY Bob]

Logically, I know it’s not my fault at least not directly, but emotionally it feels horrible. Thank you. I think I will just look closer to home, I would rather rehome Roos then open a box like that again.

I know that feeling all to well.