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[wegotchickens]

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My Serama roo is a complete jerk to people, but he is absolutely wonderful to his hens. Even when he only had 2 girls in with him, they were never missing a single feather on their backs or their heads and he saves the best treats for his girls. So I keep him around even though he's a jerk. My friend Laura got a kick out of him because she's almost 6' tall and this 8" high rooster would challenge her every time.

Now I have him and his girls in a coop where I feed, water and collect eggs from the outside, so he doesn't get a chance to beat up on me anymore.

d'Uccle roos with bad manners usually come to a bad end at my house, aka raptor rehab food.

But Tennessee is a good roo and I adore him.
His sons are shaping up nicely as well. All males are a little overzealous at the hormone stage, but settle down. Golden Boy is not TN's son, though, and did not get the memo about settling down. Golden Boy won BB BV at the state show. I hate GB, but not enough to kill him.

I watched TN kick the much larger silkie roo's butt yesterday. The silkie roo wants to pounce on the millies, because the showgirls are in love with TN. But the millie girls scream for help. All TN had to do, after the initial butt-kicking, was mantle up and look at George. One stern look and George hauled his fluffy butt back to the silkie pen. It was hysterical.

Tonight I can rearrange pens, maybe for the LAST TIME THIS YEAR!

 

[dacjohns]

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You crashed into the whole computer after your last time travelling drop-in? Tisk, tisk.

My computer went blue screen of death. I have to use another computer until I can get new or find my recovery disks.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Irony: My birds have never lost feathers from mating, except where the roo grabs their neck. Bantams are light, so even TN's 2" spurs do no damage. But when a roo refuses to get up and leave her alone, or hounds the hen until she's exhausted and then pounces on her, they can certainly kill one.


Your cake sounds cool!!
I made a 'tie-dye' cake once. Frosted it in white, then squiggled different colors of tube frosting over it in 'o' patterns. Next I drew a toothpick gently through the lines in different directions until I got a really cool tie-dye look. You do it the same way you do frosting cobwebs, but in colors.

 

[dacjohns]

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speechless

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Hey Dacs! I'm still impressed by the 30 you whipped off yesterday. Not bad for a really old guy. Sorry about your Blue Screen of Death. You are really hard on computers and keyboards, aren't you? You are the rooster of the techno world. Maybe it's a good thing you spend your days falling off hillsides and wallowing in mud.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Sorry Buffy. Didn't mean to upset you. I was pretty distressed last night, myself.
And still in a quandry about what to do about the eggs the cream hen is sitting on.

 

[Orchid]

Dacs. 30 pushups without even practicing is just not....right. Geeeze.

wegots, can you just leave the eggs under the hen and let nature take its course? (Mind you, I know nothing of these things.)

Speaking of letting nature take its course, I left our little Tips cat on the porch roof this morning. I feel bad about it, but this is the second time in a month she's trapped herself up there and the last time she was an absolute witch to get down, I think I still have the scar on my back to prove it. Hopefully she finds her own way down today so I don't have to climb up there tonight.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

If I don't STOP baking, the pocky-clipse will come. Yesterday afternoon I made oatmeal choc.chip cookies and almond/cranberry bread (which I immediately froze so as not to be tempted to actually eat it).

 

[wegotchickens]

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So if the pocky-lypse comes, it's all your fault?

Good.
Someone to blame

j/k! Orchypants!

 

[Orchid]

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So if the pocky-lypse comes, it's all your fault?

I take full responsibility. That much baking by me means the world has surely shifted on its axis in one way or another.

By the way, pjs and apple cider sound positively divine today.