Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lilion]

Your restaurant sounds better than where we went.

Decades ago DD took me to expensive Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Buena Park for my B-day ~ no plates, no silverware, eat w/ fingers & very sparse 4 courses:

2@ very skinny carrot/celery sticks 2-in long
Tiny cup of warm broth no spoon/buns/cracker
Anemic Cornish game hen tear/eat w/fingers
Tiny turnover as dessert

I laughed when my DD slapped the server's hand who was going to take away in great haste her sorry-looking game hen. "I paid for that!" she quipped & took back her tiny plate!

We were certain that much better, at least more food, was served in REAL medieval banquets!

The costumed jousting tournament show was fair to middlin' & not much better than the FREE Renaissance Faire joust at our local park.

It was a very expensive but funny experience that we laugh about w/ friends who had the same rip-off experience!

Tx - Dana in her younger days. She had such a pretty U-shape back.
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You know, I've never gone to one of those restaurants. My husband and I did help put on a small, not for profit, renfaire put on by our local library for years. It was awesome and our jousters were spectacular.

A real SCA experience is very different. There are no spectators at our events. Everyone participates.

 

[Sylvester017]

Not so much putting on a show, like a renaissance fair, though I've done that... we're a bunch of needs recreating the middle ages.

This is what we do. https://www.sca.org/

This weekend is Kings Company of Archers. Archery all day. Here's a picture or two of my hubs and friends and even one of me and Ellie.

Yes. That's a Viking ship.View attachment 3943197me and EllieView attachment 3943198hubby accepting his awardView attachment 3943199archers on the lineView attachment 3943200a ridiculously photogenic friendView attachment 3943208

And tax, Eenie stretching in the sun.
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Looks like so much fun!

DH & I used to attend weekend Renaissance Faires where we dressed up in costumes. My DS first met his wife at the Faire where she hosts a costume booth.

A Renaissance costume I made for DH:

 

[Sylvester017]

You know, I've never gone to one of those restaurants. My husband and I did help put on a small, not for profit, renfaire put on by our local library for years. It was awesome and our jousters were spectacular.

A real SCA experience is very different. There are no spectators at our events. Everyone participates.

Yours are the best kind of entertainment! We only get a yearly Renfaire on weekends in Spring at the local park. My DIL runs a costume booth at the Renfaires. The park has a dam/reservoir where ducks & geese swim about. We bring them nutritious feed treats instead of the junk bread tourists throw at them.

 

[Lilion]

Yours are the best kind of entertainment! We only get a yearly Renfaire on weekends in Spring at the local park. My DIL runs a costume booth at the Renfaires. The park has a dam/reservoir where ducks & geese swim about. We bring them nutritious feed treats instead of the junk bread tourists throw at them.

Renfaires are how we got into reenactment. The local SCA group was doing a combat demo at the little fair we put on, and my husband, who's gotten into making chainmail, repaied something for someone. Next thing I knew, I was an officer! LOL! That's been a pattern. He had volunteered to do a chainmail demo at the renfaire and next thing I knew, I was the merchant coordinator! I swear, if he were to get into politics I'd end up President!

More Tax.

 

[Ponypoor]

I agree completely and have been wanting to say something - but I'm afraid each time I started typing, it didn't come across very nicely, so I didn't post it. Thank you, @ManueB for posting this - and doing it in a very polite/respectful way. Some of the political talk has made me uncomfortable, as well.

I feel remiss for skipping so many pages lately.

Normally I have little tolerance for NOT FOLLOWING BOBS RULES.

Maybe a refresher is in order for those who forget and those who are new.

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Tax Payments
The thread has a tendency to wander off topic from time to time (the topic is chickens by the way) so I have instituted a tax system to bring us to back to why we are here. Anytime you post something off the topic of chickens, you need to post a chicken picture along with it. If you do not, you run the risk of falling a’fowl of the tax police and will likely be called out by another poster, if not me personally.

I do want to make a special note here. The thread is a supportive space for people from all around the world. It is my intention to keep it that way. Please do not bring in politics or other divisive issues. This is a place to try and escape the world and its problems. We also need to be aware of the fact that there are some young people who participate on the thread. There is no place for off-color comments, rudeness, or innuendos of any kind.

That brings us to SHRA Tax. This is a special tax. SHRA stands for Should Have Read Ahead. This tax is due when you answer a question which someone else already has or in general repeat a comment that someone else has already made in response to a post. SHRA Tax payments require the presence of more than 1 chicken in the photo
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By Bobs primer can be found here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fluffy-butt-acres-a-primer.77796/

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A Fluffy fluffy butt

 

[Ponypoor]

Renfaires are how we got into reenactment. The local SCA group was doing a combat demo at the little fair we put on, and my husband, who's gotten into making chainmail, repaied something for someone. Next thing I knew, I was an officer! LOL! That's been a pattern. He had volunteered to do a chainmail demo at the renfaire and next thing I knew, I was the merchant coordinator! I swear, if he were to get into politics I'd end up President!

More Tax.
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Gosh they are very lovely

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m here at Hannah’s apartment, and I have never felt so alone in my life. She’s a stone cold woman now. (I bet she asks me for more money ) but I’ll pay a nights sleep rent and get away early tomorrow. Some people just have no motivation to excel in their lives. I wouldn’t let this woman go anywhere near my chooks!
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Sorry to hear this,, but I do like this photo of your chooks, do you teach them to be colour coordinated like that?

 

[Ponypoor]

Not so much putting on a show, like a renaissance fair, though I've done that... we're a bunch of needs recreating the middle ages.

This is what we do. https://www.sca.org/

This weekend is Kings Company of Archers. Archery all day. Here's a picture or two of my hubs and friends and even one of me and Ellie.

Yes. That's a Viking ship.View attachment 3943197me and EllieView attachment 3943198hubby accepting his awardView attachment 3943199archers on the lineView attachment 3943200a ridiculously photogenic friendView attachment 3943208

And tax, Eenie stretching in the sun.
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What?! No chickens there?!

But chickens where runnimg freely in every ancient village! Everyone knows that!

 

[Ponypoor]

Your restaurant sounds better than where we went.

Decades ago DD took me to expensive Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament Buena Park for my B-day ~ no plates, no silverware, eat w/ fingers & very sparse 4 courses:

2@ very skinny carrot/celery sticks 2-in long
Tiny cup of warm broth no spoon/buns/cracker
Anemic Cornish game hen tear/eat w/fingers
Tiny turnover as dessert

I laughed when my DD slapped the server's hand who was going to take away in great haste her sorry-looking game hen. "I paid for that!" she quipped & took back her tiny plate!

We were certain that much better, at least more food, was served in REAL medieval banquets!

The costumed jousting tournament show was fair to middlin' & not much better than the FREE Renaissance Faire joust at our local park.

It was a very expensive but funny experience that we laugh about w/ friends who had the same rip-off experience!

Tx - Dana in her younger days. She had such a pretty U-shape back.
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She’s a lovely hen

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

If it is as you suspect it might be, could 'Reba' become 'Reberto'??

Honestly, I can't really see your suspicions, but what do I know about Silkies ... Other than they are soooo adorable, and Aurora says 'they aren't chickens'

I love our wonderful Queen Aurora. When it comes to silkies, she is wrong in her opinions.

Right now with all the silkies there is nothing that can sway my mind one way or another in a definite direction. My gut is telling me this bunch is mainly girls. Why, I do not know. They are getting close to the age I can really start paying attention to the tail shapes. Close, not quite there yet. They are also about 2 weeks out from when I can start looking for streamers in the boys. With every single one of them having nice crests, those streamers should become really apparent fast. Their crests are also doing a very good job hiding their combs. I need to wet them down and take a close look at their widths.

Reba, I have had my suspicions here and there on Reba early on. Reba was the biggest and the broadest of the silkies the first few weeks. Reba is still the biggest. Silkies tend to have a upright stance anyway, they walk around on their tiptoes. Briefly for a few seconds every now and then I catch a glimpse of the really upright stance Branch carried himself in. I really like Reba, it's my favorite. That alone should tell me something.

I don't know. It may be wishful thinking on my part. Today I just got a gut feeling that Reba really could be a cockerel. If I am wrong, I am wrong. Reba will stay Reba and be a much loved pullet. It is just all kinds of tiny little things that on their own mean nothing adding up.