Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Our neighbors have three older pheasants that come here on occasion. They live about 1/4 mile away. Our chickens are afraid of them and hide. I asked about this, a couple of years ago, being afraid of diseases, and it sounded like they should be more worried about their pheasants. They have chickens, ducks, and pheasants all living together, except the pheasants sleep on top of their house.

I've been there to take care of their animals a couple of times, and whilst they are both medical doctors, they know little about caring for poultry. Kind of a messy setup. They don't mind their pheasants wandering all this way either which is weird. I guess I won't worry about it either since our chickens don't mingle with them.

Neighbors watching out for each other's animals is the courtesy of farm living. The time for biosecurity isolation from wandering neighbor livestock is when your area has an AI or chicken disease alert. Still biosecurity wearing disposable baggies over shoes, changing clothes, thorough handwashing when caring for other animals is wise.

We have an animal rescue friend that will not go into a backyard & has her own carrier & the rescue bird is brought to her carrier directly for quarantine. She wears shoe covers & disposable gloves too when handling. Sounds pretty tedious but she takes biosecurity seriously.

 

[Sylvester017]

I like this lady

The "chickenlandia" lady loves chickens plus she knows a lot of her viewers don't have access to vets or $$$ so she offers the best advice she's done herself. She talks a lot but definitely a good watch of all her videos.

 

[GregnLety]

The turkey is ready and the kids are late but Mike n Cathy will arrive soon. Turkey is out of the fryer so I can take it easy now.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You could quietly put the word put that a small pullet was found ‘in town’ and that she has a lovely home now.

Sure hope Poppet has a couple babies to mother. She is such a character!

It was the cities landscaping crew that captured her. They actually went knocking on doors to see if she was claimed and they never saw signs of any illegal backyard flocks or coops. My neighbor told them to casually put out the word while they are out working that the town "stray" chicken has a wonderful new home. If someone had claimed her animal control who is useless in my rural area would have stepped in. They focus highly in town and strictly enforce rules. If they had more chickens they all would be confiscated. I hate to think what would have happened to her if they had actually turned her into animal control. The shelter is overrun with cats and dogs. I've never saw any other types of animals listed on their website.

 

[Sylvester017]

@Marie2020 ~ our chickenlandia lady on Red Mite info worth a watch for us w/coops/chickens/cats ~ about a 17 min video

 

[Sylvester017]

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Sherlock is so good about having fun yet still watching you that you're nearby. That is such a rewarding trait!

 

[fuentemoon]

A late caturday pic

 

[Sylvester017]

Sunday after church, our congregation will be having a feast for thanksgiving

How'd it go? How was food prepared/brought in? Such a lovely event that larger congregations are limited from doing other than providing food banks in their area (but also not a bad idea too).

 

[ManueB]

Wow! Your hillside photos are beautiful. What's your elevation? Do the chickens stay nearby or do they wander far every day?

Our place is at 3500 feet. The village and our property are on a very steep slope, so just an hour walk gets us much higher in the mountain.

The chickens on the picture don't free range, they are enclosed in a yard. Some of my chickens do free range on our property : they stay surprisingly close. I would say they don't use more than one third of an acre, and they have five or six places where they hang out most of the time.
Of all the chickens who ranged here at some point, only two young pullets ever ventured below the chicken's yard, all the others only go above or stay on the same level ! I've wondered why, and I suppose they want to be able to come back very quickly to their safe place in the chicken yard.

 

[RoyalChick]

Tassels seems to have got more gold patches on her back.