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    Vermont

    We are between flocks at the moment because something got our last 3 hens while we were on vacation this summer. I felt so bad that the pet sitter was the one to discover the wrecked coop. my guess is it was a bear because window trim and hardware cloth were ripped off. I will start building...
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    What would make caring for your flock easier?

    A waterer that'll work below 0°F without needing replacement/repairs every year. A bigger coop that won't blow away in a big storm. Luckily we had a kid's playhouse as backup!
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Yes, typing it out helped me get some perspective on just how much it was! The only thing on today's schedule is picking blueberries at my parents' and grocery shopping. Well, there's the usual keeping all the voracious velociraptors around here fed. I am not sure if I am talking about the...
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I'll just say I am somewhere between Lozzy and CCCL. :D The first computer I got to use was something my dad brought home from work that was MS-DOS based, had a flip down keyboard, and an orange and black screen that was around 4x6 inches. I played Othello on it. LOL. It's funny that I never...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Can I borrow him? ;D We have caught 5 mice in our house in the last week. We haven't had mice in our house for the last 5+ years!
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I am trying to catch up but I am still 30 pages behind. Apparently it's been over a week since I logged in last. It has been an eventful week. I have been dealing with deaths, finishing the chicken coop, getting my house clean enough for a realtor to see it, figuring out if the public...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I am sure Ned is a rooster! That storm is heading my way right now. I am hoping it will have weakened quite a bit by the time it gets this far north. I'm glad to hear that your chickens got through it well.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I am loving all the green legs! We hope to get the coop done this weekend. The hardware cloth I didn't think would get here until the end of next week showed up yesterday! Just in time as we are on chicken watch. We may need to separate her from the rest. One of the Barred Rocks has...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I think COVID has had a lot of people working extra without pay. My husband works in Healthcare IT and was getting programming in for hospitals to track cases. It was done knowing it wasn't going to be paid for and there was even a paycut for a little while. There is value in doing things for...
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    There are hooks in two bedrooms for that hammock too. Great for gross motor movement in the winter but I make the kids pick up all the LEGOs before I'll hang it up. Pictured is the screened in porch. The mosquitoes here are worth screening against!
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    I had wanted to post a picture of the two kids reading Harry Potter sized books together, but it's not on my phone any more. This photo of the books they are writing I took yesterday though!
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    Over Christmas break my 10 year old convinced my 6 year old to read Harry Potter. She got quite a ways before deciding it was too scary! No choice about reading around here. One grandmother was a librarian and the other was a Kindergarten teacher!
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Progress! The coop build was delayed and delayed because my order for the roofing from a big box store kept getting messed around with and never came. Finally I cancelled it when I found out a local company had it in stock! They delivered it the next day. That'll teach me to stick to local...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Ha! The French verb "pondre" means to lay an egg. My bilingual brain tripped over Lilly pondering. LOL
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    Ribh's D'Coopage

    My 7 year old ordered a narwhal and a pink ostrich with her birthday money. :D
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