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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    They're the perfect size for their feathered operators!
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    really need advice!! PLEASE!!

    Integrating with the bigs is the direction I would go too. Lots of line of sight blockers, upended boxes with doors cut for baby to run into that bigs can't (sturdy enough for bigs to stand on and not collapse), branches to climb/roost on that are all over the run (most birds will leave others...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    He's beautiful! You could probably get eggs in the spring. Wonder how many peafowl eggs a chicken could brood?
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Cardhu's trio are comfortably mixed in
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Baby mugs Cockerel #1 (i think hes going to look like Whiskey) chocolate baby, pullet? the stripey winged chocolate, black breast=cockerel....but does that hold true with the odd coloring? last to hatch, green egg, only splash
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    :goodpost:@Ponypoor agreed. And maybe she'll stomp a rat?
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    And some peacocks
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Nights have been holding temps until just before sunrise, so they should be fine. If not, both PITA and Focus are responding to chick in distress calls, so ....:idunno chicks were allowed to follow Cardhu except when she went to lay the egg. She got them up off the ground at night, then decided...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Well, Cardhu appears to be done. She laid an egg today and is up on the high roost tonight. Her trio are up where they spent the night last night. I think the trio would be welcomed for warm up with Focus and/or PITA, but will bear watching.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Have cross braces in place....well, all but 1. And the hatch vertical. The 1 is about 3/16ths of an inch too long. Sand it down....the 1 piece of sandpaper I can find has now been used to useless. I need to get more sandpaper tomorrow. No screws/drilling done. Murphy again. I swear I will NOT...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Well was only 80 feet. House sat at 6000+ altitude. I DID get my hot bath. I just had to wait until the water heater had warmed up the water....another hour....and I nearly cried when the water first came out cold. 2 bathing broodies
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    That's why I'm going to use the ratchet screw driver. If the other battery holds for pre-drilling the holes, good enough. If it holds longer, good. I don't know how old the batteries are, nor do I know where we got the thing so replacing them will be Amazon. I can probably get this done before...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    He could play hawk and owl sounds....
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    This runs in the family. When I was in college, my parents lived at 6000+ feet elevation. The electrical box for the well died new year's day. We spent the day trying to get into extremely tight quarters to replace something in it. .... We had running water again for 1 (one) day. The...
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Got enough juice to start screws, so door panel is now glued and screwed....with the ratchet screw driver. Hopefully tomorrow night will have enough juice to predrill for the hatch frame and braces. Planning on ratchet screwing 14 5-inch screws.....sigh. a 1 day assembly, 4 day polyurethane...
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