Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

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I see.

 

[BY Bob]

Busy Day Today

it started with Glynda and Lady Featherington eating from my hand this morning.

I noticed someone's little voice was changing. Turned out it is Glynda growing up too fast.

Of course roosting tonight was just chaos. The following video will give you an idea of how chaotic. It starts with Gucci 1/2 way up the ramp but she gives up and turns around and comes back down.

As you can see Glynda knows what to do but no one will listen to her.

So tonight instead of boosting Gucci into the run, I shooed her up the ramp. Making her take the trip on her own legs. Once Gucci was in the Hut, everyone else joined her. Hopefully she learned from it tonight.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

That's the problem. Color wise, he's got all this "war paint". Personality wise he's ALL attitude....and if he makes it past the hormonal idiocy, will likely be king/sultan/emperor.....he's had the imperious demeanor from the day he hatched.

Emperor - he could be Emberor?

 

[lightm]

It comes down to the standardized material sizes, and makes even less sense when you think that a 2x4 is actually 1.5x 3.5” but 16” OC with 2xframing members divides a 4x8’sheet of plywood perfectly on the edges of the studs for framing… of course if you mess up said 16” on Centers you’re screwed, and it only gets worse every stud (see, I’m totally learning lots building this house!) and when you convert the materials to mm it makes practically no sense and doesn’t line up properly. HOWEVER in framing education given here in Canada, it’s all apparently done in metric, even though the entire industry uses imperial! way to keep us all on our toes

The day I found out that 2 x 4 is 1.5 x 3.5, I acted the same as if a kid found out Santa is not real.

Sigh.

 

[Kris5902]

The day I found out that 2 x 4 is 1.5 x 3.5, I acted the same as if a kid found out Santa is not real.

Sigh.

Unless you mill your own, are using very old reclaimed lumber, or can source full measure from a local Mill But then that changes all the dimensions on what you’re building if you’re not careful, and trying to mix full measure and standard lumber… it can get messy really quickly, and really screws up the “on center” measurements if you’re using “normal” spacing. Plus it looks funky, and not in a good way! That’s why despit the woodmizer sawmill here I built all my tractors out of lumber from the yard, plus it’s kiln dried and won’t shrink as much as green home milled materials.

Construction rant Tax: this is about the ratio of pullets I’m getting this year as well meet “Sausage 1, 2, 3”, and a pullet… I hope. (There will be room for a few more boys, but I won’t really know who’s a keeper until closer to November)

 

[Kris5902]

99f on the coop

Stay safe and cool. DH said “wow, it’s like 40degrees in London!” And I said “what, London, Ontario? Or London London?” When you’re not used to these temperatures it’s a huge shock to everyone’s system, people and all critters alike.

 

[Kris5902]

How is she doing this morning? Hope anxiety and frustration is down enough to be able t 'tolerate' her! I can absolutely understand her reaction....as a young teen, they really don't understand long term implications of injuries! My heart goes out to you both...hope it isn't too long of s summer for either of you!

The young heal fast, forget fast, and get into trouble even faster

Yep teenagers are invincible, remember? Just ask any of them!

 

[Kris5902]

Time, just give it time. She will learn to adapt and figure things out. Birds are very smart and adaptable.

Have you had them out with the other running around?

Thank you! Everyone here was joking about “stupid chickens” and “bird brains” when they were getting the hay up here and having to drive through the free range flock area. I kept telling them they aren’t “stupid”, and to just keep driving slowly and they will move out of the way… but much stopping, honking, chasing, and only one incident of attempted “herding” with the dogs one of which didn’t have the sense to get out of the way, and if you remember was literally run over with the tractor a while back. So before they mock the vehicle smarts of my pets…

Chicken Tax:

 

[Kris5902]

Bad Drivers

I resist doing this whenever possible as I want to keep the thread on chickens a much as I can. But this clearly bugged me the other day and so I apologize to everyone in advance but I need to take one last bite of this apple.

I have been keeping track since our little discussion regarding people in expensive sports cars the other day. Since then I have been cut off, and dangerously so, by a Chevy Cruze. Nearly sideswiped by a tractor trailer, I had to take to the shoulder and slam on the brakes, and a mini van of some kind (less dangerous with the mini van). Had one of those huge pickup trucks tailgate me at 75 mph. I mean he was so close I could see the radiator clearly in my mirror.

2 of these instances had the real possibility of a serious accident if I had not been paying attention and been able to react quickly.

I have seen 1 BMW behaving badly. Luckily that moron did not affect me in any way.

First, everyone drive carefully. Please think of others.

To my point, does anyone think maybe we notice the expensive sports cars more because we are predisposed to think of them as jerks?

Car Tax
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I think it also depends a lot on where you’re driving, for instance up in Dawson Creek (northern BC), it was always the big flashy Newer Trucks that were the issue. In Vancouver and surrounding areas here it is definitely a higher percentage of BMW, Audi, and those little street racing cars, but I also worked in West Van and commuted through the downtown core. The people with the really nice sports cars tended to not be in those areas, or generally drive like idiots. Not to say there’s not a lot of awful drivers of more average cars as well, and some areas are much worse for bad drivers than others. BIL likes minivans and he’s an awful driver, has written off two since we moved to Saturna and we have almost no traffic and there’s NO reason to be doing more than 50kph ever here! Deer, goats, walkers, and single lane roads like one wide lane, but not two cars wide in most spots. So yes we do probably just like to pick on the BMW owners because of some predisposition to thinking they are bad drivers. And BMW’s aren’t really all that expensive, or nice IMO.

Taxes on this will have to wait I’m all out of chicken pictures…

 

[Kris5902]

I wonder if there have been studies on this sort of thing? I am sure the insurance business has done them!

When DH was back out East his Firebird cost 3x as much to insure as in BC, because he had a 2 door sports car and it was, gasp, red! They charged more based on paint colour!!! And because he was a man under 30. So add gender and age bias as well… just for good measure.