Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[lightm]

Well, their run has plenty of bedding..in the exposed to the elements area a good amount of wood chips, with shavings that go on top (and/or leaves and/or pine needles, depending on time of year) as stuff gets added. In the covered part of run, shavings (again, and/or leaves and/or pine needles depending - usually a mix of all three fall into winter until I run out of the leaves & needles.) In the coop proper I use a a finer version of the pine shavings (not sawdust, but being finer it is more absorbent). However, chickens like to scratch and dig. I am always finding a rock here or there that they have dug up from under the bedding in the run ...and when things are composted and ready to use as dirt, I am always amazed at the amount of small rocks that are in there, as I pick out ones I see in the runs before it ever makes it to the compost pile.

P.S. @lightm The roost for the chickies isn't bricks. It is 100% wood scraps. 2X3 on side for roost itself, and short 2X4s for the base on either end....stacked. It kind of makes 'steps' for the littles to hop up before they can fly. They were all lightly sanded on ends to remove burrs, and the roost itself I sanded the 'sharp' edges to give the edges a bit more rounded feel. I do that of all my board roosts.....though the majority of my roosts are either dowels or fairly straight branches, I do have some 2X3 & 2X4 roosts. I don't have a router, so the first time I did it, I was expecting it to take forever, but it wasn't nearly as bad as i thought it would be!

Oh I see. Sorry. It is a clever roost. What is a router here?

 

[lightm]

Monday Mugs

I feel like i got a goodly assortment today.

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And guess who made a surprise visit!

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very very good!!! Hi Phyllis

 

[Lexicon]

In The Drink

One of the Rascals just found the pool. Guess before looking. They did get themselves out.

My guess is: Glynda because she seems quite agile and it would be hard to get out of a pool if you were a chicken.

 

[rural mouse]

As promised, mugs of Cheetah and Thing's pretty pullets,

courtesy of my MIL


And my matched pair, Indigo and Lark

Twirp

A rumpled Silver, moulting hard compared to last year (Thing is too)

How did that get in here?

 

[BY Bob]

The RAMP is about 8-9 inches wide, sanded tongue and groove boards (3) nailed together (believe it or not, they were pulled from a pallet!). The plywood 'strips' are the treads on the ramp for stepping instead of slipping. They are every 4" on the ramp proper.

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That is very helpful. I was totally confused. I use 1x2 for my strips. I find it gives them a bigger hold and when little it seems to be easier for them to use.

 

[BY Bob]

My guess is: Glynda because she seems quite agile and it would be hard to get out of a pool if you were a chicken.

I was certain that Glynda would be first.

 

[Marie2020]

I feel such an ogre having too deal with lovely people with so many problems that have to be resolved.

So I'm coming in here to be with the people I feel happy with

 

[Marie2020]

I got a remedy for that. My hammer.

You are so lucky I just adore you my friend ❤

 

[Marie2020]

Sunday (yesterday) I attended a church in town. The pastor made an offensive joke about my hair loss. (I’m thinner on top, so what,) but is it right for the pastor to make jokes about my personal looks?
What are your opinions?

Tell him to change his dress the cheeky man.

I had a lovely girl praying for me today so I started sharing with her my ideas on natural soap I know I shouldn't but sometimes I cannot resist and saw she has a skin problem

 

[Marie2020]

Jokes like that are only reserved for a close family member or kindred spirit friend who knows you and knows if you are receptive to those sort of shenanigans.

People in rolls of influence or power must never make comments as such in public. First off it very uncouth, and second if he is a close friend/family they would know that one wouldn’t want such comments made to the general public.

Well Alex if you’re stressing about this I suggest you have a candid conversation with this person.

More importantly I would not take any heed of this person - you don’t need to associate with him if he makes you feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Plenty of fish in the sea!

Alex is beautiful just the way he is, inside his heart and the outside in my humble opinion ♥