Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Yes indeed, astonishing is the right word and it makes me a bit mad too to tell the truth. It feels an awful lot like they are taking advantage of our love for our pets. I will be using those hard wood stove pellets as a bottom most layer for my coop bedding with pine chips on top to soften any landings from the roosts in the spring when I do a total clean out. Seeing as how I have a dirt floor coop this should work pretty well.

I do use the pellets for the chickens sometimes - just in places where there is concentrated wet, like when Maggie had diarrhea and always slept in the same spot, I would sprinkle it on the ground there.
The one issue is they compost really slowly. It isn't a big issue for me as it is better it take a while when composting cat waste and I have the space - but I am about to use one bin and it has been about 4 years since I left that bin to mature!
It is still better than the mining that is required for the clay litter. I sometimes use it un-composted as mulch around trees, and the horse stall ones are a bit darker so it is less of an eyesore when it hasn't rotted down.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thanks, I'm on it.

Oh I can’t wait to see how you reposition the roosts .

 

[Ponypoor]

People will pay more for their beloved cats. That's crazy!

I think wood stove pellets have an additive to them to burn…

 

[rural mouse]

Birch trees are in the poplar family, and are not long-lived as a group. Nice little sapling there!





@rural mouse RC’s information is what I found too - you’re not supposed to tie into the house ground or any other ground, and you shouldn’t ground near another ground either, in fact. I forget what it was, keep it 30 feet from any other ground? Also yes as @Ponypoor wrote? depending on the charge level and fence length you want at least one or more ground rods of a certain length. And yes, the metals touching each other have to be compatible when electricity runs through them or you will have corrosion and loss of charge and wasted materials. I bought the plug-in charger and ground rod (only needed one three foot steel rod for my soil and where I was placing it - on the perennially moist northern side of the barn) and connectors and wires and all the bits and pieces from Premier with their advice.

The area I'm looking at has a power pole with ground right there. I would need to run the fence between the pole and the ground.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I think wood stove pellets have an additive to them to burn…

Not to my knowledge, I believe you can get them that do but they should be well marked as having accelerant. The regular hardwood stove pellets most commonly sold are simply pressed hardwood shavings nothing more in them.

I read and researched so much when we first decided to see if we could use them for ferrets. Also, if they had had something like that in them but unlabeled my ferrets would have surly have perished as they are quite sensitive to respiratory irritants.

I personally truly believe based on years of using them for small animals that they are indeed safe.

 

[Ponypoor]

Perfect Pony Sunday

Sally checking out the chickies

Reenie relaxing

Lulu looking all cute

And Truly looking for something to spook at

 

[Ponypoor]

The area I'm looking at has a power pole with ground right there. I would need to run the fence between the pole and the ground.

Got a pic?

 

[BY Bob]

Scrubbed and Torched

Reconstruction can begin now.

 

[bgmathteach]

are you talking about the grey one or the brown one?

Brown one

 

[ManueB]

Yes it was treated. The problem is that it was not be when I built the coop. It was a donation from someone that had been used a lot before it got here. If you are thinking how long should they last, we will have to wait for the ones I am installing this time from knew to treat and get an idea. It's been over 5 years since I built the coop. I believe. I can check later if you really want to know.

Thank you for the information! No need to check, I just wanted an approximative idea, and anyway it would depend on the climate and exposure I guess. Five years is not so bad I think considering it may have had some use before.