Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

You need to remove the flat screen TV. Then they won’t stay inside the box!

Flat panel buddy! I am the only one here with a flat screen!!!

 

[Ponypoor]

Getting There​

So, I don't know if y'all remember, but each fall I try to put up bags of leaves and pine needles, that I use (mixed with shavings) for bedding throughout the winter. My goal this year was at least 30 bags (plus some loose in the run)



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I'm up to 24 bags, and so far, 3 large garbage cans full of leaves in the run! I'm hoping to get the rest done tomorrow, as rain is predicted for Friday. I don't like to bag damp leaves as they mold.

Bedding Tax:
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"I'm outta here!" Morning rush to leave the coop!

Yeehaa! Outta my way! I am outta here, I want to break freeeeeeee!!!!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Getting There​

So, I don't know if y'all remember, but each fall I try to put up bags of leaves and pine needles, that I use (mixed with shavings) for bedding throughout the winter. My goal this year was at least 30 bags (plus some loose in the run)



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I'm up to 24 bags, and so far, 3 large garbage cans full of leaves in the run! I'm hoping to get the rest done tomorrow, as rain is predicted for Friday. I don't like to bag damp leaves as they mold.

Bedding Tax:
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"I'm outta here!" Morning rush to leave the coop!

Ever since Bob effectively cut down a tree, rebuilt a coop, and a deck all in a weekend I have had a growing sense from this thread that I am not as productive as the rest of you.

Several of you have cleaned out coops, built runs and fences, @Kris5902 has (nearly) built a house!

And now I read this post about collecting bedding and it has pushed me over the edge.

I am clearly as lazy as all hell!

I too use leaves and pine needles. I heap them all up behind a big forsythia bush and take them off the top when I need them (the bottom layers are usually too damp). It is true I usually keep a couple of big lawn bags in the garage to dry out but that is about it (and I haven't even done that yet).

What is wrong with me?!

I think I will just have a little rest on the sofa while I think about this issue!

 

[Marie2020]

I know 38 is young for this but it is something that has needed to be done for several years now. Due to my family history it also does not shock me. My mom had to wait with the same problems until she was 40. My grandmother and everyone of her sisters had it done either right at 40 or a year or two before. I had a first cousin have it done at 31 due to cervical cancer and 2 more have 1 ovary removed due to cysts. I am tired of the no energy, constant pain and other issues. I have not felt human so to say in a good 5 years and have been told I have to wait because I was young. I am very angry that to even get to this point I had to have the IUD torture device before insurance would approve. When they placed it 2 years ago next month both cysts were there, but were only 1 and 3 cm. The IUD was "supposed" to keep them the same size or hopefully shrink them. That obviously did not happen. I already got a call back for the pre-surgery labs, guess who is slightly anemic, me. Does it surprise me, not in the least.

I'll be keeping an eye on you from here. Keep me updated and as already said I'm here to inbox too

 

[Ponypoor]

Ever since Bob effectively cut down a tree, rebuilt a coop, and a deck all in a weekend I have had a growing sense from this thread that I am not as productive as the rest of you.

Several of you have cleaned out coops, built runs and fences, @Kris5902 has (nearly) built a house!

And now I read this post about collecting bedding and it has pushed me over the edge.

I am clearly as lazy as all hell!

I too use leaves and pine needles. I heap them all up behind a big forsythia bush and take them off the top when I need them (the bottom layers are usually too damp). It is true I usually keep a couple of big lawn bags in the garage to dry out but that is about it (and I haven't even done that yet).

What is wrong with me?!

I think I will just have a little rest on the sofa while I think about this issue!

Hey don’t look at me! This is how my day goes lately - take today for instance….

Went to the barn and greeted the gang and let them out in the Rooster Run, get the wheelbarrow and start mucking out, empty the barrow, next stall, empty barrow, check the chickens, and make sure the gals are laying eggs in the hen house.

Back to the last stall, empty barrow, oh the horses are here, they need grooming, brush the horses, give them some loving….

Check the chickens, check for eggs, play with the chickens, treats…..

Check out BYC, post some pics, check for eggs, oh darn forgot to finish stalls, bed down stalls, fill water buckets. Check BYC post some comments and photos, play with chickens check eggs…. Go to my sisters and dose my nieces hens…

Back home, play with chickens, post pics on BYC, oh darn time to feed horses and bring them in… put chickens to bed, check out BYC… oh darn almost 6, need supper.

And here it is almost 9 I haven done evening chores yet because I am watching BBC shows and researching scaly leg mites and posting on BYC! A most productive day I would say! Doing diddly squat!

And so it goes!

 

[featherhead007]

Ever since Bob effectively cut down a tree, rebuilt a coop, and a deck all in a weekend I have had a growing sense from this thread that I am not as productive as the rest of you.

Several of you have cleaned out coops, built runs and fences, @Kris5902 has (nearly) built a house!

And now I read this post about collecting bedding and it has pushed me over the edge.

I am clearly as lazy as all hell!

I too use leaves and pine needles. I heap them all up behind a big forsythia bush and take them off the top when I need them (the bottom layers are usually too damp). It is true I usually keep a couple of big lawn bags in the garage to dry out but that is about it (and I haven't even done that yet).

What is wrong with me?!

I think I will just have a little rest on the sofa while I think about this issue!

Exhausting isn’t it ?!

 

[featherhead007]

Hey don’t look at me! This is how my day goes lately - take today for instance….

Went to the barn and greeted the gang and let them out in the Rooster Run, get the wheelbarrow and start mucking out, empty the barrow, next stall, empty barrow, check the chickens, and make sure the gals are laying eggs in the hen house.

Back to the last stall, empty barrow, oh the horses are here, they need grooming, brush the horses, give them some loving….

Check the chickens, check for eggs, play with the chickens, treats…..

Check out BYC, post some pics, check for eggs, oh darn forgot to finish stalls, bed down stalls, fill water buckets. Check BYC post some comments and photos, play with chickens check eggs…. Go to my sisters and dose my nieces hens…

Back home, play with chickens, post pics on BYC, oh darn time to feed horses and bring them in… put chickens to bed, check out BYC… oh darn almost 6, need supper.

And here it is almost 9 I haven done evening chores yet because I am watching BBC shows and researching scaly leg mites and posting on BYC! A most productive day I would say! Doing diddly squat!

And so it goes!

BBC has some good shows! (Just saying)

 

[Ponypoor]

BBC has some good shows! (Just saying)

Was watching Rosemary and Thyme - murder mystery show , last night it was Shakespeare and Hathaway, mondays it’s Sister Bonaface . All from 8-9pm then chores then bed.

TV Toll

 

[rural mouse]

omg I want homemade eggnog recipe!

I'll try to remember to pull it out and PM you in the morning

 

[Ponypoor]

I'll try to remember to pull it out and PM you in the morning

Is it non alcoholic?