Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

Like I said - 3hrs on the ice road and you won't say that - I make the best apply pie anywhere!

Is there a flight? I trust choppers and airplane more than me driving on ice

 

[Ponypoor]

I concur. She is very special.

Thank you - you are very kind.

 

[Ponypoor]

Is there a flight? I trust choppers and airplane more than me driving on ice

hahahaha nope!

But there should be a flight from FSJ to Van for you - or did you drive?

 

[GregnLety]

I got a 6AM flight to Vancouver tomorrow. I try minimize my driving especially in cold weather

 

[Ponypoor]

Is there a flight? I trust choppers and airplane more than me driving on ice

It's the driving over the muskeg that scares me - esp right now that it's been really mild - don't want to break through the frozen crust.

Chicken Tax
Mount Poopmore chooks

 

[GregnLety]

It's the driving over the muskeg that scares me - esp right now that it's been really mild - don't want to break through the frozen crust.

Chicken Tax
Mount Poopmore chooks
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Yeah it's warm in Saint John today, almost 40F

 

[Ponypoor]

I got a 6AM flight to Vancouver tomorrow. I try minimize my driving especially in cold weather

Good choice - better to fly

I wish the ice road was open when I flew home - would have saved me from driving from Grande Prairie. I could have flown from FSJ to Calgary then home.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yeah it's warm in Saint John today, almost 40F

Yep it was that here today also - the guys are all full of mud - ewwww!

I almost went through a stop sign the roads are icy... and I wore my cleats so I wouldn't fall on my derriere!

Good choice - better to fly

I wish the ice road was open when I flew home - would have saved me from driving from Grande Prairie. I could have flown from FSJ to Calgary then home.

And tax for Ice Road Chickens
I give your frosty chooks

 

[GregnLety]

Yep it was that here today also - the guys are all full of mud - ewwww!

I almost went through a stop sign the roads are icy... and I wore my cleats so I wouldn't fall on my derriere!


And tax for Ice Road Chickens
I give your frosty chooks
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I like that rooster, looks like Blackie

 

[RoyalChick]

Epic fail
With the aid of the two tall guys who are working on the barn, we rigged up a burlap ceiling to the Chicken Palace.
It looks beautiful and leaves absolutely no line of sight to the rafters.
Come roosting time I tempted everyone into the coop with some apple cores and closed off access to the run so the Math Majors couldn't just decide to roost in the rafters out in the run.
I sat quietly in the servant's quarters.
There was much peering up at the ceiling and much flying from roost to roost.
Babs tried to fly up to the rafters and failed several times.
I was feeling pretty pleased with myself for solving this problem.

And then suddenly there was Babs up in the rafters.

I was physically there and have watched the videos the cameras took, and I still have no idea how she did it. What is clear however, is that her failed attempts were in fact reconnaissance flights to identify weak spots in the structure.
Once up she called Eli to join her and even watching a second chicken I cannot figure out how they got there.

Anyway, the guys were still here and I wanted to make sure we didn't have an issue in the morning when they flew down into burlap, so in the dark we undid fixtures so there was a clear flight path down. While the guys were up on the ladder Eli was very interested in what they were doing so she flew down (by the light of their headlamps) but then couldn't get back up.
So, Babs is sleeping on her own up in the rafters, while Bernadette and Eli are on the main roost. Eli is a safe distance from Bernadette who pecked at her every time she came too close.