Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Yep! But over the years the pavers will pay for themselves in saved water bills, gardener billing, & lawnmower purchases & repairs! & keeps weeds WAY down! Chickens don't like it though ~ the vast space of the frontyard scares them and they run to hide under the tomato plants beside the garage wall!
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Maybe put some shade stuff down on the open paved area. Gazebo? Redwood picnic table? More pottery and plants? Or just leave it as it is, and tell me to shut up and mind my own business?

 

[featherhead007]

DH's dad had a Piper Cub that DH remembers flying w/ his dad at 4 yrs old. His Korean veteran dad died of a heart attack at only 42 yrs old!

DH's dad was a Korean war field clerk like Radar from M.A.S.H.

Tx ~ Fluffies, one coming, one going
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I love my Cessna 172 SkyHawk.
Lately I’ve not been flying much. I’m enjoying my new car and have been driving around more lately.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Send him over here please and bob while your at it , I need some wood repairs doing

If you have dessert, my hubby would be happy to lend some strongman work we're a bit of a drive away from you though!

 

[featherhead007]

If you have dessert, my hubby would be happy to lend some strongman work we're a bit of a drive away from you though!

“Bit of a drive”

 

[SimpleJenn]

“Bit of a drive”

Maybe our mini cooper is amphibious!

 

[Ponypoor]

Gah, major slip up this morning.

The last week dad has been letting the chickens out of the coop in the morning before he goes to work. He has also been letting out the littles and closing up the coop door once the big girls are out. I'm always out there a hour or two later just to check and make sure it was done.

This morning it is raining. I put on my pot of coffee and while trying to look out the windows I cannot tell if the girls got let out or not. So outside in the downpour I go. I see right away the coop door is open. I'm thinking ok he forgot to let loose the littles. 3 seconds later I have full on panic as out pops a silkie only to turn and run back in when the rain pelted her. Crap. The chicks have only free ranged twice under supervision for a few minutes and they have yet to intermingle with the adults.

This mornings rain is a blessing. The big chickens are all in with the horses and the chicks are terrified of the rain so they stayed in the coop. I did numerous head counts, all 7 are accounted for.

Mom told me he was running late for work so since all is well I will not yell at him this evening. I'm still not ready for the chicks to be out and about yet unsupervised. The silkies while growing rapidly are still small. I also do not trust Randy just yet with them. He has given me no reason not to, but, I want to personally be there when he meets them without a protective barrier. I do think he has imprinted on them. I have caught him around the coop head low staring at them. Not in a aggressive way though. He has also sort of talked to them from the outside.

I know I am over protective and need to bite the bullet and let them start free ranging soon. Loosing Branch to the hawk has shook me. I look at the silkie chicks and see "chicken nugget" snacks to a hawk right now. They are happy and thriving not free ranging so for now, nope, stay in the coop while you all grow some more.

I understand that fear. It is reasonable to feel this way, and I would do the same things.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Apples!

Found a squirrel chewed apple on dad's apple tree (which he only has one of and makes plenty of apples ) threw it in.
Kasumi got between Samara and her babies and almost lost an eye! Now she's doing the whole lower hen bow and freeze whenever Samara walks by.

"You showed her, mama!"


"Baby, this is apple!"


Morinth is very upset with the little polish as it won't stop dustbathing, even for apple. I'll have to go check it later, it wasn't walking on it's feet, but waddling using the whole leg. Could have just been in dustbath mode though.

She was pecking it like she wanted it to stop rolling around and come eat apple!

Good dirt for bathing though

 

[rural mouse]

All that wildlife will be in serious danger as well as the people that live amongst these fires

Actually, the only wildlife that truly gets hurt in wildfires are rodents. The birds fly and the large animals skedaddle out of the way. I was reading up on the Fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 recently.

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/1988-fires.htm


Current population statistics
https://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/wildlife.htm


From early summer

 

[SimpleJenn]

This cochin baby, the first hatched here, please be a girl. Or...I might figure out a way to keep you anyways. You are special.

 

[Sylvester017]

Maybe put some shade stuff down on the open paved area. Gazebo? Redwood picnic table? More pottery and plants? Or just leave it as it is, and tell me to shut up and mind my own business?

I don't think you can MIND your own business and still breathe !!! Besides, DH would miss your humor if you stopped meddling ! Suggest away and I'll probably have a retort as well !

Retorts:
DH uses the open yard space to roll out the BBQ grill plus we keep the city waste bins inside the yard not too far from the porch & chained together cuz our neighbors and us have had our county trash bins stolen a few times from our side yards or from next to our garage walls! The local riff-raff steal anything loose or not chained down!

And we DO have a Pomegranate tree in the front yard and that's messy enough! It's to the right of the trash bins near the block wall in the photo and it's taller than the block wall now.

Trees are the pits messing up a yard so if it doesn't grow food to eat we don't bother w/ any trees. Besides, we live above the 210 Fwy & the decades-old Fwy landscape trees mess up our neighborhood yards w/ tons of gigantic dried-up Autumn maple leaves ~ ugh!

On the porch we have to keep tools locked up in a large heavy bench box. And we put a faucet lock on our frontyard spigot to keep the homeless from using water cuz they don't turn it off after!


The front yard weeds before laying down paver stones. Today paver stones & our 3 trash bins are in the same spot! The chickens loved scouting for cut worms!