Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Here’s the youngsters today:
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Wow! They are all grown up pretty much aren’t they?!

You have a beautiful flock - rocks, and all

 

[featherhead007]

Wow! They are all grown up pretty much aren’t they?!

You have a beautiful flock - rocks, and all

I have two separate flocks of chooks. They stay separate throughout the day but sleep together at night.

 

[Ponypoor]

Plums need 2 trees to pollinate

Yes and they need a compatible cross pollinator, same with cherry trees.

You can get plums that are self pollinating but they produce more fruit if you have a cross pollinator.

Peaches and apricots do not require a cross pollinator.

Can’t wait for my peach trees to ripen

 

[Ponypoor]

I have two separate flocks of chooks. They stay separate throughout the day but sleep together at night.

That will change when the pullets start laying.

 

[featherhead007]

Wow! They are all grown up pretty much aren’t they?!

You have a beautiful flock - rocks, and all

I’m hoping that my buff roo, grows up bigger, so I can teach him how to wrestle with me like BEN did.

 

[Ponypoor]

I

Fell through the deck at our last house at least twice. The first time was the worst, almost all the way to my hip, my foot touched the ground. It was raining, i had a wet sheet from the garden in one arm and the mail in the other, and was home alone. I sat there for a moment trying to gather myself and finally hauled myself up and hobbled inside. Thank goodness i was wearing pants! Still very bruised and scraped up, it was so scary. Worst was that the rental company only replaced the broken section, it continued to fall apart, we gad to lay plywood in a pathway.View attachment 3920365

Gosh that’s scary!

 

[Ponypoor]

10 weeks old already!
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You can sort of see they are starting to molt, odd little fluffy bits sticking out.

"Treats!"
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Big girl fluffy butts
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Beautiful babies - they are almost as big as the adults

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m hoping that my buff roo, grows up bigger, so I can teach him how to wrestle with me like BEN did.

I’ll just be happy if my silkies are both girls

 

[Ponypoor]

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

Animals are good at getting out, people not so good.

During the Fort Mc fires a few yrs ago it was chaos- people were riding their horses out, and their quads and side-by-sides, they went south towards Edmonton and Anzac and NORTH to all the big camps and plants where they camp folks and the workers gladly took them in, workers gave up their rooms for families. Pets were taken in no questions asked.

People knew how to LEAVE. It’s the one huge thing people working in Fort Mc and other mining towns know - they know how to follow orders and how to stay safe, and how to get the heck out when there is trouble. I thank God every day for the safety training I have received working out there.


Mr P and Bert were fighting theough the screen door today, mr P got the worst of it his wattles are torn and he is covered in blood again.

 

[RoyalChick]

Also fires like to travel ‘upwards’ - there was an awesome Nature of Rhings documentary on fire - causes and what we know about fire behaviour.

It’s scary stuff!

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