Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

In this case it wasn't a right angle though.

Might be a circular argument there

 

[Ponypoor]

Good! That way our 55mph Santa Ana Winds won't seem so bad! Ugh! Debris EVERYWHERE! I hope its done before I check into the hospital tomorrow!

Supposed to peak in the morning so hopefully it will be settling down by then.

 

[rural mouse]

Mother Nature and I are in the midst of having some words…. She’s winning.

Gosh I love that photo hahahaha

I still can't believe she did that...and Indigo LET her! Now she's bigger than Indigo!

 

[rural mouse]

Yep they have been around for a while. They can cause issues with sweating which can cause freezing also.

I dug out my good to -70C boots, but now the snow is almost over the boots trudging to the barn.

The gloves/mitts are good but I handle water so much they would get soaked. This is why my fingers are frosted.

Meanwhile the chook’s Hen House has warmed up to +3C, I am going to remove the boards on the side of the barn the brats want to roost on and put up some mesh fencing to stop them roosting there. They will have to go on the Hen House of roost on the ground.

Hopefully they get the picture and roost where they should. It would warm up faster if they would just roost in there.

I told mum we need to be moving to Vancouver Island - it would be better weather and easier for me to work in pipelines/mining jobs being out there. I am done with snow and cold!

Wool, wool, and more wool....warm (ish) even when wet. Sounds like time to dig out the snow shoes, too...

Another 2 Fer. Mera has her SPOTS!

ok, two and a halfer

 

[RoyalChick]

Many of our old barns here are called bank barns - they are built into a hillside or have had a dirt bank piled up against it so that the hay could be easily put up into the mow (pronounced like you would say ow when you stub your toe - but with an M at the beginning).

The below section would be partly underground/built into the bank. These barn have stone walls 2’ thick!

If I remember next time I go to feed my Vet’s kitty I’ll snap a pic of his glorious old bank barn. To build a barn like that these days would be hundreds of thousands of dollars, the beams inside are from old oak and maples hundreds of years old.

It take a real master barn builder to renovate one of those suckers! Generally people here get the Mennonite to fix and repair them.

Tax
Laverne and Shirley
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Would love to see pictures of the vet’s barn!

 

[Sylvester017]

Here are two that are built into the hillside. I did seriously consider that approach for the Chicken Palace.
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My personal favorite, just because I think it is an intriguing approach, is this one.
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If I had seen this before constructing the Chicken Palace I might have adopted this design.

Building into a hillside makes it hard to re-do if ever one needed to sell the property? Sort of like Hobbit houses.

The 2nd build in the antique book I couldn't wrap my head around how to reach the top level sloped poop board under the roosts to clean? There must be more to it than I can see.

Love the antique books. I used to be Library Club President in high school & got a real love for old books. They have a lot more truth & golden history in them than frivolous books today. Especially nice finding old farming/agricultural books before conglomerates installed commercial farming practices.

 

[Ponypoor]

Snow squall warning… yay…

More snow and cold

And that squall sitting over my location stretches right down onto the US that’s a big squall!

You’re welcome! Enjoy!

Whining tax
Nice to see Mrs LC snuggled down between Shirley and Pepper-Larry.

 

[notabitail]

 

[Sylvester017]

I should do that with our old dish!

What metals are used to create satellite dishes? Would they rust? lead? resin coated? We never had one.

 

[rural mouse]

Snow squall warning… yay…

More snow and cold
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And that squall sitting over my location stretches right down onto the US that’s a big squall!
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You’re welcome! Enjoy!

Whining tax
Nice to see Mrs LC snuggled down between Shirley and Pepper-Larry.
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She's a smart one: stay in the small space left when the bigs snuggle together and she's WARM.