Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Everybody get Tall

These EEs just love to be up. Check out how they decided to stop and groom yesterday.

 

[BY Bob]

Cold Sunny Morning

It's a cold morning but very sunny. Maleficent is one black chicken that knows how to best use her feathers.

 

[Ribh]

She is gorgeous, Bob!

 

[MaryJanet]

Everybody get Tall

These EEs just love to be up. Check out how they decided to stop and groom yesterday.
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Look at their sweet little leggies holding up all that chicken!

 

[BY Bob]

First Snow

Woke up to wet snow falling this morning. It's kind of pretty.

 

[BY Bob]

I went and let the ladies out into the snow. Their reactions were priceless.

 

[BY Bob]

Plastic Installed

When building a chicken coop it is important to consider all weather in your placement. I say this because my coop is placed for attractiveness and shade in the summer. It is very ill placed for winter.

How might you ask? The door to the coop faces the northwest wind. The coop would actually provide no escape for the harshest cold winds we get as long as the coop door is open. Of course I did not think of this until after I built the porch and put the hole in the door. I actually should have put the door on the backside of the coop. The downside to that be the automated door closing early because of the shadow of the coop. I could install a new door and cut a hole on the back of the coop but I found another way to protect them from the cold cruel wind.

Shower curtains.

"How would that work?", you might ask. (If you were with me this time last year you may remember.)

For the cost of a $6 clear shower curtain I can seal out the wind and create a sun porch of sorts for the ladies. This year I even added a shower curtain to the end of the run for them.

I was able to get this all done yesterday when it was warm and sunny before the rain, wind, and snow this morning. You can see it in the video. I also believe that they were very grateful to have it today!

I like the curtains with metal grommets so I can use screws an washers to secure it.

Of course they had to know what I was doing to their house.

Wind protection complete.

 

[Ribh]

That is cool, Bob.

I saw this recently too. Made me giggle.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2766956340004700

 

[BY Bob]

That is cool, Bob.

I saw this recently too. Made me giggle.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2766956340004700

I love it.

 

[BY Bob]

Staying up Too Late

Today was prep day for the family coming for Thanksgiving. I was working on cleaning up the rec room in the basement so it was my wife's job to keep track of the free ranging girls.

A short time after darkness fell my wife started screaming down the steps that she needed my help. So up the steps I rushed to find out what could be so urgent. This is the story that awaited me.

It hard gotten dark and she assumed that the girls had successfully gone to bed so she had gone back to the spare bedroom to start getting it ready. Davis, my large nowegian forrest cat, was acting squirrely. He was standing, meowing in the hallway and trying to get her to come out to the kitchen. She assumed he wanted more food and was trying to shoo him off. He was persistent so my wife finally followed him out. When they got to the kitchen she heard this tap, tap, tap, tap on glass. Finally she went to the backdoor and there were Maleficent and Aurora. Aurora tapping on the glass. It was pitch black out and they had not gone to bed. They wanted in the big coop on this clod windy night.

I've got to get some winter clothes on and I knew it would easier to corrall them in the house than it would be with them runing in the dark outside so, "let them in" I told her. Here they are wandering through the house.

I thought Mal was getting up on the couch for sure. My other cat Isabel was on the back of that couch. I think that held her off.

I just found an Aurora feather next to the couch. They got through the living roomm, dining room, and kitchen. I tried to get a photo of Davis and Mal together but Davis took off when she got too close.

So I went out, opened the automated door, and placed a lantern in the coop so they could see when they got there. When I opened the door and placed the lantern, only Lilly was on the roost. Hattie was in a nesting box. While surprised, she was excited to get up on the roost.

I gathered both hens up and took them out to the porch. I placed them on the porch and they went in and roosted. I swicthed off the lantern and here is everybody safely roosted.

It is never dull here at Fluffy Butt Acres!