Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

But she’s not Hispanic. Do you speak German? Previous owners were German.

Guten or guten tag, Chaco!

 

[Sally PB]

I gave up on the pea tree idea as it is classified as invasive here.

I plan on planting the pea tree shrubs on the inside of the fenceline...and hope the chickens will eat enough seeds as we approach winter...plus scratch enough to keep most from successfully sprouting. Also, I'm up for hand pulling AND for picking & saving seeds for winter feeding/supplementation.

I got 2 siberian pea trees two years ago. This last winter, deer gnawed on them pretty badly, but I think they'll be fine. I'm ok with doing some labor to keep them contained, but if I got a fencerow, that would be nice.

I got them for the peas to give to the chickens. We'll see what we get in a few years.

 

[featherhead007]

Actually, I just walked into the coop with

Yep. That’s what we have to do

Yep. That’s what we have to do!

one box of raisins. They all followed me into the coop. Yay!

 

[featherhead007]

But I do have a little problem….

 

[RoyalChick]

I gave up on the pea tree idea as it is classified as invasive here.
Lilac is a good one.
Last year I developed a list - I will go look it up. It had Serviceberry on it and Honeyberry (which I already planted).

Found my list (sorry about the formatting - I cut and paste):

Viburnum
- Fragrant - 6-8' (= viburnum carlesii
- Prag… - evergreen - 8-12'
- Winterthur - Fall color - 4-6'

Itea - Fall color - Virginia Sweetspire - 5'
Tsuga - hemlock - 10'
Red-twigged dogwood

• Fragrant Magnolia
• Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush buckeye) - native to SE - may be toxic to chickens
• Mulberry - dwarf is 8-10'

 

[featherhead007]

Guten or guten tag, Chaco!

Gluten tag

 

[bgmathteach]

Remember to be careful that no chickens or wild birds can get a hold of rats/mice that have been poisoned.

Baby owl death by rodent poisoning

UK Barn Owl poisoning

Vancouver Owls

Sheesh...even more dead:
N.E. poisonings

Some info on Primary & Secondary risks of various rodent poisons

 

[bgmathteach]

Found my list (sorry about the formatting - I cut and paste):

Viburnum
- Fragrant - 6-8' (= viburnum carlesii
- Prag… - evergreen - 8-12'
- Winterthur - Fall color - 4-6'

Itea - Fall color - Virginia Sweetspire - 5'
Tsuga - hemlock - 10'
Red-twigged dogwood

• Fragrant Magnolia
• Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush buckeye) - native to SE - may be toxic to chickens
• Mulberry - dwarf is 8-10'

Oooo, yes, looked at mulberries, too!

Thank you for this list..there are a couple I don't have on my short list & need to look up, TY!!!

 

[featherhead007]

No matter what I’m doing, Dakota will jump up on my shoulder, or on top of my hat! (My chicken hat) Arizona is almost as bad.

 

[featherhead007]

Gluten tag

It’s actually “guten tag” crazy autocorrect!