Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Start them indoors? In little pots and transplant outside when they are big enough to hold their oven against the little velociraptors?

I read the Chinese were ordering dandelions I don't know if that is true

 

[featherhead007]

For those of you who believe in the power of prayers please pray for my grandmother. We talked to her on the phone around 8 last night and she was is a great mood. Around 9:30 she called and said she thought we needed to come down as she'd gotten dizzy, had fallen twice and her sugar was almost 400. Me and mom get there and she is still on the floor in front of her couch. We get her up and check her sugar and it was indeed 384. She was a little weak on her left side but she has mobility issues that have been progressively getting worse over the last few years so it was not a huge red flag just yet, especially with her sugar that high. We stayed and me and mom got on another cleaning spree while trying to get her sugar down and it was just not happening. About 3:30 this morning we noticed she started slurring some of her words slightly and the left side of her mouth was starting to droop. She refused at that point to let us take her to the hospital when she had enough strength left to make it to the car. At 5:30 this morning her left side pretty much gave out which is when under protest we called 911. MRI confirmed she has had a stroke, but there is not blood clots or hemorrhaging on the brain. The doctor said if she had to have a stroke it was the best one to have if there is such a thing. They also discovered that besides the congestive heart failure that she has been in for about 10 years she now also has atrial fibrillation. Finally got home about 20 minutes ago and going to crash for a few hours and then head back to the hospital.

Yes, I will be praying for her, and you.

 

[Sally PB]

Stormy's mug shot. She was asking why I didn't have any more treats, I'm sure.

 

[featherhead007]

How much chopped steak can a little Pullet eat anyways? Coco (the nut) wants the whole pan I cooked for the chooks.

 

[RoyalChick]

Any of you with poultry net electric fencing could you have a look at a thread I started to get some advice. Thanks!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/electric-net-poultry-fence-double-back-question.1516232/

 

[featherhead007]

How much chopped steak can a little Pullet eat anyways? Coco (the nut) wants the whole pan I cooked for the chooks. View attachment 3032623

I chopped it up into tiny bits (so everyone got some)

 

[BY Bob]

Mugs Monday

 

[featherhead007]

And here we have a FB picture, (from the egg’s point of view)::

 

[bgmathteach]

Ooh I like that idea, but would have to work out how to deal with the legs. They stick down about 4inches below that bottom horizontal tube.
DH was telling me it would be quicker & easier to move if it were on skids.

It is light, yet the nice width prevents me from picking up both sides at once. So I go back and forth moving each side, flexing it (prob not so great for it). I asked DH how I could make a lifter, picturing a square assembly of PVC tubes that I would hook under the middle horizontal tubes, lifting the whole thing straight up with no pulling-in force, while I stood in the middle of it. He said the PVC would not be strong enough.

I apologize in advance for my very 'rough' sketches:

Get 2 14' 2X4s, and 2 8' 2X4s (your choice pressure treated or not, depending on your preferences) run the 2 14 footers on edge under long sides of greenhouse (can use 12' if it is exactly 12' long and don't want anything extending much beyond) From here, cut the 8' to fit between the 12 or 14's. and screw together (again, on edge).

You can attach the greenhouse 1 of 2 ways. I'm assuming the tubing is about 1/2 in diameter. Drill 1/2" dia. (or whatever the dia. of your tubing is) holes about 1 - 1.5 in. deep spaced at intervals to match your greenhouse support hoops. insert ends of greenhouse hoops. On inside of framing (or outside if you wish to attach bottom of netting to these) screw in eye bolts, and use bunge or wire or rope to loop around cross support frame of greenhouse & hook/tie to eye bolt to keep greenhouse secure to base

2nd option: make base just a hair wider than greenhouse, and use u shaped brackets (can be found in plumbing aisle for supporting copper pipes) and secure 'legs; of greenhouse to wooden base with the u bolts. This will be a bit more tedious to 'take down' each fall, but will be quite sturdy and it the base is close to the ground on inside of wooden frame, it will almost completely eliminate the gap caused by teh 4" or so extended legs o greenhouse.

There is a 3rd option for base design. use either of the 2 above, but extend the runners about 6" in front of greenhouse & taper/round leading edge of 'runners', also slightly bevel lead-bottom edge of crossmember of base OR do what I have done...get ahold of some old skis and with carriage bolts, bolt them to the underside of the 2 runner (12') boards. They work reasonably well!!.

Just note that by extending the runners and/or putting skis on them, you won't be able to get the 2 greenhouses tight together unless you put the 2 'backends' adjacent.)

 

[bgmathteach]

Mugs Monday
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She is such a lovely girl. Her red comb/wattles really stand out in this pic. against her grey/lavender colouring!