Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Check these out yall... they are made right near me... might have to getone!View attachment 2140157

I wonder if you could get the measurements for that project? I have the wood, and the equipment. to build one here in California (for my chickens)

 

[featherhead007]

Of course you are right. But in this case I can’t leave their habitat alone as it is my garage.

Your garage, Maybe you could collect a little rent?

 

[ValerieJ]

As I thought about how I would build it, the picture of Aurora standing in the middle of the table knocking anyone else who tried to get some of the food onto the ground came into my mind. I am now afraid someone might get hurt.

Maybe I will hold off on building one.............

I was talking with DH about one of these. We are thinking some sort of roof will solve the problem of the girls hopping right into the food.

 

[Shadrach]

I would like to write I do my best, but I don't. I do try though.

Oh yes indeed - the bucket got emptied and the sink dried out after the second splash landing, other hazardous stuff got covered up too (though what could be hazardous to a 1oz bundle of fluff is hard to predict).
But what a difference a day makes. Now they can all fly as well as Tweety Bird did yesterday. No more face plants on the walls, no more suddenly losing height mid-flight and plummeting to earth. The garage is basically full of birds flying from one perch to another and crapping on everything as they go. It is a joyous sight to behold!
It is also very interesting - I have never witnessed 'flight school' up close and personal. I guess I had never thought about how they learn to fly. And I now know that they learn to fly by falling out of the sky a lot!

I watched a young Robin learning how to fly here a couple of winters ago. I don't know where it's parents has got to. Eventually it made it into the Holm Oak outside my house.
I left a bit of food out for it for the rest of the week.

 

[Ribh]

I would like to write I do my best, but I don't. I do try though.

I watched a young Robin learning how to fly here a couple of winters ago. I don't know where it's parents has got to. Eventually it made it into the Holm Oak outside my house.
I left a bit of food out for it for the rest of the week.

All any of us can do is try. A righteous person cares [even] about the life of his animals, but the compassion of wicked people is [nothing but] cruelty sums it up pretty well.

 

[LozzyR]

I'm not a fan of the species I belong to. We seem to be a rather unpleasant and destructive species. I rate us somewhere below a virulent virus.

I have to agree with you, humans suck a lot of the time. There are some awesome people out there and a lot of the people I know are awesome (including online chook friends!) but it seems to be on an individual level rather than community.

 

[LozzyR]

I suspect the answer is ‘yes’, but for those of you who have had chooks go through a hard moult, do they not seem themselves? It’s cold and wet this morning and Charlie seems off her game.

 

[Shadrach]

It seems all Tribe 2 were interested in today was lying around in the damp soil; it rained yesterday and overnight.

 

[Ribh]

I suspect the answer is ‘yes’, but for those of you who have had chooks go through a hard moult, do they not seem themselves? It’s cold and wet this morning and Charlie seems off her game.

It really does seem to depend on the chook. Some breeze their molt. Others do it hard. I usually give out a little extra protein, some electrolyte stuff in the water & just keep an eye out for secondary stuff going on because I've lost a chook who really went downhill during her molt & never really bounced back. She never regrew her feathers properly & never regained the weight she lost. It's the secondary stuff that I become concerned about now ~ but I'm no expert & a really terrible nurse.

 

[LozzyR]

It really does seem to depend on the chook. Some breeze their molt. Others do it hard. I usually give out a little extra protein, some electrolyte stuff in the water & just keep an eye out for secondary stuff going on because I've lost a chook who really went downhill during her molt & never really bounced back. She never regrew her feathers properly & never regained the weight she lost. It's the secondary stuff that I become concerned about now ~ but I'm no expert & a really terrible nurse.

Thanks Ribh, I might give her some sardines.