Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

That's going to be great Alex! Your littles will love it!

I don’t think that they know, just how much work it is to build a coop that meets my standards of perfection (SOP)
Doesn’t matter. I’m building it for my lovely pets anyways. I just need them to wander into the big coop, so that I can continue building. The new coop, is going where the green tarps are at the moment. And a whole new run will extend out much further than it is currently.

 

[featherhead007]

How do you keep them from just standing up when they need to poop, wherever they are though? That's what my chicks did, just scramble a bit then suddenly stop and do their business!

Mine will stand , then scramble backwards, then ..... TMI I know!

 

[drstratton]

I don’t think that they know, just how much work it is to build a coop that meets my standards of perfection (SOP)
Doesn’t matter. I’m building it for my lovely pets anyways. I just need them to wander into the big coop, so that I can continue building. The new coop, is going where the green tarps are at the moment. And a whole new run will extend out much further than it is currently.

It definitely takes a lot of hard work to build anything...trust me I know...my husband and I have a very high SOP too!
I'm looking forward to seeing the progress and the finished product...it sounds like it will be nice and roomy!

 

[featherhead007]

It definitely takes a lot of hard work to build anything...trust me I know...my husband and I have a very high SOP too!
I'm looking forward to seeing the progress and the finished product...it sounds like it will be nice and roomy!

My original barn/coop is 18ft by 12ft by 14ft to the roof. I built that one also. It’s the one here I’m sitting in at the moment. Only little Coco, has ventured inside so far. Such an inquisitive Barred Rock she is.

 

[drstratton]

My original barn/coop is 18ft by 12ft by 14ft to the roof. I built that one also. It’s the one here I’m sitting in at the moment. Only little Coco, has ventured inside so far. Such an inquisitive Barred Rock she is.

I wish my coop was larger, we built it for our flock of Banty's over 20 years ago. We used left over material from when we built our house. It's large enough for everyone too roost in with room for more (insert chicken math ) we did an expansion of the run...it has the original enclosed pen that opens up to a very large free range pen!

 

[Shadrach]

I didn’t approve of it. That’s not the way I tame roosters

Nor me.

 

[Cynthia12]

Ugh... We all have a bad cold over here. I haven't been sick in a while. It's bound to happen. My husband and I will be two weeks out from our second covid shot on Monday. , so not worried about covid. I just feel miserable.

 

[micstrachan]

PDZ in the brooder helps for in between picking up poops, do you use that?

I do in my coop, but never have with chicks.

 

[Shadrach]

How about spoken word or rap?

Don't know Bob. I'm certainly allowed to talk to them; well the chickens allow it, some humans might want to ban it.
Rap, the stuff I know would be old school and that might not go down well.
I'll give it a try.

 

[Shadrach]

Happy Fluffy Butt Friday, compliments of Cashew!
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And just for kicks, here’s Mille. She squats when I say her name. I thought that was cute, so recorded it for you. This is after I had already approached her to try to get a fluffy butt photo.

Also, here is today’s offering:
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Of note are Dorothy’s white egg (it took several days of calcium to see that shell) and the larger light brown egg toward the bottom. Not sure whose that is. Maybe Ester?

Not a single hen has ever crouched when I approach.