Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Scrambles83]

Jiminy Cricket, timber is sooo expensive at the moment!
I was whimsically considering over the summer holidays trying to build something new for the girls to live in but I think my bubble has been burst

 

[featherhead007]

Thank you! Ruby is vocalizing again! I just LOVE her voice. She also lets me cuddle her now. We’ve become pretty close.

She is eating, drinking, pooping, foraging preening, roosting, and bossing around the lower ranked girls. My heart is full.

Now, yesterday I did feel the left-sided mass the vet spoke of. Today I can’t feel it and fear she may already be bloating, but we will see.

She’s so much stronger than last time, I think because last time I tubed her until her appetite returned AND because I tubed fluids the first two days post draining this time around. (sorry… patting myself on the back a bit here, but I’m just so pleased I have been able to help her.)

I think we’re at the point where I need to evaluate her ratio of good days to bad days. Right now she’s having good days and seems to understand the vet and I are helping her. I can’t believe how attached I’ve gotten to this girl!

Understandable. Feathered friends are much more than just objects. Anyone with a conscience will fall in love with their lovely birds. I love mine, you obviously love yours! Nuf said

 

[featherhead007]

Jiminy Cricket, timber is sooo expensive at the moment!
I was whimsically considering over the summer holidays trying to build something new for the girls to live in but I think my bubble has been burst

And my yards are so full of lumber just going to waste (life isn’t fair)

 

[MaryJanet]

Jiminy Cricket, timber is sooo expensive at the moment!
I was whimsically considering over the summer holidays trying to build something new for the girls to live in but I think my bubble has been burst

The fires took a lot of timber out of the supply chain

 

[featherhead007]

And my yards are so full of lumber just going to waste (life isn’t fair)

Piles of plywood, and wood stock from 2x2 to 4x10 (was here when I bought this property) so i kept all of it.

 

[MaryJanet]

Piles of plywood, and wood stock from 2x2 to 4x10 (was here when I bought this property) so i kept all of it.

I've got some too but @Scrambles83 and I live too far apart for a delivery to be economical and also I'm keeping it for my own projects (soz scrambles xx)

 

[AfiafiAfi]

I feel like Shegun is the best wood for building stuff like coops and furnitures

 

[AfiafiAfi]

I just got news that Lilly was breathing through her mouth.She wasn’t eating and drinking.Her eyes were closed.She’s on her 7th egg.We ate the other 6 because they weren’t fertile.I’ve no idea what happened and she couldn’t walk.A few miniutes later I just got news Lilly is nowhere to be found!she is not dead she’s idk if alive.Where could have she gone!?Era is frantically crowing.

 

[featherhead007]

I've got some too but @Scrambles83 and I live too far apart for a delivery to be economical and also I'm keeping it for my own projects (soz scrambles xx)

I don’t know why I’m up so early, but I’m kinda excited about my next excursion to New Mexico. I’m at my desk setting my flight plans. There is a lot to consider when I choose to take a trip. Road trip is what most people call it. My “road trips” are at around 8000ft at 280 mph. This type of freedom comes at a cost. Sadly, my life insurance plan says that I’m worth more dead than alive

 

[Scrambles83]

I've got some too but @Scrambles83 and I live too far apart for a delivery to be economical and also I'm keeping it for my own projects (soz scrambles xx)

Piles of plywood, and wood stock from 2x2 to 4x10 (was here when I bought this property) so i kept all of it.

Thanks guys. I’m devising a new plan as I write, one that might take all the cutting on measuring out of the job haha.
Buy a cubby house, assemble it and modify it for hens (paint it for weather, cover windows, add roosts and nesting boxes etc make a floor then elevate it a bit so they can get underneath)
Just an idea for the moment but possible it could work. Maybe it would be big enough for 2 more hens too
I’m no chippy so it wouldn’t be anything spectacular but bigger and better than the prefab (which is getting old anyway)