Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

She was intently concentrating on the task at hand haha

Well said!

 

[Marie2020]

Everyone here needed their bottoms washed It must be the yogurt and the fermented feed

But look what happened when I had to leave home

 

[Marie2020]

Agatha and Tina went to share sunflower seeds with amber flexi and princess.

Flexi laid her egg in the littles coop.

 

[Marie2020]

I love your research and critical thinking skills!

So do I

 

[Marie2020]

Big-hearted, mischievous, impish, generous, laugh-loving, delightful...

Bang on plus like Alex, adorable

 

[Marie2020]

It's good that she was spotted. So that's something! Perhaps she has a nest of eggs out there somewhere.

My thoughts exactly

 

[Marie2020]

I am supremely confident it is a chicken (which as you know is almost the limit of my breed experience). And it wouldn't be a stretch to guess it is a Bitsa.
You look like you have a bit of a mud problem there Shad.

We have that very same problem here

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I have scoured the academic literature and the university extension sites and cannot find any reference to wood ash needing to be from hard wood.
In the non-academic literature there is plenty of stuff that is hard to sift through which says everything from chickens will explode on contact with wood ash to you should be pouring it into their feed bucket. So I am ignoring all that.
I have read enough to be confident that my wood ash won't harm my chickens so I am going to go ahead.

I haven't found any references to specific types of wood when discussing the uses of wood ash, other than to not burn painted & treated wood. Wood contains a lot of calcium and will help raise the pH wherever it's used, for instance as a substitute for lime or addition to concrete mixes, or additions to gardens. I did think possibly certain woods that contain toxic oils might be mentioned but I think they must get burned off and not be a significant factor once it's ash.

 

[Marie2020]

I think I've about covered my tax for this week. A clean bottomed Agatha and Amber

 

[bgmathteach]

Oh I am sure not!
For example I over-did the ventilation and in the very windy days we had (gusts of 30 mph) I felt it got too windy inside. So I am adding baffles.
But I am feeling confident I can tinker and improve now I have the basic structure in place.

That is a GORGEOUS coop . No wonder why the girls are upset with the preoccupied servant; if I lived in such a palace, I would expect the servants to be top notch!