Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Yes I see 8,000+ page, @Bob you are now longer then War and Peace (actually it only has 1225 pages ).

I think I'm a much easier read and I've read War and Peace several times!

 

[rural mouse]

The upwards escape was when they all trapped me in the barn! I’m glad he went back to his previous owner. Too good a boy to become hamburger at some auction, that’s for sure… even if he did have a taste for chicken feed. I should have repaired the damage to the caravan doorframe from his snacking stunt sooner, but the list of to do’s just keeps on going and you lose track… the barn incident happened a couple more times, turns out you can herd cattle with interesting little things, like a little tin of mints shaking. I don’t have a picture because I blocked all the in-laws on FB before doing a huge social media purge… but he also got a tire stuck around his neck last year, like a giant rubber choker necklace!it took a little doing to pull it back over, because he is so aggressive and all

Any chance (once the house is finished) of getting one of his offspring as one of YOUR pets?

 

[BY Bob]

Another relatively nice day.

Mug shot of the chicks
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Chicks enjoying some time outside.
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Most of the crew up on Mount Poopmore
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Henny Penny has forgiven me for chopping her nail too short! I gave her a bath to wash the blood off her snow white belly.
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Henny Penny looks gorgeous!

 

[BY Bob]

My attacked hen seems to be doing well today. She also forgave me for poking and prodding much more quickly! It only took her a minute or two of eyeing the 4 live BSFL in my hand before gobbling them up in 3 bites/pecks! (I felt they were just compensation for my intrusions.)

Pics of her just now:
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Thanks everyone for all your well wishes and helpful posts!

Looking good!

 

[BY Bob]

8002 already. Well done Bob

One of those is likely just me!

 

[rural mouse]

How about just travelling west a little? The weather is much nicer here how many tools can you fit in a horse trailer… I use a 6x12 cargo trailer for our “garage” now, NVM… the over length charges on the ferries are awful, it might be cheaper to fly in. I am building a very large “coop”… about 40x40, might also double as a goat barn… you never know? If I can Jimmy proof the flooring, that is! Morning Sun today
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Now about those sort of questionable looking trusses in the foreground… to avoid the obscene amount of taxes on this thread I was thinking I might invite some people into a conversation re: my little human coop project? Anyone with some building experience? Or family with building experience or just some random ideas on construction? I’m so far off the plans at this point… lol current problem is making 33’ trusses fit a 44’ or greater span.
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Taxes coming… I’ve got to go encourage and photograph some more chicken cuteness…

How high a pitch do you need? There's a log house going up near my place that isn't using trusses at all. ridgepole elevated above the wall to correct height with support poles spaced down the length. The roof supports look like 2x6 on edge mitered on the ridge and overhanging the walls to create the eaves. Spacing:looks like half the wall stud distance and probably spaced the ridges of a metal roof (which hasn't gone on yet.

 

[rural mouse]

How about just travelling west a little? The weather is much nicer here how many tools can you fit in a horse trailer… I use a 6x12 cargo trailer for our “garage” now, NVM… the over length charges on the ferries are awful, it might be cheaper to fly in. I am building a very large “coop”… about 40x40, might also double as a goat barn… you never know? If I can Jimmy proof the flooring, that is! Morning Sun today
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Now about those sort of questionable looking trusses in the foreground… to avoid the obscene amount of taxes on this thread I was thinking I might invite some people into a conversation re: my little human coop project? Anyone with some building experience? Or family with building experience or just some random ideas on construction? I’m so far off the plans at this point… lol current problem is making 33’ trusses fit a 44’ or greater span.
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Taxes coming… I’ve got to go encourage and photograph some more chicken cuteness…

My dad will be visiting tomorrow evening, enroute to boot camp graduation for my son. I can see if he's got some ideas (his father was a building contractor).

 

[Lexicon]

Another relatively nice day.

Mug shot of the chicks
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Chicks enjoying some time outside.
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Most of the crew up on Mount Poopmore
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Henny Penny has forgiven me for chopping her nail too short! I gave her a bath to wash the blood off her snow white belly.
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In the first two photos it looks like you either shovelled or made a path leading to Mount Poopmore.
Yesterday I took shovel fulls of old bedding, making a path to our compost pile through the snow. The girls would walk forward to the edge of the bedding and wait for me to bring the next shovel full of bedding to extend their path. You would think there were piranhas hiding in the snow blocking their way to the coveted compost!

 

[BY Bob]

In the first two photos it looks like you either shovelled or made a path leading to Mount Poopmore.
Yesterday I took shovel fulls of old bedding, making a path to our compost pile through the snow. The girls would walk forward to the edge of the bedding and wait for me to bring the next shovel full of bedding to extend their path. You would think there were piranhas hiding in the snow blocking their way to the coveted compost!

Fear and hatred of snow is real in chickens.

 

[bgmathteach]

Fear and hatred of snow is real in chickens.

Except, of course, for TGHE! She loved the snow.