Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Of course.

Thanks Bob

I've been giving my girls clementines which they love. Now I know how to take a lot of the pesticides away before peeling which is safer all round

 

[The-White-Elephant]

More than you can imagine.

Oh no!

 

[lightm]

He does an amazing job...he would have made a great engineer...he just couldn't stand all of the required non essential classes in college & refused to pay for them! I believe we need to get away from today's college programs & move towards vocational education!

You've raised a great kid!

 

[Ponypoor]

Here he is. Taken last spring when everything was green and warm.

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Hi Russ nice to meet youwhat and awesome fellow! And two very happy girls whom I am sure spoil him rotten

(Also thanks for the helmets my pet peeve not wearing a helmet riding, nothing like the sound of your head smacking off the ground, been there...)

Ok tax...

 

[Ponypoor]

Wow - mine definitely hibernate. It is one of my first signs of spring when the chipmunks emerge to tease the cats through the French Doors.

They hibernate here also. I used to feed them, but it got so I could go outside they were running after me, crawling up my legs into my pockets, down my top

Not good when you're wearing shorts and they run up your legs

 

[MaryJanet]

We moved from there...so set-up is now different. Secure pen that is 18'X24' inside of a 25' X50' pen that has 2 huge pines. The NW 'wall' of the pen is a barn that needs work. I'm hoping to expand the pen another 5 or 6 feet & have the compost inside the pen (so it will be 30'X50'). When I do that, will replace the 5' chainlink fence that was here with the 6 ' chain link fence from our other place (surrounds the 'extended pen')...and, also, add a 7'X12' duck hut/pen' ( secure)with an elevated water tub that is easy to drain, and has crushed stone under weatherproof slats inside the extended run.

I will try to get pictures this week. 10X24 feet of the 'secure pen' has a solid roof, rest has netting...but eventually want the rest to be roofed with semi-clear plastic panels (they make some that look greyish and act like a shade cloth would) to give them more 'protected from the weather' space.

Sounds wonderful!

 

[Kris5902]

They are indeed very hard to trap and my best defense outside of an iron clad coop is the neighborhood cats.

Feral felines are a blessing…

 

[RoyalChick]

They hibernate here also. I used to feed them, but it got so I could go outside they were running after me, crawling up my legs into my pockets, down my top

Not good when you're wearing shorts and they run up your legs

They are cute though!

 

[RoyalChick]

I forgot to post these the other day when we were weighing in on footprints in the snow.
It turns out I was not the only creature that sank into the mud on the day it all (temporarily) thawed.
This is right up against the walk of the Chicken Palace.
I posted three pictures in case one reveals something the others don’t.
How many creatures and what are they. I think I know all but one.

 

[The-White-Elephant]

I forgot to post these the other day when we were weighing in on footprints in the snow.
It turns out I was not the only creature that sank into the mud on the day it all (temporarily) thawed.
This is right up against the walk of the Chicken Palace.
I posted three pictures in case one reveals something the others don’t.
How many creatures and what are they. I think I know all but one.
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I’m just thinking raccoon?