Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

I’m going to be making a**h*** soup this weekend, or Raw dog food… Sammy is in my trailer again. And if my friend doesn’t come pick a darn cockerel ASAP they are all going to Camp Kenmore!

Not Sammy! Who will you have to fight with and make up with?? (in the rooster world, that is!)

 

[featherhead007]

Oh, gosh, I think I forgot to post this. It’s still Monday in California. I got really close to Bridge’s face, so hopefully that counts. And Alex was asking for the song.

Me and my Rocks-Anne are the same way as you and Bridge so sweet and loving.

 

[micstrachan]

Me and my Rocks-Anne are the same way as you and Bridge so sweet and loving.

Aren’t they just the absolute BEST???

 

[featherhead007]

Aren’t they just the absolute BEST???

Nothing better! Rocks-Anne will walk up to me scratch the ground and say “okay daddy, pick me up please “ and I do!

 

[featherhead007]

Rocks-Anne

 

[micstrachan]

Nothing better! Rocks-Anne will walk up to me scratch the ground and say “okay daddy, pick me up please “ and I do!

Flo does that! Except, she pecks my pants, not the ground.

 

[Kris5902]

Not Sammy! Who will you have to fight with and make up with?? (in the rooster world, that is!)

I never fight with Sammy… I let toddlers feed him by hand… since we came to our understanding that I don’t want his hens we have been best buddies. I seriously need to just install a perch in my bathroom for him at this rate. He tried to come into the trailer when the four soon to be soup boys ganged up on him. My porch and bathroom are now covered in spatter, he’s ok by the looks of it, just absolutely covered in gore… the wattles and combs bleed like crazy, so I’m going to have a pink rooster for a while. And they shake their heads and it gets everywhere

 

[BY Bob]

Coop Remediation

Someone noticed a while back that it looked like i was getting moisture in the main coop. That was absolutely true. It was under control until the last big rain storm we had. 3 inches of rain overwhelmed the coop roof and I had water dropping inside.

So I figured I would cover the roof with a tarp to buy me time for spring to arrive and find a better solution. So today, since the tribe was already out, I decided to tarp the roof. Unfortunately what I found was easy worse than I expected. I planned to tack the tarp to the existing roof. What I found was that the roof was so rotted the tacks would have never held the tarp down in even a mild wind. Whatever I do, the roof will need a new board even as a base for some other roofing material. If I squeezed it hard right now the edges would crumble in my hands.

So how to ensure the tap would stay in place?

From remodeling the dining room floor I had a very long piece of trim. Using the same methodology I do to hold the shower curtains on the run I ran the trim along the roof edge. Here is how it came out. The arrows indicate the primary wind direction as it hits the coop.

The piece of wood I used to put on the roof was recycled from its previous life as bracing wood for deep trenches. So there is no shame for it starting to rot but this happened fast.

Hopefully this fix will get me a couple of months until spring is fully here and the ground is hard enough for heavy construction.

@Ribh @Aussie-Chookmum @LozzyR @MaryJanet @Marie2020 @ChicoryBlue @micstrachan

 

[featherhead007]

Flo does that! Except, she pecks my pants, not the ground.

Coco hides under my chair, and pecks my legs till I give her treats. (I know it’s her, because she’s the only one that does it. But she’s my little Coco, and can get away with practically anything!

 

[Kris5902]

Coop Remediation

Someone noticed a while back that it looked like i was getting moisture in the main coop. That was absolutely true. It was under control until the last big rain storm we had. 3 inches of rain overwhelmed the coop roof and I had water dropping inside.

So I figured I would cover the roof with a tarp to buy me time for spring to arrive and find a better solution. So today, since the tribe was already out, I decided to tarp the roof. Unfortunately what I found was easy worse than I expected. I planned to tack the tarp to the existing roof. What I found was that the roof was so rotted the tacks would have never held the tarp down in even a mild wind. Whatever I do, the roof will need a new board even as a base for some other roofing material. If I squeezed it hard right now the edges would crumble in my hands.

So how to ensure the tap would stay in place?

From remodeling the dining room floor I had a very long piece of trim. Using the same methodology I do to hold the shower curtains on the run I ran the trim along the roof edge. Here is how it came out. The arrows indicate the primary wind direction as it hits the coop.

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The piece of wood I used to put on the roof was recycled from its previous life as bracing wood for deep trenches. So there is no shame for it starting to rot but this happened fast.

Hopefully this fix will get me a couple of months until spring is fully here and the ground is hard enough for heavy construction.

@Ribh @Aussie-Chookmum @LozzyR @MaryJanet @Marie2020 @ChicoryBlue @micstrachan

Looks like my roof but with way less tack strips holding down the tarp! the wind is currently tearing everything not anchored down up here… I just heard some off the metal skirting tear off the trailer! And it’s rocking like you wouldn’t believe… I expect I may have to go tarp hunting tomorrow… or I’ll just cover the runs with housewrap! Lol we can all be matching!