Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

Nope the hen in the video is a frizzle like one of @Ribh broody hens.

My Poor girls. They've got themselves quite the rep!

 

[Ponypoor]

Spectacular!

And then it was freezing rain, ice, rain and windy miserable weather all day... Red sky in the morning Kelly take warning

 

[Ponypoor]

Clever Cheetah!
Mine definitely distinguish between different kinds of overhead birds. It is only me that gets freaked out and then it turns out to be only a Turkey Vulture, though in my defense they are very big scary looking birds and there are dozens of them and they fly really low over the field.

Haha I had a freak out when a huge great blue heron flew overhead. The hens looked at me like I was a Ding a ling !!!?

 

[Ponypoor]

Maybe I should give up on removing the mice, buy a bottle of vodka, and serve them martinis!

Got half a bottle of Grey Goose here will be right over

 

[Ponypoor]

(I’m kidding)

My offer still stands hahaha

 

[rural mouse]

No, wait! You can procrastinate a little bit longer!

Not when the project is only partway done, not cleaned up, and not at a point that knocking off for the day is an option. Now I've pulled 6 (or was that 7?) Barrows out, dumped 3 bales of pine shavings (5 cubic feet each (I think), waited for them to go spread the pile, cleaned up, spread the pile (they're spreading consisted of avoiding the coop at all costs or scratching in the dirt AROUND the pile). Doing the baby fencing and spreading the straw can wait a few days. The babies arent going out there for another week at least. Now that I've showered and changed clothes, I'm going to head back out with a handful of meal worms to toss in the shavings. Let them brave them then!

The pile of dumped stuff is more interesting

The lone brave one...Twirp, of course

I probably could have dug out at least 2 more barrows worth, but I was done in by the carpet. What on earth was carpet doing in a chicken coop? (Not my doing, buried before we bought the place, don't think it had chickens in it for at least a decade before).

 

[rural mouse]

Normal for her

I have one like that: Pear.

 

[rural mouse]

Meal worms and a handful of scratch scattered about garner wary curiosity , but again, only Twirp braved the strange stuff.

The pile is much more interesting

Feeding frenzy from tossing an apple core into the middle.

Nellie came out with it, followed by a stream. Jessica got hold of it, took it back, PAST the pile and dodged into the olive trees. There, Pear took it away, but flinched off it when Cheetah came up (he's been after her, but...). Cheetah called for treats and a couple of the girls came up, but lost the apple core to Pear again as soon as Cheetah headed back to the pile.

I think everyone except Pear is here (she's focused on the apple core).

If bedtime becomes a problem, I'll get the straw spread tonight after all.....

 

[featherhead007]

My offer still stands hahaha

 

[featherhead007]

Not when the project is only partway done, not cleaned up, and not at a point that knocking off for the day is an option. Now I've pulled 6 (or was that 7?) Barrows out, dumped 3 bales of pine shavings (5 cubic feet each (I think), waited for them to go spread the pile, cleaned up, spread the pile (they're spreading consisted of avoiding the coop at all costs or scratching in the dirt AROUND the pile). Doing the baby fencing and spreading the straw can wait a few days. The babies arent going out there for another week at least. Now that I've showered and changed clothes, I'm going to head back out with a handful of meal worms to toss in the shavings. Let them brave them then!

The pile of dumped stuff is more interesting
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The lone brave one...Twirp, of course
View attachment 3035333I probably could have dug out at least 2 more barrows worth, but I was done in by the carpet. What on earth was carpet doing in a chicken coop? (Not my doing, buried before we bought the place, don't think it had chickens in it for at least a decade before).

Carpet in a coop? Now that’s funny!