Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Lexicon]

You go Rosa!

And that is COLD, wow

Yes, I live in northern Canada. Our climate is quite different. While many of the BYC group deal with very hot temperatures in the summer, that's not a concern for us. We do have quite harsh winter temperatures with very short daylight hours but we are used to it, so it is fine.
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[featherhead007]

Yes, I live in northern Canada. Our climate is quite different. While many of the BYC group deal with very hot temperatures in the summer, that's not a concern for us. We do have quite harsh winter temperatures with very short daylight hours but we are used to it, so it is fine.
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Enjoy your Cold weather. (For now). The whole planet is heating up.

 

[Ponypoor]

The left for a moment, so I opened the blinds a bit. The closest one is a juvenile, I think, and they've got ZERO fear of the chickensView attachment 3256625View attachment 3256624View attachment 3256623

I love magpies, when I am working out west they are everywhere, people out there hate them, they get into their garbage seat fruit
off the trees…

I tell people keep your garbage contained and put netting on the trees!

I think they are very smart and very inquisitive. When I was at one camp, they would follow me every evening when o went for my run around camp! They would hop fly on the fence around camp following me, looking for treats ? Maybe at first but why would they do this for months? I think they were trying to figure out why I was running, and of course I talked to them while running

 

[lightm]

Hey did you post were you found those lawn ornament’s? I was looking but don’t see a reply.

@RoyalChick has something very close to these ornaments hanging at her palace.

 

[lightm]

Yes, I live in northern Canada. Our climate is quite different. While many of the BYC group deal with very hot temperatures in the summer, that's not a concern for us. We do have quite harsh winter temperatures with very short daylight hours but we are used to it, so it is fine.
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With the other chicken in the background, your orpington girl looks like she has a phoenix tail.

Do you have to use some heated coop for them in the harshest winter?

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, I live in northern Canada. Our climate is quite different. While many of the BYC group deal with very hot temperatures in the summer, that's not a concern for us. We do have quite harsh winter temperatures with very short daylight hours but we are used to it, so it is fine.
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Lexicon and I both know what real -45C is (not that drivel the weather man says when it’s -20 but feels like -40, hahaha).

And in the winter the sun will rise around 9:30 am drift along the horizon and set around 3:30 (Lex will get even shorter days then I would get in northern Alberta ).

And the sun rise and sun sets - last for soooo lone and are soooo beautiful. And the cold! It burns at -40, the extension cable to plug my truck block heater into the power (the block is a heater keeps the engine warm so the oil and fuel won’t gel, so the truck starts in cold weather), well the plastic coating on cheap extension cord just becomes so brittle it crack and breaks! Making the power cord useless and have to thrown out - darn it!

I really don’t know how Lexs chickies survive that cold, but they are thriving! My silkies had it rough last winter. I have a radiant heater panel for them.

 

[Ponypoor]

I have plenty of time

Oooo hey on that case wanna come over and help with my hay on Saturday? I got 300 in today, just need 200 more!

The chickies already christened the ones I left down to feed the horses - ewwww!

Mostly empty hay loft

My dreaded hay elevator - very heavy hard to move and some of last years hay.

My help for today bless them

Loading the hay

 

[Lexicon]

With the other chicken in the background, your orpington girl looks like she has a phoenix tail.

Do you have to use some heated coop for them in the harshest winter?

You are right! I never even noticed Louise in the background !

Yes, I do use a plug in oil filled radiator when it's very cold. My goal is for the coop to be warmer than -10C which I believe is 14F. There is no way that would be possible without supplemental heat. I don't think that heat is generally recommended for those in milder climates, but I wouldn't feel right exposing my hens to the extremely cold temperatures that we experience at times.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I would be much more afraid trying to trim with red light only. I'm working around her eyes and I have trouble finding them with bright light. I can't imagine doing it in low light.

I'm so sorry you and Mrs BYBob had this happen

Along with @bgmathteach suggestion of conditioning her, have you tried doing this like hairdressers do? Ask Phyllis' namesake! Hairdressers always use devices to section the hair and keep everything they aren't dealing with out of the way when they do even slightly complicated/layered cuts. This way you will be able to see her eyes, find the bases of the feathers and move higher up the shafts, and cut where you intend. Get soft cloth covered bands.
Like this, only you could do two or three tie-ups so you can at least see what you're dealing with. It's only a temporary "do"

 

[RoyalChick]

I was wondering how the shindig turned out. I'm sorry folks got stung. 3 times what was that one dude doing? Tawnting them?

Poor guy - as far as I could tell a couple got inside his shirt.
Looking at my leg (where I got stung) I think the one that got me actually got me twice.