Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sally PB]

Roof looks great, @BY Bob!

 

[featherhead007]

The Roof is On
One of the reasons there is no Ask Aurora is that today was nice enough to finish the roof on the main coop. So i took my lunch and got the panels installed. It is barely warm enough to caulk but I managed to pull it off.

I started by putting the foam spacers in place. I caulked the top of them and the edge on the right.
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I then installed and screwed down the panel.

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I extended the foam with caulk and installed the second panel.
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I then installed the final panel.
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I then caulked and sealed the ridge line to the quarter round at the peak of the roof.

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Next I installed a piece of PVC edging to finish off the edge of the roof. This side is in the lee of the prevailing wind.

Edging
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Edging installed
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This end of the coop, above the porch, gets the strongest winds. So I did Extra to keep the wind from cashing the edge and pulling the roof off. I had an overhang of roofing and bent it down to create a flush edge.
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Once I had it bent down I installed the PVC edge.
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All finished!

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My roof repair will require me to add the same thing to my roof, a corner overhang and then new facia.

 

[BY Bob]

Tax:
More Jurrassic Chickens
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I love those pictures.

 

[BY Bob]

Wow. It looks so nice.

Thanks. In the spring Mrs BY Bob will have to choose a paint color for it!

 

[BY Bob]

Roof looks great, @BY Bob!

Thanks. I'm pleased for my first metal roof it is not too bad.

 

[BY Bob]

My roof repair will require me to add the same thing to my roof, a corner overhang and then new facia.

You can do it. Just be careful

 

[ValarieF]

Then @ValarieF you have to call a pharmacy to find out the prices for your typical script. Can’t get that info from the insurance or the doctors (except anecdotally from the doctor’s office maybe).

Their first year, exploring the ferns at the edge of the woods
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Pharmacie wouldnt do it either

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Babs being silly doing gymnastics up in the rafters.
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Feet slipped down between the rafter beam?

 

[RoyalChick]

Feet slipped down between the rafter beam?

Maybe. I don't think so. It looked more like a sudden change in plan. But she is not confessing to anything!

 

[bgmathteach]

It is hard to tell. It doesn't look like pain, it looks like exhaustion. She sleeps and then when the sun moves she gets up and follows the sun. And when I serve her a bowl she will perk up and eat. But she has not gone to the feeder at all.

The closest I can describe is like a very elderly grandma sitting out on the porch and napping.

Did she get wormed recently? This just made me think that if she has worms or other parasites, it would make her weak/exhausted, no? I don't know when you last did a flock 'float test' (still not sure exactly what that is other than it looks for worms/eggs??) Have you had any bloodwork run on her recently? Or, do you not want to torture her with drawing blood - especially since she has already lived longer than you expected?