Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

My father in law was here to visit. He has been giving everything away because of all the cancer in his body. He has about a year to live if that. In June they are moving his shed over here and some tools, and the shed we have now will be all mine. It will be mostly coop. Gonna add the silkies in there.

 

[Ponypoor]

Just want to add that I’ve been taking the winter coop run litter out each year and spread it on the blueberries for mulch. This does NOT include poop tray litter (chopped hemp and chicken poop) which I think is too much nitrogen per carbon to soak it up. Poop tray litter gets composted along with kitchen waste for garden use. Blueberries don’t want or need a lot of nitrogen. They need well-draining, very acid soil and steady moisture.

Anyway every bush has done well except one, so I don’t think that bush’s problem is due to the mulch. The run litter is a mix of chicken poop of course, but then lots of aged ramial chips from a pile the tree guys left us, that’s generally a mix of pine, oak and maple; purchased bagged wood chips which I think is pine; collected fall leaves and pine needles, some chopped hemp, and some rice hulls.

(The one blueberry not doing well is near a concrete foundation. It has a chlorophyll problem (chlorosis) is which I think is possibly due to encountering concrete mud or something making the soil too basic. It has a companion bush that has thrived next to it, thus the theory it grew into a pocket of something too basic. The leaves got a little better when I gave it a rhododendron soil acidifier treatment late last summer.)

Last January in the Big Run

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I had a lot of issues with my rhododendrons, and figured out they like acidic soil and they need the root bud union above the dirt, once I did these things they seem to be doing better. I am going to dig all three up in the Fall and move them.

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Penelope thought of laying her egg in the wheelbarrow but then laid in a nest box.

 

[rural mouse]

A lot of them have crazy combs. I don't care whether or not the comb should stand up straight or whatever the breed standards are. I just like them because they are chickens, they make me breakfast, and they're cute.

only the roos are supposed to have combs standing up. Hens are supposed to have crazy combs. And hers is at such a rakish angle.

 

[rural mouse]

Look who can flap/hop up onto the brooder plate already! Just hatched Friday night so not even 3 days old quite….

She is a smart one!

Ummm.....look at whom?

 

[rural mouse]

But it's Spring.

Not really for another month yet, anything north of the us/Canadian border and south along the Rockies all the way down to roughly salt lake city

 

[Ponypoor]

Ummm.....look at whom?

Ya darn photos didn’t load and then I replied to Big Roo - I changed to the 5g network here so here is hoping it works better! I will see if I can post...

Nope my iPhone still is not happy. Back to my android, going to start taking photos with this phone.

 

[ValarieF]

Not really for another month yet, anything north of the us/Canadian border and south along the Rockies all the way down to roughly salt lake city

Its spring here, nice and warm and the chooks love it.

 

[Ponypoor]

Not really for another month yet, anything north of the us/Canadian border and south along the Rockies all the way down to roughly salt lake city

Summer here is from July first to mid August, just 6 weeks....

Winter here is from Oct to Apr

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Babies

 

[rural mouse]

Ummm.....look at whom?

shra

 

[rural mouse]

Its spring here, nice and warm and the chooks love it.

Our weather helps keep the tourists away. That is much appreciated