Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Ok everyone the deed is signed, sealed and will be shipped Tuesday. The silkie breeder I have been stalking finally had eggs from black breeding stock that did not have a chance for naked necks. First let us pray those 6 nuggets arrive unbroken. Then let us hope for a successful hatch and then finally pray with everything in us that I am able to hatch and raise 1, just 1 pullet. I would love all pullets but please, please just 1 pullet.

For those of you with facebook, here is the post that shows the parent stock.

https://www.facebook.com/geri.godina/posts/pfbid0VttcUr7TG7u79ewKiaT3KiTFPduhour1AcNSbMumC2h2qyMCo289HH9RzKMFmbUal

Congratulations!

 

[BY Bob]

Okay, maybe Drumstick was just so much younger. Bubba The Tank!
SHRA, tax forthcoming if possible - I need new pics!
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Those are great action shots!

 

[BY Bob]

Hush you!!! Hahahaha

Those eggs are slated for Sydney - Bob and I are gonna do a rendezvous and trade of eggs so Henny and Marty better not go broody until Syd does!

And nice she gets eggs they can sit and n golf balls!!

Phyllis. Sydney is not interested in raising babies anymore.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

She needs antibiotics to help heal it.

Any suggestions? Could I get it at TSC, because I am going into town tomorrow. I need laying pellets, and probabaly baby food just in case. So if anyone has suggestions for antibiotics for Bumblefoot, I will gladly take some.

 

[BY Bob]

Here is Pastel crowing

That is certainly healthy.

 

[Ponypoor]

Actually, I don’t know if I like his trim or not. Doesn’t seem natural to me. I don’t see David Bowie getting a trim cut like that one.
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Got the brows down to a ‘t’ though!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

That is certainly healthy.

Haha, my two old roosters both sounded very unhealthy. Basil sounded like a 250 year old man with throat issues. (I gave Basil away, and he was a happy free range chicken for about half a year, but unfortunately a coyote got him recently.
He does have a few sons that look just like him at his new home though.)
And Pumpkin had a very raspy and broken up voice. (I gave him away to a good friend.
He may become Thanksgiving dinner, because he attacks REALLY badly. He has torn his new owners leg up before and she needed to rest it for a few days.
His hatch day is Thanksgiving. He was a lone egg and a lone chick.
We were very close until I put him in with the others, then he started attacking me.)

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Here is Willow's brood house. It still needs a door, and some bedding, but other than that it is all done.
It is a old kitchen cabinet, with plenty of nesting space. It has a metal roof so that water does not seep into the nesting space.
The run is looped over the top, so that no one can fly out. The wire is attached to a piece of wood that is buried.
The wire is secured to the coop by zip-ties.
There will be straw or shaving in the nest box.
There will be access to food and water at all times, and once the chicks are a few weeks old, they will be let out to mingle with the others.
This whole structure, hoop run and all, is inside of the chickens run.
The door frame is a strong but bendy tree branch. The bottom of it is dug into the ground, and the tip is curved to match with the hoop run.
The door frame is secured with zip ties.
The actual door will be made out of wire and will have some sort of lock system.
Hopefully it will be done tomorrow so that Willow can go in there.

 

[Ponypoor]

Maybe the guy works on Sunday during the day. I can raise you that story. Did I tell this story before? Our fairly-new neighbor across the hollow had his chainsaw tuned up and picked it up on his way home from work. Tried it out, runs like a charm. Started working on his firewood logs. By the way, when does he work? Second shift, maybe third - it was about 2am! He cut wood for an hour or so. We lay in bed flabbergasted.

Okay, maybe that was a one-off? Nope. Next night, 11pm and it starts up again. I drove across the hollow in my PJ's and robe. Decided I wouldn't get out of the car in case he really was nuts. Gotta consider the situation, and this is truly bizarre. But this was the 90's. I think I would not do this nowadays. Not at night anyways.

Pulled up, but not too close, and rolled down the window. There he was with blazing outside lights cutting wood. He stopped and took his muffs off. I asked him really nicely: Can you not chainsaw during the night please? We're sleeping. See, that's our house up there across the way? We're 1/8 mile from here directly, we're all in this hollow, and the sound travels.

He was actually very sorry and explained he thought the distance was enough, he just got off work and had the saw worked on, etc., I said you know you have another neighbor much closer than us, right there on the corner (Only a thousand feet down the road)? He's a real early riser. We work at night like you, but not every night, and none of us are night-owls. He was great about it, and never chain-sawed at night again.

Chainsaw tax: four weeks old Butters in August 2020
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He is a financial advisor, wife lawyer, likely up at the cottage all weekend. He is wealthy enough to hire someone to get this all done in a couple hrs.

He thinks he is some sort of outdoors dude, tromps through the bush behind my paddock to go hunting, he make enough noise to scare the horses into galloping!

I have never seen him bring any game back, I always put the horses in the barn when he is back there just in case!

I am sure if I asked him to help clean and gut rabbits he would likely puke!

I feel like explaining how we Newfoundlander do things…. First we wait till we see that moose / deer on the road then we wing em with the car… easy access to throw into the vehicle no carrying out of the bush, rabbits are caught with slips (snares I think you call them), fish with a pitchfork (shhhh don’t tell!), it’s all very quiet no noise at all!

Wood is cut with a bunch of the guys one weekend in the Fall (you don’t cut down trees this time of year btw?!) a couple of cases of 2 4 and some of that moose/deer for lunch and supper. There is no night time / evening cutting, that’s when the party starts! All indoors where no one is bothered!



Crazy Newfoundlander Tax

Henny Penny looks like aome prehistoric beast!

What’s that Penelope?

Suck it up and close the windows?

EDIT
@RoyalChick note Henny penny’s nice clean feet feathers.

 

[Ponypoor]

Here is Willow's brood house. It still needs a door, and some bedding, but other than that it is all done.
It is a old kitchen cabinet, with plenty of nesting space. It has a metal roof so that water does not seep into the nesting space.
The run is looped over the top, so that no one can fly out. The wire is attached to a piece of wood that is buried.
The wire is secured to the coop by zip-ties.
There will be straw or shaving in the nest box.
There will be access to food and water at all times, and once the chicks are a few weeks old, they will be let out to mingle with the others.
This whole structure, hoop run and all, is inside of the chickens run.
The door frame is a strong but bendy tree branch. The bottom of it is dug into the ground, and the tip is curved to match with the hoop run.
The door frame is secured with zip ties.
The actual door will be made out of wire and will have some sort of lock system.
Hopefully it will be done tomorrow so that Willow can go in there.
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Looks good!