Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Pastel the Rooster]

Oh yes I looked at it on my laptop and saw it was an elephant

These chickens are giving my power tools a good bashing!

You better be careful that they don't cut through the screen and poop all over your stuff!

 

[Ponypoor]

This popped up in my news feed for Pony Sunday.
It made me smile.

Hahaha those lions where just being brats they knew they weren’t getting a snack!

That bridge looks safer than the ones who crossed back in the winter

 

[Ponypoor]

You better be careful that they don't cut through the screen and poop all over your stuff!

Oh that’s been done before - yuck!

 

[RoyalChick]

I outwitted them and got all in one picture and another picture with all the Pentagonists.
I have to pretend I am looking the other way to sneak in a shot without someone disappearing!

 

[Sally PB]

First day outside for the littles. Took about a minute for them to decide to all come outside.

 

[bgmathteach]

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I know the littles are now roosting with the bigs ---but looking at this picture, I was thinking they wouldn't fit through that round hole much longer - either!

What did you use to cut that hole - a 2" hole saw? or do you have a larger one?? I think I really like this idea until I get an integrated brooder built like @RoyalChick has.

Until now, I have had no way to keep them warm out there - but I just got (thankfully had been ordered and paid for before this whole computer fiasco) a 'Portable Power Station'. (I got one of he smaller ones - my small chick heater is only 12W, my larger one is 18W, and my heated waterer -thanks to someone! -is 85 watts - so by starting with warm water in the am - it should easily keep water liquid for a full day in the winter - that math I could do!) It is really just a good battery with integrated plugs (standard & USB), an internal inverter (ac/dc) and an overcharge protector - and can be recharged with solar or by plugging in - and it is all encased in a solid, waterproof case. I am hoping to get it set up this week and fully charged (meaning - create a frame for and put up the solar panels) and then be able to use it by the end of next weekend.

Hopefully it all works out well. I think it was probably more expensive than buying the components separately (I did already have some solar panels - so did not get them with this), but I am not an electrician and just didn't have the time for the research and understanding needed - and was not sure that the inverter and such I had been looking at was properly sized for what I wanted, etc. And, this was 30% off, which put it into my price range (on top of a 1st time customer discount of 200)

So, maybe raising chicks like @rural mouse will be a possibility - I had wanted a brooder out there, but with the power issue, did not think it would be possible for a few years. Plus is that I can run additional fans, too. No more 'one of each in coop/run while the other is charging in the house to be swapped out!

 

[bgmathteach]

Eli-too



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Awe, that is my kind of girl - liking power tools!

 

[bgmathteach]

Eli-too

Ok everyone pullet? 6 weeks old.

And of course she has to sit on my power tools

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And a video

At this point, I say pullet. That said, I really have absolutely no experience with Polish, and given she is 1/2 Polish - that could change things.

I just love the small head tufts - maybe next year I can get you to sell a couple of 1/2 Mr. P. pullets. It makes me think of RC's RoadRunners - but I wouldn't want the full on headdres that Mr. P and Phyllis have - too dangerous for them here.


oh, boy - chicken math at work - I really don't NEED more breeds But, Rico, Eli-too, Martina, and that whole gang are just so darn adorable!!!

 

[bgmathteach]

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They are definitely 'Mini-Mes' now. Looks like you went from ?8? to 19 chooks in one fell swoop!!!

BTW: I would start making a VERY concerted effort to block the holes in the fence...but while teh chicks are on YOUR side. You are feeding them, watch out for them, AND they have sized up your accommodations and seem to like them....just syaing!

So, I know this is a borderline thing, which I generally don't condone - but you said you talked to the neighbor - and all he did was lock Mom up in a cage and made no effort to keep the littles on his side - and - possession is 9/10ths of the law (according to my father, anyways!)

 

[bgmathteach]

I outwitted them and got all in one picture and another picture with all the Pentagonists.
I have to pretend I am looking the other way to sneak in a shot without someone disappearing!

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Did you make that blue ladder in the first photo? I love it! (Yes, I know I've seen it in pictures before, but not from this perspective) It looks like a regular ladder - EXCEPT way too many rungs! Did you just supplement with dowels?

I haven't found an old wooden ladder like that. I have gotten a wooden step ladder for free, but that is more work to make it usable like that as the 'treads' then need to be taken off and readjusted (angle of inclination)