Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I wanna camel ….

You would!

 

[featherhead007]

And Jaffar, he Cocorico!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Great news on Butters!

I love your little feeding station in this picture with the bottle roof! I am going to steal this idea. Where did you get these cute hanging cups?
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Here's a view of the inside with Butters' cup removed

The back attachment - I prefer the plastic or rubbery coated ties but all we have right now that are long enough are the paper ones

 

[featherhead007]

I wanna camel ….

I’ve been thinking about this. Sorry Kelly, but they don’t make camels with Mercedes Benz emblems. Nor do they make camels with Lexus ones either!

 

[Ponypoor]

No More Broodies... just lay your egg!

 

[featherhead007]

No More Broodies... just lay your egg!

Ruth, you pecker, I have another question for you.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Here's a view of the inside with Butters' cup removed
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The back attachment - I prefer the plastic or rubbery coated ties but all we have right now that are long enough are the paper ones
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Theoretically, just a slit across the back could work, if the jug is flexible enough... Getting the hangers through it onto a wire by pushing the top of the slit back and pulling the bottom one out...Maybe.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I am very disappointed in our Suntuf roofing job, and I don't know what we did wrong except that the frame base is not in deep pilings to avoid frost heave.

We followed the panel installation directions to an insane degree, took extreme care and time with each screw, and yet the majority of the purlin attachments are leaking, at the screw. In fact if we had not put so many in and risked the wind lifting it off we would be better off in the rain. Now I am hanging little tarps inside to divert the drips and thinking about a little gutter system, like a skeeball maze. The positive would be fresh rain water for the chickens.. .At least it's coming down in discreet places, dripping mostly off the purlins; the ones over the rafters go along the rafter tops until they drip off mostly. Darn!

My best idea about why, besides worker error somehow, is that the framework, which is sitting on the ground, shifted with the ground heaving in the winter, that heaving did happen, and that skewed things enough to move the rubber gaskets off the horizontal, and they've not moved back. Darn! Did not anticipate this, if that's what's happened. It's all braced very well, horizontally and vertically. Snow load appeared to not affect it.

 

[lightm]

Here's a view of the inside with Butters' cup removed
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The back attachment - I prefer the plastic or rubbery coated ties but all we have right now that are long enough are the paper ones
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Thanks for the pictures! I am confident that I can figure something out once I find a big/sturdy enough jug...

After looking around, I ended up ordering hanging cups from a different website: https://pinnonhatch.com/poultry-supplies/hanging-feed-water-cage-cups-poultry-cups

This bird netting from the same place also looks great for aerial predators except that I don't need it at the moment.

 

[RoyalChick]

I am very disappointed in our Suntuf roofing job, and I don't know what we did wrong except that the frame base is not in deep pilings to avoid frost heave.

We followed the panel installation directions to an insane degree, took extreme care and time with each screw, and yet the majority of the purlin attachments are leaking, at the screw. In fact if we had not put so many in and risked the wind lifting it off we would be better off in the rain. Now I am hanging little tarps inside to divert the drips and thinking about a little gutter system, like a skeeball maze. The positive would be fresh rain water for the chickens.. .At least it's coming down in discreet places, dripping mostly off the purlins; the ones over the rafters go along the rafter tops until they drip off mostly. Darn!

My best idea about why, besides worker error somehow, is that the framework, which is sitting on the ground, shifted with the ground heaving in the winter, that heaving did happen, and that skewed things enough to move the rubber gaskets off the horizontal, and they've not moved back. Darn! Did not anticipate this, if that's what's happened. It's all braced very well, horizontally and vertically. Snow load appeared to not affect it.

On the bright side as you say, the chickens now have fresh running wild-water which has got to count as a luxury item in the chicken world!