Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[GregnLety]

Lety is building a giant pen for her best friend. One side will hold the chooks and the other the turkeys.

 

[featherhead007]

Lety is building a giant pen for her best friend. One side will hold the chooks and the other the turkeys.View attachment 3691138

Spatial distortion. That ladder is only a foot tall isn’t it?

 

[RoyalChick]

Tassels is wearing green to guard the door.

Edited to tag @RebeccaBoyd because I didn’t even think twice about her feathered legs! I have really gone over to the dark side!

 

[RoyalChick]

Lety is building a giant pen for her best friend. One side will hold the chooks and the other the turkeys.View attachment 3691138

Good for Lety - I am impressed!

 

[bgmathteach]

Fisher (a big weasel basically) is possible too but I haven't heard of it killing indiscriminately like the small weasels (I don't know, just haven't come across that info), I think it would kill one to eat (take the body).

A Fisher is very fierce, and will kill multiple chickens...but they don't go completely crazy like a smaller weasel. They will usually carry one off - and leave the other 1, 2, 3 they killed just laying there. My hubby let my chooks out (at our other place) then took the dog for a 1 hour walk - he didn't heed the 'they are only out when we are there' - because we could hear the fisher cat at night. It killed 3 of my 6 hens - one got carried off, two were left where he killed them. And I know for sure he took one, as there was a trail with sporadic clumps of feathers from her.

That was quite a while ago....fortunately, this side of town there isn't a fisher - or at least not one close to be a constant menace! Raccoons, foxes, hawks, owls and coyotes are enough, thank you!

Edit to add: Raccoons will usually kill a couple - and eat the breast and/or the entrails, leave the rest - and not touch one or more of the killed ones....but sometimes you will get a raccoon that will go wild and just kill everything, especially if they (chickens) are little (re: young) ones . I have had some raccoons that bite the head off, some that didn't. They generally go for the head/neck for the kill - unlike a fox that will usually grab them from the back and the puncture woulds will be on the sides - and they will shake them to snap their necks.

 

[GregnLety]

Spatial distortion. That ladder is only a foot tall isn’t it?

Probably a 4 ft ladder

 

[bgmathteach]

Lety is building a giant pen for her best friend. One side will hold the chooks and the other the turkeys.View attachment 3691138

That looks wonderful - what are the dimensions? I'm guessing the ladder is about 3' tall? Is it about 5' tall, 16' long and 8' deep???

That is very sweet of Lety to do that for her friend! And I like how she sistered the board joint at the base for extra strength/support. You are turning her into a right smart carpenter!!!

 

[featherhead007]

It’s not my imagination. I have BoPeeps in with me, and her feathers have a pleasant scent like spring flowers. It’s amazing.

 

[GregnLety]

That looks wonderful - what are the dimensions? I'm guessing the ladder is about 3' tall? Is it about 5' tall, 16' long and 8' deep???

That is very sweet of Lety to do that for her friend! And I like how she sistered the board joint at the base for extra strength/support. You are turning her into a right smart carpenter!!!

BG I'd say you're close on the dimensions shows you know standard dimensions of framing lumber too.
Her friends chickens don't really have a secure place to roost. Lety couldn't take it any longer so she drags her friend to home depot and the build is on. This is her friend that recently lost her husband so Lety does her best to keep Amparo occupied.

 

[bgmathteach]

Probably a 4 ft ladder

Oh, then 6' tall??? That would actually make more sense, too, so you can walk in.

That is very kind of her - taking care of her friend like that (and her friend's chooks/turkeys!)

You know, it doesn't look like it will be too heavy. If you can find a couple of old lawn mower tires and put them on the back, it could then be moved if she wanted to give them fresh grass. Or will it mostly be used for roosting at night?

And, if it is 6' tall, the 2' 'ends' that get cut off (of 8' lumber), if she cuts each end at a 45 degree angle, they will make great braces for structural integrity at the corners.

Tell Lety I just think that she is wonderful - both as a person and a friend. We could all use a great friend like her!