Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Those are some odd coops. I need designer input from Phyllis. She would know.

Sorry, but Phyllis is too busy being flipped, to answer your questions.

 

[featherhead007]

I am eggcited for you! How many are you thinking?

Four Or perhaps six

 

[rural mouse]

Four Or perhaps six

Good number options. Keeps things flexible. (Dealing with living creatures, being flexible is important....or life has a way of making you be flexible)

 

[bgmathteach]

Italian Chicken Coops

There are 2 kinds of chickens in Italy. Brown ones lay brown eggs, White ones lay white eggs. You can tell from the article. They only use the 2.

https://www.designboom.com/art/quir...ni-santoni-vedovamazzei-artissima-02-14-2024/

Those are tiny - they are only big enough for maybe 2 chickens each - approx. 32" x 32" (7 square feet per level - and it looks (?) like the lower levels are supposed to be nest boxes?? Who only has 2 chickens???...even in italy?

Yes, yes, I know - don't ever question an artist about his work!!!

 

[bgmathteach]

Four Or perhaps six

Best go with the 6 then....4 EEs and then a brown leggie or2....or 2 banty cochins - especially for Jaffar!

 

[rural mouse]

Best go with the 6 then....4 EEs and then a brown leggie or2....or 2 banty cochins - especially for Jaffar!

@featherhead007 maybe add a couple of Rhode Island or New Hampshire Reds for Dakota, bringing the total to 8...or keep the flexibility if they don't have some of the other options

 

[RoyalChick]

A rare occurrence - all my Princesses in a row!
Unexpectedly it snowed all night and is still snowing so I am not sure anyone will get out and about today.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh they aren’t bored, the barn is a chicken haven, stacks of straw and hay to climb and dig in and crap on

There isn’t a bug or spider within 2’ of the ground on any of the walls, they have learnt that they can get up on the 2x12 beams easy access from the straw stack. There is yummy horse poop and straw bedding to dig through, any bits of grain passing through the horses and ending up in their poop is a delight treat it seems!

Outside the wild birds - ravens and crows - pick through it for grains also

I think it’s spring fever, hormones are surging, it’s time for the broody old bats to start hogging nest boxes to be broody.

They are also mad at not being able to get outside, they won’t go out in the snow, it’s evil white stuff!

Well speaking of getting up onto the 2x12 beams - seems that Butterscotch is up in the space created between the two beams installed on both sides of the 6x6 posts holding the roof up.

I enclosed the space over the doorways to the Summer House by placing a plank at the bottom of the space between the two beams. It seems this has created a lovely nest box of sorts - I wonder how many eggs are up there?!

I will need to enclose that space fully I guess.

 

[Ponypoor]

What a lovely photo of Sophie and her babies

Thanks - it was a lucky photo

 

[Ponypoor]

@featherhead007 maybe add a couple of Rhode Island or New Hampshire Reds for Dakota, bringing the total to 8...or keep the flexibility if they don't have some of the other options

I would do it this way:
1 BR
1 RIR
1 Cuckoo Maran
1 ‘surprise’ (for interest)
1 Cochin (because we need furry legs)
1 EE

A lovely mix for interest or swap out the BR for another EE for a total of two of those