Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

It's Friday again already
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Ummm, @Marie2020 , it is Saturday here! But, I'll take a fluffy bottom any day.

 

[featherhead007]

@featherhead007

I think Kelly maths is far worse than mine, when it comes to little fluffy butt's

Anything after 20, and Kelly stops counting!!
And according to the chicken math charts, Kelly doesn’t have any chickens at all.

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm curious as to what you have planted in the 'chicken garden/outdoor run?' I just got some blueberry bushes to plant where they will have a 'pasture', and a dwarf everbearing mulberry bush/tree (2), and two different haskaps -- these latter will go in the main run. They are vining plants ( related to honey suckle, but berries are edible by humans, too) that I'm hoping will eventually grow over an arbor to create shade in the summer AND 'foraging feed' in the fall as the berries (that the human doesn't pick) fall.

Eventually, the 'primary' run they are in now will, hopefully, become just the winter run, and I will have 2 real 'pasture runs' plus as we get our small orchard going, that will be fenced in and the chickens can cycle through that, to, at select times (there will be a blueberry section within one end for humans - the chickens will be allowed in their AFTER the harvest to sratch through the leaf bedding for bugs & drops).

But, alas - long tern plans/dream. Little time at the present to make noticable progress on the main run, never mind anything else. *sigh*

I am heading out to a wedding shortly but tomorrow will try for some pictures.
The tall stuff arrived on its own and is the artemisia - a natural coccidiostat and healthy for people too.
The big shade tunnel also arrived in its own and is butterfly bush.
I have planted (well replanted actually) a couple of native magnolias that are doing well and a viburnum which is just coming back from the dead.
Two years ago I got three tiny honeyberry bare root plants and they are growing like crazy and has about three berries already. Yum!
I get seedlings of that invasive pear and I am experimenting with weaving them together to create a living gazebo.
I am layering some forsythia from elsewhere in the garden and will plant that in the Fall.
Finally I bought a weeping Hawthorn - I think that is what it is. It creates a lovely parasol for them and is evergreen.
Tax: the butterfly bush cave

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm curious as to what you have planted in the 'chicken garden/outdoor run?' I just got some blueberry bushes to plant where they will have a 'pasture', and a dwarf everbearing mulberry bush/tree (2), and two different haskaps -- these latter will go in the main run. They are vining plants ( related to honey suckle, but berries are edible by humans, too) that I'm hoping will eventually grow over an arbor to create shade in the summer AND 'foraging feed' in the fall as the berries (that the human doesn't pick) fall.

Eventually, the 'primary' run they are in now will, hopefully, become just the winter run, and I will have 2 real 'pasture runs' plus as we get our small orchard going, that will be fenced in and the chickens can cycle through that, to, at select times (there will be a blueberry section within one end for humans - the chickens will be allowed in their AFTER the harvest to sratch through the leaf bedding for bugs & drops).

But, alas - long tern plans/dream. Little time at the present to make noticable progress on the main run, never mind anything else. *sigh*

By the way, just leaving an area not mown results in many volunteer shrubs that you can dig up and move into the run for free.
I only purchased the hawthorn and the honeyberry bushes.

 

[Marie2020]

Ummm, @Marie2020 , it is Saturday here! But, I'll take a fluffy bottom any day.

Omg, so it is Caturday
That was my cat but he moved really quick

Got him this time

 

[bgmathteach]

By the way, just leaving an area not mown results in many volunteer shrubs that you can dig up and move into the run for free.
I only purchased the hawthorn and the honeyberry bushes.

unfortunately, my 'volunteers' are all invasives: bittersweet, rosa rugosa (type planted during WWII in lieu of fencing for animals - little to no 'hips' and VERY invasive), and we have tons of the invasive bush honeysuckle. Fortunately, while their berries are toxic to mammals, they aren't to birds - the chickens/wild birds love the June berries. (speaking of which, the shrubs are LOADED with soon to be ripe berries - so birds can deposit the seeds and start new shrubs!

 

[RoyalChick]

unfortunately, my 'volunteers' are all invasives: bittersweet, rosa rugosa (type planted during WWII in lieu of fencing for animals - little to no 'hips' and VERY invasive), and we have tons of the invasive bush honeysuckle. Fortunately, while their berries are toxic to mammals, they aren't to birds - the chickens/wild birds love the June berries. (speaking of which, the shrubs are LOADED with soon to be ripe berries - so birds can deposit the seeds and start new shrubs!

Yes I have all those. I do my best to destroy the rose. The pear I will try making this living structure and if not, will destroy it. I leave the butterfly bush alone and I try to tame the honeysuckle.

 

[Sylvester017]

This little Wyandottey Cockerel is a smart little guy. I picked up my keys from the desk, he ran over to me as if to ask “are we going into town again?”

Chickens learn smarter & quicker than people give them credit!

 

[notabitail]

I am on the flight path to a major airport and I like using flightradar24 app to identify the planes coming in to land and where they have come from.
I also get pipeline planes and a bunch of private jets and helicopters.
Last week though there was a drone and that felt quite intrusive. Apparently I am not within my rights to knock it out of the sky. Hope it doesn’t come back.

Air space tax: Bernie appreciates the little paths I cut through the undergrowth for her.
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The airspace above is practically anyone's. Drones are treated the same as other aircraft (knock it out, risk jail).

 

[Sylvester017]

I am on the flight path to a major airport and I like using flightradar24 app to identify the planes coming in to land and where they have come from.
I also get pipeline planes and a bunch of private jets and helicopters.
Last week though there was a drone and that felt quite intrusive. Apparently I am not within my rights to knock it out of the sky. Hope it doesn’t come back.

Air space tax: Bernie appreciates the little paths I cut through the undergrowth for her.
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Your property pics are always beautiful & w/ chickens looking so happy!