Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

You seem to have many pomegranates. You can possibly afford to send me a few.
My PO BOX: 0h, I, 8, 1, 2 NUTTER HIGHWAY Bakersfield Ca. (Because no one goes to Fresno anymore)
I am kidding. (don’t send them)

Watch out! We have relatives in Fresno, Bakersfield, Kerman, Clovis, Modesto, Madera, and as far north as Sacramento. You just might see us come by sometime!

Just kidding! I'm too old to go over the Grapevine route any more . We can't even drive far enough to attend family weddings or funerals any more!

 

[Marie2020]

Look up diy swampcooler. We have one and it works really nicely here.

That's really clever. I've never heard of these before

 

[Sylvester017]

They should be this when fully grown.

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Tolbunt? Gorgeous!

 

[Marie2020]

Hello everyone.
Trying to cope with this deadly heat right now, 120 degree highs killed two more of my hens, Sunfeather and Onyx. My fan malfunctioned yesterday sometime in the middle of the day yesterday and is still not working. I have to go outside every few minutes to mist down my chicken coop and water down the dustbathing holes.
Here is a video and some tax.

Tax:
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I want to post more tax but it won't upload. Maybe it will work better later

I was impressed by this swamp cooler recommended earlier by @notabitail

 

[RoyalChick]

Cool giraffe very creative and great use of stuff usually disposed of.

I found this photo of young coyote and I think you are correct. At first I thought their tails were not quite the long but I was wrong. The photos of older ones seem to show them much fluffier but the juveniles do indeed seem to me to look strikingly similar to the animal you caught on camera.

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Yup. I think that is right. Dang, as if the foxes weren’t enough!
All chickens accounted for and the lady turkey was around again after the coyote sighting. Hopefully it learns to feed off ground hogs as I could do with some population reduction there!

 

[Sylvester017]

The thing about DIY swamp coolers that scares me is water near electric current if you don't understand how dangerous that can be -- if you have electricity training that's ok but if not it looks unsafe.

I'll take a manufactured safety piece of equipt over a DIY project but that's just me. We never put water and electricity together near our chickens just to be safe. If we ever did it would be safely manufactured mechanisms like @Ponypoor has set up.

Unfortunately for us our summers are too unbearably humid to use swamp coolers. A cool slow stream of sprinkler water under canopy shade is our chickens' favorite to play in.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Everybody Has a Chick!

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Congratulations to both Momma's. Well done ladies.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Thursday evening I agreed to help Rosie clean out Russ's stall. I get out there and my Branch let me know he wanted to sit in my lap and held. So I did. I held my little buddy for 30 minutes while Rosie did the stall herself complaining the entire time. She was playing music, and me and Branch both criticized her song choices and her stall cleaning. Once it got almost dark as she was finishing up Branch hopped down and put himself in the coop for the night. I have held fast to that memory this afternoon and evening while I was working at the concession during the horse show. I could not fall to pieces. I am home now, and I am shattered. I had my first hawk attack this morning. My buddy, my best friend, my tv watching Monkey Man was the one taken. It killed me when I lost Drumstick, but this, this hurts worse. Through my tears I am staring at 6 little Branchlets. Please, please let one of these be a boy. I do not think I have prayed so hard for a rooster chick ever.

Rest in peace Branch. The last 2 months you have been stand offish since you have taken over the brunt of rooster duties now that Bubba has slowed down. Thank you, thank you for chest bumping my leg Thursday evening in your way of telling me you wanted picked up.

My Monkey man Branch
5-15-2021-7-6-2024

 

[MiraBella Ranch]

OK, how about some pictures of the chicks from back in April of last year?

Let's start with Fluffy Butts, what better place?
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Here is Jabber. He was crazy from the start.
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And here is Hattie, so sweet and friendy from day 1.
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I love this....BTW, my "Hattie" doesn't like chickens, so she sleeps with the goats, but fits under their fence and goes out to pasture each day with the sheep...like single file line, it's hilarious! I just feed her there! And she has her own water pan next to theirs because the sheep drink down the water so far she can't reach it. Also once Hattie followed the rooster back to the coop and spent one night in it. I laughed and let her be there...she pecked everyone! The next day, she was back in the goat pen - by her own choice, ha ha. She has a nest box, a food and water platform, and a roosting bar high above the goat's heads. When ever she sees me, she chats to me. I chat back. What a character! Oh, and one of my Easter Eggers we named Duchess, but she turned out to be The Duke! ha ha

 

[RoyalChick]

Thursday evening I agreed to help Rosie clean out Russ's stall. I get out there and my Branch let me know he wanted to sit in my lap and held. So I did. I held my little buddy for 30 minutes while Rosie did the stall herself complaining the entire time. She was playing music, and me and Branch both criticized her song choices and her stall cleaning. Once it got almost dark as she was finishing up Branch hopped down and put himself in the coop for the night. I have held fast to that memory this afternoon and evening while I was working at the concession during the horse show. I could not fall to pieces. I am home now, and I am shattered. I had my first hawk attack this morning. My buddy, my best friend, my tv watching Monkey Man was the one taken. It killed me when I lost Drumstick, but this, this hurts worse. Through my tears I am staring at 6 little Branchlets. Please, please let one of these be a boy. I do not think I have prayed so hard for a rooster chick ever.

Rest in peace Branch. The last 2 months you have been stand offish since you have taken over the brunt of rooster duties now that Bubba has slowed down. Thank you, thank you for chest bumping my leg Thursday evening in your way of telling me you wanted picked up.

My Monkey man Branch
5-15-2021-7-6-2024
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Oh no! Oh Branch! Oh Rebecca!
I have no words. So much sadness. Such a wonderful little buddy.