Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Retreated defeated
The temperature dropped a little so I set out to mend the step inside the Chicken Palace.
I had forgotten a few things. 90% humidity makes even 85 degrees pretty unbearable and mosquitoes.
I have made a start but i couldn't bear to be outside any more. I am bitten all over and so sweaty I didn't even notice it was raining when I came outside of the Chicken Palace.
Feels like another ice-cream day.

Tax: Pooh is looking a bit disheveled. Maybe starting to molt? Maybe just a bad hair day in the humidity.
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She is lovely - even slightly disheveled!

The steps can wait for another day until it cools some. Clearly it isn't bothering the chickens that they have an askew step!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

Found this beauty on the lawn

 

[Ponypoor]

Retreated defeated
The temperature dropped a little so I set out to mend the step inside the Chicken Palace.
I had forgotten a few things. 90% humidity makes even 85 degrees pretty unbearable and mosquitoes.
I have made a start but i couldn't bear to be outside any more. I am bitten all over and so sweaty I didn't even notice it was raining when I came outside of the Chicken Palace.
Feels like another ice-cream day.

Tax: Pooh is looking a bit disheveled. Maybe starting to molt? Maybe just a bad hair day in the humidity.
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I say leave the step, it’s not safe in that heat doing anything, I think next week is supposed to be cooler here and less humid, I bet you will also be less humid also; you’re not that far from me - as the crow flies…

 

[Ponypoor]

FYI: Photo caption contest is on this week - it’s turkeys this time

Thread 'Official BYC Caption Contest 08-02-24 Pic by Friednotscrambled'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...st-08-02-24-pic-by-friednotscrambled.1635635/

 

[RoyalChick]

Do you notice the mosquitoes are particularly bad this year?

There do seem a lot and they are very big and out in the middle of the day.
I didn’t think to put bug spray on and I am one big mosquito buffet.
Ugh.

 

[Ponypoor]

There do seem a lot and they are very big and out in the middle of the day.
I didn’t think to put bug spray on and I am one big mosquito buffet.
Ugh.

It’s all the wet weather we have had, I spray the horses each morning - but yesterday I didn’t spray myself and I too am a mosquito smorgasbord!

 

[RoyalChick]

She is lovely - even slightly disheveled!

The steps can wait for another day until it cools some. Clearly it isn't bothering the chickens that they have an askew step!

They are totally fine. The step is for me!
The Chicken Palace is on a steep slope and I need two steps to get between the house and the run.
One step is fine but the other has been destroyed. It is just concrete blocks filled in with dirt. So at the moment I am balancing on one edge of a block.
I need to level the ground and reset the blocks. I made progress. I will do a little more tomorrow. But by bit.
Bug spray will help.

 

[RoyalChick]

I say leave the step, it’s not safe in that heat doing anything, I think next week is supposed to be cooler here and less humid, I bet you will also be less humid also; you’re not that far from me - as the crow flies…

Wise advice.

 

[featherhead007]

I will probably not be on for the rest of the day. I have to go outside and dig a grave for Bubba. I am going to bury him under the Mimosa tree beside Gracie. My boys foot has busted open and it is time. I know what I have to do, and I have done it once before. It does not make it any easier. Thank you my dear boy for being a true gentleman of a Rooster. I have treasured our 3 years together. I wish we had more time but I promise you, your girls will be ok.
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You are a brave and considerate person for putting him down and out of his suffering. Best wishes and prayers for you today and always.

 

[featherhead007]

Thank you for the smile

I have been there. Over the years I have enjoyed horse wormer, spat out and conveniently dropped into my mouth by any number of naughty horses. Jabbed myself with rabies vaccine, sprayed Aluspray (silver aluminum powder) in my face (takes days to get rid of), face plant in horse poop, have had numerous pee covered tails slapped in my face, liquid poopy cow tails slapped in my face, sprayed in the face with pee by a randy naughty male rabbit (at a Fair so couldn’t go home to change).

And now the chickens open up a whole new world of things to get smacked in the face and head with

But… it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person!