Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Grandma The Chicken]

Here is one for you

And the tax to go with it, BFTP June 2022:

Blanche and Sophia, ready for bed
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Curly up in the window - another reason I got rid of the roosts - the silkies could get up in really high places, it freaked me out when they flew/hopped/crashed back down.
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Surprisingly I've never heard of that song...
And welcome, @kiktty kat 69012
Everyone here goes bonkers from time to time but this is just our way of saying, "we don't bite."
Not like her at least...

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Is meatloaf supposed to be grey and fuzzy?

If it's grey and fuzzy, something's wrong.

 

[rural mouse]

Is meatloaf supposed to be grey and fuzzy?

Depends upon what animal you used for the meat and whether or not you skinned it first.....

 

[Lilion]

I thought broody hens stopped laying. Tassels is 100% broody (this is the 5th time, I know what I am looking at). But she also laid an egg today.
What’s with that?!

They have to lay until they have a clutch to hatch, right? Eenie laid several eggs when she was broody.

Except for mounting the door, installing the pop door, and putting in the linoleum, the coop is done. And the roosts need installed too...so, yeah, not really done at all.

The joy of using reclaimed materials...we ran out of white painted plywood. That back right corner had to be finished with brown. I was super annoyed, but I've decided to think of it as the flaw they leave in an Amish quilt...a reminder that only God is capable of perfection. (And as my husband kept saying, "It's for f@#&%#g chickens, Honey! They won't care!") I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist.

The chicken wire goes all the way to the roof on the front wall, but not on the nest side. There's a gap of about 10"... but it's 8 1/2 feet to it. Surely they can't fly up that high? Or wouldn't bother?

I know...not predator proof. It's not supposed to be. It's to keep chickens in. The surrounding building keeps predators out.

Sadly, hubby's back to work the next 3 nights. I can't do the floor alone, so very little will get done this week and Friday noon we leave for the weekend to attend my uncle's funeral. So I guess they'll have to remain in the current setup until we move them, in two more weeks. We keep hoping Red Squadron follows the others into the big coop...but they seem pretty happy with their own.

Here's the best mug I'm getting for this Monday.

Now it's 8 pm again and time for showering off the sawdust and finding something to eat.

 

[BY Bob]

Goodbye my friend.

Yesterday I found out Aurora had a really bad prolapse. I tried to shove it back in but she had pooped in her body cavity. There is about an inch of guts outside her cloaca. She does not seem to be lethargic but since she pooped inside I am sure it will get infected. Also it may happen again. I got her inside the barn because the wasps were tormenting her. Today she will be put down because I don't have the heart to let her go on suffering, because, even though I put honey on her vent to keep it from drying out, she went and scratched around in the wood shavings and got wood shavings all over her guts.
Goodbye Aurora, my only Easter Egger.

Oh my gosh. I'm so very sorry. That is never easy.

 

[Ponypoor]

Is meatloaf supposed to be grey and fuzzy?

Sure! And sometimes spaghetti too!

 

[Ponypoor]

They have to lay until they have a clutch to hatch, right? Eenie laid several eggs when she was broody.

Except for mounting the door, installing the pop door, and putting in the linoleum, the coop is done. And the roosts need installed too...so, yeah, not really done at all.
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The joy of using reclaimed materials...we ran out of white painted plywood. That back right corner had to be finished with brown. I was super annoyed, but I've decided to think of it as the flaw they leave in an Amish quilt...a reminder that only God is capable of perfection. (And as my husband kept saying, "It's for f@#&%#g chickens, Honey! They won't care!") I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist.

The chicken wire goes all the way to the roof on the front wall, but not on the nest side. There's a gap of about 10"... but it's 8 1/2 feet to it. Surely they can't fly up that high? Or wouldn't bother?
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I know...not predator proof. It's not supposed to be. It's to keep chickens in. The surrounding building keeps predators out.

Sadly, hubby's back to work the next 3 nights. I can't do the floor alone, so very little will get done this week and Friday noon we leave for the weekend to attend my uncle's funeral. So I guess they'll have to remain in the current setup until we move them, in two more weeks. We keep hoping Red Squadron follows the others into the big coop...but they seem pretty happy with their own.

Here's the best mug I'm getting for this Monday.
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Now it's 8 pm again and time for showering off the sawdust and finding something to eat.

It’s awesome! I love how open it is Nice job!

 

[RoyalChick]

They have to lay until they have a clutch to hatch, right? Eenie laid several eggs when she was broody.

Except for mounting the door, installing the pop door, and putting in the linoleum, the coop is done. And the roosts need installed too...so, yeah, not really done at all.
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The joy of using reclaimed materials...we ran out of white painted plywood. That back right corner had to be finished with brown. I was super annoyed, but I've decided to think of it as the flaw they leave in an Amish quilt...a reminder that only God is capable of perfection. (And as my husband kept saying, "It's for f@#&%#g chickens, Honey! They won't care!") I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist.

The chicken wire goes all the way to the roof on the front wall, but not on the nest side. There's a gap of about 10"... but it's 8 1/2 feet to it. Surely they can't fly up that high? Or wouldn't bother?
View attachment 3917189
I know...not predator proof. It's not supposed to be. It's to keep chickens in. The surrounding building keeps predators out.

Sadly, hubby's back to work the next 3 nights. I can't do the floor alone, so very little will get done this week and Friday noon we leave for the weekend to attend my uncle's funeral. So I guess they'll have to remain in the current setup until we move them, in two more weeks. We keep hoping Red Squadron follows the others into the big coop...but they seem pretty happy with their own.

Here's the best mug I'm getting for this Monday.
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Now it's 8 pm again and time for showering off the sawdust and finding something to eat.

It looks great!
I am with you on the salvage and perfectionism. When building the Chicken Palace I scored 5 double hung Anderson windows from a house that was being demolished.
They are great. One had a broken section of the grid that fits on the inside. Purely decorative, so who cares? Me! It bothers me each time I see it and I have to remind myself “5 fully functioning Anderson windows, one tiny decorative flaw!”
So silly!

You can see the missing grid section just above Bernie’s right shoulder. Ignore Sylvie photobombing.

 

[Sylvester017]

I thought broody hens stopped laying. Tassels is 100% broody (this is the 5th time, I know what I am looking at). But she also laid an egg today.
What’s with that?!

At least one of our Silkies is doing the same! The heat is confusing them. Decades ago we'd have only one or two straight weeks of heatwaves but the last 2 to 3 decades the constant heatwaves have started earlier each year sometimes lasting into Oct-Nov w/ high fire season alerts.

 

[RoyalChick]

At least one of our Silkies is doing the same! The heat is confusing them. Decades ago we'd have only one or two straight weeks of heatwaves but the last 2 to 3 decades the constant heatwaves have started earlier each year sometimes lasting into Oct-Nov w/ high fire season alerts.

Rather chilly here. Highs only just hitting 80°F.
If your point is unusual weather then yes, that is unusual for August in NJ.