Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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So adorable!
No new thirsty chooks, but did get a nice photo of Mr Little Chicken
and Bert
Tonight Rosario went into the barn when I put the others in, I herded him on in and he went willingly.
Then I went and picked him up, gave him a wattle and chin scratching, and put him back down. Good boy.
Still makes my blood boil how people can make them so disposable.
I am thinking of growing him up a bit more along with Shorty and then getting them both processed, as long as he behaves and all. Tonight he was a hood boy. May as well make their life mean something, give them a good life, grow them up and then they can be processed humanely. I feel terrible thinking about just bopping them and burying them
so wasteful. As a society we have become very wasteful. And don’t want to be the next person to throw them away. Time for the big girl pants to be put on and deal with it.
and Bert
Tonight Rosario went into the barn when I put the others in, I herded him on in and he went willingly.
Then I went and picked him up, gave him a wattle and chin scratching, and put him back down. Good boy.
Still makes my blood boil how people can make them so disposable.
I am thinking of growing him up a bit more along with Shorty and then getting them both processed, as long as he behaves and all. Tonight he was a hood boy. May as well make their life mean something, give them a good life, grow them up and then they can be processed humanely. I feel terrible thinking about just bopping them and burying them
so wasteful. As a society we have become very wasteful. And don’t want to be the next person to throw them away. Time for the big girl pants to be put on and deal with it.
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I didn't figure out it wasn't Friday until after lunch today. As it is, I missed Monday
4 birds in a row
Here we go again. Discussion about the carabiners . (As in Pirates of the carabiners)
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I have a few of those hanging around the house.
13+yrs saga cont....
(Nov 2018)...
JEWLZ was still in-house recuperating from bumblefoot. Because of keeping the footwrap bandages clean and to watch that JEWLZ didn't peck off the wrap it turned out safer to keep her indoors to watch the bandage. As much as I had wanted DANA to be my chicken, it was JEWLZ who picked me to be her human. She was so good posing for me!
End of Nov 2018 JEWLZ is fully well and outdoors. She forever followed me around the yard.
Outdoors the two Dominiques, the Cuckoo Breda and Silkie Violet were together again and the Dominique sisters made sure that CHAR the Breda didn't harass the Silkie ~ good girls!
CHAR would not enter the sandbox as long as the Dom girls were w/ Silkie VIOLET! CHAR looks so innocent but there was always a watchful Dominique sister keeping an eye on CHAR who would try sneak attacks on the Silkie
But look at THIS! Dominiques perching on rough paver stone garden bed border ~ causing (we guessed) eventual bumblefoot because none of the other breeds we ever had rested on the rough stones! Hence, Dominique bumblefoot issues happened year after year!
In Dec 2018 DANA was moulting ~ must be miserable for chickens.
(Spring 2019) The chicken yard finally got fully extended w/ a 2nd popup canopy erected at the far end. More work to be done in the subsequent years.
However, Santa Ana Winds w/gusts 50-90 mph tore up the 2nd canopy frame.
Now today we have 3 popup canopies in the chicken yard and we buried the canopy legs 10-12 inches into the ground and although the covers get torn or frayed at least the frames remain stable and we just gripclamp new tarps as covers (cheaper than costly new canopy covers every year!).
...to be cont...
(Nov 2018)...
JEWLZ was still in-house recuperating from bumblefoot. Because of keeping the footwrap bandages clean and to watch that JEWLZ didn't peck off the wrap it turned out safer to keep her indoors to watch the bandage. As much as I had wanted DANA to be my chicken, it was JEWLZ who picked me to be her human. She was so good posing for me!
End of Nov 2018 JEWLZ is fully well and outdoors. She forever followed me around the yard.
Outdoors the two Dominiques, the Cuckoo Breda and Silkie Violet were together again and the Dominique sisters made sure that CHAR the Breda didn't harass the Silkie ~ good girls!
CHAR would not enter the sandbox as long as the Dom girls were w/ Silkie VIOLET! CHAR looks so innocent but there was always a watchful Dominique sister keeping an eye on CHAR who would try sneak attacks on the Silkie
But look at THIS! Dominiques perching on rough paver stone garden bed border ~ causing (we guessed) eventual bumblefoot because none of the other breeds we ever had rested on the rough stones! Hence, Dominique bumblefoot issues happened year after year!
In Dec 2018 DANA was moulting ~ must be miserable for chickens.
(Spring 2019) The chicken yard finally got fully extended w/ a 2nd popup canopy erected at the far end. More work to be done in the subsequent years.
However, Santa Ana Winds w/gusts 50-90 mph tore up the 2nd canopy frame.
Now today we have 3 popup canopies in the chicken yard and we buried the canopy legs 10-12 inches into the ground and although the covers get torn or frayed at least the frames remain stable and we just gripclamp new tarps as covers (cheaper than costly new canopy covers every year!).
...to be cont...
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Nice to see them still hanging around her
An oasis in the making
Chicken heaven. Can you grow things year round there? Or does it get too hot or cold to do so?
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