Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Hahaha Ontario is as hot and steamy as Florida in the summer. Oh how I miss the mosquitoes

I’m time, you’re gonna have to eat a mosquito sandwich!

 

[featherhead007]

I’m just here playing with my Rocks.

 

[featherhead007]

Poor Coco, she’s not comfortable, but I brought in Shenandoah her buddy … now I hear purring from both of them

 

[featherhead007]

Poor Coco, she’s not comfortable, but I brought in Shenandoah her buddy … now I hear purring from both of them

Who wouldn’t purr after a meal like: scrambled eggs, sausage, English muffins, egg shells on the side. And meally worms for dessert.

 

[Sylvester017]

What mountain is that? My mum asking.

One yr they visited our cousin in Bakersfield and they had snow there!

Dad helped them shovel snow



People were asking the ‘Canadian’ how they dealt with snow all the time - they had about 6” - mum can’t remember which yr that was - 2010?

So funny how people react when climate throws them a curve ball w/ snowfalls, floodings, heatwaves, or hurricanes, etc.

Bakersfield is a pretty hot summer region. One thing about Calif is its geologic & climate diversity. A valley can be low elevation desert never seeing snow while a high desert elevation will see snow in winter. Then there are the flat valleys w/ mtns suddenly jutting straight up w/ snow on them year round. I can remember traveling thru Yosemite at the 10,000 ft elevation & we had to use tire chains to get thru the snowy roads. I mean, deep snow in July?

Calif next has its dense forests, redwoods, & then its rambling beach coasts ~ some w/rocky cliffs. Pick a favourite climate or scenery & one will find it in Calif.

The Mountain your mom asked about is Mount Baldy located in San Bernardino County but is so tall that most of our East San Gabriel Valley can see it from anywhere in our valley. The mtn range behind me are the San Gabriel Mtns which are connected w/ the San Bernardino range running the length of San Bernardino & Los Angeles Counties of which Mt Baldy is one of the most visible points.

If you ever watch the famous Pasadena Rose Parade the mountains in the near background is the San Gabriel range.

As famous as our Mt Baldy is to us it is not the tallest San Bernardino mountain. San Gorgonio is the highest peak over 11,000 ft elevation.

Panorama of San Bernardino Peak, a subsidiary peak of Mount San Gorgonio


This little gold partridge Silkie Ginny (left photo) layed a 2-oz egg this morning ~ wow, big for our Silkies!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Well the youngsters finally got a taste of snow! They were totally freaked out some of them kept trying to fly to get over it! I had to finally go and rescue about half a dozen of them. Mr LC was one of them - poor fella he is not built for winter!

Mrs LC flew out and up onto the run fence landed in the snow on top of it glared at me and flew back into the barn - she was definitely not going out there!
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Betty and Fluffy were the only ones who spent any time out there, I threw down some old bedding, but it started snowing and they also came back in.
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Love how they wouldn’t go on the snow, stick to the path I made.

Spoiled chickens. You can keep the white stuff. I dread the snow. Snow is pretty yes, but snow also increases my work in frigid temps. My flock is spoiled and pampered as well. I have to shovel a path from the coop to the horse stalls. I also have to shovel a path from the coop to the front porch so the girls who lay in the porch boxes can come lay their eggs. I have 1 hen laying right now. If it were to snow tomorrow I would have to shovel that path to the porch for Judy.

 

[Sylvester017]

Last year I let my kiddos out in the horse paddock, I ran around scaring up the grasshoppers for the chooks to run after - it was a hoot.

It’s too hard now gathering everyone up to bring back inside….

We aren't loaded w/ grasshoppers but we have lots of crickets & it is fun watching our hens scramble for the hopping insects!

 

[Ponypoor]

We aren't loaded w/ grasshoppers but we have lots of crickets & it is fun watching our hens scramble for the hopping insects!

Mount Poopmore is over run with them, even in the winter they find them. It’s warm under all that decomposing straw and manure, so the bugs survive fine, I’ll let the chooks out there sometimes if the weather is good.

 

[Ponypoor]

I’m time, you’re gonna have to eat a mosquito sandwich!

Extra protein…..

BFTP

Henny with Bert and Betty, December 2023. Betty is used to snow being a winter baby

There was always mama to snuggle with if too cold.

 

[Ponypoor]

Poor Coco, she’s not comfortable, but I brought in Shenandoah her buddy … now I hear purring from both of them

I have been giving poor Cash some Tylenol a few times, she is just miserable!