Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Pretty penciled feathers. Penciled, right, @rural mouse ?

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Twofer Tuesday
Australorp sisters, Nightfeather and Duskfeather.

 

[featherhead007]

I must give my Coco some credit, she doesn’t seem to mind staying in the house. Even when I leave her alone for a few hours she is content just sitting by herself.
Thing is, she will only eat when I am there with her. I do leave the TV on so she has something to watch and bide her time

 

[Sylvester017]

It's around 40F outside. I left the chooks in their coop.

Our hens are huddled in the back patio away from the 55mph Santa Ana Wind gusts!

Front & back yards are full of huge dried up Maple leaves blown in from the roadside freeway trees. Just hope the limbs & boughs dont blow into our yards. One year a flying 5-ft freeway tree bough almost broke my bedroom window!

 

[Sylvester017]

Twofer Tuesday
Australorp sisters, Nightfeather and Duskfeather.
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Perfect names!

 

[Sylvester017]

I must give my Coco some credit, she doesn’t seem to mind staying in the house. Even when I leave her alone for a few hours she is content just sitting by herself.
Thing is, she will only eat when I am there with her. I do leave the TV on so she has something to watch and bide her time

That's great, TV or radio. We also set up a mirror for in-house patients. They like their reflection.

 

[Sylvester017]

I have a book of mid 19th Century farm building designs. Many of them have diagrams showing how to keep chicken and other livestock housing warm.
I will dig it up and share some pages. Some are quite ingenious and I wish I had found the book before building the Chicken Palace.

I had an antique book like that downloaded on my Nook but the Nook broke. That's why I like hardcover books for reference. How did we ever survive before computers?

 

[SimpleJenn]

I would love to build in-earth coop and greenhouse when we buy this property. Then the garden can grow year round, chickens will have insulation, and it'll look super cool. Definitely can't do it currently though! And I'd need a lot of bricks or cement blocks to reinforce and predator proof...

 

[notabitail]

Our hens are huddled in the back patio away from the 55mph Santa Ana Wind gusts!
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Front & back yards are full of huge dried up Maple leaves blown in from the roadside freeway trees. Just hope the limbs & boughs dont blow into our yards. One year a flying 5-ft freeway tree bough almost broke my bedroom window!

Take your chooks inside.

 

[rural mouse]

Looks like she is trying to decide which way to go

We KNOW Mother Nature is menopausal....including "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!" (aimed at weather services around the world).

Havoc being Havoc