Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

A flopped over comb does NOT automatically mean a bird is of leghorn origins. Princess is a Light Sussex, in the UK

https://livestockconservancy.org/sussex-chicken/

What other breeds could possibly have a massive Mediterranean comb other than Mediterraneans? Princess has to be a mix cuz Sussex don't sport floppies. The Med's do.

 

[Sylvester017]

I don’t fotoshop

I used to but there's so much already done online I just capture someone else's pics & try to give them credit even if its public domain (I think that's what its called).

 

[Sylvester017]

Maybe I am using the wrong terminology. I mean those oil-filled mini-radiators.
Like this.
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I think those are pretty safe.

A plan is forming in my mind. A day-time warming station using a small oil filled radiator under the overhang of the hospital bay which will trap the heat and they can cuddle up there if they choose to.
Then I am going to hang a couple of big umbrellas (need to see what I have) from the rafters to trap the heat lower down and hopefully just above the roosts to keep them cozy at night.
Slight issue is that they have taken to roosting randomly all over the place but hopefully they will have the sense to roost in a warm spot when it is that cold, but no accounting for chickens!

@Ponypoor has several coolers/heaters for her setups...I bet she could advise.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

They look very content You are very lucky to have ‘reasonable’ weather most of the year.

Except for the summer...

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Appreciate the thoughts on this. To put an oil filled radiator under the roost I would need to rig up a flat platform (the coop is on quite a steep hill). Not impossible and I can do that with some plywood and some bricks. I can also stop the radiator from rolling by blocking it with bricks. My slight worry would be that they would fly up on top of it and knock it over. Don't think that is a fire hazard with those oil filled heaters, but it would shut off.
Maybe I only set it up after dark and go out before dawn and remove it.
That with the umbrellas would create a nice warm roosting area and I can then move the oil filled radiator to underneath the brooder to create a day-time warming station.

Three ladies roosting near the heating panels.
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I often forget about the slope, pics don't show that well!
So...wild thought here: how heavy are these radiant heaters? Because - how about hanging the heater from something? That takes away having to build a base or any tip-over danger.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Twofer Tuesday
Fluffy butts

Normal

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Ijak action photos

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

"Which one should I lay in?"

"Here’s a good one!"

 

[RoyalChick]

I often forget about the slope, pics don't show that well!
So...wild thought here: how heavy are these radiant heaters? Because - how about hanging the heater from something? That takes away having to build a base or any tip-over danger.

I was pondering that too. From chains like I have the broody jail.
Maybe I should even put it in the broody jail. That is about 5’ away from the roost.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Late mugs, not great focus
Annie

Annie, with Tedi and Diane in the back eating pellets

Tedi giving me the once over in between pecking snow off my boots

Tedi & Diane going for pellets & crumbs. Beaks are fine so far pecking on that cinder block, they go for that first before anything on smooth wood. Probably easier to take it up because there's more resistance on a rough surface?