Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[SimpleJenn]

We have so many dangerous animals up here it's crazy what you can see on cameras sometimes. My mom saw a cougar about ten years ago, just crossing the road like they're just supposed to be in Michigan...she called the DNR about that one and they were able to confirm it a couple weeks later.

 

[Sylvester017]

Next stages of preparation for the Arctic blast are underway. Hope they are more successful than wrapping the metal bracket!
Daytime warming station is set up but not yet switched on. It is relatively warm today. Believe it or not I managed to get the cord safely into the human area using chopsticks to run it through a small gap in the framing of the hospital/brooder box.
I will add food in that area and an open waterer which they do prefer to the one with nipples that I have on the heated stand.
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Next up is proof of concept for the hanging umbrellas. I figured how to hang them (I have three in total) and I sat outside with the umbrella open feeding the Princesses sunflower seeds. Hopefully they won’t freak out when they see it and refuse to go in the hen house. It isn’t quite in the right place but I had an easy attachment in place so thought I would try it out. To get it in the place over where they sleep will require me to toss some rope over the collar ties but I need to take a lunch break first.
I think it looks rather jolly. I realize that I have not thought about how to get it down again!
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Arctic blast tax: Pooh enjoying the sunshine.
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How creative!

 

[Sylvester017]

I just received a phone call from the sheriff’s office. They say that they have apprehended a vagrant rooster, matching the description of Rudy my lost roo.
But they have him in a kennel and said they will hold him for 72 hours (legally) if he’s my rooster buddy, I will pay all his fines and court fees, if necessary and bring him back home. If he isn’t my rooster, I won’t take him. I don’t want to train another rooster for fear that he’ll be violent with humans

Description & odds are it's Rudy I love to hear successful sheriff raids!

 

[featherhead007]

How on earth can these boy sweeties carry around all those crest & tail feathers?! The girls are so round & compact while the boys are all so extra long & wispy? Someone had a sense of humor creating chickens!

Oh how I want to remark on that statement, but I won’t.

 

[featherhead007]

Description & odds are it's Rudy I love to hear successful sheriff raids!

I have my doubts about it being Rudy. I’m waiting for a positive description before I leave the house. I can recognize Rudy from a picture.

 

[featherhead007]

I have my doubts about it being Rudy. I’m waiting for a positive description before I leave the house. I can recognize Rudy from a picture.

Thing is, high hopes and then great expectations all to fall on disappointment. My heart can’t take much more

 

[Sylvester017]

We have so many dangerous animals up here it's crazy what you can see on cameras sometimes. My mom saw a cougar about ten years ago, just crossing the road like they're just supposed to be in Michigan...she called the DNR about that one and they were able to confirm it a couple weeks later.

There's a struggle to keep cougars/mtn lions/pumas breeding in the areas above cities in Los Angeles County but fires & hit-&-run cars are decimating the few that remain in the wild.

Gorgeous kitty but I wouldn't want his teeth near me!

 

[featherhead007]

Coco is enjoying 1/2 my cheeseburger at the moment. She always says thank you daddy

 

[Sylvester017]

Thing is, high hopes and then great expectations all to fall on disappointment. My heart can’t take much more

It's so coincidental they found a no-gamebird roo. We're hoping

 

[featherhead007]

Noraaaaa, Rudy was a very special rooster. Sweet, smart and gentle with his ladies. They haven’t gotten over his disappearance