Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

So probably the small hours of Friday morning. But I might get tempted to go a day earlier.
They are growing like weeds. Little Geronimo now has wing feathers for goodness sake. No wonder she is able to fly out of the tent!
They all know how to use the vertical nipples waterer though cookies has an interesting technique of pecking it over and over so it spills onto the little plastic lid underneath, and then she drinks the water off the lid. Whatever!

Oh she’s a smart isn’t she?!

 

[Ponypoor]

Are you in any immediate danger from the wildfires (beyond the smoke, I mean.) We had friends move here from the North Bay area in California after several years of too-close fires.

No, I am in central Ontario, fires are a long ways away. Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But the prevailing winds push the smoke this way. And also down south, I was about to see if @BY Bob was affected his way, from the maps up here I can see the smoke going as far south as his area.

Makes for some interesting sunrises and sunsets. Last night it was so hazy it was actually dark early, the chooks all headed to bed early hahaha - good little velociraptors!

 

[Ponypoor]

In that crossing, running from Barrie to Butte (nearish you, nearish me), half way is some tiny town in Minnesota, and is about 15 hours as the whole thing is about 30 hours. Not something either of us wants to do without more planning, so...

Remember my last project? I drove home through the States so I could miss the bad weather going over the Great Lakes…. Went south through North Dakota…. Got caught up in that blizzard - fun times!

In that route I crossed at Detroit, went through Chicago (Fargo, Minneapolis, Chicago, Anne Arbor, Detroit), I went from Minneapolis to home in a day that last day . Have done the drive from Minneapolis a couple times now.

A milk run so to say….

Or should I say egg run

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh yes I got that! I guess if you stay overnight it isn’t too bad. Anywhere nice and worth exploring along the route?
I actually wish I had taken more time as there were a couple of cool places it would have been fun to stop at on the way.

I always stop if I see something interesting, as long as it not -40 hahaha.

Last trip out I wanted to go through Manitoba and see Breezy Bird Famr and get chicks but the lady was very unfriendly. Still would have liked a couple of a Pavlovskaya pullets!

 

[RoyalChick]

How is she today?

She grew overnight! She is perky and energetic. I think the prolapse is still marginally better after I treated it last night, but still not normal.
Poor little thing!

 

[RoyalChick]

No, I am in central Ontario, fires are a long ways away. Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But the prevailing winds push the smoke this way. And also down south, I was about to see if @BY Bob was affected his way, from the maps up here I can see the smoke going as far south as his area.

Makes for some interesting sunrises and sunsets. Last night it was so hazy it was actually dark early, the chooks all headed to bed early hahaha - good little velociraptors!

Yup we have it here. Not terribly bad, but lower air quality (I have been a bit wheezy) and some days are hazy.

 

[featherhead007]

Marie - how are you feeling?

It’s the smoke from wild fires here causing issues with allergies and asthma in people.

And my chooks too, the older ladies are not very keen to go outside with the hazy smoke.

Smoke can get bad here too, but the main cause of poor air quality, is the cows and the trees
Insecticides on miles of trees. I can tell the difference in air quality when I fly. A chemical cloud covers like a blanket at ground level.

 

[Ponypoor]

What’s the red pulleys contraption? While I was looking at it through sunglasses, it looked like a Rube Goldberg device for a giant salt shaker.

Hay elevator - which is a heavy thing-a-ma-bobber!

The hay is about 6 bales deep and we hauled it up there to store.

It’s all packed in there and if a hen ever got up there I would not be able to get in the haul her out. So I make sure it’s all closed off to the chooks.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yup we have it here. Not terribly bad, but lower air quality (I have been a bit wheezy) and some days are hazy.

Have seen the sunrise with the red ball

 

[Ponypoor]

Tax for smoke talk

Coffee Wednesday

Relaxing with the chooks (Sunday actually, at work at the moment).