Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Today is Monday (Dakota on a Monday) her nickname is Dakotamunday!) tomorrow it might be Dakota on a Tuesday! . She doesn’t care what this old fool calls her, as long as there are treats waiting for her.
Ps: my chooks eat better than I do usually.

 

[knoturavggrl]

They all look fabulous!

a … a … feather duster compliment… I am honored truly.

 

[featherhead007]

Brats! I know Laverne can fly 4' not to much problem, but I don't think that is how she is getting out into the horses' paddock. There is a hole in the fence somewhere - tomorrow I will follow her around and find it mwahahahaha!

Hope you have a clean bill of health!

Thanks Kelly. Your opinion is cherished by me. I hope you find the breach and save your birds too.

 

[featherhead007]

a … a … feather duster compliment… I am honored truly.

Spoken from my heart. Even I can make it real sometimes!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thanks Kelly. Your opinion is cherished by me. I hope you find the breach and save your birds too.

Yep me too! They run faster than I do! I am too old for that crap, though to be fair Laverne is good and runs up to me when I call her - she knows I will give her treats (after I threaten to kick her butt back over the fence haha).

Mr LC runs and flies over the fence laughing I am sure as I run after him wheezing - what a brat!

 

[featherhead007]

I'll have to look that location up.... I am sure it's not close to here

But Kelly, I have a plane. It’s only the Canadian government that has to approve of my flight plans. Then it would be such a pleasure to meet you and your animals .

 

[featherhead007]

Yep me too! They run faster than I do! I am too old for that crap, though to be fair Laverne is good and runs up to me when I call her - she knows I will give her treats (after I threaten to kick her butt back over the fence haha).

Mr LC runs and flies over the fence laughing I am sure as I run after him wheezing - what a brat!

Why can’t they make chicken treats like a PEZ candy dispenser? Everybody gets one each until the container is empty.??? Nobody wants a fat chicken !

 

[knoturavggrl]

But Kelly, I have a plane. It’s only the Canadian government that has to approve of my flight plans. Then it would be such a pleasure to meet you and your animals .

Stop by Ohio and pick me up, I would love to sit a spell with her and her chickens too!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Why can’t they make chicken treats like a PEZ candy dispenser? Everybody gets one each until the container is empty.??? Nobody wants a fat chicken !

Hummm, a flock block is kinda like the chicken equivalent of a pez treat dispenser or a pumpkin .

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Was it @drstratton asked us to post our chicken runs?
Here's the overall view, though you can't see into the woodsy area in the back.

The covered runs, two 6.5 x 13 ft runs placed at a "T" to each other. These go into the covered Big's coop run at the far end, you can make out the ladder back there, but there’s a door to the netted outdoor area on the left just before that coop run, near the blue dust bath pool.

Going to the left of the covered runs. This area with the perch between cinder blocks the Nomad Buckeyes use a lot, and the Bigs like to lay next to the run on the damp ground between the drainage pipe and the run wall when it's hot.

Going more left and uphill is the fields-y area. There is Buff Orp Tedi in the shade just inside the back woodsy area. The wall of the netted area is 1” aviary netting and the ceiling is 2” netting.

Going more left, uphill into the woods

In the back woodsy part, looking down to the covered runs more or less. In the shadow on the left near the left-most tree are a couple Nomad Buckeyes coming up to see what I'm about.

Heading left and around. That’s excess netting gathered at the top.

Out of the wooded area looking again at the fields-y area and now the Littles' coop area, from the opposite side.

This area was unplanned as extra until I got five chicks instead of three. Used the wall netting as ceiling, lifting it to make a roof, then adding more netting to extend the ceiling and bring it down to a wall and enclose it. But all I had close to the right size was more 1" stuff which is heavy and sags a lot. Lots of improvised tripods and posts and salvaged wrecked greenhouse tubes in here to hold it and the various shade and weather tarps up.

A view from above of this side and the Littles' coop. On the very left is the Bigs,' coop which has a shade tarp on an intact greenhouse frame but is not under any netting, the run goes to under the big coop but not around it.