Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Monday Mug

I give you @RoyalChick 's Chippie!

 

[BY Bob]

Shanai Roo-Tail's shiny feather on a cloudy day
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Spectacular!

 

[featherhead007]

Get a phone with lots of storage space.

I'd even say getting the new shiny iPhone might be worth it so you get the longest life out of it if you don't want to upgrade in a couple years. Pixels have good cameras but mine sometimes struggles when taking photos of moving chickens. Not sure about iPhone since my last iPhone was a iPhone 5s.

Honestly, I don’t see AT&T iPhones of any value to me anymore. I sent a certified letter to the manufacturer of the iPhone, stating that during my sickness the expensive iPhone failed in contacting the hospital I needed. Yes I almost

 

[BY Bob]

everything I do seems chicken related.

That's a good thing!

 

[notabitail]

They are lovely ladies, they must be getting a few years old now....?

3 years I think.

 

[RoyalChick]

Monday Mug

I give you @RoyalChick 's Chippie!

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Awww thanks for posting that - you got so much better pics of them than I have managed.
Though I did get some cool video of Tassels opening up the rat proof feeder for the chicks so they could eat from it. I need to trim it down to a reasonable length and upload to YouTube so I can share it.

 

[BY Bob]

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Going more left, uphill into the woods

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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.
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Heading left and around. That’s excess netting gathered at the top.
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Out of the wooded area looking again at the fields-y area and now the Littles' coop area, from the opposite side.
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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.

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Wow! That is quite the complex! Well done.

 

[featherhead007]

Wow, I found a way to have two of my favorite birds in the same room at the same time. Gizmo and flash. To be honest, gizmos feathering just blows my mind!
I was only a baby when Woodstock became a national treasure. But I now have so many beautiful colors of feathers. I was actually going to name this roo “Woodstock” but Gizmo suits him better. There is a small resemblance:

 

[bgmathteach]

Sophia RIP, I think I am going to call one of the Noirans Sophia to keep with the Golden Girl theme.

 

[RoyalChick]

Mugs Monday

Sophia RIP, I think I am going to call one of the Noirans Sophia to keep with the Golden Girl theme.
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Mr P and his main lady Marty
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Good night all have a lovely evening.

Such a lovely looking lady.