Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Bananas? Don’t get me started about bananas! Walmart sells bananas for $.32 cents a pound. I buy them to share with my neighbors. I end up eating banana bread, custard pie with banana topping, banana smoothies, banana layer cakes.. I’m sick of bananas!! People might start calling me King Kong, instead of Alex the chicken whisperer!

Hmmmm

Well stop buying bananas! Buy apples instead and maybe they’ll make apple crisp for you

My chooks don’t like bananas so maybe they wouldn’t try eating the plants…. But why risk it I say!

 

[featherhead007]

Just do what I do and jump back and forth till your thoroughly confused

Just another regular day in the life of PonyPoor I’m thinkin!

 

[featherhead007]

I use banana skins to clean my windows (house and car) keeps the fogging up to a minimum

 

[Ponypoor]

Dust bath poll, what do you use?

The vet I consulted about Hazel's respiratory problems, bubbly eyes, etc wanted me to minimize sources of dust, as irritants to her eyes and lungs. So what’s a dust bath going to consist of that will be effective, but be low dust? I think she said construction sand but I’m not sure. I can email them.

There’s so much confusing information about sand on BYC and elsewhere. Different companies or outfits around here might sell different sands and call it different things. Washed sand? And is sand even an effective dust bath if there’s no fine clingy material?

I am tempted to put in there just the topsoil dirt/organic material gathered from the deciduous woods by us. No added wood ash, definitely no DE, no sulphur, etc.

Regular old play sand is what I use. It’s quite fine but I don’t find it’s particularly dusty. I change it out couple times a year.

I have a 4x4 sand box I put 3 or 4, 50lb bags of this in.

 

[Ponypoor]

I use banana skins to clean my windows (house and car) keeps the fogging up to a minimum

I’ll try that on my sunglasses this winter and let you know how they do.

 

[featherhead007]

My Bobo loves me

 

[Ponypoor]

Two for Tuesday

Two Frizzles

Two silly hens

Two mama hens

Two kiddos

And two more (ignore the top one we already counted her!)

Two light coloured and two dark coloured chooks

And two rather sad Geranium hanging baskets

 

[featherhead007]

Regular old play sand is what I use. It’s quite fine but I don’t find it’s particularly dusty. I change it out couple times a year.

I have a 4x4 sand box I put 3 or 4, 50lb bags of this in.

I tried that, but we have too many stray cats in my compound. Imagine what my chooks would smell like, playing in a kitty litter sewer?

 

[featherhead007]

Two for Tuesday

Two Frizzles
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Two silly hens
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Two mama hens
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Two kiddos
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And two more (ignore the top one we already counted her!)
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Two light coloured and two dark coloured chooks
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And two rather sad Geranium hanging baskets
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So sad for those Geraniums

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I just found out some very sad news.

If you had livestock, especially horses, the best hay supplier in my area was a older gentleman named Riley. He has sold hay and feed for 50+ years. We have always used him. He is also my Kalmbach supplier for my chicken feed. He passed away yesterday. I'm going to miss that old man. Even though his sons had taken over most of the family business, he was still a very prominent fixture as everything was sold in a huge garage right outside his house. No matter the time of day you stopped by he would come outside with the pot of coffee in hand and expect you to sit around a few minutes and chat. Even if I needed just 1 bag of chicken feed, I was always there for a good 30 minutes. I really owe some of my knowledge about chickens to him. Thanks to him I switched to Kalmbach when I was complaining about no matter what I tried they wasted a bit of their feed. The man also knew cattle and horses and he definitely knew his hay. He did a lot of his own hay cutting but also sourced some from Ohio and Pennsylvania. I've lost track of the times he has called to tell dad he was cutting hay in 2 days time and it was perfect for horses meet him at the field at such and such time, or that he was bringing in a load from Ohio.

Rest easy old man. I will treasure the memories of those cups of coffee I did not "need" and the stories that came with them.