Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

What a spoiled brat

She's gorgeous, I would spoil her to. But I can't help but spoil my animals

 

[Marie2020]

Good morning fluffy butt's

Princess is about to go out with the cat

 

[Ponypoor]

Good morning fluffy butt's
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Princess is about to go out with the cat
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Morning/afternoon Marie.

Have a good day outside Princess!

 

[bgmathteach]

I swear this year sucks chicken wise. I just went out to take a picture of what should have been Raven's fully dried chick. It has passed sometime in the last 5 hours. It was fully dry and fluffed and I tried to revive it but it is gone. All hope is now on the Holly egg.

 

[bgmathteach]

@Lilion
Here is my 'get away from the brat cockerels' extra roost. Please excuse the poop in it - it gets used a lot - even with the bratty cockerels now gone!

You can't see it in this pic (the one I took for that came out blury), but I put 'runners' under the legs to make them more stable - scrap lumber, front to back, under each set of legs & then screwed to them (pre-drill any holes so the hard plastic doesn't crack!) The corner scraps on the top are just to elevate the 2x2 so they can actually roost on it. As you can see - it gets used a lot - they love it! It is high enough so harassing pullets or cockerels can't reach them, big enough for 2 easily (actually, if it was in a good spot, sun wise, for preening - 3 could fit). In that section of the run (which is 3' high), it is the highest roost, so that makes it popular, too, and it can be run under easily, as well.

Did I mention that it was FREE, too??? I got 2 of them from the swap space at our transfer station. I will do the same to the other one when I get a chance - I wanted to see how the first one worked before making the second one. Here is a link to what it is (I wouldn't buy it for that - but you might easily be able to find something similar for free!)


Some Monday Mugs:

Sleeping mugs:

A Georgie mug:

A rooster watching over his laying hen mug:

 

[TOMTE]

I want a rooster so bad guys the more I read about them and see them caring for their hens the more I want to have one and expand the flock a little. GRRRR I DONT WANT TO WAIT LOL!

Dad and I have loose plans for building a bigger coop out of half of the run. Since we plan on free ranging the smaller run shouldn't be an issue but maybe we can expand on that too later...

The prefab we have now should probably hold 2 or 3 chickens at most. I really hate it. It's drafty, small, and probably going to fall apart within a year. But my uncle is the one who spent all the money on everything, and he did it on a whim. I tried to convince him to either get a prefab with a run built in that we could modify into a bigger coop, or a cheap shed we could turn into a coop. But he went with the cheapest option and then went all out buying the lumber for the run frame. And then went cheap again, using chicken wire instead of hardware cloth

Soooo dad and I have a lot to do to make the chickens happier and safer. I think it will be fun though and definitely well worth it. I hope we can start soon!

We still need to bury hardware cloth on 2 sides of the run and then move the coop into its spot in the back corner, then add more clutter to the run once that's done. Phew!

Here's our chicken space so far They're confined to the garden until they're a bit bigger but we've had escapees a few times They're so eager to explore!

 

[Logar]

 

[featherhead007]

I want a rooster so bad guys the more I read about them and see them caring for their hens the more I want to have one and expand the flock a little. GRRRR I DONT WANT TO WAIT LOL!

Dad and I have loose plans for building a bigger coop out of half of the run. Since we plan on free ranging the smaller run shouldn't be an issue but maybe we can expand on that too later...

The prefab we have now should probably hold 2 or 3 chickens at most. I really hate it. It's drafty, small, and probably going to fall apart within a year. But my uncle is the one who spent all the money on everything, and he did it on a whim. I tried to convince him to either get a prefab with a run built in that we could modify into a bigger coop, or a cheap shed we could turn into a coop. But he went with the cheapest option and then went all out buying the lumber for the run frame. And then went cheap again, using chicken wire instead of hardware cloth

Soooo dad and I have a lot to do to make the chickens happier and safer. I think it will be fun though and definitely well worth it. I hope we can start soon!

We still need to bury hardware cloth on 2 sides of the run and then move the coop into its spot in the back corner, then add more clutter to the run once that's done. Phew!

Here's our chicken space so far They're confined to the garden until they're a bit bigger but we've had escapees a few times They're so eager to explore!

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Escapees! Yep, I have been catching escapees for twenty years or more.

 

[Ponypoor]

I want a rooster so bad guys the more I read about them and see them caring for their hens the more I want to have one and expand the flock a little. GRRRR I DONT WANT TO WAIT LOL!

Dad and I have loose plans for building a bigger coop out of half of the run. Since we plan on free ranging the smaller run shouldn't be an issue but maybe we can expand on that too later...

The prefab we have now should probably hold 2 or 3 chickens at most. I really hate it. It's drafty, small, and probably going to fall apart within a year. But my uncle is the one who spent all the money on everything, and he did it on a whim. I tried to convince him to either get a prefab with a run built in that we could modify into a bigger coop, or a cheap shed we could turn into a coop. But he went with the cheapest option and then went all out buying the lumber for the run frame. And then went cheap again, using chicken wire instead of hardware cloth

Soooo dad and I have a lot to do to make the chickens happier and safer. I think it will be fun though and definitely well worth it. I hope we can start soon!

We still need to bury hardware cloth on 2 sides of the run and then move the coop into its spot in the back corner, then add more clutter to the run once that's done. Phew!

Here's our chicken space so far They're confined to the garden until they're a bit bigger but we've had escapees a few times They're so eager to explore!

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We all have escapees!

And we all have ‘work in progress’

Looks good so far!

 

[Ponypoor]

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That last mug you should have used it yesterday for Pony Sunday