Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Chopper Fun

The guys who dropped in last night for supper left this morning I love my job!

Warming up!

Bye! Come again!

@featherhead007 - Alex you need a chopper

 

[Ponypoor]

Thanks for sending it on my way

We have started with the flurries...supposed to get 2-4 inches.
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@Ponypoor : White Christmas

Beautiful

OK we can have a bit of snow for Christmas but it all must melt on Boxing Day and turn warm for me

 

[lightm]

How about this one when she was headed the other way. View attachment 3346796

That is so much better! She is Hattie the Royal.

 

[RoyalChick]

Pony Sunday

Weather tax
missing my ponies… Truly doing pony yoga! Not sure it will become a ‘thing’ as having a horse jump on while your in child pose could hurt!
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Pony yoga!
Truly looks lovely.
Snowing quite heavily here now. It wasn't on the forecast!

 

[RoyalChick]

Chopper Fun

The guys who dropped in last night for supper left this morning I love my job!

Warming up!

Bye! Come again!

@featherhead007 - Alex you need a chopper

Pretty cool.

 

[Ponypoor]

all different. 1 dark cornish (not fat) 1barred Rock (fat), one marans cross, 1 BR X ? (VERY FAT), and cuckoo marans cross.

Hmmm so can't say it's a breed thing then. But you know as well as I do - many times domesticated animals are generally over weight, I think a couple of my Silkies get overweight when they are not broody, but it's really hard to tell as they are build scrawny anyways! But I do know that Rose and Dorothy tend to be hefty...

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony yoga!
Truly looks lovely.
Snowing quite heavily here now. It wasn't on the forecast!

It was forecast back home - but I wasn't paying too much attention till I 'opened the curtains' hahaha!

Tis the season I guess...

Weather Whining Tax

I love Henny Penny's feathered feet.

 

[Ponypoor]

Agree with @bgmathteach this is not healthy for anyone involved. I agree with others who say she might improve a lot - health-wise and behaviorally - in a nursing home. I doubt that she will never speak to you again. If it is close enough by, you can visit often enough to keep tabs on her care and supplement her care if you're worried about that. You can bring meals. But I have never heard of a month's visit as a "try out". Better would be to look into a daycare situation first. That may be one of the respite options available to you that @RoyalChick refers to.

Once they get their hands on a resident, nursing homes are loathe to let them go, they count on the dollars filling that bed brings, and I'm guessing it's a big administrative cost to get a residence started. Our experience was they'll find any number of reasons to keep someone there. You have to be fit as a fiddle to get out.

In my family, once my sisters and I were faced with a medical "rock and a hard place" with Mom and we saw she hated it there and wasn't thriving, we felt if she was going to just keep declining and die, it would be better for her in her own home. Maybe she would stabilize, probably not. We had arranged for caregivers to watch her and keep her company 24/7 and we arranged for all the equipment too - hospital bed, etc., plus we could arrange hospice medical care as soon as she was home.

Still, we still had a heck of a time getting her out. We wound up having to do it "against doctor's orders." I think it's because the home can't risk any adverse event after discharge, or they get badly dinged by Medicare. That meant we broke her outta there - er, transported her -from start to finish- ourselves, no hospital-provided transport, and no private one was available. My BIL and his two good friends provided lifting power up her stairs. I swear it takes a village!

I should say "against their doctor's orders." That's another thing: at least in New York State, once you go into a nursing home you become completely their responsibility. This means you lose all your regular doctors, all the PA's and all the nurses who knew you. We live in a rural area and it's not like she suddenly was on another planet. Her familiar medical team was in the same town about three blocks away! We could not ask for any of them to see her. You come under the care of one doctor whom you do not choose, one or two nurses and a bunch of CNA's, all of whom are overworked and none of whom have ever seen you before. All you bring with you is what can be input into pre-defined categories on a medical record.

No doubt I have ranted on this topic before? We need chicks!
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I thought it was supposed to be the Golden Years - might be Brass Years

And might I say BABIES! It's been in short supply seeing pics of babies recently - and those are darn cute

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Everyone, my mom is falling hard for one of my roosters. No it is not Branch, although now half the time she admits she sorta likes him. Yes, I will happily take that.
This boy right here, Twig, Branch's son is worming his way into my mom's heart.

She loves everything about him. His looks, his personality which I do not understand.....he is a mini Branch in attitude. She says he has kinder eye's then Branch. Did you all know beards and muffs and top knots look wonderful on chickens......well, chickens that do not have silkie feathers that is. Twig is also getting spoiled like Drumstick used to be. He now roosts beside Holly, which for any rooster is the place of honor. Drummie always had to be placed on the roost after some cuddles. This past week, Twig has been snuggled, and placed on the roost. He is now realizing that he does not have to fly up himself. The last 2 nights he waited for either me or mom to put him up there. I wish she loved Branch as much but I am secretly gloating that she is falling for the "Demon Spawn" as she called him when he hatched.

 

[BY Bob]

Both pictures are great. I too, thought she was posing for digestive reasons. I want to say though I think her "feather shredding" edges are quite beautiful, it puts a texture on everything really nicely, like an artist's painting.

They do. She just gets a little ratty late in the year.