Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Houdans are easy to sex early. Like polish, the roos pop pointy crest feathers while the hens pop rounder crest feathers. And they pop well around the 2 week mark.

Dark brahmas (Primula and Belladonna), like brown leghorns have different colored breast feathers. Roos are black breasted. Hens...well, you can see mine.

That's important to know. I an planning to let Phyllis hatch this year if she goes broody and I'm going to get her fertile Polish eggs. I will reach out when the time comes for help. I expect we will rehome them all. 7 is a lot of chickens for me already but she deserves a chance to raise chicks.

I just need to confirm our Mareks situation......

 

[BY Bob]

Maybe it's time to put in a blueberry bush....

Bushes. It would take Bushes.

 

[TX Chick Noob]

I sure hope they see you today. What will you do if the surgeon uses BS&W as the place they perform surgery?

The ortho clinic she is trying to get me in with has their own surgery center. And if they need something more advanced most of the hospitals in their area are Seton or St David’s.

 

[BY Bob]

The ortho clinic she is trying to get me in with has their own surgery center. And if they need something more advanced most of the hospitals in their area are Seton or St David’s.

I'm glad. I sure hope you are an today.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Warming, graphic injury post.

So, it seems 2023 is off to a pretty bad start for me. This morning we were outside getting all the critters taken care of, and then were going to go out for breakfast and to run a few errands. When I left my office building after taking in the eggs laid today, I was walking on the plastic pallets we have out to have an area to walk when it is muddy. It was a little slick from morming dew. As I tried to step from one pallet to the next, my back foot slipped and went between the pallets, and I fell backwards. Which snapped both bones in my right leg, just above the ankle. My foot was dangling and facing the wrong direction.

We managed to get me into the car and to the minor emergence clinic. They had me snort some Fentanyl as the fastest way to start getting some pain relief. (That was a new experience, I am a good girl who has never snorted drugs.) Then they put me under “mild” general anesthesia to be able to remove my clothes, take better X-rays, reduce/manipulate the fractures, and put on a temporary splint. Not sure if it was the Ketamine, or the combination of that with the Fentanyl and then Morphine they gave me to control the pain, but I had a hard time waking up and had horrible nausea and vomiting. When I first started to wake I felt like I was in a science fiction movie, everything looked digital/aliased, and I was having double/triple vision. I felt like Max Headroom (for those old enough to get the reference). And was still in pretty bad pain from them repositioning things.

Finally I stabilized enough to go home. I have been communicating with our family doctor who will get a referral placed first thing tomorrow to a good orthopedic surgeon, because it will definitely require surgery. I can feel things grinding and moving every time I move my leg even just a small amount, even with the splint on. So now I am in my recliner, where I will stay until I can get in to see the doctor. Can’t manage the three steps up to the bathroom/bedroom. Not even with crutches. I am not strong enough and too wobbly. And the Norco (Hydrocodone) I am taking doesn’t help steady me either.

Spoiler: Injury photos

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My foot should be pointed almost straight up in this next one:


Picture of one of the X-rays (kind of hard to see)

Wow that’s pretty traumatic. And goodness, was there a medical reason for no anti-nausea drugs with the opiates? Even after getting sick like that? Well, if you’ve never had opiates for pain relief nor had anesthesia now you know to ask for nausea meds if you can get them. I recall coming out of surgery with intense fiery pain and then feeling sick with the opiates but it was relieved with something, sounds like Finnegan.
EDIT Ok it’s called phenergan.

 

[RoyalChick]

Wow that’s pretty traumatic. And goodness, was there a medical reason for no anti-nausea drugs with the opiates? Even after getting sick like that? Well, if you’ve never had opiates for pain relief nor had anesthesia now you know to ask for nausea meds if you can get them. I recall coming out of surgery with intense fiery pain and then feeling sick with the opiates but it was relieved with something, sounds like Finnegan.
EDIT Ok it’s called phenergan.

I think giving an anti-nausea drug with opiates is standard practice but they don't always work.

Drug-talk tax:

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Happy Monday

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Nice mugs! Gotta say —
Phyllis’ two perfectly placed feathers there on top, so fashionable!
Aurora and the blueberries, that is a precious gaze
Great picture of Betty, that second one, what a pose!
Glynda intent on what, blueberries or corn? And Hattie’s look there in the background, priceless! I do love the portrait of Hattie, the last photo, very pretty, and beautiful wattles too.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Warming, graphic injury post.

So, it seems 2023 is off to a pretty bad start for me. This morning we were outside getting all the critters taken care of, and then were going to go out for breakfast and to run a few errands. When I left my office building after taking in the eggs laid today, I was walking on the plastic pallets we have out to have an area to walk when it is muddy. It was a little slick from morming dew. As I tried to step from one pallet to the next, my back foot slipped and went between the pallets, and I fell backwards. Which snapped both bones in my right leg, just above the ankle. My foot was dangling and facing the wrong direction.

We managed to get me into the car and to the minor emergence clinic. They had me snort some Fentanyl as the fastest way to start getting some pain relief. (That was a new experience, I am a good girl who has never snorted drugs.) Then they put me under “mild” general anesthesia to be able to remove my clothes, take better X-rays, reduce/manipulate the fractures, and put on a temporary splint. Not sure if it was the Ketamine, or the combination of that with the Fentanyl and then Morphine they gave me to control the pain, but I had a hard time waking up and had horrible nausea and vomiting. When I first started to wake I felt like I was in a science fiction movie, everything looked digital/aliased, and I was having double/triple vision. I felt like Max Headroom (for those old enough to get the reference). And was still in pretty bad pain from them repositioning things.

Finally I stabilized enough to go home. I have been communicating with our family doctor who will get a referral placed first thing tomorrow to a good orthopedic surgeon, because it will definitely require surgery. I can feel things grinding and moving every time I move my leg even just a small amount, even with the splint on. So now I am in my recliner, where I will stay until I can get in to see the doctor. Can’t manage the three steps up to the bathroom/bedroom. Not even with crutches. I am not strong enough and too wobbly. And the Norco (Hydrocodone) I am taking doesn’t help steady me either.

Spoiler: Injury photos

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My foot should be pointed almost straight up in this next one:
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Picture of one of the X-rays (kind of hard to see)
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Oh no! I broke my ankle over the summer, not nearly this badly though, it did require surgery. I am truly sorry this happened to you. It’s brutal, not only the pain from the injury and surgery but also the down time is considerable. Finding a good surgeon quickly is important and I am glad to read in subsequent posts that you getting assistance finding one. I wish you a swift recovery

 

[knoturavggrl]

I know I wish I could just go hug her and let her bawl on my shoulder (I am sure she want's to do that!), and of course talk chickens!

Comfort Tax

I need more chickens laying more eggs
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What a gorgeous array of colors

Happy Monday

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Beautiful photography, all of these are wonderful and the Aurora/blueberry one is funny she looks delighted at the blueberry bounty. I love Hatties face she has a soft sweet eye.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Mugs Monday:

Peanut Butter:

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