Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

What does everyone think? Brahama or Cochin?

Cochin. Dark brahma hen marks are partridge chevron. The drawing is lacing, making it a silver laced cochin, cause wyandottes don't have feathered feet. Buster was a silver laced wyandotte.

 

[rural mouse]

Allow me to add to your knowledge pool:

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Red Faverolle

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Salmon Faverolle

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Black Australorp

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Barred Rock (which also includes Sydney, Stanley, Ned, Soda and Bridge (I think?)) I know Ribh has at least two.

Faverolles come in red?!

 

[BY Bob]

Getting Back to Normal

For the first time in probably a month, Phyllis roosted tonight.

 

[MaryJanet]

That is good to know. I checked the Princesses today and theirs aren't very long. I realize you have sandy soil whereas I have clay that sets like concrete - I wonder if mine wear down because they are digging such difficult ground. I have to use a pickaxe to break ground so it must be tough on toenails.

I think that's got a lot to do with it.

 

[featherhead007]

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You see this bird “Emily”? I can’t go outdoors anymore, without her pecking me on my bumm. She will run across the entire yard, just to peck my bumm No, I don’t keep corn or meally worms in my pocket. (So this situation, I do not understand)

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Michelle, I really want that picture/art, can we trade?

Maybe she'll finish it first! It is really great. I want to see a chicken with a pupil though. Or maybe it's like an old masters study, a picture not finished...

 

[micstrachan]

Good morning everyone. I'm glad to hear Phyllis is out and about. It may take a week or longer for the tut tutting to go away. Henrietta kept making that call for over a week after she got broke up last month and she never made it to have any chicks hatch. My sister is doing good although she'd smack me if she knew I called her progress good. To her she's dying, but in all honesty from a outsiders point of view this is just a real bad flu. Her fever is for the most part under control as long as she gets her medicine every 5 hours. She is exhausted though and her biggest complaint is the body aches. Since me and mom are the only 2 fully vaccinated people in the house we've been taking turns with her rubbing her back or wherever else she wants. Just have to wait on the health department to call today so I can get in contact with the school and go from there. Already called Rosie's dr about her shots and told them what was going on. She can not get them until she is out of quarantine.

Oh goodness. Hang in there!

 

[micstrachan]

You see this bird “Emily”? I can’t go outdoors anymore, without her pecking me on my bumm. She will run across the entire yard, just to peck my bumm No, I don’t keep corn or meally worms in my pocket. (So this situation, I do not understand)

Oh my gosh, this is funny!

 

[featherhead007]

Oh my gosh, this is funny!

Not so funny for me, she has a sharp beak, and actually bites me hard. She started doing this behavior yesterday, when I took her boyfriend “Jaffar” in the house without her.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

I understand the guilt but there is no guarantee that hormones would have helped either. Then there’s the financial costs too.
She seemed fine then went down rapidly. As Lozzy said hindsight is wonderful .

I’m currently going through the same thing with my beautiful Golden Retriever. She has been licking her paw for years. We, and the vet, thought it was probably arthritis. Now that she has been diagnosed with metastatic cancer I can’t help thinking maybe it started in the bones of her foot. There were all sorts of signs that, looking back, are obvious now. If only we had found it back then.

But “What ifs “ and “if onlys” don’t really help us in the present. We can’t go back and change things. We can only learn and move forward.

Grieve but be kind to yourself too Michelle.

Well said. What if's don't mean the outcome we want would have happened. It makes you not deal with the present. I've agonized about Queenie's death and my part in it, the way it played out. But maybe it could have unfolded in some other way, and still ended with her death. What if's can help you to see that, maybe the only good thing about them. But nothing can change what has actually happened. So you all here have been greatly comforting, thank you. And you all have helped me to remember the phrase "start where you are." Taking each day as it comes, and taking joy in the present and present company. Love the chickens who are still here with us!

Your beautiful dog (all Golden's are beautiful imo!) has had a good life with you, for sure, and fifteen years is long for a Golden. But knowing that doesn't make losing her less hard, I'm sorry about that. Hugs for you and her!