Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I was playing along (as requested to do)

Same here. I tried to be ridiculous though.

 

[BY Bob]

Okay, I will look forward to seeing your setup. My new welded wire fence is 4ft. I could have bought 5ft high, but I wanted to match the rest of the yard. Gonna grow a garden where the chooks can’t get into it.

Good luck

 

[BY Bob]

In hindsight, I think @BY Bob knows exactly what happens when chickens come to the dinner table!

Yes, they steal the cherry pie.

 

[bgmathteach]

And almost no comments on my new name. I thought it was clever. I did like FY Bob idea though.

Sorry @BY Bob , I was too busy chuckling @Shadrach 's cheeky name.
partially because he is so NOT a snowflake, and partially the initials. He is Awesome in his own unique way, though,

 

[bgmathteach]

I was playing along (as requested to do)

Ummm, yeah...I did in that thread...but didn't here...and someone reported me and I got a 'please go along' note, so I just shut up....some people were really in a tither about having to change their name!
Tax about April Fool's:

I love her coloring! She has a sister who is slightly darker and the white on this one are a soft grey on her sister. And @RoyalChick, she is 'grey', not 'lavender' as she has visible barring - like her sister. Both are 1/2 BR and 1/2 EE that was a light colour.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Ezzie and the gang are loving their time outside. They have room to stretch their wings, higher places to perch or roost on and meeting all the big birds through the safety of the coop door. They have fun occasionally tormenting a very angry and broody Holly who is blocked off from them and everybody as she chose the nest box in the coop. They have spent 3 days outside so far, today will make day 4. I think this has brought on the explosion of new feather growth on the spots where they still had a touch of chick down. They truly now are fully feathered. I've looked at the next weeks forecast, the nights are supposed to be no lower then 50. The coop is still covered in tarps and insulated, and Ezzie is already 6 weeks old and the rest are 6 weeks Tuesday. I think they showed me last night when I found them on the top roosting bar before dark that they are ready to stay outside. I am not comfortable yet leaving them on the roost bar, I will move their brooder box outside and put in the corner of the coop and cover it over 2/3s of the way with a heavy towel like I did last year when I moved chicks outside. I will miss them being inside terribly but they are ready, and now I have to be ready for them. I'm going to say the box will stay out maybe a week, they are going through another growth spurt, which I also think was partially brought on by outside time and will be too big for the box anyway very soon.

 

[rural mouse]

First foray through the rest of the coop. Adults were locked out, although Twirp wanted in for egg laying, and was allowed in for a short visit with babies allowed to roam.

The scramble back inside their area where it's warmer.

Twirp's visit after they all wanted back in, she wasn't quite sure what to make of them either. Aiming for another full coop run this afternoon, longer, and hoping for a visit with Silver and/or Pear soonish. Need trees to start leafing out for more cover before any major outside the coop exploration (plus warmer temps) but feather growth is coming fast. Hector being the slowest. Seems like he's growing them to at least an inch long before really starting new ones. Also need to get the junior crew used to running back into their area before major intros with the senior crew.

Meanwhile, the senior crew is ranging in directions I haven't seen them go in quite a while

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Grandma update.
She is on hold for starting physical therapy because while she was at the hospital she picked up the rhinovirus. She is almost over it but still has a bad cough. At her family dr appointment several of her medications were stopped as they were not doing anything anymore and new ones added. They also cut the dose of one of her heart medications in half as they think it is causing her pulse to be too low. We have to do a blood pressure and pulse reading twice a day until her next appointment next Wednesday. It can take a week on the new dose to see changes but the numbers in the 40s are still very worrisome. As long as we can get her to use her walker it may take a bit of time but she is able to get around, she just hates using it and wants her cane back which she is just too unstable to use. The biggest change and the one that causes me to have to go outside and have a good 10 or 15 minute crying spell almost daily now is her mind. She has started hallucinating, and her memory is going fast. This is either from the stroke, or the stroke sped up the Alzheimer's. 1 of her brothers has visited 5 times, and after the 3rd visit he left in tears as he could see the changes in just a span of 2 days between visits. He called that night and told us he had called the rest of her brothers and sisters and told them that they needed to visit and sooner rather then later, so far, no one else has shown up. I have never personally dealt with a family member with Alzheimer's before, and the rapid progression is both heartbreaking and terrifying.

 

[Marie2020]

Good evening
I only popped in to leave these amazingly great ideas for our chickens. I'm really impressed

 

[RoyalChick]

Grandma update.
She is on hold for starting physical therapy because while she was at the hospital she picked up the rhinovirus. She is almost over it but still has a bad cough. At her family dr appointment several of her medications were stopped as they were not doing anything anymore and new ones added. They also cut the dose of one of her heart medications in half as they think it is causing her pulse to be too low. We have to do a blood pressure and pulse reading twice a day until her next appointment next Wednesday. It can take a week on the new dose to see changes but the numbers in the 40s are still very worrisome. As long as we can get her to use her walker it may take a bit of time but she is able to get around, she just hates using it and wants her cane back which she is just too unstable to use. The biggest change and the one that causes me to have to go outside and have a good 10 or 15 minute crying spell almost daily now is her mind. She has started hallucinating, and her memory is going fast. This is either from the stroke, or the stroke sped up the Alzheimer's. 1 of her brothers has visited 5 times, and after the 3rd visit he left in tears as he could see the changes in just a span of 2 days between visits. He called that night and told us he had called the rest of her brothers and sisters and told them that they needed to visit and sooner rather then later, so far, no one else has shown up. I have never personally dealt with a family member with Alzheimer's before, and the rapid progression is both heartbreaking and terrifying.

Oh dear so hard.