Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

They took a sample and checked it. Then gave a vitamin injection.

How does that help an inflamed esophagus?

 

[RoyalChick]

Allow me to quote you on that .

Hoping to be wrong! But some weather system is coming in judging by how strong the wind is.

 

[RoyalChick]

Don't tell Mrs BY Bob but I am too. 🌨❄🌨❄🌨❄☃

You two are crazy. I do get it, it is pretty and I love the feeling of stillness after, and the novelty of wading through deep snow to reach the chickens. and the silence as it falls.
But remember, really it is cold and miserable!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

You two are crazy. I do get it, it is pretty and I love the feeling of stillness after, and the novelty of wading through deep snow to reach the chickens. and the silence as it falls.
But remember, really it is cold and miserable!

Rich makes an insane amount of money when it snows. He's often out 10 to 12 hours at a time doing it.

All this extra is going in our house savings account.

 

[BY Bob]

Hoping to be wrong! But some weather system is coming in judging by how strong the wind is.

it is setting up like they need it to do but that still does not mean we will get it.

 

[featherhead007]

How does that help an inflamed esophagus?

She must have eaten something in the yard that caused her to get little lumps in her throat. What ever was in the injection cleared them up quickly

 

[featherhead007]

She must have eaten something in the yard that caused her to get little lumps in her throat. What ever was in the injection cleared them up quickly

I’m not too sure what was in the injection. The vet said it was multiple vitamins

 

[RoyalChick]

Rich makes an insane amount of money when it snows. He's often out 10 to 12 hours at a time doing it.
All this extra is going in our house savings account.

That makes sense. And for that reason alone I will hope it snows!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Nocturnal chicken.
The general view seems to be that chickens are blind in the dark, or much like us and other daytime operators they see but with reduced acuity and more in grey scale. The latter seems more probable to me.
Then we have Dotty. She was up at 5:25 this morning (for reference to my eyes it is just getting light now at 6:55am and sunrise is officially 7:12am). For sure at 5:25 it was pitch black and cloudy so not much in the way of moonlight. I think she went to lay an egg (I will check later when it is actually light ), but she also pecked around a bit and climbed up on a platform to more easily scoff her little face from the food container. Throughout this she didn't show any signs of impaired vision at all.
I am curious how she got down from the roost where she was sandwiched in by the other Princesses. Unfortunately I had the roost camera off so I didn't see what she did, but normally she flies down. I hope she wouldn't do that if she couldn't see at all.
Sorry no pics/video - I have plenty but they are of a gray and white chicken in gray and white night vision camera so kind of dull viewing.
@BY Bob, from memory you have a night-snacker (I think it must be Hattie?), does she seem to be able to see her way around? I am wondering if a rethink of chicken night vision is needed. Just because you sleep at night doesn't mean you are blind at night!

I think if their eyes are like ours, they can see some, and it's more than we may realize. When our indoor lights are on at dusk or dawn, the outside sure looks pretty dark, but when I go out there eventually my eyes adjust and it's pretty light actually. Depending on the phase moonlight is significant, especially with snow cover reflecting light. I was up to go to the bathroom at 2:15 last night and it was darned bright out there with a full moon even though it was fully cloudy (and no, I'm not going to an outhouse - thank goodness - I mean looking out the windows! ).

 

[BY Bob]

You two are crazy. I do get it, it is pretty and I love the feeling of stillness after, and the novelty of wading through deep snow to reach the chickens. and the silence as it falls.
But remember, really it is cold and miserable!

There is a survivalist aspect to it that I enjoy. It's weird I know but I understand the people who brave extreme weather to climb a mountain or something similar. I have operated a oil heater and 1 lamp because a storm has actually knocked out power. There is just something about it. Plus i love the stillness of a big storm like that. The world is quiet in way that you don't get any other time. You can actually hear the snow falling.

If you have watch the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Revenant, there is a stunning scene in that film where it is so quiet they captured the sound of falling snow. It is special.

I no longer need to travel and frankly I never leave the house. There might as well be a reason for it.