Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[goldenfingers]

Great to see you around again. I'd love to see pictures of the ladies?

I'll have to try to get some new ones and post them

 

[featherhead007]

Here’s Jaffar watching over Emily today.
I guess she prefers a dirty body, instead of the clean bath I provided for her last night.

 

[BY Bob]

I will ask vet about implants but I suspect they won’t do it. Do you know what to call it?

I'm not certain. Perhaps @micstrachan can help. She has used them before.

 

[BY Bob]

I'll have to try to get some new ones and post them

Great! They are so adorable. I just want to hug them.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I was thinking the same thing.

How did the cracker night go Rebecca? Were you able to keep everyone settled?

How did everyone else manage?

Good morning everyone, I'll go out and get a mugs pic later, right now I'm still waiting on that first cup of coffee to kick in. We survived the night with no sedation for Louis. Fireworks started about 10 last night and went on for almost 2 hours. The chickens only freaked once, when the first big one went off but were calm after that. Me and dad sat out with the boys the entire time talking to them, and in Dirt's case as long as I was scratching him he was ok. Louis was better this year, didn't try to break out, just paced his stall a little bit. Russ, he slept the entire time. Keeping Dirt calm this year was the key to Louis, they feed off each other and when Dirt would get worked up for a second, Louis got worked up. Went in about 12:30 when we thought it was all over and dad went to bed. Thankfully I stayed up just a bit watching tv. The jerk, who I thought was setting his off with the others waited until 1:30 am to start shooting. The first boom shook the house. I manage to get back outside in under 2 minutes to Dirt rearing and bucking in his stall and Louis charging at his gate. He shot off big fireworks for 45 minutes, with the ash raining down on our roof and the barn roof. This time around dad did have to get in the stall with Louis and put on the halter and lead rope and walk him in circles to help him. As long as dad was out with me even though he would jump Dirt stopped rearing. I spent that time going between Dirt and Russ petting on both as Russ began to get upset. When they were finally done stayed out another 15 minutes to make sure the horse were ok before we came back in to go to bed. But I do not think I finally fell asleep until almost 5 this morning listening for more to go off. Mom stayed inside this year with the dogs, neither one are gun shy, but fireworks are a whole different story. My 9 year old golden Gracie managed to squeeze all but her butt under mom's bed and our 2 year old lab x malamute mix CeCe spent the whole time pacing the house howling when one would go off. I'm just happy my now least favorite holiday is over and I should not have to deal with anymore fireworks until New Years.

 

[RoyalChick]

Good morning everyone, I'll go out and get a mugs pic later, right now I'm still waiting on that first cup of coffee to kick in. We survived the night with no sedation for Louis. Fireworks started about 10 last night and went on for almost 2 hours. The chickens only freaked once, when the first big one went off but were calm after that. Me and dad sat out with the boys the entire time talking to them, and in Dirt's case as long as I was scratching him he was ok. Louis was better this year, didn't try to break out, just paced his stall a little bit. Russ, he slept the entire time. Keeping Dirt calm this year was the key to Louis, they feed off each other and when Dirt would get worked up for a second, Louis got worked up. Went in about 12:30 when we thought it was all over and dad went to bed. Thankfully I stayed up just a bit watching tv. The jerk, who I thought was setting his off with the others waited until 1:30 am to start shooting. The first boom shook the house. I manage to get back outside in under 2 minutes to Dirt rearing and bucking in his stall and Louis charging at his gate. He shot off big fireworks for 45 minutes, with the ash raining down on our roof and the barn roof. This time around dad did have to get in the stall with Louis and put on the halter and lead rope and walk him in circles to help him. As long as dad was out with me even though he would jump Dirt stopped rearing. I spent that time going between Dirt and Russ petting on both as Russ began to get upset. When they were finally done stayed out another 15 minutes to make sure the horse were ok before we came back in to go to bed. But I do not think I finally fell asleep until almost 5 this morning listening for more to go off. Mom stayed inside this year with the dogs, neither one are gun shy, but fireworks are a whole different story. My 9 year old golden Gracie managed to squeeze all but her butt under mom's bed and our 2 year old lab x malamute mix CeCe spent the whole time pacing the house howling when one would go off. I'm just happy my now least favorite holiday is over and I should not have to deal with anymore fireworks until New Years.

Wow that is rough. I am so glad everyone is OK and hope you all have some peace to recover today.

 

[featherhead007]

Shenandoah says “leave me alone daddy, this job takes all my concentration “

 

[featherhead007]

Shenandoah says “leave me alone daddy, this job takes all my concentration “
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Actually, she said “bok bok bok” (but I think she meant what I said)

 

[BY Bob]

Good morning everyone, I'll go out and get a mugs pic later, right now I'm still waiting on that first cup of coffee to kick in. We survived the night with no sedation for Louis. Fireworks started about 10 last night and went on for almost 2 hours. The chickens only freaked once, when the first big one went off but were calm after that. Me and dad sat out with the boys the entire time talking to them, and in Dirt's case as long as I was scratching him he was ok. Louis was better this year, didn't try to break out, just paced his stall a little bit. Russ, he slept the entire time. Keeping Dirt calm this year was the key to Louis, they feed off each other and when Dirt would get worked up for a second, Louis got worked up. Went in about 12:30 when we thought it was all over and dad went to bed. Thankfully I stayed up just a bit watching tv. The jerk, who I thought was setting his off with the others waited until 1:30 am to start shooting. The first boom shook the house. I manage to get back outside in under 2 minutes to Dirt rearing and bucking in his stall and Louis charging at his gate. He shot off big fireworks for 45 minutes, with the ash raining down on our roof and the barn roof. This time around dad did have to get in the stall with Louis and put on the halter and lead rope and walk him in circles to help him. As long as dad was out with me even though he would jump Dirt stopped rearing. I spent that time going between Dirt and Russ petting on both as Russ began to get upset. When they were finally done stayed out another 15 minutes to make sure the horse were ok before we came back in to go to bed. But I do not think I finally fell asleep until almost 5 this morning listening for more to go off. Mom stayed inside this year with the dogs, neither one are gun shy, but fireworks are a whole different story. My 9 year old golden Gracie managed to squeeze all but her butt under mom's bed and our 2 year old lab x malamute mix CeCe spent the whole time pacing the house howling when one would go off. I'm just happy my now least favorite holiday is over and I should not have to deal with anymore fireworks until New Years.

Just awful. You should make him come clean his ash up. I fear he could set you barn on fire some day. There are lots of dry combustibles around a barn.

I'm sorry you had to deal with that but glad everyone is fine.

 

[RoyalChick]

Can that really be comfortable?