Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I am trying to take care (mainly by holding on to walls and door frames!).
It is a recognized issue called B.P.P.V. Not uncommon as it turns out. Small crystals in the labyrinth of the inner ear break off and free float triggering the sense that you are moving when you aren't. So your feet tell you one thing and your ears another and as a result, your brain gets all messed up.
Sometimes it resolves on its own because the crystals basically dissolve and there is a series of movements you can try (or your doctor can do to you) that attempts to shift the little b***ers to some other place where they do less harm. It is extremely unpleasant to do because it triggers the vertigo in the worst possible way.
I have done it once and it was pretty effective - meaning I can now get in and out of bed more-or-less OK, and as long as I move slowly I can walk around normally and yesterday I was able to bend down to the right to pick up a chicken. Don't ask me to put a sock on my left foot or lace up a left boot however!
The maneuver leaves me exhausted and unsteady so I am waiting a day or so before trying again.
Sorry for definitely TMI on my decrepitude, so here is chicken tax of my three older ladies engaged in some serious chicken business. Rest In Peace Elizabeth.View attachment 2891670

 

[featherhead007]

You can beat an egg. You can beat an opponent, but you can’t beat a good fart!

(Only people over 50 can get away with saying stuff like that!)

 

[BY Bob]

I am trying to take care (mainly by holding on to walls and door frames!).
It is a recognized issue called B.P.P.V. Not uncommon as it turns out. Small crystals in the labyrinth of the inner ear break off and free float triggering the sense that you are moving when you aren't. So your feet tell you one thing and your ears another and as a result, your brain gets all messed up.
Sometimes it resolves on its own because the crystals basically dissolve and there is a series of movements you can try (or your doctor can do to you) that attempts to shift the little b***ers to some other place where they do less harm. It is extremely unpleasant to do because it triggers the vertigo in the worst possible way.
I have done it once and it was pretty effective - meaning I can now get in and out of bed more-or-less OK, and as long as I move slowly I can walk around normally and yesterday I was able to bend down to the right to pick up a chicken. Don't ask me to put a sock on my left foot or lace up a left boot however!
The maneuver leaves me exhausted and unsteady so I am waiting a day or so before trying again.
Sorry for definitely TMI on my decrepitude, so here is chicken tax of my three older ladies engaged in some serious chicken business. Rest In Peace Elizabeth.View attachment 2891670

I'm so sorry this has happened to you. Please be careful until the crystals settle down.

Beautiful chicken tax though. Just beautiful.

 

[BY Bob]

He is doing very well. Thank you for asking. The doctors are pleased. He is able to bend the knee now but it is still non weight bearing. With physical therapy he is able to bend it 90° which is good. They got a cheap wheel chair so he can leave the house. That is nice for him.

Chicken tax

 

[rural mouse]

I've lost track of which pictures I've compressed and posted.
I think the easiest thing to do is chuck up the batch I've got in the compressed folder and start again. My apologies if you've seen them before.
Henry with the grey bunch. I think that's Cloud, Fax, Fret, Carbon and Copy
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Just behind those houses is the main road that connects the City Of Bristol to the docks at the point where the river severn opens out into the sea.
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That's Cloud at the front; not sure about the other two. Similie and Copy have similar looking rear ends atm.
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Cloud again.
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Carbon.
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Volt and...
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Lima and her bestie Similie.
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Some idiots finger.
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They're looking like proper chickens! and doing proper chicken things like getting into stuff and lots of digging!

 

[rural mouse]

I just meant that we have organized our lives around artificial light & lost rythyms of nature. Either way, one end or the other gets darkness with our current lifestyle (i.e. no longer fully/mostly agrarian, where you work when the sun shines.)

I've stopped stressing over waking in the middle of the night. "2 sleeps" are mentioned in some literature pre-industrial revolution, and it's 1 thing I can do towards that. Eventually i hope to do more of that pattern, but paycheck necessity currently crimps it.

 

[rural mouse]

My chooks have eaten too many grapes . My vines are dropping the fruit in fall. Lots of grapes on the ground. The poops show it too!

Harvest, dry, then store the raisins for treats throughout the year.

 

[bgmathteach]

Well, for outside work that's true! ("A man, his work is with the sun, a woman's work is never done")

Tax. Neighbor's farm. I think this hen didn't get back to the coop before closing, now she's locked out until they open up. Why they haven't opened yet for the day I don't know, they seem to be gone. But she has a friend!
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Good balance work, stayed on and settled down again while the goat got up!
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Nice to have friends like that!

 

[rural mouse]

Beautiful chickens. You need to pay more tax.

Now pic taking days will be highly limited likely to 2 days a week....less if the weather is even colder. I'm trying to keep getting pics of Storm just to document her development, but even there limited. She gave me a scare last night. Went to close the coop, everyone but her. Looked around outside (half dark), headed for house for help/flashlight. Kid comes out to help and she's in the coop. Her colors are great for blending in shadows and it seems she's good at holding still/being silent. Good traits, but

 

[rural mouse]

I vote for leave in the dark arrive home in daylight.

I think I'd rather that approach too. That's why the legislation passed and is added to the other states needing D.C. approval. no idea how long some of those have been sitting there, but if enough more pileup, they'll have a constitutional convention about daylight savings.