Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Thank you all for your understanding, kind words and support. I have my camera charging as I know I owe a boat load of tax and will pay up this evening.

All I did yesterday was sleep and minimal chicken chores. I gathered eggs and put everyone to bed for snuggles and that is it. Part of it was sheer exhaustion, but a huge part of it was feeling sorry for myself. I have been dealing with depression and sometimes anxiety for years, never terribly bad but it would come and go. I have been reluctant to take medications for fear of them "knocking me out" so to say. I broke over last month at my DRs appointment and told him I was going crazy and I needed help, I could not do it anymore. He suggested I try one called Effexor, it has a anxiety med built in and is not supposed to knock you out. It helped a little bit while she was here. I'm sure now that she is gone maybe I can see the full benefits from the medication. I do know after yesterday I'm not allowing myself to be drug down any longer. I'm going outside after I fix Rosie lunch and there are chores waiting. My coop needs a proper cleanout, stalls need cleaned and I have neglected the boys and the chickens for far too long. I have 3 broody hens that have to be broken up, it is too hot this week and next for them to safely think about setting and Karen needs taming.

I"m sorry to hear you have put your health on the back burner, but glad you are addressing it now. It is so easy to kind of push it off - for so many reasons, some of them due to depression itself. I hope that the meds help and you are on your way to a better,more stable/healthy place!

You need to watch Branch strut around for a bit while cleaning out the coop....then maybe snuggle a bit with him. Chickens are good at mending hearts and minds

 

[BY Bob]

TY! TY! Better data helps all of us.
There will another poll shortly (next day or two) to look at ages and genders, and a third poll to look at the "quality" as opposed to the "quantity" of pasture.

Hopefully we can get you some interesting data. Everyone please stop by and give your information.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you all for your understanding, kind words and support. I have my camera charging as I know I owe a boat load of tax and will pay up this evening.

All I did yesterday was sleep and minimal chicken chores. I gathered eggs and put everyone to bed for snuggles and that is it. Part of it was sheer exhaustion, but a huge part of it was feeling sorry for myself. I have been dealing with depression and sometimes anxiety for years, never terribly bad but it would come and go. I have been reluctant to take medications for fear of them "knocking me out" so to say. I broke over last month at my DRs appointment and told him I was going crazy and I needed help, I could not do it anymore. He suggested I try one called Effexor, it has a anxiety med built in and is not supposed to knock you out. It helped a little bit while she was here. I'm sure now that she is gone maybe I can see the full benefits from the medication. I do know after yesterday I'm not allowing myself to be drug down any longer. I'm going outside after I fix Rosie lunch and there are chores waiting. My coop needs a proper cleanout, stalls need cleaned and I have neglected the boys and the chickens for far too long. I have 3 broody hens that have to be broken up, it is too hot this week and next for them to safely think about setting and Karen needs taming.

I am glad you talked with your Dr and have some help. No one should feel they can’t have help, it is the 21st century and there are good meds to help.

I hear you on the broody hens and heat my three silly girls worry me but I have the fan on for them and the heat is breaking tonight.

The horses will be very happy, I don’t know about were you are but the biting bugs are horrible here. My T-bred mare has egg size welts all over her

Maybe when you feel up to it we can get picks of Karen and the geegees

 

[Ponypoor]

A picture of the fireflies would have made it possible for us all to enjoy it.

Just saying

Ok for you I will set my alarm for midnight again and get some pics just for you

They were amazing!

 

[Ponypoor]

You do not need goats, defiantly not but it's possible you may have them anyway to protect your chickens and keep those unwanted weeds back.
Just thinking out loud because if I had land and a little help I would

Oh I want goats

And a camel

And a unicorn!

 

[Ponypoor]

The heat isn’t lasting it was a flash in the pan heatwave which I am sure the critters are happy about!

But I will keep the fan on them tonight and check them tonight

 

[bgmathteach]

I do need goats. I do need goats. I do need goats with floppy ears!

This is exactly what I was thinking!!! LOL

Actually, by the time your friend has fixed up the barn, the Hooligans will have outgrown their teenage stage, things will have settled down, and the goats will nicely fill that gap!

See: Goats. Are. the. Perfect. Addition.

Tax for all this goat talk:


My good broodies and their babies:

And a chicken with floppy ears:

 

[bgmathteach]

This is exactly what I was thinking!!! LOL

Actually, by the time your friend has fixed up the barn, the Hooligans will have outgrown their teenage stage, things will have settled down, and the goats will nicely fill that gap!

See: Goats. Are. the. Perfect. Addition.
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Tax for all this goat talk:


My good broodies and their babies:
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And a chicken with floppy ears:

Seriously, though @RoyalChick , I am trying to live viacariously through you! I have wanted goats for a while,but with working full time and the amount of chickens I have (remember, I started with 8. Talk about multiplying like rabbits!!!) I'm having all I can do to upgrade/build new infastructure for the chickens & ducks. ?Maybe next year? maybe the year after. I think I need to look into adopting some of Kris's feral goats when I do, though. Sounds like they are good, sturdy stock with efficient food conversion! - just what I need.


Tax: some pics of last year's babies:

 

[RoyalChick]

I know a lot of this is camera angle, but have I mentioned that Bella is a big girl? She really is!

 

[Ponypoor]

Bernadette has relocated the Hooligans’ HQ to one of the pasture runs. They enter through a door in one of the Chicken Palace covered runs, and it is open air but predator safe.
Not a bad choice really, and they do look very comfy bedded down on about a foot of oak leaves.
Bernadette is pretty pleased with her choice of real estate!
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But Lulu wants to know about the rain plan.
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Such characters

They are just precious