Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

My crazy Xzit! She decided that she wanted to sit in a coop laying box (extremely hot this evening) I took her back inside with me. She was panting really hard, and moved around like a wet rag. I’m making sure she drinks some water with fix-a-Chick in it. That stubborn little lady is going to be the life of me!

Wow she is determined! My gals too! Crazy chooks

The heat is ramping up here tomorrow, I will have my big box fan ready for them.

 

[Ponypoor]

You Say it's Your Hatch Day!

Guess who turns 4 today (Saturday)! She is the grand dame of Fluffy Butt Acres!

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I thought we would celebrate with pictures of when she came to live with us.

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Hattie is the bum on the left.

Tomorrow, photos of the teenage years!

Sooooo cute, and a beauty now.

Always loved her colour

 

[Ponypoor]

S the past two nights have been relatively quiet with Buttercup, and I think it due to the box fan I have running in the coop.

It's been a bit on the warm side here so I had the fan on. As soon as I turned it on, Buttercup went to her spot and stayed put! No chasing the young gals around, and they also stayed put, the silkies were happy in their chosen normal spots.

Wonder if her drama is all about being too warm?

Just checked them and they are still in their spots snoozing.

 

[ManueB]

Well I'm back and a little loopy from the shot they gave me. I did not have a cyst rupture, I had the IUD puncture one that was growing around it. They removed the device thankfully at my insistence. September cannot come now soon enough. The er doc said I was a prime candidate for a Hysterotomy. I just do not need a emergency one.

Well, as soon as I can get Rosie out of the shower we are heading to the ER again tonight. She had done wonderful, having a blast and won a 3rd and 2nd place in 2 of her classes. Then right before her final class of the evening Russ stumbled and hit his knee's and she went flying over his head. We have a bad shoulder injury, and very limited range of motion without screaming. Thankfully she wears a helmet and no head injury and Russ is ok. Will update everyone later tonight/tomorrow.

I'm sorry you have been in so much pain and also sorry for Rosie! All that happening in so little time must be very stressful .
I hope Rosie's shoulder won't keep her in pain for too long and refrain her from riding...but she must take advices of rest and reeducation seriously, injuries when young can have impacts many years after if they don't heal properly! Remind her of this if she needs to stop riding for several months, I'm sure she wants a long riding career as painless as possible !
And I'm also sorry you have been in so much pain. It's also hard here in France to have hysterectomy under 40, not for insurance reasons but for cultural blockage. It's a problem feminists have been raising up in the media for the last five years. A black and white explanation is that that there are too many men among surgeons and gynecologist who feel pain is not a sufficient reason for a woman to definitely give up on having children.

OMG Rebecca you need to go to emerg, you could have an artery bleed from that! Please go to emerg

Rebecca (and please my other US friends) please do not take this the wrong way as I love my neighbours to the south but you are a great nation, and I feel it’s horrible that people have to suffer because their insurance won’t approve it or cover it, or not within the scope of their policy.

It’s when I hear stories like this that I am so glad for our universal health care. Yes Kris and I both whine and complain about our respective provinces health care, but if something needs done it gets done, I have had a few of my family and many friends who required hysterectomies before they were 35 even-and got them.. All I have to do is go to emerg and a whole crap load of test gets done, whether I need them or not — specialist brought in, referrals… I pay $900/yr in taxes for this only because I am in an upper tax bracket, if one makes less than (I think $40k/yr) they pay nothing.

Of course YES we have high income tax and other taxes to pay for this, but for that I am extremely grateful. My father had a dissecting aorta 1 week after arriving home from AZ - we were so thankful he had it here and not the US even if he had his insurance it would still not likely have been enough to cover his intensive care oh I am sure he would have had just as great care as here, as I know you medical personnel are awesome, but the cost would likely have wiped out their savings even with insurance.

I wish everyone of my neighbours to the south could have the worry free healthcare I enjoy, it breaks my heart as a former Nurse hear stories like this. Our system has flaws like every system but it’s always been there when my family needed it No questions asked.

Rebecca please be very careful I am worried about you.

Here is a smile for you - oh darn it’s on my other phone - Curly and I were sharing a bagel (actually she was trying to steal it - then she pooped on my office chair haha!). I will post the pic. Of the bagel stealer not the poop!

I sure hope I haven’t offended anyone (I don’t normally stick my nose into things but as a nurse I feel strongly about some things )

I'm also very happy to live in a country with a public health service even if it doesn't work as well as it should. And I'm one of those rare people happy to pay taxes, mainly because of this.
I recently had to be taken to the ER by paramedics due to going into anaphylactic shock after a hornet sting (surprise allergy)! I live in a very isolated place so I'm lucky we keep adrenalin at home in case of such a problem with the bees. The paramedic ride to the ER was two hours, I spent the night there and saw the doctor three times, and was given a breakfast before leaving in the morning. And I walked out paying nothing! (I'm unemployed since July and have never been into any unemployment program.)
I've had few emergencies in my life but everytime I've felt really grateful for our care system and for all the people that took care of me. There aren't many thing I feel good about my country but this is one of them.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Well, she broke and displaced her clavicle. See a surgeon first thing Monday morning. They showed me the x-ray, it does not look pretty and explains the bump we were feeling on her shoulder. The ER doc said the surgeon has the final call but 90% sure she's going to need a plate put in.

 

[LozzyR]

Hahaha I know, it's awesome reading about others beautiful chickies.

Make me want to get more

I am still sad I missed the window to get chicks from Frey's ordered, I would have got half a dozen mixed azure and Marans - shoves them under my broodies...

Oh well guess it's for the best....

I've also been animating and creating all weekend so I've got even more behind!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes, Butters loses a lot of great tidbits she finds and loses out on quantities of goodies. I try to buy time for her if I'm doling it out. Recently I couldn't get each of them some raspberries equally because they were snatched away from Butters so fast before she could even get a bead on her prize. Popcorn especially plays "treats scatter" for the win.

So I would draw others away from Butters, sometimes with a hand-fake (doesn't work that well - no magician could get away with sleight-of-hand with this bunch), and scatter some raspberries on the other side of the group. When the main 3 piranhas ran for those, get one right in front of Butters. Then hope that she would have it down before the others come rushing back to steal it.
The better way is your walnut-doling strategy of one at a time, when their name is called!

Poor old Penelope misses out on treat also, I let her in my office/ feed room and give to her separately when no one is looking

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, she broke and displaced her clavicle. See a surgeon first thing Monday morning. They showed me the x-ray, it does not look pretty and explains the bump we were feeling on her shoulder. The ER doc said the surgeon has the final call but 90% sure she's going to need a plate put in.

(Gasp)!

Poor Rosie oh no! Give her a gentle hug from me.

When she goes to the feedmill don’t let them try to stick cow magnets on her hahaha - they tried that with me and I let them know the plate was stainless steel non magnetic

They then wanted to take me to the airport and send me through security- now this was way back in the early 90s before all the crazy security we now have. Tell Rosie not to fall for that also .

FYI cow magnets were used to put down onto a cows first stomach (on a string) to fish out any hardware a cow might eat (nails, screws, bolts. Apparently they eat these things!) - they call it hardware disease

 

[Ponypoor]

I've also been animating and creating all weekend so I've got even more behind!

Oh wonderful- will we see any of your work maybe

 

[BY Bob]

Well, as soon as I can get Rosie out of the shower we are heading to the ER again tonight. She had done wonderful, having a blast and won a 3rd and 2nd place in 2 of her classes. Then right before her final class of the evening Russ stumbled and hit his knee's and she went flying over his head. We have a bad shoulder injury, and very limited range of motion without screaming. Thankfully she wears a helmet and no head injury and Russ is ok. Will update everyone later tonight/tomorrow.

Oh no. I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope she is OK.