Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

We have new babies!
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Duckies!!!

 

[Kris5902]

The ac is running! Turns out that the new motor that i installed Saturday was bad.

Awesome! I hope it didn’t cost you to terribly much.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thanks! She’s a lovely girl but prone to going broody.

Oh I know all about that hahaha!

 

[Ponypoor]

We have new babies!
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Awwwwwwww!!!! Babies

So darling how many?

 

[Ponypoor]

I just heard the news about the fires in Europe - including France & Spain. I hope you @ManueB are safe!

@Marie2020 @Shadrach and anyone else there or here with extreme heat: please be careful, drink lots of fluid, and try to keep yourselves and your 2 & 4 legged friends safe

What a year for heat and fires

 

[GregnLety]

I fed him half my breakfast after he already had his own eggs. I shared the sherbert bite for bite. He always gets what he asks for ❤

Give that beauty the lot. How could you ever refuse that sweet face

 

[Ponypoor]

I fed him half my breakfast after he already had his own eggs. I shared the sherbert bite for bite. He always gets what he asks for ❤

Oh he has you well trained

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Hey everyone. We are finally home, she ended up having surgery this afternoon to put a plate in. I figured she would need surgery but I was thinking more like tomorrow or Wednesday. She was not happy and at one point I thought I would have to tie her down to the bed. She was not prepared to hear surgery this morning and her anxiety kicked into high gear. She is resting now but is as hateful as a black snake. I'll take it though because the worst is now behind us. This will take 2 to 3 months to fully heal and she is not allowed back on the horse until then.

 

[GregnLety]

Hey everyone. We are finally home, she ended up having surgery this afternoon to put a plate in. I figured she would need surgery but I was thinking more like tomorrow or Wednesday. She was not happy and at one point I thought I would have to tie her down to the bed. She was not prepared to hear surgery this morning and her anxiety kicked into high gear. She is resting now but is as hateful as a black snake. I'll take it though because the worst is now behind us. This will take 2 to 3 months to fully heal and she is not allowed back on the horse until then.

Glad she got the surgery and hope she heals quickly. My oldest had surgery for scoliosis at 14 and recovered nicely. Prayers for Her recovery

 

[MaryJanet]

I can't find a way to express myself with sufficient delicacy in a language that isn't native, so please forgive me if I'm hurting some of you. I've been feeling several times that replying in chronogical order led to very painful situation when a chicken is very sick, and the wishes for improvement come after it has passed.

I don't know if there is a way to avoid this without reading backwards. Maybe to click on the person's name and check the more recent updates before replying ?

I've also been in that unpleasant situation with Loz.

I think reading the latest posts from someone's profile is one way to avoid it. Another way, I and several other people used to read from where we left off, reading every post before writing our replies. A third way, if the urge to reply really can't be overcome, is to do what Michelle does, and include a message of hope that it all worked out in your first reply, eg, "Oh no! I hope to read later that it all turned out ok."

The SHRA tax is an attempt to encourage attentiveness to each other, so big events are not overlooked.

And it was effective for a while, we were attentive to each other on Bob's thread, which had a flipside of trying to make only 3-4 daily posts to keep everything readable in a 20-30 minute window, and preferably with a heavy focus on Bob's flock.

Now it's mostly chatter, which is fine (although there is the BYC Cafe thread dedicated to chatter) and news of Bob's chickens is not easy to track down on this thread, which he created for his chicken stories (this is explained in the first post he ever made). I may start reading posts from his profile like I do with RC. Bob would never point these things out because of his heightened capacities for hospitality and kindness. I know he'll forgive me, at the same time I acknowledge that he seems to be at ease with how things are here now.

I'll just have to get used to feeling my distaste for ignoring others.

Manue, if you started a thread for your own flock, I would follow it and make comments if I had something to say. Just tag me and I'll join in.