Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Will call them tomorrow morning

Tonight if you feel unwell!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Night time...

Ok all - I am off to bed - I have had a trying day, I haven't had the will to read everyones best wishes yet - still too raw - and surreal! And frustrating, I wanted so much to put cameras in the horses stalls but the lady 'didn't want anyone watching her clean stalls'...

I wanted to watch my horses - not her doing stalls
Maybe I could have had a different outcome if I had been watching (there's that would-a, could-a, should-a thing we are so good at).

But I am thankful I have my cameras with my chooks - so I can look at their antics.

Tonight is another 'lets roost anywhere' night. But at least I can count 13 of the little terrors!

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Thanks all for your thoughts - very much appreciated.

It sounds like your gut is giving you "rational" (but illogical) reasons why it feels so awful to lose a friend like Sally and not be able to be there with her for it or even watch on camera. It is really crappy luck. There's no way around that, only through it.

From what you describe it seems none of the possible diagnosis, or the outcome, would have been helped or different by you being there, or by your observing her. But I would have wanted to be there or at least seen her on camera in the days before she died too. I'm so very sorry.

 

[featherhead007]

Tonight if you feel unwell!

If I require a 911 emergency call, it would still take them 30 minutes to get to my house. That’s going code 3 !

 

[BY Bob]

Yup - that about covers it!
As I see it I have two options:
A) Let them do what they want, cover over the window on the people door with mylar tape so they don't try and fly through it when I close it and just accept that poor Bernie will be lonesome at night for the foreseeable future.
B) Tweak the ceiling to remove whatever route Babs found through it.
I am not sure which way to go.

Chickens are so smart and clever that it can be very frustrating. Don't feel ashamed if you fail more than just this time.

 

[Ponypoor]

It sounds like your gut is giving you "rational" (but illogical) reasons why it feels so awful to lose a friend like Sally and not be able to be there with her for it or even watch on camera. It is really crappy luck. There's no way around that, only through it.

From what you describe it seems none of the possible diagnosis, or the outcome, would have been helped or different by you being there, or by your observing her. But I would have wanted to be there or at least seen her on camera in the days before she died too. I'm so very sorry.

Thank you for your support, I was frustrated not to be able to prevent any possible extended suffering

Next project I am going to insist upon having cameras on the horses, it is a comfort to me to be able to log into my cameras and check on the chooks, and the house. I want that same thing with the horses.

Tonight
More shake up in the Hen House

 

[lightm]

So cold and rainy today, but despite the icky weather I have good news! Three eggs today and all of them were in the nesting box. So either Oreo is way way way smarter then I suspected and he understood my plea to him to get the girls to lay the eggs in the nest boxes or the peanuts worked.

Leaning towards the peanuts but yay! No crawling through chicken poo to get eggs today

Great news!!

 

[Ponypoor]

If I require a 911 emergency call, it would still take them 30 minutes to get to my house. That’s going code 3 !

OK now don't try to make me worried!

 

[BY Bob]

Should explain the Ice Road and Fort St John jibber-jabber

Like me GregnLety also works in the energy sector and was sent up here to do some work - he was just 'down the road' from here. The road being a winter ice road that is opened yearly to allow pipeline workers and logging trucks to get around in the back country here.

Last weekend a few of the Inspectors here decided to go into FSJ for the day (it's a 3 hr drive BTW), and one of the guys got lost coming home due to the heavy fog, there are no road signs out here, you need to watch for landmarks and 'mile markers' (those markers that show how many miles/KM you have driven) to get around. In the fog he missed a turn and for 3hrs wandered around till some logging truck showed him his way out! His 3hr drive home turned into 6hrs. AND it gets dark here early - well actually it's 5:22 right now and just getting dark now so not too bad!

Now me - I don't do so well getting lost, so I won't go on those ice roads at all! The road from the hiway to here is a logging road and it is the only road I will drive on!

GregnLety has promised to post lots of pics of the baby chicks when he gets home, but meanwhile here is my Ice Tax

Yummy snow and dirt!


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That's fairly frightening. I would not be comfortable driving it either.

 

[GregnLety]

He doesn't want to stay up here for the arctic outflow that will arrive tomorrow

Weather Tax
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Very true, fixing to be too cold for this hillbilly

 

[bgmathteach]

Now 168 over 100

Going in the right direction. more deep breaths and calming thoughts. Maybe even a hen or roo sleeping peacefully on your chest breathing deeply and rhythmically.