Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

What’s up with your eggs?

Last check a couple hours ago nothing yet. I am not worried though. Hatch day is supposed to be Saturday. Today just made day 19. Not all eggs are going to be early hatchers.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Pretty Boy Floyd was a bank robber. Better be careful, he'll be taking over the joint!

Me too! Not Canada cold though. But the fact is, you can always put on more clothes. There's a limit to how many you can take off.

The chicks are nestled all snug in their nest. Time for this chicken granny to hit the hay!

Shush, let him take over the joint. I said I was not mentioning names darn it.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Shush, let him take over the joint. I said I was not mentioning names darn it.

Ahh! I know who your favorite boy is! It is Floyd!

 

[LhickenChicken]

Ahh! I know who your favorite boy is! It is Floyd!

Isn't it?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Isn't it?

Well, I was all for the power couple Mr. P and Marty chick who was SUPPOSED to be a pullet.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I know what you're talking about. It's not off topic imo, loss is part of chicken-keeping ,among other things. I've been in tears for others' losses here too. Take care of yourself; sometimes stepping away is the perfect thing to do to help yourself cope.

BBQ may be molting, do you think? Hazel, when she went through a normal molt, really went off her normal diet and wanted nothing but worms, bugs and dandelion greens. She loved unsalted sardines.

To add to what @Ponypoor said about life-

1. People have sayings that refer to the unpredictable and unfair way life can be, that basically either make religious or games of chance references. These serve as reminders to us that there's lots in life that is not really under our control. Recognizing what is and what isn't, is a big part of managing your way through it. Peanut was on her way to an early death, and the vet and I think there is nothing I could have done to prevent it except to have found a chick with better genetics. She thought it was most likely not her feed or any other conditions I have control over. What I could do was prevent a great deal of further suffering, by euthanizing her. Ultimately, a long life was not "in the cards" for her. Her sibling Popcorn is apparently healthy as a horse (are horses healthy? Hah!), Hazel is fine, and we don't know what's up with Butters. Same conditions for all four.

But in the meantime, Peanut had a really very good and definitely not a miserable life, in the majority. And three years is short but not insanely short like poor Eli.

2. Then, being able to carry on during and after bad things happening is the other part of getting through life. That is something that definitely takes practice. Which you are probably realizing you are getting these days. It might help you to remember that psychologists say we make a bigger deal out of bad things than good things, and that probably this is hard-wired into us from the beginning of being human. You know, avoiding eating that one poisonous plant is way more critical than looking for one good edible plant. Good plants don't make the same impression a bad one does! This is wired into our natures.

I'm not trying to minimize the bad things you experience, but to give you a bit of perspective on maybe your own natural reaction to the bad things. This may be why a lot of self-help guides recommend practicing gratitude as a counter to the natural emphasis we put on bad things. People do this through prayer and spiritual connection, or listing the good things they encountered each day in a diary, or singing or drawing or painting about it, or thinking about what they appreciate about their friends and family.


One of the Buckeye gang in December 2020, either Peanut or Butters, probably Peanut by her coloring.
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Thank you for taking the time to write this. I'm not going to say much, just because I want to go to bed, but I need to catch up. I really do think that Peanut should have lived longer, but Eli really should have.
I agree when you said that we make a bigger deal of the bad things rather than the good.

BBQ could be molting but she has been like this for months.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

What ATC center do you normally talk to? My dad is an Air Traffic Controller. He used to fly, but he has a back disease that eventually made it so that he can't turn his head to be able to fly the plane.
His father, and grandfather, etc, were all pilots. My grandfather fought in Vietnam I think, and my great grandfather also fought in wars. Fighter pilots of course.
I have pilot in my blood, but I'm not super interested. Sure, I think that planes are awesome, but they just aren't my thing.
But anyways, now my dad is an air traffic controller, and he talks to hundreds of planes a day.

I asked tower if there was any luggage cart to meet us at the runway. Some poor service, when they can charge $6.00 for 30 minute parking!

 

[notabitail]

Wow is that one of the chicks?! So big now!

Yes. Cypriano the Cockerel.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Okay, bad news. My mom doesn't want me on BYC anymore, just because my dad told me I'm not allowed. When I am on here, it will need to be when I am alone, or at night.
Bad-ish news-
I might stop riding at the barn I am currently riding at. Yes, I've not ridden at all this summer. I may start riding at my friends barn, just because it it 15 dollars cheaper.
This is the same friend who has the chronically injured horse.
I would LOVE to ride at her barn and see her. I really would. Only problems are that I am already qualified in championship with Lenny, and if I switch barns, it will be in the next few weeks. And I do Dressage. At her barn. They HATE dressage, and of course they don't do it. I would basically be back to square one. Almost a beginner.

I can't imagine myself ever being back on the lead line trotting in a small circle. I want to still be cantering over small jumps, and getting ready to train for my first ever canter show.
As long as I get ride, I'm fine with whatever. I just live dressage, and Lenny. I did not ride him in two frustrating shows AND get a qualified ride in both shows for nothing. I want to ride in this championship.
I have won championship with my old pony Pippa, and after that on my last ever ride with her, I got second place in championship.
I want to get first with Lenny. Nothing less. Lenny is moving soon. I want my last ride on him to be a good one. Not a little ride in a show the day after school ended. I don't want that. I've not even visited him since school ended. I've been begging my parents to go let me see him. It will just be so hard to leave.

And of course now I have tears, thinking about what I will ever do when that horse moves. Gosh.
I have grown so much in my riding since I first started ages ago. I remember training for my first show. Haha, while training Pippa spooked and threw me off. Ouch. And now I have two championship ribbons, wanting to add another, but possibly not being able too.

I am sorry if this is a little confusing. I am very tired... I should really get going to bed.


@notabitail, where have you been!? The thread has been moving at a reasonable pace, it doesn't seem normal!!
And @ValarieF, where have you been?

 

[notabitail]

Okay, bad news. My mom doesn't want me on BYC anymore, just because my dad told me I'm not allowed. When I am on here, it will need to be when I am alone, or at night.
Bad-ish news-
I might stop riding at the barn I am currently riding at. Yes, I've not ridden at all this summer. I may start riding at my friends barn, just because it it 15 dollars cheaper.
This is the same friend who has the chronically injured horse.
I would LOVE to ride at her barn and see her. I really would. Only problems are that I am already qualified in championship with Lenny, and if I switch barns, it will be in the next few weeks. And I do Dressage. At her barn. They HATE dressage, and of course they don't do it. I would basically be back to square one. Almost a beginner.

I can't imagine myself ever being back on the lead line trotting in a small circle. I want to still be cantering over small jumps, and getting ready to train for my first ever canter show.
As long as I get ride, I'm fine with whatever. I just live dressage, and Lenny. I did not ride him in two frustrating shows AND get a qualified ride in both shows for nothing. I want to ride in this championship.
I have won championship with my old pony Pippa, and after that on my last ever ride with her, I got second place in championship.
I want to get first with Lenny. Nothing less. Lenny is moving soon. I want my last ride on him to be a good one. Not a little ride in a show the day after school ended. I don't want that. I've not even visited him since school ended. I've been begging my parents to go let me see him. It will just be so hard to leave.

And of course now I have tears, thinking about what I will ever do when that horse moves. Gosh.
I have grown so much in my riding since I first started ages ago. I remember training for my first show. Haha, while training Pippa spooked and threw me off. Ouch. And now I have two championship ribbons, wanting to add another, but possibly not being able too.

I am sorry if this is a little confusing. I am very tired... I should really get going to bed.


@notabitail, where have you been!? The thread has been moving at a reasonable pace, it doesn't seem normal!!
And @ValarieF, where have you been?

I've been from CA to TX