Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Me thinks it’s you who is trained ! Right Alex?

I heard that the first time!

 

[featherhead007]

 

[Ponypoor]

If you take good care of your animals, it can cost a lot, both dogs and cats! We've had both very cheap to board cats and dogs and real high-end special health needs pets. It can go either way, you never know!

I have found that other than the odd accident or getting some illness, it the getting elderly part that is the most costly.

Having said that my poor kitty Missy had gastritis during Covid and I had to take her to an emergency clinic - cost me $1700 for X-ray, blood work and on the end I was furious and told the vet please give her fluids and and anti-emetic (stop her vomiting) also some antibiotics - I was sure she had gastritis. But the vet was bent on proving she ate something and it was stuck in her. Nope I was right.

They received a scathing online account of my dealings with them.

That is what makes me so mad, that vet should have had n the begin given her fluids and meds sent her home for 24hrs to see if she improved. But no, they have to do all the fancy dancy crap upfront immediately - this pays for their fancy equipment I guess.

Ok rant over

Tax
Thirsty Thursday

 

[Ponypoor]

Lmao at least 10?! No more than 1

I had a vague plan using dog crates of various sizes. No plan as far as where to actually take them after that! I guess drive circles in the car until all seven chickens and two children fall asleep.

Hay I have lost count here - and really according to chicken math I have none - zero, zip…. Time to start checking out breeds!

 

[Ponypoor]

Two cats, brothers, same reason!

Eggsactly!

 

[Ponypoor]

A gas leak totally blew up one house and knocked the walls in damaging three others in the town near me just a couple of weeks ago. Killed the one guy, three other households displaced. There had been visits to nearby houses on that street three times that day trying to locate the leak since the early morning, and it finally blew up late in the afternoon. Pretty awful. I'm not a fan of the natural gas lines in so many towns. Seemingly safe, yes. And yet, neighborhoods blow up on the regular here.

Two crochet chickens from a village fair this summer
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I am very surprised, must have been an underground leak, that’s extremely scary

I didn't back off. I had stepped there and she approached and pecked my barn boot a couple of times. At first I wasn't sure if she was just checking it out but the next pecks were strong, and I tried to move her away because I was trying to put a low perching board up and I wanted to crouch right there. So while I said No I actually gently moved my foot to the side, which was towards her, a couple of times to make her move away, and that got her more agitated and she decided it was battle time with my boot. Then Popcorn showed up.

One ingredient with the dynamic this time was treats, this was a few minutes after they all got mealworms, spread out on different logs and boards, but it's still a big competition, with Popcorn running from area to area, trying to claim them all. Maybe she was fired up because of that.

I found being firm like you did works the best, and then of course there are the times when nothing works.

 

[rural mouse]

Thirstyday

The edge thawed...sort of....she gave up and went to the blue bowl too.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Thirsty Thursday everyone.

Nothing beats wild water: the delicate sip followed by the whole head dunk! I love how she grips the edge of the bowl in case it tries to run away

 

[BY Bob]

Tell Aurora the blue eggs nicely frame the pink egg there, let it really stand out! That's hers, right?

That is a fake egg. Glynda is the only hen laying.

 

[GregnLety]

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And for myself only I'll add cursing