Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Let her sing! She might be practicing. I was just reading about Bantam Of The Opera

 

[Ponypoor]

Yeah, Gumbo is a hen!

Sure looks like a hen.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Sure looks like a hen.

Actually? Or are you saying that for Gumbo’s sake?

 

[Cynthia12]

FBF
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Dottie, Albert, and Quincy all working a newly exposed area. I’m pulling back some of the fencing that used to be Perry’s private run. Best part is that Perry wasn’t much of a digger, so this nasty mulch is still “fresh”. There may even be worms in it!

Yours eat worms? Through all the years I had children's they wouldn't eat worms. I even threw some in for them, but no. Maybe your worms are more tasty there than here. This girl is looking back as if to ask..how do I look?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Kasumi was all fluffed out on her perch making hurt noises. I crawled into the run to grab her. Rubbed her all over to see what was injured and...pop
She does not lay the olive eggs I guess.

Her egg is just as speckly and cute as she is though!

 

[Cynthia12]

Kasumi was all fluffed out on her perch making hurt noises. I crawled into the run to grab her. Rubbed her all over to see what was injured and...pop
She does not lay the olive eggs I guess.
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Her egg is just as speckly and cute as she is though!
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Pretty though!!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Actually? Or are you saying that for Gumbo’s sake?

Gumbo is pretty! Too bad you’re so far away or I'd love to have a stripy chicken join my flock

 

[Ponypoor]

Actually? Or are you saying that for Gumbo’s sake?

Nope, just saying she/he doesn’t look very roosterly to me. Which is why I asked for another photo - got one with gumbo on the ground standing?

 

[Ponypoor]

Kasumi was all fluffed out on her perch making hurt noises. I crawled into the run to grab her. Rubbed her all over to see what was injured and...pop
She does not lay the olive eggs I guess.
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Her egg is just as speckly and cute as she is though!
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Well it’s a gorgeous egg, and it’s too bad she wasn’t in the nestbox better luck next time I had Twister plop an egg out onto the floor what I tried to carry her to the nestbox once - ooops! The rest of the chickens enjoyed it though

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Oh thank you for that. I do have a daughter that got a hip replacement last year and another daughter that had her knee done.Theyre both doing really well. I'm going to the surgeon they went to. Oh yes, chicken tax. One of my mini Littles. .View attachment 3738980Cochin.

In that case I can confirm same as @fuentemoon for 99% of the time. A friend did have it done twice in the same knee because of the glue issue; But I think the first one had been done in the 1980's or 90's. She's had no issues with it since the re-do. So I'd say a lot has been improved!

Remember all the stats and stories are past performance, sometimes very very old, and improvements are always occurring.

An elderly lady in her 80's felt her new knee (this was about 2014?) was wobbly to the sides and unpredictable. So she used a cane. She had no pain though. She may not have really committed to the physical therapy, she had the beginnings of dementia, her executive functioning wasn't really there, & that's what you need to make yourself work through it and continue to work it despite your (normal) pain.

It helped me (hip) to take a dose of pain meds before PT appointments, even after I didn't need to take them generally when doing the home PT. It helps. The PT appointments involved harder things.

Just be prepared for the long game. Commit to the therapy - and ask for it! Some institutions do not push it, hard to believe.
I heard from DH about a dental hygienist he saw who had their hip replaced a few years ago, there was no PT required and she didn't know to ask, and now she has pain while sitting and standing at work.

Finally, my experience (hip) taught me the patience needed with these things. Healing only goes so fast, and the PT has to work hand in hand with that.

Tax: Anna looking alert out the back of the coop while I cleaned it today