Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Time to grow up

Today I dismantled the youngest chicks pen, they will now have to learn to roost with the rest of the flock.

I left them in the Summer House though to settle where they might.

Seems Clyde decided he was going to join Mr P up on the ledge, and one of the chicks was trying to snuggle up to Penelope - she was not overly impressed.

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Georgie is on the other side of the Summer House up on the spool they like to hop up on.

I am going to go and put the chickies to roost in the Hen House B, I put in a ledge on the opposite wall from the current roosting ledge this afternoon.

I figured since it is a long weekend here (our Thanksgiving weekend) so would start the winter roosting process now. Start with the youngest chicks first. Get them all settled and roosting. Then after a couple weeks I can get the oldest chicks in there.

The only ones to get special treatment are Clyde and Georgie, they will get to roost on the lower ledge in Hen House A once everyone gets sorted. But for now they can stay with Mr P and his ladies.

So off I go now to corral the four youngest pullets (Little Mouse, ChickChick, Patches, and Icy). They will end up in Hen House B for the night.

I think for Mr & Mrs LC I will put in a roost for them way up high so they can get away from the big chickens. I have an awesome Willow branch I found out in the paddock, that I can use in the HHB.

Looks like someone is already trying out the new ledge - Rosario maybe?? And maybe Raven/Blackie….

We’ll fill that ledge up soon
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Rootin tootin- one on the floor sheesh! Well I am not getting dressed and going back out there. She is safe enough there.

I put Daisy and the four youngest chicks on the new roosting ledge.

Clyde was bound as determined to stay up with the big silkies and hopped back up to snuggle with of all the ladies, Marty. I would have left him up there but Georgie is too small to go up there. So I turned off the lights and made him go roost with Georgie on a low ledge I made for them.

This is my camera pointed downward, looking down at them snuggled up together, in the upper right corner is Mr P and his ladies and the oldest chicklets sleeping.

It’s a different perspective looking downwards!

 

[Ponypoor]

@Ponypoor.
We saw the Canadians up there today. And yesterday.
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They are in El Paso this weekend apparently

https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/services/showcasing/snowbirds/schedule.html

Lucky you to see them!

 

[Ponypoor]

Tax.
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Felicitas says hi to Bernie, @RoyalChick.

I love her comb, it’s very funky

 

[Sylvester017]

Made myself a sandwich for lunch. Apparently even my cheese is getting into the Halloween spirit View attachment 3963829View attachment 3963832

Did they escape the yard or are you taking them for a stroll?

 

[Sylvester017]

@Ponypoor.
We saw the Canadians up there today. And yesterday.
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We also must be in their pathway. We have a large group of honkers every year. The group no doubt stops for a rest at nearby Santa Fe Dam Recreation Park along w/Mallards & other large water birds on a migration path. Of course there are the normal year-round dwellers also. The Park has a Renaissance Faire every year in April.

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[Ponypoor]

That looks like a ring neck duck beautiful photos, that sunset is gorgeous - thanks for sharing! Those would have been gorgeous for Pony Sunday

 

[Ponypoor]

Caturday

I should measure her to see how long she is!

 

[Sylvester017]

That looks like a ring neck duck beautiful photos, that sunset is gorgeous - thanks for sharing! Those would have been gorgeous for Pony Sunday

TY ~ well, it's Pony Sunday somewhere in the world already

 

[notabitail]

They are in El Paso this weekend apparently

https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/services/showcasing/snowbirds/schedule.html

Lucky you to see them!

They flew right over our house several times. It was really neat.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

A Caturday update
Some of you are already aware, but I wanted to use Caturday to let all my FBA friends know about what happened over the last week with my lovely Nightshade.

Friday night last week, Nightshade started choking on his dinner.
He was in a terrible state trying to breathe and swallow and pawing at his head like he was trying to remove the blockage in his throat.

I grabbed him to see if I could see anything and help him remove it. I couldn't see anything but he started drooling blood from his mouth so I realized he needed professional help.

I took him to the local emergency vet clinic. It was full on hospital drama. They rushed out and grabbed him and gave him oxygen while I was left pacing around the waiting room.

Six hours later (about 1am) they had him stabilized in ICU (who knew there were ICUs for cats?!) but he was still having trouble and the emergency vet said she didn't think she had the experience to operate on him, so wanted him to stay in the ICU until the surgical team came in.
On Caturday morning last week, the surgeons operated and removed a large (3x5cm) vascular mass from his nasopharynx.

Poor Nightshade lost a lot of blood in surgery and they were concerned about further bleeding and also swelling obstructing his airway, so he spent another night in ICU.
I brought him home on Sunday but had to wait until yesterday to get the report back from the lab.
I am so relieved that the mass was not invasive - just some kind of polyp.
Nightshade is recovering well - still on steroids but only for a few more days. He is also absurdly loving - he must have been very frightened because now he wants to be as close to me as possible.
I have been a nervous wreck all week but now we are both very happy!
Thanks for listening.
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Poor baby! So very glad he'll be alright!