Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Thank you for that, but honestly I’m in great pain with my back at the moment. Up all night trying to get comfortable but could not.

Welcome to my world. I used to scream the first time I got a new area of pain ~ now I just grunt. Each day I take inventory ~ will it be my neck, shoulder, back, arm, wrist, leg, stomach pain, or ALL today?

Pain tax ~ voting reminder

 

[Sylvester017]

2fer
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Two pretty polishes
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Two curious chicks

Awwwwww! So cute!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Hi everyone.

With everyone taking turns getting sick we have not had time to go down to grandma's to make anymore progress for a month and a half. Mom or dad was going down at least once a week to check on things for a few minutes. They went down Saturday afternoon and found the house was broken into. They did not break anything inside or take anything other then one medicine bottle we had with our Motrin and allergy meds in it to keep on hand down there. Every drawer or cabinet was opened. They were looking for pills. That was the first thing we removed when Grandma had to move in with us. They did take 2 weed eaters from the back shed and the big diamond toolbox that was once in her truck. Mom broke out our 2 trail camera's that were not in use and has one placed outside and one hidden in her kitchen.

I went to the dentist yesterday and I am more frustrated then anything. With my insurance my hands are tied and I am stuck using the one that sent Rosie to Lexington. Guess what she did yesterday? Take one look at the x-rays, it needs a root canal, I do not do them anymore I'll refer you to Lexington. For goodness sake I do not have time to head to Lexington twice for a root canal can't you just pull it? Nope, I do not do extractions in office anymore either, you would have to go to Lexington. I had set up a infection in that tooth and the Amoxicillin is helping, she changed it to Penicillin. I do not have time for this. Lexington is 3 hours away. Add in a few hours for a procedure and then come straight home and the entire day is shot.

 

[Sylvester017]

I have feathered feet and they are fine as long as you keep them out of water and mud.

Henny is like a little ptarmigan with her feet
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And fluffy too!
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Mud is a real killer. But some birds just have so much fun in rain & mud they don't have the good sense to seek shelter before it's too late. The Silkies don't have the proper feathers to have rain roll off & they'll get cold rain soaked skin. Many times we've had to paper-towel dry rain-drenched Silkies. Can't blow dry them either ~ too much of a temperature shock.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Three bathing Polishes

And it's pretty windy

 

[Sylvester017]

Oh also I have found that my older silkies are less and less broody (thank goodness!), conversely my mutts want to go broody when they get older - sheesh!!!!

Yes, the egg production of chickens goes down by 20% each year which means supposedly less broodiness. By 5-yrs old my Silkies stop laying. I've had only one Silkie lay in her 6th year but she had ovarian cancer & put down at the vet or she would've bled to death anyway.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Someone is crowing as of Yesterday morning. Dad assumed it is George. Whoever it was was crowing while still in the coop and he never actually saw who was doing it. This morning same thing, crowing in the coop. I let them out and tried to sneak around and catch whoever was making the strangled cry. I heard it once coming around the side of the house. I was spotted and no more crowing just fight around the door of the coop to be let out. I then sat outside, freezing for 20 minutes watching and waiting and nothing. Not another sound. I could go out and try to encourage a crow from whoever is doing it but I will not. I love to hear a rooster crowing don't get me wrong. It is nice though when they only crow a few times in the morning and are silent the rest of the day. I will catch the guilty party before the week is out.

 

[Sylvester017]

Hi everyone.

With everyone taking turns getting sick we have not had time to go down to grandma's to make anymore progress for a month and a half. Mom or dad was going down at least once a week to check on things for a few minutes. They went down Saturday afternoon and found the house was broken into. They did not break anything inside or take anything other then one medicine bottle we had with our Motrin and allergy meds in it to keep on hand down there. Every drawer or cabinet was opened. They were looking for pills. That was the first thing we removed when Grandma had to move in with us. They did take 2 weed eaters from the back shed and the big diamond toolbox that was once in her truck. Mom broke out our 2 trail camera's that were not in use and has one placed outside and one hidden in her kitchen.

I went to the dentist yesterday and I am more frustrated then anything. With my insurance my hands are tied and I am stuck using the one that sent Rosie to Lexington. Guess what she did yesterday? Take one look at the x-rays, it needs a root canal, I do not do them anymore I'll refer you to Lexington. For goodness sake I do not have time to head to Lexington twice for a root canal can't you just pull it? Nope, I do not do extractions in office anymore either, you would have to go to Lexington. I had set up a infection in that tooth and the Amoxicillin is helping, she changed it to Penicillin. I do not have time for this. Lexington is 3 hours away. Add in a few hours for a procedure and then come straight home and the entire day is shot.

Social medicine is the pits! When I broke my arm this year it took 21 questions about insurance coverage before the ambulance figured which ER hospital to transport me, 1 hour waiting in the ER admissions, a couple cursory checkups & Xrays, wrapped my arm in a flimsy sling & sent me home to see my "primary care physician" who was gone on vacation. Some yelling & I got another staff doctor who finally referred my broken arm to an Orthopedist. All this took NINE days w/a painful broken arm in a makeshift sling!!! Oiyoyoi!!! I switched insurance management during open enrollment but I have no hopes it will be any better.

Pain tax ~ voting reminder again ~ she's my best hen ~ no squawking, no poop, no moulting, & she stays pretty & sweet.

 

[BY Bob]

2fer Tuesday

Aurora standing watch over Hattie while the others go over by the garden and enjoy some grazing in the late afternoon sun.

 

[featherhead007]

Social medicine is the pits! When I broke my arm this year it took 21 questions about insurance coverage before the ambulance figured which ER hospital to transport me, 1 hour waiting in the ER admissions, a couple cursory checkups & Xrays, wrapped my arm in a flimsy sling & sent me home to see my "primary care physician" who was gone on vacation. Some yelling & I got another staff doctor who finally referred my broken arm to an Orthopedist. All this took NINE days w/a painful broken arm in a makeshift sling!!! Oiyoyoi!!! I switched insurance management during open enrollment but I have no hopes it will be any better.

Pain tax ~ voting reminder again ~ she's my best hen ~ no squawking, no poop, no moulting, & she stays pretty & sweet.
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Sadly she’s a democrat. I can tell by her feet!