Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Well, lets make that 3 solid weeks of no school. The schools are allowed 10 NTI days per year. We have used them and are now on regular snow days that will need to be made up for.

I know the majority of the north continues to go to school with several inches to a foot or more of snow on the ground. Kentucky is different. Especially Eastern Kentucky. Yes the road crew are great at clearing off the main road, they are even good at getting the secondary roads clear. We have mountains and hollers. Lots of little side roads that rarely see a salt truck and do not get enough sun to melt the snow or ice.

My county is also the largest in the state and parts of it have the highest elevation. So while my area may not have any snow or a dusting the Elkhorn area will have several inches and be horrible. Of course when they call off school they do it county wide instead of districts.

Now there are some days where I personally feel they could or should have had school throughout the years but they have not. Truth be told they are extra cautious anymore.

https://kynghistory.ky.gov/Our-Hist...d/Pages/Prestonsburg-School-Bus-Disaster.aspx

That bus wreck has been in the back of both Pike and Floyd counties minds ever since it happened.

Better safe than sorry I say.

Yes here they will have school and you’re correct, we have lots of snow removal equipment. We all laugh and joke that we spend the good weather months preparing for the bad weather months

And it’s so true!

I sure hope the weather starts to moderate for all of us, I am tired of cold and snow:

 

[Marie2020]

I remember the blizzard of 97. I was 13 at the time and ended up getting a week off. Back then, I wished and prayed for snow days.

The snow that sticks out in my memory as a child was in January of 94. There are pictures somewhere but my then 4 year old brother was out in the yard playing. The snow was up to his shoulders. It shut EVERYTHING down for about a week and a half. What really sticks out though was for that Christmas I had gotten a Dalmatian puppy. Yes I know, I was part of the 101 Dalmatian craze so everyone had to have a Dalmatian. Anyway, we got Pongo I think 2 days before Christmas and Christmas eve he got his first Parvo shot. Thanks to the snow and everything being closed we missed the 2nd shot by 3 days. In that 3 day period he contracted Parvo and was on deaths door by the time the vet opened up. He spent a week at the vets and beat it. Our vet actually told mom then due to the high fever he had and how long it lasted it was probably not a good thing and he claimed his brain was fried.

Now, be it poor breeding or the parvo, I have no clue but he was always a little off temperament wise. I did not care, 10 year old on me loved my Dalmatian. He was 4 when he turned for no reason. Scariest moment of my life was when Pongo and my brother was in the living room watching tv with dad. He snapped and lunged and tried to bite my brother in the face. Dad grabbed his collar in the nick of time. He was taken to the vet that evening and put down. I was heartbroken and angry. I blamed my brother then, but, I saw it with my own eyes and Michael did nothing wrong. To this day I still love Dalmatians and think they are beautiful. I will probably never get another one as since then we have had goldens. When CeeCee is gone or maybe before I will have another Golden. Gracie has been gone almost a year and the house does not feel the same without her.

That's so sad

 

[Ponypoor]

Gosh how sad - so tragic. Those poor families

 

[Marie2020]

This is so heart warming

 

[Ponypoor]

All the fluffy butts. And look at Sylvie’s glorious new feathers!
Have a good Friday everyone.
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They look great!

Your snow seems to be going away, lucky you

 

[Ponypoor]

The Fluffiest of Bums

Happy Friday all.

Yes she is a fluffy ball!

 

[Ponypoor]

I remember the blizzard of 97. I was 13 at the time and ended up getting a week off. Back then, I wished and prayed for snow days.

The snow that sticks out in my memory as a child was in January of 94. There are pictures somewhere but my then 4 year old brother was out in the yard playing. The snow was up to his shoulders. It shut EVERYTHING down for about a week and a half. What really sticks out though was for that Christmas I had gotten a Dalmatian puppy. Yes I know, I was part of the 101 Dalmatian craze so everyone had to have a Dalmatian. Anyway, we got Pongo I think 2 days before Christmas and Christmas eve he got his first Parvo shot. Thanks to the snow and everything being closed we missed the 2nd shot by 3 days. In that 3 day period he contracted Parvo and was on deaths door by the time the vet opened up. He spent a week at the vets and beat it. Our vet actually told mom then due to the high fever he had and how long it lasted it was probably not a good thing and he claimed his brain was fried.

Now, be it poor breeding or the parvo, I have no clue but he was always a little off temperament wise. I did not care, 10 year old on me loved my Dalmatian. He was 4 when he turned for no reason. Scariest moment of my life was when Pongo and my brother was in the living room watching tv with dad. He snapped and lunged and tried to bite my brother in the face. Dad grabbed his collar in the nick of time. He was taken to the vet that evening and put down. I was heartbroken and angry. I blamed my brother then, but, I saw it with my own eyes and Michael did nothing wrong. To this day I still love Dalmatians and think they are beautiful. I will probably never get another one as since then we have had goldens. When CeeCee is gone or maybe before I will have another Golden. Gracie has been gone almost a year and the house does not feel the same without her.

Goldens are lovely dogs, but even they are now becoming overly bred, they see a huge difference in the past 20yrs with their temperament.

Like all animals we Hoomans have to tinker with them.

My own little mutant

She has no butt or head….

 

[Ponypoor]

This is so heart warming

What happened to her?

 

[RoyalChick]

They look great!

Your snow seems to be going away, lucky you

Actually not really. Remember I added a sort of porch or awning over the human door out into the chicken yard - mainly for me so I could get some shade. Then I added the hippy curtain for more shade and hawk deterrence.
So the snow-free patch is under that porch. It faces due South so the edges of the snow are melting - but anywhere else it is pretty stubbornly staying as is. I think tomorrow the high will be just above freezing so will get some more melt then.

 

[Ponypoor]

Actually not really. Remember I added a sort of porch or awning over the human door out into the chicken yard - mainly for me so I could get some shade. Then I added the hippy curtain for more shade and hawk deterrence.
So the snow-free patch is under that porch. It faces due South so the edges of the snow are melting - but anywhere else it is pretty stubbornly staying as is. I think tomorrow the high will be just above freezing so will get some more melt then.

Sure hope it gets warm for you! And Rebecca. This has been a crazy winter, first really mild, then turned freezing and hasn’t relented since Christmas really. A couple milder days but no real break.

Last night when I got home it was -5C and felt so mild! The chooks wanted out but I needed to do chores - we all know what sort of time thieves they are!