Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

I will have to watch that. Now that I can stream stuff I can watch all
Sorts of interesting stuff.

Yeah, it's a full length movie & the 1st 1/2 is a long wait to get to the dinosaur stuff. But the 1st 1/2 is related to the 2nd 1/2 to understand all the views. Hey, at one time science thought the sun revolved around the earth & not vice versa

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Hi everyone,

I feel like I am dying and have since Friday evening. The tooth that I chipped a few months ago and was told to go to Lexington over to get a root canal for? Well, Lexington was simply not a option and I finally found a dentist who attempted to fix it by filling it. First bite of a cheeseburger Friday night and 2/3rds of it broke off below the gum. It has got to go and first thing tomorrow I am calling Aspen Dental. They do not accept my insurance but will take payment plans according to their website. I do not care if it cost me a arm and a leg it has got to go.

 

[featherhead007]

No idea. I haven't looked into it at all yet.
I wouldn't be surprised, swaps, meets, and auctions are all happening all the time out here.

They call those gatherings flea markets here. But I’ll be darned if I find one flea to buy at those places!

 

[Sylvester017]

TX
Apr 8 2025 All 6 hens ~ see them all?

 

[RoyalChick]

Hi everyone,

I feel like I am dying and have since Friday evening. The tooth that I chipped a few months ago and was told to go to Lexington over to get a root canal for? Well, Lexington was simply not an option and I finally found a dentist who attempted to fix it by filling it. First bite of a cheeseburger Friday night and 2/3rds of it broke off below the gum. It has got to go and first thing tomorrow I am calling Aspen Dental. They do not accept my insurance but will take payment plans according to their website. I do not care if it cost me an arm and a leg it has got to go.

Oh no! Sorry to hear that. I truly hate all things dental. I am one big baby when it comes to teeth. I need a filling and am trying to ignore it.
Good luck with Aspen.

 

[Sylvester017]

Happy Pony Sunday everyone
https://people.com/bald-eagle-creeps-on-family-for-a-full-day-in-bizarre-video-11713783

That's a great watch for Pony Sunday

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I also need to give a silkie update while I am still awake waiting on the pain meds to kick in so I can sleep.

I am setting my incubator with the eggs Wednesday. For at least 2 months we will get to follow for sure 4 of them. My boss wants 4 silkies or feather britches as she calls them. I'm going to brood them for her as she has dogs inside and is afraid to brood them herself and has also not done it before. So when the chicks hatch I am going to have her come over and pick her 4 out first. I would not do this for just anyone but she has been so nice to me. She even sent me home with a bag of tator tots last night since I can eat them if they are fried just enough to be soft. She is insisting on paying for the chicks at hatch and will buy the chick starter for me to raise them on. So when I set the eggs not only are we hoping for blue chicks, we need to pray for a few partridge chicks as well. She really loves my partridge girls and keeps trying to buy the 2 moorehead girls Patsy and Martina. Sorry those girls are staying, but she can have some of their offspring.

 

[featherhead007]

Like @RebeccaBoyd we sometimes keep the shells on the counter in metal. But like you we have only a few hens so we didn't need a big metal bowl.

We put the air-dried broken shells on a smaller metal pie or cake tin inside the oven. We mash up the shells so they fit nice in the tin. We remove the tin from the oven whenever we bake something.

After we bake we turn off the oven & put the egg tin back in the oven to heatup the shells (it's said the heat kills any bacteria). We take the tin out of the oven when cool & use our old Magic Bullet blender & grind the treated shells down to a very fine powder ~ then store the powder in a container. When we fill up the container we store the powder away in a garden box to use the following year as an added fertilizer mulch in the raised garden beds.

We don't feed egg shells directly back to the chickens since they use oyster shell. But the following garden season when harvest is over & the hens dig thru the mulch I'm sure they find some shell powder. Sometimes I don't have time to Magic Bullet grind the shells out of the oven so we toss the treated shell pieces into a baggie to accumulate till I have enough to grind up a batch but only heat treated go into a closed baggie or closed container.

Coarsely hand-crushed egg shells sprinkled around vegetable or flower plants deter snails & slugs who don't like to crawl over the sharp edges of egg shells but I personally don't do it cuz of the aesthetics. (I use Sluggo against snails/slugs which is pet safe).

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Magic Bullet blender/grinder

I love those little magic bullets!
When I’m in the mood for a toad shake, I can blend one up in a jiffy! (I can always find toads under the porch)

 

[featherhead007]

Grandma is trying to get her Mother's Day shopping over with even though Mother's Day is a month from now and I'm questioning her purchase options...
Looks like Grandma wanted to get her Father's Day shopping over with as well...
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This face reads, "I'm happy with my purchase that I haven't made yet."
Grandma, are you sure he's going to like it?
"I want him to smell like a tree, not motor oil."
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Grandma, are you sure you can afford ANY of this? Then proceeds to look at me and ask "So, are you going to pay for this? Count your money." Grandma, I shouldn't be counting money, I should be counting your days because you look exhausted.
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That almond eye reads, "Of course I can" and proceeds to say "I left my wallet somewhere" when she has never even had a wallet in the first place. She looks absolutely fed up and annoyed in this photo.
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Okay, Grandma. I guess it's back to shopping... See, you can't even take it anymore. Your eyes are about to close.
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Internet shopping is exhausting for a lady like Grandma!

 

[Sylvester017]

40 minutes out and about. Then she gave a great battle cry and went straight to the nest boxes to sit on the egg that Calypso just laid.
She is back in jail and I am off to get more ice.
I was right not to trust her!
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Poor baby! I wouldn't stress her w/ice packs. A jail is stress enough? We've had 6 & 8 week broodies before...this too shall pass. Have a separate grassy enclosure where she can move around where she can't feed her broody confinement in a cage where there's nothing else she can do but brood? But then, you know your birds best. We are so accustomed to broody Silkies, sometimes all of them at once! We lock up the coop from them or isolate them in a separate 1/2 of the yard while the coop stays open for the laying hens. Never had Tassels' chicken breed so can't say what works for her .