Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

The Base is the largest training Base in Canada, they practice doing low flights all the time. And it’s always fun when the personnel come out in the township and so their practice stuff like hiding in ditches - scaring the bagebeer south of my as I am going for a quiet ride….. Try harder buddy! Can’t fool my horse haha!

I think they also fly low because I am out there on the weekends and they want to see what shinanigans I am up to hahahaha.

Those pilots must get bored up there... I swear they do nothing but circle overhead to watch either the cute chickens or me gardening?!

 

[Sylvester017]

Whenever one flew over our house here I went out and took a photo of it. I wonder if they ever noticed me doing that.

Did they ever come back? If 2 Men in Black don't knock on your door, you should be fine?!

 

[Sylvester017]

I just overreact and assume the worst is happening to my chickens all the time. One embarrassing example: This summer some of my big chickens had runny poops. I wormed them, then gave them rice with yogurt to replenish their gut bacteria and some banana to firm things up. The runny poop persisted. So I sat in the run and watched to see who it was, made a vet appointment and had to catch my chicken who most thinks I'm the Antichrist ( of course) because I saw her have 2 bad ones, and they said bring the worst one. I was convinced they had worms or something even more nefarious.
Took her on a car ride in the dog crate, walked in and put her on the examine table ( still in her crate) and she has a normal poop. To top things off, a cat wandered into the examining room and poor Olivia went berserk. The vet tech said that chickens fine.
The good news is, no charge for the conversation with the vet tech. I CANNOT imagine doing crop surgery like Ponypoor is doing. My chickens apparently were just eating too many fresh vegetables and drinking too much water in the heat. And some smart people on this forum even told me that.
Here's Olivia on her great adventure.

The best part of that story is that there was nothing seriously wrong

 

[Sylvester017]

I know here they have those border patrol helicopters. They've gone over my neighborhood several times and have some pretty beefy cameras on them.

Decades ago I was asst to a company VP who used to make lenses for those copter "spy" cams. For military purposes, drones are probably more useful nowadays.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Since I missed Caturday, here's a recent cat photo.

 

[Sylvester017]

Two for Tuesday

Two abominable snow girls
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Two white blue Eggers
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Two Noirans Odette and Giselle (?)
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And I have been using the name Gomer for this wee fella. I’ll see if it sticks.
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Red Pyle adult roos are very striking. On Silkies it probably will be hard to tell cuz of fluffiness, but Red Pyle OEGBs, Brahmas, Yokahamas, etc, are gorgeous!

Hope Betty, Marty, Jaffara. & Eli-2 recover

 

[notabitail]

Did they ever come back? If 2 Men in Black don't knock on your door, you should be fine?!

They fly over every so often.

 

[BY Bob]

They're such a contrast! Tilly's poor tail, too.

That was over 2 weeks ago. Her tail is much better now. I need to get a newer photo. I've been obsessed with other chickens of late.

 

[BY Bob]

I just overreact and assume the worst is happening to my chickens all the time. One embarrassing example: This summer some of my big chickens had runny poops. I wormed them, then gave them rice with yogurt to replenish their gut bacteria and some banana to firm things up. The runny poop persisted. So I sat in the run and watched to see who it was, made a vet appointment and had to catch my chicken who most thinks I'm the Antichrist ( of course) because I saw her have 2 bad ones, and they said bring the worst one. I was convinced they had worms or something even more nefarious.
Took her on a car ride in the dog crate, walked in and put her on the examine table ( still in her crate) and she has a normal poop. To top things off, a cat wandered into the examining room and poor Olivia went berserk. The vet tech said that chickens fine.
The good news is, no charge for the conversation with the vet tech. I CANNOT imagine doing crop surgery like Ponypoor is doing. My chickens apparently were just eating too many fresh vegetables and drinking too much water in the heat. And some smart people on this forum even told me that.
Here's Olivia on her great adventure.

We all worry so. I watch poops all the time especially so after Niamh's GI troubles.

 

[BY Bob]

The best part of that story is that there was nothing seriously wrong

I agree