Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Well, my weekend took a turn for the expensive. Hubby and dad took out the water heater to fix the floor, then decided that instead of putting it back in they wanted to go ahead and upgrade us to a tankless model.
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Today they are rerouting all those pipes and fixing the floor. Hopefully we have hot water by the end of the day.
We'll be getting something like 9 gallons a minute of hot water? Very excited for it.

Tax, some cute birds
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Shiba-san has a lot of confidence lately!
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Liara and Morinth
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Still unnamed...

Ooo does she have feathers on her legs?!

 

[Ponypoor]

Pony Sunday

I have a new lodger living here. This was on Thursday evening on my way back to the house.

And looks likes s/he has taken up residence under the back deck.

Last evening when I came in from chores at 8pm I startled it! I am going to keep the backyard light on from now on.

I am having isssues with that second video

Let me know if anyone else is also

 

[featherhead007]

Pony Sunday

I have a new lodger living here. This was on Thursday evening on my way back to the house.

And looks likes s/he has taken up residence under the back deck.

Last evening when I came in from chores at 8pm I startled it! I am going to keep the backyard light on from now on.

I can smell your house from here!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Ooo does she have feathers on her legs?!

Yes!

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes!

How about Legs...

 

[Sylvester017]

It will be awful for mine, I will be getting home at 4:30 and it will be ‘5:30’ for them. They won’t be able to spend time outside as it will be dusk and they will not be wanting to go out in the gloomy darkness.

And for me it will be bad - I already am exhausted by the time I get home With my getting up early and lack of sleep from my legs. To have an extra hr to get through will be very tiring.

Tired old tax
Jaffarra checking out the eggs. I sure hope she starts laying better she’ll quality eggs soon. I don’t need her to be like Petunia was.
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Someone laid an egg in the wheelbarrow again! A blue egg layer is amongst us. My bets are on Daisy

Seasonal changes are an adjustment for humans & animals alike ~ southerly migrations, eastern hummingbirds fly across the Gulf of Mexico many don't make the over water flight so kind Texans leave out feeders to give them energy for the non-stop Gulf flight, bears hibernate, sea creatures head for warmer oceans, penguins brave the arctic blizzards while struggling to raise a chick in starvation conditions, chickens, poultry, adjust to the diminishing daylight hours, vegetation dies in preparation for Spring regeneration. Stressful time on all creation.

I hope your legs can calm down. DH has RLS & sometimes bad leg/foot cramps so he uses magnesium to relax the condition. I take a magnesium gelcap too before bedtime for my bum painful leg so I can get up in the morning. The pain doesn't go away completely but lessening pain just half or 2/3 is better than full stabbing pain symptoms plus helps sleep. I believe @Marie2020 knows about magnesium supplementation. Also w/o magnesium the calcium can't be absorbed in the body plus potassium & magnesium are needed to keep our heart beating. The older our body the more these supplements are needed.

We had to attrition our bigger hen breeds to the more manageable Silkies now cuz the bigger breeds were heavier to hold for health checks & the Silkies are just as smart or dumb as any other chicken breed in our cottage yard. We all do what we have to in our environments in order to benefit human & animal alike.

I hate to see anything suffer. Pray you get thru another winter w/o a hitch & your animals too. I so appreciate the care you give to your animals. This thread has such caring people.

Pain tx ~ about a couple weeks ago

 

[Sylvester017]

Still unnamed...

Francine ~ as good a name as any.

Nice tankless upgrade!

 

[BY Bob]

It will be awful for mine, I will be getting home at 4:30 and it will be ‘5:30’ for them. They won’t be able to spend time outside as it will be dusk and they will not be wanting to go out in the gloomy darkness.

And for me it will be bad - I already am exhausted by the time I get home With my getting up early and lack of sleep from my legs. To have an extra hr to get through will be very tiring.

Tired old tax
Jaffarra checking out the eggs. I sure hope she starts laying better she’ll quality eggs soon. I don’t need her to be like Petunia was.
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Someone laid an egg in the wheelbarrow again! A blue egg layer is amongst us. My bets are on Daisy

It would be marvelous if a Daisy lay blue eggs.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, my weekend took a turn for the expensive. Hubby and dad took out the water heater to fix the floor, then decided that instead of putting it back in they wanted to go ahead and upgrade us to a tankless model.
View attachment 3979384
Today they are rerouting all those pipes and fixing the floor. Hopefully we have hot water by the end of the day.
We'll be getting something like 9 gallons a minute of hot water? Very excited for it.

Tax, some cute birds
View attachment 3979387
Shiba-san has a lot of confidence lately!
View attachment 3979388
Liara and Morinth
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Still unnamed...

So excited for you. Those tankless hot water heaters are amazing.

 

[BY Bob]

Pony Sunday

I have a new lodger living here. This was on Thursday evening on my way back to the house.

And looks likes s/he has taken up residence under the back deck.

Last evening when I came in from chores at 8pm I startled it! I am going to keep the backyard light on from now on.

That is unacceptable. Someone needs moved.