Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Soft kitty
warm kitty
little ball of fur
Happy kitty
sleepy kitty
purr purr purr

Hahahahaha

 

[Ponypoor]

I have been sneezing lately. Don’t know why, I started it yesterday. Maybe it’s the chooks, their dusty feathers or particulates. I didn’t sneeze all morning though, and now I have Coco inside with me. I started sneezing a few times. I’m worried that I am susceptible to chicken dander ? I better not be. I love to be close to my feathered family. They are all I have! (Especially Coco!)

Horses, cat, chickens … they all make me sneeze!

 

[Ponypoor]

According to both Rosie and her Papaw they only slow gaited for 4 minutes up the road before they hit the hill. After Rosie went inside and I started to jump him he told me he encouraged it to get her out of her head. He saw she was nervous and thought it would help her confidence. I have to admit he was right, she came back all smiles and did not want to get off of Russ. I guess I have to defer to her papaw on that situation. I have never had a bad accident on a horse where I broke something, he has. Looking back on it, he did the right thing. Before he and Dirt rode up I could hear the fear in her voice, see her shaking and several times telling me to not take off the lead rope. She was very very close to being done after only a few minutes, instead she ended up riding until dark.
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Rosie you are looking awesome up there!!!!

Glad you’re back on the saddle again

Enjoy!

 

[Ponypoor]

I honestly feed a 2 to 1 of pellets to scratch grains while Lety prefers to feed mostly scratch grains and wet puppy chow then in the evening. Now because of heavy molting I am feeding almost straight feather fixer pellets. I'll top up the feeders every few days with the pellets and Lety will do her thing. Other than the molting they are healthy so who can I say is right or wrong. Really don't matter as long as the chickens are healthy.

My grandmother told me they fed the hens (which includes hens and roosters apparently haha) old bread, fish bits, old wastes of meat, leftover veggies, any scraps they would throw them, there was no fancy chicken food!

 

[Ponypoor]

This is a sad tale, and reading your post, one can feel how much loosing Strider still hurts. Maybe sometime you can share with us those good memories you have of him. It sounds like he was the horse of your life.
To be honest your story and Alex's have me reconsidering getting a pony, I'm not sure I'd be able to deal with what you had to go through.

This was a beautiful and honest follow-up to a hopeful post! I have two language questions for you southerners and @RebeccaBoyd I hope you won't get upset with the second one.

First, what is slow gait, is it a slow trot ?
And second, I first thought Rosie's papaw was her dad, as we say "papa" in french for dad, but then I looked it up on the web, and it said "southern expression for paternal grand-father". So I hope I'm not being rude by asking if Rosie's pawpaw is her dad, or her grand dad ?

I thought of you and @Ponypoor yesterday evening, we tried our first ever jar of homemade cherry brandy. I was afraid it wouldn't be tasty as they are not sour cherry but plain sweet ones. Well I love it and I'm sure our three jars won't last long .
So, tell us all, to which of the positions you applied for should we be having a toast ?
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Wow that looks great bet it does taste wonderful.

My mum took the berries from some of her other brandy and made a fruit cake with it! You should do something like that with your cherries

 

[Ponypoor]

I am going back to the oilfield as a field service technician for control systems. This was my favorite job ever and I will be working for a good supervisor and great manager. I have worked for the manager in Dubai back in 2016 and he was super. When he took his current position he asked my supervisor where is that big F'ing hillbilly, where's Greg?

Soooooo eggcited for Greg - having also worked in the energy sector myself I know how it can be so wonderful working in it.

Tax for longing for my energy sector job also
Buttercup digging for bugs

 

[Ponypoor]

Keep a close watch on the bites. Snakes carry some different bacteria in their mouths and bites from them can get infected with some nasty things.

Snake tax
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Love those white spots - she is a snowflake hen !

 

[Ponypoor]

Lovely post as always. I am beginning to think I need the recipes for these home made brandies. Is it fruit+sugar+brandy?
My mother made sloe gin from blackthorn (sloe) berries and that was beautiful in color and yummy!

I gave Greg my mums raisin brandy, we have his peach brandy one, and if I ever get a chance will send him the one for lemon-cello (pronounces lemon chello). Lemon zest, vodka…

 

[Ponypoor]

I feel like I owe a “picture tax” of some type for such a long post. So since all my pictures of Strider appear to be well hidden in some old computer file or flash drive, here are a few pullet pics instead.

Scarlett has taken to flying onto my back/shoulder lately. In one of them she is supervising while I inspect Crystal’s surgery incision (she had an impacted crop).
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And all the girls enjoying a treat. I think this one is the first time I gave them eggshells.
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Beauties all of them Just love those wattles on Scarlett

 

[featherhead007]

Horses, cat, chickens … they all make me sneeze!

Really? Hmmm