Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Three words: Ford, Lincoln, mercury. Add Mercedes Benz

That's more than 3 words

 

[Marie2020]

TeeHee! DH is allergic to mint so chickens are out of luck

I've got mint so hand over the lamb to me please, saying this very nicely with my plate held out

 

[Marie2020]

Wow just realized I pulled a ‘Notabitail’

It’s Tuesday! What a bummer still have Wednesday to get through

Sing Clyde!
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Love it

 

[Marie2020]

The happy times ( old picture)

 

[Ponypoor]

Here's Tony on this fine Wattle Wednesday.
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Good morning GtC how have you been feeling? Tony is looking very lovely!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh you must read the primer! Like a bible for this thread including all the ‘Thou shalt nots’.
It should be in @BY Bob ’s signature which I admit I can’t actually see on my phone!

If you view you phone in the usual ‘portrait’ format you won’t see the primer info links.

But if you hold you phone in the ‘landscape’ or sideways format you will see the links.

Have lovely coffee Wednesday everyone

 

[Ponypoor]

I've got mint so hand over the lamb to me please, saying this very nicely with my plate held out

Rosemary and lamb. I am not fond of mint.

Chickens like anything- they peck the paint off the barn door for heaven sakes! Brats all of them!

 

[rural mouse]

Love the ‘I am a rock’ part

I've gotten used to being around the in-laws horses. They've favored Arab/Arab mixes and/or mustangs. Small for horses. I had 5 horses coming towards me, all noticeably larger than that. I'm 5 feet flat, stocky framed, but...all but 1 were taller than I am. I didn't know them, they didn't know me. It struck me they were trying herd intimidation tactics, and with 1 circling behind..... BE THE ROCK, AS LARGE AS POSSIBLE seemed the best tactic or they could try pushing me around....not a good idea with 20 hooves, in a field of cactus, foxtail, and spear grass.

And with the odd chance they ever pull the same trick.... being the Pied Piper of farm animals is the easy way to deal with them. I don't have the skills for the hard way (lasso).

Cheetah working on the chicks so he can Pied Piper them

 

[BY Bob]

Well, another adventure tonight. Eating dinner (fish n chips, thank you AK fishermen), had 5 horses stroll into the yard, not a halter between them. Out the door I went, DS working parking Sherlock in the mudroom (he started going nuts), and DH right behind me, "do you know where they belong?"

2 neighbors over, the same ones that went up the road a couple of years ago, I think.

Horses turned around and right back out the gate into the empty field. DS ended up with the job of looking up a phone number in the book (he got to the correct last name and went "there's a bunch. Dunno which one" now knows about city/address stuff). I started down the road (only one fully dressed). Part way down the road, I saw a side by side come up over the edge from the suspected property. Good. I know where the horses go and phone call isn't needed. SBS turned into the field (1 occupant) and horses started moving back towards me....I started into field to try to head them off....nope, they enmass came towards me, ears up... K. I turned into a "large rock", hands on hips, elbows out, stand tall, and stay put. 4 horses in front of me, 1 circled around behind me. SBS came up behind them and feed bucket came out. Halters went on 2, one of which was herd boss. I ended up walking the boss back while owner in SBS with other on lead semi-herded the other 3 along back. The 3 loose horses turned into the barn rather than the pasture with the open gate in front of them (not the gate they slipped for their adventure).

Horses ended up in pastures in pairs, slipped gate closed, and I got a ride back in the Side By Side along with retrieving the feed bucket that certain 4-legged critters knocked out on the way back home.

Sherlock gave me a thorough sniffing over followed by doing the same with the yard and started down the drive/field. We'd gotten him a new training collar with more flexibility and range, so he came right back (vibration, YES!). He also stopped well short of Castor with the enthusiasm and walked around him calmly (entirely of his own volition) to which Castor showed his appreciation by not clawing at him (body language said claws were about to come out) and sniffing noses instead.

Chickens were entirely oblivious and put themselves to bed while I was out. I did close the coop before the sniff over with Sherlock.

That was an adventure!

 

[BY Bob]

What's the primer Bob? That's new to me.

There is a link in my signature. Turn your phone sideways. It describes my chooks and the thread.