Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Your boy had the good stuff, he had the munchies!!!!

Last night I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, normally not a big deal, but Josh is residing in my bedroom as well. I sneak out do my business and I head back. Just as I open my door this streak of white goes flying by me and takes off down the stairs. It's JOSH!! He just had both rear legs operated on and is supposed to be semi-sedated on his pain meds, but nooooo, he's running down my stairs!! Thankfully he's just fine...

OMG I hadn’t thought of that. You are right, he had the munchies. And Lordy on Josh - there is clearly no telling our orange and white cats they are sick!

 

[BY Bob]

It's half of Penicillin. His mother was Otic, which is half of antibiotic.

I did not know that. I love it! Very clever.

 

[BY Bob]

This is one of the reasons I make a mash. It is also handy on cold days because you can use wram water. Making a mash wont stop some waste. Most keepers have on or two hens that will insists on scraping feed out with their feet. Fat bird does an interesting sideways sweep with her beak which showers feed everywhere.

Aurora does the sideways break thing too. Even when she is eating out of my hand. Her beak scratches pretty hard as well.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, I know now why Rosie isn't asking for anything horse related for her birthday. She's been begging for a year for a bareback saddle. We have 6 different saddles she can use, and she claims 4 of them as her own, but if given a choice she rides Russ bareback most times. I didn't know that back at the end of November her and her papaw finally found the one she wanted and ordered it. It was supposed to be her Christmas present. It finally arrived Saturday. Yesterday the weather finally cooperated enough for her to try it out. I am a helmet nutcase, but somehow her helmet has been misplaced. After 30 minutes of searching and starting to run out of daylight i reluctantly agreed to this 1 time she could ride with no helmet. She wasn't going to ride long, 10 minutes at most, and not let him go fast. I watched for the first few minutes, then went out back to pick out his stall while mom was with her. It wasn't 5 minutes later when I hear raised voices but assumed she and mom were arguing about her riding longer. She gets on Russ and you have to drag her off sometimes. Then I see her slowly walking him back around the house without the saddle. I asked her if she was done already and her shaky smile said it all. Apparently Russ shook, saddle slipped and she fell. This is her 2nd fall off him, and unlike the first time when she landed in the grass this time she hit the blacktop. Thankfully she's okay just sore on her hip. At first all I could get out of her was "i'm okay, but I remembered, I remembered". What she remembered was 2 years ago one of the girls at the old barn taught her a valuable lesson, how to roll if you fall off. They practiced that for 3 days in the barn isle so she was landing in the cushion of sawdust. Now then her 10 year old self complained after a few times why did she need to know that. Well last night she called her and thanked her over and over again for teaching her that and apologized for arguing at the time. This morning she's stiff, but after another hour of searching, her helmet has been found, why it was packed out to the building i have no idea, and once the days schoolwork is done she riding again.
Here is the one picture I took before I walked away and the fall happened. She loves that new saddle and is determined to get used to it if it kills her as she put it.
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And here is a pic for the chicken tax
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I am so glad she is fine. It's funny when my very young daughter rode and did jumps I never had that fear of her falling off. I just don't know why. She always had the helmet and everything but I should have been more concerned than I was.

 

[Marie2020]

I am now picturing a greased goat contest!

You should see my oil drenched animal's when I'm on one of my spar day's . Even I get covered

Seriously I've been really lucky in these methods. Not trying to sway anyone into my ideas but if it works with little or no risks all is well with in our world.

 

[Marie2020]

Respectfully speaking, I’m going to immediately initiate chemical warfare on the little buggers! I detest lice. Right now it’s just more a matter of what weapon to choose from my very limited arsenal. It’s not that the other natural remedies don’t work, they are just much more time consuming, and we don’t really have the weather or facilities here to be shampooing, salting, and oiling even a small goat. It’s a difficult domestic situation for us at the moment, due to our environment and my In-Laws. I was wondering if I could convince her into the shower with me for a shampoo today, but given the general dislike of her, it is less risk of confrontation to quietly “borrow” some ivomec, than to let her out of the truck at the farm area, NVM bringing her into the shared bathroom facilities for a quick spa day!

I’m just thinking about the smell and what a salt and vinegar goat coated in oil would do to our furniture and bedsheets! If I had a time machine, I would go back to 2016, and tell myself to avoid the RV situation, just buy three or four singlewides and cobble something together from those! Although if I also mentioned the house goat, 100+ chickens, the pandemic, and farming in a friends greenhouse on the other side of the island rather than the irrigated acre of established garden here... I would think future me is clearly on drugs or something.

Oh, and Bob? The Greased Pig Diapering contest was a staple of the Lamb BBQ here until the 90’s... so it’s not that much of a stretch of the imagination!

House goat? I adore animal's but I don't think I could live with a goat. Just saying . Can she use a potty?

The vinegar smell evaporates after a while, and you can't smell salt. I use apple cider, you could use a little lavender to minimize any odour.

 

[Scrambles83]

My baby Belle being her curious self the other day
Sorry for my mug being in there but couldn’t record without being in it myself

 

[MaryJanet]

My baby Belle being her curious self the other day
Sorry for my mug being in there but couldn’t record without being in it myself

Awww she was having a cuddle puddle with you

 

[BY Bob]

This is a sample of what is leaking out of Cillins foot. As you can see in the second picture the bottom of the cup is closed so I'm pretty sure what is in the cup in the morning is from his foot. The sticky stuff isn't showing up in the picture very well.
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I'm still not quite there with the pad securing. The shape of the pad when removed shows the amount of movement the pad undergoes during the day.
I can't blame Cillin because he lies quite still, slightly on his side when I clean and bandage his foot. If only the hens were so well behaved!
I'm going to stick with the circular pad for another couple of days then I may try out a full foot pad and see if that stays in place more readily. I still can't get a clear picture of the bottom of his foot. I'll try again in the morning.
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What a good boy.

 

[MaryJanet]

House goat? I adore animal's but I don't think I could live with a goat. Just saying . Can she use a potty?

The vinegar smell evaporates after a while, and you can't smell salt. I use apple cider, you could use a little lavender to minimize any odour.

It's a baby Kris is raising. If you go back a few dozen pages, you'll find the whole story.