Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Happy Sunday, here's a pic of my 10ish year old anconaView attachment 3108895

What a beautiful! Love the colour!

 

[RoyalChick]

Since it is Pony Sunday, and I was mentioning how you can get distracted doing outside chores here is a example. Went out to water everyone.
Dirt meets me with this face, he's itchy and needs his back scratched.
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Ok fine, this went on for 5 minutes before I started emptying buckets.

I hit his favorite spot, at the base of his mane
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Louis let me know he needed his head scratched
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And Russ was ready and waiting to lick the back of my shirt as I filled up his bucket.
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Oh and this is for Ponypoor, I know you get nervous with your girls in the horses stalls. Look at this picture, do you see something?
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Yup, Momma and Karen are in their favorite daytime nap spot. While they are in there Dirt will avoid that area of his stall.
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I just love Dirt’s nose and lips!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I know many of you all do not have facebook. It is very useful though when it comes to having memories popping up. If it was not for that I would have missed that today is a very special day.
See this little yellow cutie, guess who that is.

Let us all take a moment to wish Butter a very happy 2nd Hatchday!!!!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Happy Sunday, here's a pic of my 10ish year old anconaView attachment 3108895

She is beautiful. Well done on having her live that long. My oldest hen is my once feral game hen Momma who is at least 7 if not pushing 8.

 

[RoyalChick]

I know many of you all do not have facebook. It is very useful though when it comes to having memories popping up. If it was not for that I would have missed that today is a very special day.
See this little yellow cutie, guess who that is.
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Let us all take a moment to wish Butter a very happy 2nd Hatchday!!!!
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Happy second hatch day Butter!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I just love Dirt’s nose and lips!

Yes his nose and lips scream give me smooches. I am just now starting to do that, It has taken us over 3 years to get over the terrible biting habit he came to us with. I still will never fully trust him not to bite though. If I could make a few rules that everyone had to follow at a boarding barn I would have 2.

1. No one under the age of 18 be allowed to handle or play with yearling stallions or any yearling really. 2 teenage girls just about ruined him when they taught him some very bad habits that were cute as a baby. At 15 hands and 1000lbs, those behaviors are flat out dangerous now. Thankfully he no longer rears or paws at you, but it took some time to break.

2. Unless you are the owner, no one who visits a public boarding barn shall be allowed to feed treats to the horses. The people who ran that barn actually sold peppermints to visitors to hand feed to the horses. That is how Dirt got his biting habit.

 

[WhoDatChick]

I found a table on how much chocolate is toxic to a cat (it is more toxic the darker the chocolate). Anyway, according to The Spruce Pets it takes an ounce of milk chocolate to be toxic to a cat and a half an ounce of semi-sweet and only 0.2oz for baking chocolate.
I was able to figure out how much a single Ghiradelli chocolate chip weighs and I was well within the safety margin.
And in the real world, Nightshade is just fine this morning.

My sisters miniature dachshund ate an entire chocolate Easter rabbit that was bigger than the dog itself and was fine
I also read somewhere that chickens shouldn’t eat avocados but a friend feed literally pounds of avocados to her chickens because a semi loaded with them wrecked near her house and they got the spill… and they were fine too.. so I don’t know.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes his nose and lips scream give me smooches. I am just now starting to do that, It has taken us over 3 years to get over the terrible biting habit he came to us with. I still will never fully trust him not to bite though. If I could make a few rules that everyone had to follow at a boarding barn I would have 2.

1. No one under the age of 18 be allowed to handle or play with yearling stallions or any yearling really. 2 teenage girls just about ruined him when they taught him some very bad habits that were cute as a baby. At 15 hands and 1000lbs, those behaviors are flat out dangerous now. Thankfully he no longer rears or paws at you, but it took some time to break.

2. Unless you are the owner, no one who visits a public boarding barn shall be allowed to feed treats to the horses. The people who ran that barn actually sold peppermints to visitors to hand feed to the horses. That is how Dirt got his biting habit.

i have never been around horses and honestly they intimidate me - but even I want to smooch his face!

 

[featherhead007]

I found a table on how much chocolate is toxic to a cat (it is more toxic the darker the chocolate). Anyway, according to The Spruce Pets it takes an ounce of milk chocolate to be toxic to a cat and a half an ounce of semi-sweet and only 0.2oz for baking chocolate.
I was able to figure out how much a single Ghiradelli chocolate chip weighs and I was well within the safety margin.
And in the real world, Nightshade is just fine this morning.

Wow RC, you really do your research

 

[featherhead007]

Holy Dinah, I am not getting anything done, so far all day have done is clean stall. Still have water to do, and mow the grass, throw down hay, need to spray my paddocks weeds, get the other window removed from the hen house, fix some fencing Reenie damaged....

And it's lunchtime already !!!!

Chickens and horses are time thieves all I have done is play with the chickens brush horses chase chickens, play with horses, chase chickens again.....

And your point being?? Those are necessary things to do