Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Ugh

Lovely.
I know I have given up on understanding chicken breeds. But I am beginning to notice different body types. This is a great body-type picture of the GHE, and so was the picture you posted the other day of Phyllis. Very different body types from Aurora, Maggie or Fat Bird for example.

Indeed they are. You are getting there.

 

[BY Bob]

Chicken back tax i owe, Bunny informing Holly the other day she needed to hurry up and share the nest.
View attachment 2518595

This 2 hens one box never fails to crack me up. Not just any old box will do.

 

[BY Bob]

They normally give shoulder rubs anyway

That is truly, Well played!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Yup a coming on 5 year old this spring Rocky Mountain Horse named Dirt. When he arrived at the old barn around 18 months old he still was unnamed and for sale. During that time we had around 10 horses boarded down there and we spent pretty much all day every day down there taking care of the horses, property and cleaning and mom couldn't stand that he didn't have a name. At the time, none of them were ours but we ran the place and my mom and dad were looking for the right horse. Ironically, it just so happened that Rocky and Kentucky mountain horses were exactly what they were looking at and for. My dad cannot handle to ride rough horses anymore and wanted a smother gaited horse. Now my mom can't stand common or normal names, and my dad and daughter Rosie were calling him Dusty. Nope she wouldn't have it, everyone has a horse named Dusty as she put it, his name was Dirt. My dad's jaw about hit the floor. He wanted to know what crazy person named their horse Dirt. She just gave him a look and asked, out of all the horse show's he's been to had he ever heard of one named Dirt. Then she asked how many times had he heard them announce the name Dusty. So that is how he got his name, and within a month he was ours. And I have to admit, the name has grown on me, it suits him and one of his nicknames is Dirtman.
Here is a picture of him not long after we got him.
View attachment 2518416
about 2 months later
View attachment 2518418
And my mom and her boy taken on New Years.
View attachment 2518419
View attachment 2518420

Beautiful horse and rider!! I love a gaited horse. My best horse ever was Lily a registered Tennessee Walker. She was 28 when she died.

That's Anna riding at 4 all on her own. Lily was the best teacher for Anna. I'd get on and she'd just take off and gait as fast as her legs would carry her!

 

[BY Bob]

Beautiful horse and rider!! I love a gaited horse. My best horse ever was Lily a registered Tennessee Walker. She was 28 when she died.View attachment 2518728
That's Anna riding at 4 all on her own. Lily was the best teacher for Anna. I'd get on and she'd just take off and gait as fast as her legs would carry her!

I just love your new avatar by the way.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I just love your new avatar by the way.

Thank you!

 

[RoyalChick]

I just love your new avatar by the way.

Yes me too - it is Stanley right?

 

[BY Bob]

Yes me too - it is Stanley right?

Nope. That's my boy Ned! (Sydney's boy too. )

 

[WhoDatChick]

Yup a coming on 5 year old this spring Rocky Mountain Horse named Dirt. When he arrived at the old barn around 18 months old he still was unnamed and for sale. During that time we had around 10 horses boarded down there and we spent pretty much all day every day down there taking care of the horses, property and cleaning and mom couldn't stand that he didn't have a name. At the time, none of them were ours but we ran the place and my mom and dad were looking for the right horse. Ironically, it just so happened that Rocky and Kentucky mountain horses were exactly what they were looking at and for. My dad cannot handle to ride rough horses anymore and wanted a smother gaited horse. Now my mom can't stand common or normal names, and my dad and daughter Rosie were calling him Dusty. Nope she wouldn't have it, everyone has a horse named Dusty as she put it, his name was Dirt. My dad's jaw about hit the floor. He wanted to know what crazy person named their horse Dirt. She just gave him a look and asked, out of all the horse show's he's been to had he ever heard of one named Dirt. Then she asked how many times had he heard them announce the name Dusty. So that is how he got his name, and within a month he was ours. And I have to admit, the name has grown on me, it suits him and one of his nicknames is Dirtman.
Here is a picture of him not long after we got him.
View attachment 2518416
about 2 months later
View attachment 2518418
And my mom and her boy taken on New Years.
View attachment 2518419
View attachment 2518420

I LOVE that story!!! And that horse named DIRT!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Nope. That's my boy Ned! (Sydney's boy too. )

Awwww - it is Ned. That was my first thought actually, but then I thought maybe it was Stanley. Ned-with-the-never-ending-neck of course!