Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

So happy to have tomorrow off! Looking forward to a day at home, paid holidays are the best
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That is a wonderful photo.

 

[rural mouse]

Harcourt Fenton.....

Had to look up the name. Soon as I saw the face...🛎🛎🛎🛎🛎

 

[featherhead007]

Ladies can be handsome.

adjective, hand·som·er, hand·som·est.

having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking:

• a handsome man
• a handsome woman.

Okay , I’m very glad that you love her looks. I love that animal. I don’t even need to saddle her, she hangs her big neck right next to mine, just like my chickens do! PARADISE! I’d like to take her up to the lake though. And yes ride around the lake bareback.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Okay , I’m very glad that you love her looks. I love that animal. I don’t even need to saddle her, she hangs her big neck right next to mine, just like my chickens do! PARADISE! I’d like to take her up to the lake though. And yes ride around the lake bareback.

She is a very beautiful animal. If I remember right from a post way back is she a Tennessee walker? There is nothing wrong with riding bareback. Rosie has 7 saddles she can choose from and claims every one. Yet, half the time she hops on Russ it's bareback. If my mom saw her she'd want her as well. She has a thing for a redhead with a big blaze.

 

[rural mouse]

Eve, Ruth, and Magda

I smell future hen names

 

[featherhead007]

She is a very beautiful animal. If I remember right from a post way back is she a Tennessee walker? There is nothing wrong with riding bareback. Rosie has 7 saddles she can choose from and claims every one. Yet, half the time she hops on Russ it's bareback. If my mom saw her she'd want her as well. She has a thing for a redhead with a big blaze.

I love my beautiful horse, she’s young and such a prize (I bought that property so I could have her in my life) she’s a mix of paint and Mustang. Do I really care her breed? Not really. She loved me as soon as she ran across my land to love on me. Big hugs all around (yes I brought some carrots) I’m no stranger to horses, in DC my buddy had a champion quarter horse and I very carefully was able to ride him. By the way, I’m a good pilot, good driver, and not bad as a horse rider: I’m trying to be a good chickeeneer! My daughter loves horses. She will be visiting with me also soon I reckon!

 

[Blazinga]

Thinking on long necks

These little ones seem to have much longer necks than Phyllis has ever displayed. You all saw the video.

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I have developed a working theory on these necks. These Candy Corn Polish have barring to their feathers. They also have autosexing of chicks along with the barring gene. Perhaps that gene set also includes the gene for long necks as well. Checked out this barred hen with an enormous neck. Remember this photo?

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I'm now picturing a mop top on that neck. Maybe something like this?

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I'm definitely thinking a gold laced polish crossed with a barred bird, most likely a Plymouth rock. Until I saw these I wasn't sure if lacing and barring could coexist.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

I love my beautiful horse, she’s young and such a prize (I bought that property so I could have her in my life) she’s a mix of paint and Mustang. Do I really care her breed? Not really. She loved me as soon as she ran across my land to love on me. Big hugs all around (yes I brought some carrots) I’m no stranger to horses, in DC my buddy had a champion quarter horse and I very carefully was able to ride him. By the way, I’m a good pilot, good driver, and not bad as a horse rider: I’m trying to be a good chickeeneer! My daughter loves horses. She will be visiting with me also soon I reckon!

Your right breed does not matter. A good horse is a good horse no matter the breed. Russ is a supposed Tennessee walker. We bought him as grade after looking at his papers. They were useless and not his, the markings did not match up. Those papers belonged to a now what would be 32 year old red horse with no blaze and 3 socks. Russ has no socks and a blaze, the only thing correct is he's red. As to his age, 3 different vets, including a equine dentist aged him when he was on lease at no older then 15, which would put him at 17 right now. What I do know about Russ is he is bomb proof and anyone can ride him. He adores children and prefers to have a kid on his back than a adult but still has never so much as set a foot wrong even when a adult is riding him. If in the future due to some unforeseen circumstances happened that he had to be rehomed, I'd donate him to a therapy riding program for children. But I don't want to think like that, I pray that we are Russ's home until the end of his days many many years from now. Also now that you have the land, and the barn be warned. Horses like chickens are like potato chips. You can not just have one. That one will need a friend and before long you will have 2, or 3. First though, it's time to start building up a tack collection, halters, lead ropes, bridles, saddles ectara. Multiples of each are needed to have a proper tack collection.

 

[RoyalChick]

I'm definitely thinking a gold laced polish crossed with a barred bird, most likely a Plymouth rock. Until I saw these I wasn't sure if lacing and barring could coexist.

I found this when I was researching them for Bob.
Hope the link works.

 

[featherhead007]

Your right breed does not matter. A good horse is a good horse no matter the breed. Russ is a supposed Tennessee walker. We bought him as grade after looking at his papers. They were useless and not his, the markings did not match up. Those papers belonged to a now what would be 32 year old red horse with no blaze and 3 socks. Russ has no socks and a blaze, the only thing correct is he's red. As to his age, 3 different vets, including a equine dentist aged him when he was on lease at no older then 15, which would put him at 17 right now. What I do know about Russ is he is bomb proof and anyone can ride him. He adores children and prefers to have a kid on his back than a adult but still has never so much as set a foot wrong even when a adult is riding him. If in the future due to some unforeseen circumstances happened that he had to be rehomed, I'd donate him to a therapy riding program for children. But I don't want to think like that, I pray that we are Russ's home until the end of his days many many years from now. Also now that you have the land, and the barn be warned. Horses like chickens are like potato chips. You can not just have one. That one will need a friend and before long you will have 2, or 3. First though, it's time to start building up a tack collection, halters, lead ropes, bridles, saddles ectara. Multiples of each are needed to have a proper tack collection.

I could use some tack for Chaco, but she’s new addition to my life. I did go buy a nice brush to caress her wonderful withers with. Remember Dan Folgerburg song “run for the roses “ I love my beautiful new horse !