Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

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This is Sunny. She doesn't pose for pictures often. She even got on my lap, and she hasn't done that in weeks.

She has the reddest headgear of the Bielefelders. She got everything first: epauletts, wing feathers, so I'm thinking she might be the first of the four to lay.

She looks like a sweetheart!

 

[featherhead007]

Washington. Winter.

I do that when I take down the dividing fence. It's different for everyone, and they all have to figure it out. It's a bit confusing for the bigs, which is most of the point; keep them occupied so they don't bother the littles.

No silly, the other Washington!

 

[ManueB]

Grandma update.

After initial bloodwork and x-rays all we 100% know for sure is she has covid. They are thinking tail end of covid but covid none-the-less. She has been admitted. No broken bones thankfully. Her white blood cell count is elevated so they are doing iv antibiotics and fluids. They have to re-do her chest x-rays, potential pneumonia but they were not clear enough to determine it. She is in a isolation room and mom is coming home once all the orders are put in tonight. The er doctor told her nicely that she was staying until she regained her strength. Be that one day or 30. Mom told me she pulled him aside out of earshot. She asked him for at least 3 days and explained that her primary doctor told us she could not enter a nursing home or rehab facility until she had a mandatory 3 day hospital stay. He understands and is going to get in touch with her doctor first thing in the morning. I am here to tell you all, this was not a accidental fall. A accident would have been falling backwards. She literally let go of the railing and slung herself sideways. I do not know how I managed to grab her in time to break her fall. If I had not she would have hit her head and neck on the porch nest boxes. We tried to get her up, me, mom and dad. She is 300lbs and was not offering to help at all. Thought we could lift her right up. She was also very uncooperative with the emts. They had to call a 2nd ambulance to have them assist getting her up and onto a stretcher. God forgive me for thinking and feeling this, but I am praying this is it and she is finally admitted to a nursing home. I cannot even begin to express the feeling of relief just knowing that for tonight she is not coming home.

First I hope she recovers.
Then, I don't think there is anything for God to forgive. Just the mere fact that you are not able the three of you to get her up again when she falls means she should be in a nursing home.
I wish this terrifying fall allows it to happen. You and your people have done everything you could for her, and beyond.

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I don't have appropriate Sunday pony pictures but I have a sweet and sad story that fits well. This morning I decided to finally go on a longer mountain run than I have for the last months, to our nearest summit. When I passed the sheep's first altitude stables at 7.30, I noticed the ewes were still in their pen and the couple of shepherds with them, usually they would have been out right after dawn. About fifteen minutes running up, I came upon a tiny baby lamb, lying down on the trail, curled up against a rock. It was alive but not moving. I don't have the shepherds mobile number, so I called my old retired farmer friend Gaston. He asked me where it was located exactly and said the ewe must have birthed it yesterday and they didn't notice. I offered to bring him back down to the shepherds, he said if I could, that would be the best, and he would give them a call to let them know.

I wasn't sure how to carry a baby lamb, though pretty sure not like an adult sheep upside down or doing the wheel barrow... I just tried to keep it in the position it was in, all curled up. The way down seemed much slower because I was afraid to fall and hurt it.
The woman shepherd came to meet me and she was very emotional and grateful. She said they had 11 ewes that birthed lambs yesterday while in the mountains, and that many of them had not cared for their lambs, so it had been very difficult coming down and they had lost this little one. Her husband had gone back all the way up before night, but hadn't found it, likely it wasn't on the trail then. She said she had shed tears of frustration at loosing it, and that it was a miracle.
I wasn't as enthusiastic , I am not so sure it will survive. But, the baby was lucky in many ways : they have had several wolves attack in the last weeks, but obviously the wolves weren't around that night. And we have a heat wave so even in the mountains it didn't fall below 13 / 55.
And it just happened I decided to run there today ; there may have been a couple of hikers on that trail after me, but not before two or three hours and it's not certain that they would have brought it down.
It was quite warm and fully conscious so I hope it makes it.

I didn't think to take a picture of the baby lamb because I was too worried to bring it to safety. Here are some landscape pictures. The first one shows our summit and the small red arrow points to Mount Viso, the highest european summit in Italy.

 

[Ponypoor]

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This is Sunny. She doesn't pose for pictures often. She even got on my lap, and she hasn't done that in weeks.

She has the reddest headgear of the Bielefelders. She got everything first: epauletts, wing feathers, so I'm thinking she might be the first of the four to lay.

Love her colouring

 

[Ponypoor]

First I hope she recovers.
Then, I don't think there is anything for God to forgive. Just the mere fact that you are not able the three of you to get her up again when she falls means she should be in a nursing home.
I wish this terrifying fall allows it to happen. You and your people have done everything you could for her, and beyond.

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I don't have appropriate Sunday pony pictures but I have a sweet and sad story that fits well. This morning I decided to finally go on a longer mountain run than I have for the last months, to our nearest summit. When I passed the sheep's first altitude stables at 7.30, I noticed the ewes were still in their pen and the couple of shepherds with them, usually they would have been out right after dawn. About fifteen minutes running up, I came upon a tiny baby lamb, lying down on the trail, curled up against a rock. It was alive but not moving. I don't have the shepherds mobile number, so I called my old retired farmer friend Gaston. He asked me where it was located exactly and said the ewe must have birthed it yesterday and they didn't notice. I offered to bring him back down to the shepherds, he said if I could, that would be the best, and he would give them a call to let them know.

I wasn't sure how to carry a baby lamb, though pretty sure not like an adult sheep upside down or doing the wheel barrow... I just tried to keep it in the position it was in, all curled up. The way down seemed much slower because I was afraid to fall and hurt it.
The woman shepherd came to meet me and she was very emotional and grateful. She said they had 11 ewes that birthed lambs yesterday while in the mountains, and that many of them had not cared for their lambs, so it had been very difficult coming down and they had lost this little one. Her husband had gone back all the way up before night, but hadn't found it, likely it wasn't on the trail then. She said she had shed tears of frustration at loosing it, and that it was a miracle.
I wasn't as enthusiastic , I am not so sure it will survive. But, the baby was lucky in many ways : they have had several wolves attack in the last weeks, but obviously the wolves weren't around that night. And we have a heat wave so even in the mountains it didn't fall below 13 / 55.
And it just happened I decided to run there today ; there may have been a couple of hikers on that trail after me, but not before two or three hours and it's not certain that they would have brought it down.
It was quite warm and fully conscious so I hope it makes it.

I didn't think to take a picture of the baby lamb because I was too worried to bring it to safety. Here are some landscape pictures. The first one shows our summit and the small red arrow points to Mount Viso, the highest european summit in Italy.
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Lambs are tough.

Amazing pictures!

 

[featherhead007]

First I hope she recovers.
Then, I don't think there is anything for God to forgive. Just the mere fact that you are not able the three of you to get her up again when she falls means she should be in a nursing home.
I wish this terrifying fall allows it to happen. You and your people have done everything you could for her, and beyond.

*****************

I don't have appropriate Sunday pony pictures but I have a sweet and sad story that fits well. This morning I decided to finally go on a longer mountain run than I have for the last months, to our nearest summit. When I passed the sheep's first altitude stables at 7.30, I noticed the ewes were still in their pen and the couple of shepherds with them, usually they would have been out right after dawn. About fifteen minutes running up, I came upon a tiny baby lamb, lying down on the trail, curled up against a rock. It was alive but not moving. I don't have the shepherds mobile number, so I called my old retired farmer friend Gaston. He asked me where it was located exactly and said the ewe must have birthed it yesterday and they didn't notice. I offered to bring him back down to the shepherds, he said if I could, that would be the best, and he would give them a call to let them know.

I wasn't sure how to carry a baby lamb, though pretty sure not like an adult sheep upside down or doing the wheel barrow... I just tried to keep it in the position it was in, all curled up. The way down seemed much slower because I was afraid to fall and hurt it.
The woman shepherd came to meet me and she was very emotional and grateful. She said they had 11 ewes that birthed lambs yesterday while in the mountains, and that many of them had not cared for their lambs, so it had been very difficult coming down and they had lost this little one. Her husband had gone back all the way up before night, but hadn't found it, likely it wasn't on the trail then. She said she had shed tears of frustration at loosing it, and that it was a miracle.
I wasn't as enthusiastic , I am not so sure it will survive. But, the baby was lucky in many ways : they have had several wolves attack in the last weeks, but obviously the wolves weren't around that night. And we have a heat wave so even in the mountains it didn't fall below 13 / 55.
And it just happened I decided to run there today ; there may have been a couple of hikers on that trail after me, but not before two or three hours and it's not certain that they would have brought it down.
It was quite warm and fully conscious so I hope it makes it.

I didn't think to take a picture of the baby lamb because I was too worried to bring it to safety. Here are some landscape pictures. The first one shows our summit and the small red arrow points to Mount Viso, the highest european summit in Italy.
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A simple story of love and caring for another creature besides ourselves. What a refreshing story, gracing my heart this morning. Thank you for sharing that.

 

[rural mouse]

First I hope she recovers.
Then, I don't think there is anything for God to forgive. Just the mere fact that you are not able the three of you to get her up again when she falls means she should be in a nursing home.
I wish this terrifying fall allows it to happen. You and your people have done everything you could for her, and beyond.

*****************

I don't have appropriate Sunday pony pictures but I have a sweet and sad story that fits well. This morning I decided to finally go on a longer mountain run than I have for the last months, to our nearest summit. When I passed the sheep's first altitude stables at 7.30, I noticed the ewes were still in their pen and the couple of shepherds with them, usually they would have been out right after dawn. About fifteen minutes running up, I came upon a tiny baby lamb, lying down on the trail, curled up against a rock. It was alive but not moving. I don't have the shepherds mobile number, so I called my old retired farmer friend Gaston. He asked me where it was located exactly and said the ewe must have birthed it yesterday and they didn't notice. I offered to bring him back down to the shepherds, he said if I could, that would be the best, and he would give them a call to let them know.

I wasn't sure how to carry a baby lamb, though pretty sure not like an adult sheep upside down or doing the wheel barrow... I just tried to keep it in the position it was in, all curled up. The way down seemed much slower because I was afraid to fall and hurt it.
The woman shepherd came to meet me and she was very emotional and grateful. She said they had 11 ewes that birthed lambs yesterday while in the mountains, and that many of them had not cared for their lambs, so it had been very difficult coming down and they had lost this little one. Her husband had gone back all the way up before night, but hadn't found it, likely it wasn't on the trail then. She said she had shed tears of frustration at loosing it, and that it was a miracle.
I wasn't as enthusiastic , I am not so sure it will survive. But, the baby was lucky in many ways : they have had several wolves attack in the last weeks, but obviously the wolves weren't around that night. And we have a heat wave so even in the mountains it didn't fall below 13 / 55.
And it just happened I decided to run there today ; there may have been a couple of hikers on that trail after me, but not before two or three hours and it's not certain that they would have brought it down.
It was quite warm and fully conscious so I hope it makes it.

I didn't think to take a picture of the baby lamb because I was too worried to bring it to safety. Here are some landscape pictures. The first one shows our summit and the small red arrow points to Mount Viso, the highest european summit in Italy.
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The lamb has a fighting chance. Good job!

 

[featherhead007]

You peeps know just how much I love my family (brother and sister) but I have been searching for that perfect JADE jewelry pendant, to give to my brothers wife (she’s from China) and jade is supposed to be sacred as a family heirloom. Sadly, I have had no such luck with my attempts so far.
Makes me miss those wonderful sapphire eggs that Canna would bless me with every day.

 

[featherhead007]

If you invert it, it would be a 99! (Just saying)

Always look for the brightest side of life! You can’t go wrong with an attempt at happiness!

 

[featherhead007]

I don’t know jade very well, but I’m learning. I do know diamonds and the price, quality, color, weight, etc. never mind me, my head is still spinning from the 30k ft flight home. Even Marie, is adorned with semiprecious metals.