Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Rooster troubles again today. More news to follow, maybe!

 

[Marie2020]

Rooster troubles again today. More news to follow, maybe!

Waiting for updates

 

[Marie2020]

My lovely old flexi girl who will never be forgotten

 

[TOMTE]

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My lovely old flexi girl who will never be forgotten

Aww, I love the brown legs!!

 

[Marie2020]

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My lovely old flexi girl who will never be forgotten

 

[Marie2020]

Aww, I love the brown legs!!

That was mud.
my girls were real mud lovers

 

[featherhead007]

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My lovely old flexi girl who will never be forgotten

She was a sweetheart

 

[TOMTE]

That was mud.
my girls were real mud lovers

Who can blame them? As a little kid I used to sit and play in the mud puddles at the end of my grandparents' dirt/gravel driveway in my underwear

 

[featherhead007]

I’m flying off to Colorado now. My rooster has been making me crazy. But I spent all night trying to persuade him that he is not in charge of the world, I am!! Darlene has graciously agreed to take care of my home in my absence. She’s trusted so don’t worry.

 

[Ponypoor]

The tooth has completely stopped hurting. I need to get to Lexington but honestly right now, I do not have the time to make two trips down there within a week of each other right now. Thinking maybe next week or the week after.

George can fly, he is built for it. He can go straight up pretty high no problem. He just chooses not to 99% of the time. That boy is all polish I promise. He wants to roost with the big chickens, gets up on it first with the adults at night. The silkies cannot and do not attempt to follow him so he never stays. Once they settle down within minutes he is down and right in the middle of the silkie pile.

Dirt is doing well right now. He gets that shot once a week. Feet are perfect again thank goodness. He has not been ridden in over a month and even with turnout and grazing he is feeling better and starting to go a little stir crazy. His bridle is hung up just outside his stall and he has started grabbing it off the hanger and tossing it at dad. Smart horse, he leaves it alone unless dad is outside. In the last 2 weeks he has coughed 2 times and nothing else. The boy was sick though and in a period of about a week and a half just before the diagnosis and just after he dropped about 100lbs in the blink of a eye. This was not a fat horse either who needed to loose weight. He was in condition with rock hard muscle so it was very noticeable especially over his ribs. Weight is picking back up slowly which is good. Dad is thinking of maybe saddling him up this weekend for a slow ride up the holler. This is a horse who has been ridden about 6 days a week no matter the weather since he turned 3. He enjoys being ridden and now that he feels better the last week he is becoming a handful and bored. A bored Dirt has turned into a Dirt who nipped at me for the first time in over 2 years and one who has reared up twice on the lead rope in the last week. He also has one more time to dump a freshly filled water bucket for spite before I knock some sense back into him.

Frisky is he

Oh the bucket thing drives me nuts! I hang mine, but Lu gets her head under it and flips it - and then there is Reenie who poops in hers if I don’t let her out right away.

Truly kicks the wall if I don’t get her hay to her right away. And when I glare at her she tosses her head and stomps her feet.

Her stall door stays closed when the chooks are loose in the barn, I do not trust her to clobber someone in her tantrums.