in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Pasha838]

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Heh . Well, I don't know about other places, but if we take Russia, where I live, keeping 5-10 chickens does not require any financial costs, they eat some kind of nonsense. Like yesterday's pasta, rice porridge, bread crumbs, scraps of boiled beef, leftover cheese, cottage cheese and other things. And a chicken coop for such a number of chickens is always built from free materials like scraps of boards, sometimes logs.
If we keep 100 chickens - then we clearly need a supply of grain and a good chicken coop. This already requires financial costs, in addition, there will be a lot of eggs and they will come to sell.
And 5-10 chickens - well, this is not work at all, they just live with a person, and do not create any difficulties.

 

[cavemanrich]

I bought some hay and grain today.

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To be honest, I probably won't even drag it up to the barn in the attic. I just put it on the wooden decks and covered it. It will be eaten faster than it can get damp.

Pasha,,,, I LUV your POLAR BEAR

I know its your doggie. It looks like a Great Pyrenees,, Which is a Livestock Guard Dog breed.
Am I close in my guess??

 

[Pasha838]

Pasha,,,, I LUV your POLAR BEAR

I know its your doggie. It looks like a Great Pyrenees,, Which is a Livestock Guard Dog breed.
Am I close in my guess??

They are probably distant relatives. I looked up Pyrenean dogs on the Internet, Wikipedia says that they appeared in France around 200 BC and came with nomads from Near Asia.
If we take the Alabai breed, they have existed in Central Asia for about 4,000 years (2000 BC). There is a suspicion that some of these dogs simply "came" to France and were liked by French peasants, who began to breed them too.
Both breeds have the same purpose - to protect territories and herds of animals. I am not a historian, but it is quite possible that these dogs are some kind of relatives.
As for my dog specifically, she is more likely from Central Asia than from France.

In general, this breed is quite common in the territories of the former USSR, with the only caveat that there are very few of them in service dog breeding and city keeping. The fact is that these dogs have too stubborn a character for service dog breeding, and they are not suitable for city keeping due to their size and habits - they need a large area where they can walk CONSTANTLY. You can't lock them in a house or apartment, this will ruin both their character and health.

They also have a habit of taking someone under guard and not letting anyone near them, although no one teaches them this. This is not my first dog, two of them had to be kept exclusively in the utility kitchen, not allowing them to go into the rest of the house. Because if I went in, they began to guard my parents from me, I simply could not approach them. The dog barked and bit. And they are very stubborn, it was impossible to retrain them. So it ended with us ordering a special door for the utility kitchen with a cutout, hung with an old carpet and a blanket - the dog goes home and outside as much as he wants, but we do not let him into the rest of the house. Because if you close him and he hears someone on the street (a fox, or passers-by on the road), he will rush out into the street. bark and break and smash everything that is nearby. At the same time, if my father comes into the house, I have to either leave or go out through another door, it is impossible to be in the same room with this dog. Although if I walk outside myself, the dog is absolutely not aggressive and quite obedient.
But if my parents go outside and stand next to me, the dog will immediately stand between them and me and will growl, bark and even bite at me. Everything is a little complicated by the fact that this is a rather vindictive breed, and I am often associated with eye drops, with painful rabies injections (every year), so the dog is protecting my parents from me just in case, in case I start giving them eye drops or giving them a rabies vaccine. So I need to be bitten so that I don’t misbehave.

There was a similar story with the hay, when it was delivered, the dog was very happy and stood barking at the fence, and no one could call him back. So I had to drag all the hay into the plot myself, and the delivery guys who came, who by the way lay everything out for free, could not enter. We were forced to stack the hay outside by the gate, the truck left, I opened the gate and started to bring it in. After that, the dog, with a sense of accomplishment (it chased away the truck and delievers, did not allow anyone to enter the plot to unload anything), sat down near the pile of hay that I brought, and began to guard it.

 

[AntiqueB]

This is very interesting, Pasha!

(By the way, I had a canary named Pasha!)

 

[Pasha838]

This is very interesting, Pasha!

(By the way, I had a canary named Pasha!)

This is a Russian name, one of the variations. If you look at official documents, it is written Pavel, but I rarely use the name in this form.
More often here they use Pasha, Kesha, Dasha. Natasha.
Well, yes, if you take canaries and (especially) budgies - they are also very often called Grisha, Kesha, Sasha...
This is a name, not a nickname, but usually grandmothers call their grandchildren this way. Frankly, in my official activities I was more often called Pasha than Pavel or something else, both when I was a civil servant, and when I was a cashier at McDonald's, and when I was a waiter in a small restaurant. I even had "Pasha" written on my badge. I am already over 40 years old, but since I was Pasha in childhood, I have kept this "childish" name. My parents use the same name.
Although if you remember my late great-grandmother, she also had the name Pasha. However, I don't even know what her full name was, she died when I was 4 years old. I only remember that we were both called Pasha, although I was not named after my para-grandmother, but after my grandfather's brother, who died in the war. His name was also Pasha.
In general, everything is simple in Russia - everyone can be called either Pasha, Misha or Natasha - you can't go wrong. We very rarely come up with complex names for ourselves.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[Sally PB]

What a beautiful picture, @EmmaDonovan. Thank you for posting it.

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Jenbirdee]