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Category Archives: Dunkay the Donkey
Dunkay our donkey wants in the house
If we would let him in the house, he would be a very happy donkey!
Staring animlas
12:30 at night here and the Llama’s are doing their warning call. I go outside on the back porch to see what’s going on and they are staring out into the back pasture. Both goats are outside not moving a muscle, almost like statues, they won’t turn to look at me. I don’t know if a coyote is out there or what. I’ve never seen the goats not move when I come out. Usually they are in bed for the night at this late hour, after all, they need to rest so they can have enough strength to harass me for food. I woke Chad up and told him something weird is going on, the Llamas & Alpaca are doing their alarm call…so he ask me, “did you go out to the barn”? Heck no! I’m not gonna get attacked by a coyote! You go out there, your the man, our protector! Did he go? Nooooooo…he said, “I’m sure they’re okay” and shuts his eyes! I hope those Llama’s do what God created them to do…protect the flock! Of course, it could be that escaped donkey or pony or whatever it was earlier that ran down the road.
Walking with animals Nov 1
I swear I’m going to install cameras all around the farm cause you’ve got to see this stuff in order to believe it!. I go out to the field to figure out why these 2 ding-bat horses and a donkey are running as fast as they can from one field to the other. It’s not like they ‘play,they don’t even like each other! All of the large animals (not the goats, it’s too wet for them) are standing in one corner along the back fence. Just standing there looking confused which makes me feel the same way! So I walk the fence to make sure there are no open spots that they can wiggle under. Doing my fence inspection, I have on one side of me, 2 goats and on the other, Dunkay…in step, walking with me all around the fields and along the fence. Just me and my goats and donkey. Walking, the 4 of us…together…in step… I still don’t know how they do that!
A visit from the sheriff Oct 30th
So I’m sitting at my computer working on eBay when I hear a knock at the door. I go down and there is a Sheriff standing there…never a good sign. I open the door and the first thing he ask is, ‘do you own a donkey’? Oh no….a loose donkey? Where is Sparky and the Tank?? I quickly scan the field and start a head count…one, two, three…where’s Sparky? Heart drop! He tells me there is a donkey running down the road, all gray, whew….mine is spotted. I still don’t see Sparky and I ask him are you sure it’s a donkey and not a horse? He assures me it’s a donkey. Another look in the field and Sparky comes into sight…double whew! I don’t see Lincoln so I ask him another stupid question (like the poor guy doesn’t know) are you sure it’s not an Alpaca…he’s all brown and stands this tall (my hand up to the top of my head)…he rolls his eyes saying he can tell a donkey from an Alpaca….I look to make sure his hand isn’t on the gun with this crazy lady asking him if he knows the difference between donkey’s, horses and Llamas’! All I know is that somebody else is chasing a large animal down the road and it is NOT one of ours! I am however, going to walk the fence just to make sure they don’t get any bright ideals in case they see a cousin running past our house!!!
Dunkay and the egg search. Nov 14th, 2013
Everyday is an Easter egg hunt for me! The hens and I play hide and seek every single day…they hide their eggs, I seek. I look under barrels, in between hay bales, behind food bins…up, over, under, behind! They lay those dang eggs in every spot imaginable except inside their cozy nesting boxes that we made special for them! I have found that I can make my body stretch and bend, using muscles I didn’t know existed and I’m really good with the full body balancing act! I also learned what the word ‘tip-toe’ means! I need to be careful because no matter how much I push away or yell….I can not get Dunkay to stop looking for the eggs with me! If I put my hand behind a straw bale, he has his nose buried deep inside sniffing out whatever he thinks I might be hiding from him. If I stand on a bucket to reach up to feel for a nest, he is right behind me nudging my butt, if I’m looking between stacked hay, he is on the other side peeking at me with one eye, which is un-nerving! I learned the hard way never to bend over in front of him or the goats, that singles ‘play time’ for them. He loves the word “NO” since that is what I say to him every time I go into the barn….he must think it is a love phrase, he seems to get excited and wants to play every time I say it!! I have 15 to 20 hens out there and I only found 4 eggs. They move their nest every time I locate where they are hiding them from me. Tomorrow Dunkay and I will search for eggs as he plays and I push him away expressing my NO affection for him!
Animal Love Song. Nov 15th 2013
My animals love me so much they are singing me a song! First Dunkay does his louder than a jet plane HEEE-HAAAAW and the goats who are standing beside him, staring at the house of course, do their high pitched BAAAAAAAA…then Dunkay hollers again, followed by a rooster. The only thing that would make this choir perfect, is if the Alpaca would do his alarm call! Now that would be farm sweet music!!! I gotta get cameras up!!
Herding with a Jeep!!
I am now an official Jeep farmer! I came home, it was cold dark & rainy outside, I had 2 horses and a donkey in our back yard pigging away. I thought to myself, ‘man, I don’t want to get out of my warm truck and trick these animals back into the barn!’ So I chased them with my Jeep! Uh-huh, that’s right…I herded those din bats with my vehicle! I didn’t get something with 4 wheel drive for nothing you know!! Worked pretty good, the Tank actually ran, Sparky did a couple of circles around the Jeep and Dunkay bucked with his back legs! Such fun! YEEEE HAAAAW!!!!
Not A Very Smart Donkey!
I have a stupid donkey! Every now and then I let all the animals out in the back yard to graze and have fun like knock over my porch furniture, you know to give them something different to do. I went out the back door to see what their up to cause I can’t trust any of them when I saw Dunkay eating my artficial flowers on my table. HELLLOOOO….they are fake flowers! By the time I grabbed them out of his mouth, a 1/4 of them were already gone! I mean, they’re cloth for goodness sake! I’m sure they didn’t taste good! Why would he eat fake flowers?? Stupid donkey!
The escaped horses!!
So what’s new in the farm life you ask??? Well, let me tell ya! I was making the bed when the dogs started to go crazy barking and running in circles. I could hear multiple car horns honking in front of my house…my Farmer Nancy instinct screams, “OH NO” and I quickly look out the arched window just in time to see Sparky our white horse running down the street with 3 ladies chasing her! Following close behind them is Lacie the fat brown horse! I run downstairs, put on my now running shoes and out the door I go! I run to the gate as the horses are now galloping full speed along the outside of our fence. I have a brave lady running after them and 2 more ladies standing in my driveway, a look of amusement mixed with , ‘man it sucks to be you right now’ on their faces. I ask a smiling lady to please watch my gate so the Llamas won’t join the escapees in the ‘free-for-all….Dunkay was running back and forth in the field following the horses while the Llamas were at the gate stomping their feet waiting for their chance at freedom! Oh woe is me! I sprint from one end of the field to the other as the horses kept changing direction. A brave neighbor was chasing them, frantically waving her arms at the horses who were ignoring her at the opposite side of the pasture from were I was! I grabbed a cup full of grain on my way to the other field as the horses were still doing the zig-zag dance. Oh but the tasty goat food is always too much for Sparky, she will follow it anywhere at anytime, she gave up her freedom for a handful of food and Lacie, well she followed Sparky cause that’s what she does! I realized something today…I’m too fricken OLD to be running with horses and keeping my dignity in front of ladies who I don’t know!
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