It’s 2:30AM and I hear two roosters taking turns crowing to see who is the loudest and can go the longest. So far the contest has been going on for almost 15 min! Why? Why I ask do they feel the need to wake everyone up within a 5 mile radius? I wonder if the axe is sharp?! Old Mc Addie had an axe, e i-e i,oooooooo
Category Archives: Horses
Dunkay plays (Nov 27)
Sheesh….I’m working upstairs on eBay when I hear this strange scraping sound, like something solid being pushed around on the porch with an occasional BANG. Of course the first thing I do is roll my eyes knowing that there is a naughty animal close by. This morning I let the ding bats out in the yard to munch on the frozen grass and they like to camp under my porch for coffee. I go down stairs, open the back door and there’s Dunkay pushing a blue plastic water jug all over the concrete with his nose….he was playing! All by himself. I guess the horses didn’t want a lowly donkey to hang with the cool crowd so he was amusing himself! The black kitty who was crouched under the swing, stuck a paw out batting at the jug as it slid on by! I gotta get a camera out there!
Winter
Ah the joy of winter…lots of snow with high winds that make the below freezing weather feel like the North Pole on a warm day! Then there is the morn, afternoon and evening ritual. I put on my pink Carhart jacket with matching pants, hat and gloves, pink rubber boots that go up to my knees with the little brown horse’s on them, a scarf to wrap around my face 4 times and a prayer on my lips. I fight my way to the barn as the biting wind slams tiny ice particles onto my exposed face I couldn’t cover. On the way to the barn I repeat to myself, “I love these animals, they are worth the effort, it’s good exercise”. I then proceed to push a horse or a donkey (usually both) away from the barn door so I can get in without slipping on the ice. My favorite word is now being heard by all…”NO” or “stop it”. The animals are now circling the feed bag, some grunting, some stomping and a few nips at each other! Then there is little ol me, in the middle trying to formulate an escape plan in case they go to war. I hand out food rations which is never enough, I sneak to the hay bale before Dunkay gets there and throw little piles of hay everywhere so they all think they have their own food that nobody else can see! I let out a huge sigh of relief because I just survived another feeding. Now it’s time for the chickens and the black bunny who lives with them, helping to keep the eggs warm. And the ducks? They are in the yard quacking making hundreds of snow trails from the back porch to their shelter waiting for me to fight my way to them,unhappy because I didn’t feed them first.
Dunkay hates mudd (nov 25th)
Dunkay doesn’t like mud. He was on my back porch keeping his piggies dry when he decided to come over to see what I’m up to. He went to the edge, looked at the mud puddle that outlined most of the edge until he found a spot that was mostly snow. He walked over to the snow bridge, stepped onto the clean icy surface and avoided all the mud. He then trotted up to me and nuzzled his nose into my hand. When he was satisfied that I wasn’t hiding grain from him, he turned around, backed up to me and demanded his butt scratched!
Chad & Dunkay
I love it when Chad has a Dunkay experience! It helps to prove to him and everyone else that I don’t make this stuff up!
Chad Addie was walking out of the barn with an arm load of hay to feed the circling goats away from the hording horses. Dunkay spotted him sneaking away with food…so he trotted up to Chad and proceeded to eat the hay out of Chads arms as he walked to the field. Yep, Chad with a boat load of hay and a donkey eating it while he is walking to the back field. Chad tried swinging it back in forth to keep an annoying donkey from chomping it down, yelling out my favorite phrase…”NO-STOP IT”…which Dunkay ignored like he always does! Of course Chads supportive wife was right behind him laughing, yelling out things like…”See? What did I tell you? He does this stuff all the time! Having fun yet?!” . Chad and Dunkay both ignored me, one too busy eating while chasing and the other too busy trying to get away from the biggest nuisance on the farm!!
Here we go round and round!
Never a dull moment in the pasture. I’m working on eBay in my office when I see out of the corner of my eye, running horses and a donkey…not a normal thing here on the farm. They only run if there’s food in sight and I haven’t been out there yet. So I look up to watch the show. Dunkay & the Tank are going round and round with their noses planted in each others butt. Laci is nipping at Dunkay and he is trying to get her to hold still cause he wants to have some ‘afternoon delight’! Ummmm…he’s FIXED! Apparently, he doesn’t know that nor does he care. Therefore, they are running around in a tight circle like a spinning top, as Sparky runs in a wide circle around the both of them going in the opposite direction! There the 3 em go, round and round. Dunkay getting on his hind legs and Laci kicking hers up and planting a good one on him, which you’d think would make him stop. I think we should rename our farm from Addie Acres to ‘Addie’s Non-Stop FUN Circus’!!. Or maybe, ‘Addie Funny Farm’ or ‘Addie’s What Are They Up To Now Farm’! As I write this, the 3 of them are standing by the gate with their noses pressed together which almost as funny as them running around! Goof balls! I gotta get this stuff on film!
The ‘Tank’ and Dunkay want in!
No large animals are allowed inside, but they try anyway!
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!
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