With all the rain and the ground still frozen we have about 10 little lakes, ponds and puddles all over the yard and pastures! That makes for HAPPY ducks! They are happily going from puddle to lake and back. They are so full of ‘quaking joy’ that they are waddling from one to the other as fast as their little webbed feet will go!
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Cody and Sammy the Llama
Cody and Sammy the Llama
Chad doing water duty!!
Our water hose to the barn is frozen, stiff, like a board. Which means we have to take large buckets, fill them up full with water at the house and drag them to the barn for the many animal water bins…oh wait, I’m sorry, did I say “WE”??? I mean…CHAD has to fill up the buckets and carry/slide them to the barn and re-fill tall, large, huge, deep water bins! Should only take him an hour or so! I was a considerate farm wifey and found a way to make his job easier by giving him a sled I dug up in the garage! Now he can put the buckets onto the plastic toy to help him ‘slide’ those buckets across the icy yard, into the pasture, through the barn door (after he chases the ‘guardian’ away) and do his farm duties! Piece if cake!!
Winter…sled…water
in the good old winter time, we have take buckets of water (and 50lb bags of grain) to the barn on a sled to fill up the bins. takes about an hour to fill everything up.
Lincoln & Sammy
these guys are such goof balls…keep me on my toes they do!!
Snowy Horses
Silly me….it is snowing pretty good here and we have about 5″ already with no let up. I let the horses and Dunkay out of the barn because I felt like they were getting barn fever. They have been out in the field for a couple of snowy hours digging for grass or left over goat grain. I look out the window every few minutes to make sure nobody is getting into trouble which they can do in less than 30 seconds. I saw in the back pasture, 2 white horses and one donkey. My first thought was, ‘oh no, somebody dropped off an un-wanted horse!’. Nope, I was wrong. It was Laci my mini tank covered in snow and ice. She was so covered in snow, you couldn’t tell the two horses apart. Sparky however looked spic and span clean with the new white coat. Dunkay, he moves too much to get a snowy coating, he has to make sure he finds the grass or dropped nibbles before anybody else!
Snowy Horse…Laci the mini tank
It’s snowing? I didn’t notice!
The attack on Dunkay
Looking out my window to see if there were naughty animals, I spotted Sparky & the Tank beating up Dunkay in front of the barn door. They were nipping at him while pushing him with their noses. He sorta stood there and let Laci bite him on the neck while Sparky pushed him with her snout. They trotted around him like Indians circling a doomed wagon train. He stood there not moving or trying to get away while they formed a plan of attack on him. After a neck chew by Laci the mini tank, he threw his head high into the air and kicked up his back legs. I was worried that I might see blood coming from his body. About 2 min passed and the attack was over. Then the 3 of them walked out to the back pasture together like best buddies…weird. I guess it’s the week for the girls putting the boys in their place! The horses today, the girl llama’s controlling Stormy yesterday! Woo-Hoo, the women rule on THIS farm…right Chad????
Pros & Cons
The pros and cons for using a sled to bring all the animal food into the barn so I don’t have to carry it through the snow.
Pro #1. It sure is easy to pull instead of carry!
Con#1. no matter how fast you go, the animals KNOW you are bringing in food and run to the sled
Pro #2. It sure is easy to pull instead of carry!
Con #2. All animal’s have now pounced upon the sled and all food upon it, pushing, grunting, biting and trying to get you to stop!
Pro #3 It sure is easy to pull instead of carry!
Con #3 All animals have now declared war on each other as I try to hurry into barn in one piece!
Pro # 4 It sure is easy to pull instead of carry!
Con #4. I am now surrounded by the natives and I’m trying to protect the treasure!
Pro #5. It sure is easy to pull instead of carry!
Con #5. If I stop instead of run to barn, I’m a goner!
Need I say more???
Stormy our boy Llama can not win around the girls!
I feel sorry for our boy Llama Stormy. He is stuck in a closed up pen with the 2 girls and they won’t let him get any where near the grain. He stands in the corner by the gate while the girls eat and spit at him. He is bigger and stronger than both girls yet they rule him with an iron hoof! They eat, he quivers. They spit, he ducks. The girls run to me for food, he begs me for help. I tried to split the girls up and give them the grain in opposite corners of their pen and sneak him some nibbles but as soon as I put my hand anywhere near him, they both run over and start spitting in his face while pushing him away. What does he do? He practically bows and slinks away staring at me with sad hungry eyes. I tried to rescue him until I couldn’t feel my toes anymore from the cold. I couldn’t even get inside the gate to let him out and get away from Miss Domineering and Miss Control!
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