“It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.”
~ Margaret Mead
“He’s getting chunky.”
~ Dr. D
Ellsworth’s expression when I told him we would have to talk about this:
Poor Worth. ♥
Donkeys
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November 13, 2012
Our easy keeper
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: donkey, donkey dieting, donkey weight, Ellsworth |[26] Comments
November 11, 2012
After the rain
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm | Tags: autumn, donkeys, donkeys grazing, Nigel |[14] Comments
October 26, 2012
Happy Birthday Buckaroo
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: Buck, Buck's birthday, donkeys, Gracie |[24] Comments
September 29, 2012
Happy Birthday Big Red
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: Bernard, donkey, donkeys, Ellsworth, Patrick |[32] Comments
We celebrated Ellsworth’s birthday on Thursday.
He couldn’t believe this cake was his!
As always, the birthday boy got the first bite of cake.
Meanwhile, Patrick made his cutest faces ever.
As if that wasn’t enough flattery, Bernard started too.
“Look Patrick, here’s how to make a goober face. Mamma thinks this is adorable.”
And Patrick made a goober face too.
And then everyone had cake.
Bernard and Ellsworth. Like peas and carrots.
♥ ♥ ♥
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September 25, 2012
Donkeys watching donkeys watching YouTube
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: donkey behavior, donkeys, video, YouTube |[18] Comments
After recently seeing a video that showed the reaction of donkeys watching a donkey bray on YouTube, we had to try it here at Morning Bray Farm.
We give you Donkeys Watching Donkeys Watching YouTube:
My observations:
- Gracie (herd matriarch) was the first to react. Buck immediately went to comfort her, and even gave her a hug.
- Nigel was silently freaked out by the braying coming from the “box”.
- Ellsworth seemed distressed. This was his something’s wrong bray.
- Bernard was completely unfazed. I wonder why he was the only one.
- Donkey behavior is fascinating.
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September 14, 2012
I love coming home to this
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: Bernard, coming home, donkeys, Ellsworth |[17] Comments
August 21, 2012
Happy Birthday Chewie
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: donkey, donkey birthday, donkey birthday cake, donkey cake, donkeys, Gracie, Gracie's birthday |[18] Comments
♥ ♥ ♥
Gracie’s nickname is Chewie. She sounds like Chewbacca at the beginning of her bray. 🙂
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August 15, 2012
Happy Birthday Barnyard
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: Bernard, Bernard's birthday, donkey, donkey birthday, donkey birthday cake, donkey cake, donkeys |[34] Comments
August 14, 2012
Walking with Bernard
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: Bernard, donkey, walking donkeys, walking with Bernard |[26] Comments
Bernard and I have been going out on walks together as often as we can lately.
His confidence level is already high, but If he’s going to walk in parades, become a therapy donkey and be an all around ambassador for donkeydom, he needs to be okay with anything and everything.
On Sunday morning, anything included his brothers calling for him from the farm. He was okay with that when I told him that we’d be back.
It also included walking past a tempting hay barn. He was okay with that too.
And going around a blind corner to yet unexplored trails …
… to see a new donkey, horse and bull. Check.
As we were visiting with Bernard’s new friends, something else caught his eye. It was a woman walking her dog.
I wish I had more pictures to share with you, but I don’t. The dog wasn’t on a leash and I didn’t know how Bernard would react. I wanted to be ready for anything, which meant not having a camera in my hands.
Bernard was a star. He couldn’t have cared less about the dog, and he was a sweetheart while our neighbor cooed over how handsome he was.
He loved every minute of it. ♥ ♥ ♥
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August 10, 2012
Some of us are creatures of habit
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys | Tags: daily lineup, donkey behavior, donkeys |[13] Comments
We don’t know why they do it, nor do we understand when they do it. If you stand next to the barn on any summer afternoon here, you feel like you’re standing next to a furnace. The hotter it is, the more likely they are to do it.
It’s what we call the daily lineup.
When it was the Fabulous Four, they’d stand in the same order every afternoon, each always facing in the same direction.
Here’s the lineup from yesterday:
Those remaining from the Fabulous Four continue to be creatures of habit. Ellsworth (Happy) still stands at the north end of the barn, always facing north. And Nigel (Bashful) generally still stands at the south end of the barn, also always facing north. Bernard (Dopey) is always somewhere between, always facing south. Being a creature of habit myself, I’d be with this group if I chose to take part in the daily lineup.
These last few days, I haven’t been able to take a picture of Bernard in the lineup before he sees me and is on the move. (He’s been feeling very needy lately.)
The rest of the herd, not so much. Patrick (Doc), Gracie (Snow White) and Buck (Sneezy) aren’t particular about where they are in the lineup, or which direction they’re facing. If Don decided that he’d like to bake by the barn with the Boyz and Gracie, he’d be with this group.
September 2011 lineup:
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