Pony update: the little mini-pony is doing well, and as I need to get him out each day for a walk about and some fresh air, I decided I might as well work with him so we have come along way in basic manners, he is a smart fella, sure wish we could figure out who his owners are..

Now for the suprise part..

So you knew that I did ducks on sunday and this meant that I had a bucket that had a fair amount of duck blood in it, forgive but it was not high on the list to be done, as the blood froze and could easily be dealed with after I did the meat etc etc. The plan was fill the bucket with nice warm water and then pour the bloody water into a fall compost pile..

Yesterday morning Brandy was bucking and jumping and acting like a real silly girl in the pasture and so while she looked fine, I figured something had to be “up” and went out and checked her over in a number of ways and nothing wrong, she was just bored..

So I figured she could follow me around the main yard while I did some chores, a change of place so to speak, well she settled down and started pawing in a area that had lots of plaintain and was very content to dig and eat the plants, so I finished chores and headed in to the house and kept a eye on her from the big window, for a good hour, she dug though the snow/ice and enjoyed that big old patch of plantain..

Then the next time I looked, she was not visable, so fast like went to the other window to make sure she had not gone in the front yard or worse down the road between checks, nope, no horse.. so go open the door and there she is right by the front door, with her head in the bucket that had the duck blood..

and she went crazy for it, she licked it and eat it and knocked the bucket around and picked up the peices knocked out and eat them.. she was on the last little bit of it by the time I came out and I will admit that I  didn’t run out and take it away, I just kinda stood there in a stunned HUH?

Now before you ask, yes, she has access to a salt block, yes she has access to a excellent quality mineral/vits/protein/fat lick block, as well as getting a horse feed ration, plus she has access to a little tree patch that I keep in the feild so that the critters can nibble on the tree’s if they feel the need to do so.. and that’s on top of free feed 24 hours a day hay access.

So while I do believe that clearly there was something in the blood that she thought was awesome, I don’t believe that she is “lacking” in her diet..

I often laugh a little when I see folks talk about, ever seen another animal drink cows milks, because some cows will self-milk themselves, even a full grown cow will sneak milk off a other willing girl, pigs will nurse off of cows or goats if given the chance, cats will lick up drips of milk if they can get their paws on them etc.. trust me being on the farm has shown me that its not that other critters won’t drink milk, they will in a heart beat, you have never seen chickens get more crazy then if they can get their beeks into a pan of warm fresh whole milk..

But this one I will admit to being surprised at but i’m also not going to worry about it, I would never choose to offer her this, nor would I ever! recommend adding something like this to any animals food etc etc.. but it was a interesting thing that went into my book of knowledge under the title of Who Knew?!