Animals love to scare us!

[TAH]

Naomi was laying with her head twisted almost all the way around and her eyes rolled back, I had thought she died only to find her looking at me once I get over there.
Chickens taking dust baths in the oddest positions and are fine.
Beal-ia our first bottle bunny laying at the back of her cage completely flat and head sideways.
We had some friends dogs over at our house a hound, black lab, and our dog. All disappear all the sudden and they are out on the road some where enjoying them selves. Our dog has never went wondering around. I was putting on my coat and shoes with my friend to going look for them when here they come.
I am not one to freak out I think about what is going on before I get scared on the other hand my older sister is one to freak out right away. Asha is a cat lover, our cat cotton was due to have kittens. When she went in to labor she didn't move for a minute and asha freaked out, she thought cotton had died yet she was fine just tired.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Somehow one of my goats got over one fence and tried to get through another gate and was dangling upside down screaming! My dad got her out but she wouldn't put pressure on her leg like she had broken it. Thankfully an hour later she wasn't limping at all and she's fine, but if my dad hadn't found her it could have been really bad! The gate was fixed so it couldn't happen again.

We've had a goat leg amputation... Talk about heart attack! (The goat is fine now by the way)

 

[Ferguson K]

A couple of years ago we had 3 strands of fence cut in the horse pasture. ALL four horses missing. All neighbors helped us look as the fence that was cut backed up too 300 acres . Four days later they showed up for breakfast.

 

[norseofcourse]

A couple of years ago we had 3 strands of fence cut in the horse pasture. ALL four horses missing. All neighbors helped us look as the fence that was cut backed up too 300 acres . Four days later they showed up for breakfast.

Oh, I would be frantic! So glad they came back!

A few days after I got quail, I went out to their pen and one of them was laying on its side, stretched out and stiff. I could see its feet, and it wasn't moving. I thought it was dead. I got close enough to open the cage door and it suddenly 'came to life' and got up. I called the person I'd gotten them from to ask if something was wrong with the bird, and she said, "Oh, they do that."

Some sheep breeds don't have as strong a flocking instinct as others. Icelandics don't. I wrote in my journal about panicking when Gracie didn't come in one evening with the others, from the main pasture. Poor flocking instinct is one thing - but not coming in for grain was highly unusual! I finally found her under the apple trees, but she gave me a scare.

 

[canesisters]

Some sheep breeds don't have as strong a flocking instinct as others. Icelandics don't. I wrote in my journal about panicking when Gracie didn't come in one evening with the others, from the main pasture. Poor flocking instinct is one thing - but not coming in for grain was highly unusual! I finally found her under the apple trees, but she gave me a scare.

This just struck me as soo funny!
"My sheep is not a good flocker"

"She's a good girl, just a bad flocker."

 

[luvmypets]

Alll of you have some great stories!

Once I had two ducklings in a brooder box. The one was happily cheeping around but I couldn't find the other one! I picked up the feeder to look underneath in and the duckling was in the feeder and fell out! The bottom had fallen off and he crawled right in

 

[Alexz7272]

When my sheep were little (the age in my profile picture) I let them wander around the front area for a bit where there was no fence or anything as they bonded with my Lab and followed her. Asked the boy to keep an eye on them as he was outside so I could run inside really quick. Not more then 5 minutes later I was back outside with their bottles (they were bum lambs) and they were gone. I FREAKED out and looked EVERYWHERE for them. After like 10 minutes looking and yelling for my Lab I heard a bark from inside the house. Sooo Lady had opened the back door and brought the lambs into the house where they were patiently waiting in my kitchen for their bottles

 

[NH homesteader]

Funny story. But what kind of sheep watching skills does your guy have?

 

[Alexz7272]

The "When did you get more (insert animal)?" kind
I cannot even begin to explain how many times I've brought animals home and he doesn't realize for a few days
Should've known not to trust him to keep an eye on them, hahaha!

 

[NH homesteader]

Lol! I have not done that to my husband yet. His mom used to bring home new horses and sneak them in the barn... His parents have been divorced 15 years now