Not only frogs to tend but also ten hens and a cockerel.
The chicken coop was about five hundred or more meters from the homestead.
Every afternoon Trompie and I had to feed the chicks.
I collected eggs…
six to nine per day!
The chickens were very human-friendly.
They did not know anything about Trompie dangers.
One morning I took some photos of the building.
Trompie was roaming around, off the lead, for sheep poo.
Suddenly I saw the girls coming to me from the coop’s side.
Trompie suddenly saw them…
He charged. I jumped in his way:
“You don’t, you hear me!”
He stopped dead in the run.
We turned around and walked the other way, ignoring the chicks.
They kept following us.
I let them pass and they went around the corner of the building.
Trompie and I turned around and went home the other way.
Trompie was very good in listening to me.
I am very proud of him.
Well done, Trompie – and well done Ineke for training him so well.
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Thank you, I still do not fully trust Trompie at all! If he wants to do something he sometimes doesn’t listen
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Julle het omtrent ‘n besige tydjie gehad daar op die plaas!
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Dit was so lekker ek was spyt toe twe weke om was. Dis heeltemaal iets anders.
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Soet Trompie!
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Baie trots op hom.
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It sounds as though your house-sitting actually involved quite a lot of hard work!
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I enjoyed each moment of it. It runs in my blood to be out farming!
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Aaaaag hy is te oulik want hy was darem seker baie lus om onder hulle in te spring! Daardie eiers lyk darem pragtig Kan nie sê wanneer ek laas vars eiers gesien het nie.
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Om elke dag soveel eiers te kry het my wiele pap genaak. Ek het tweekeer 25 vir Bertus en familie gegee. Derde keer wou hul nie hê nie en het dit vir n “siekehuis” oorkant die straat gegee.
Die laastes het ek vir die eienaar gelos.
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hehehe… dis nou regtig oormaat.
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En hoe!
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Ek het asem opgehou, vir ñ rukkie…
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Toemaar ek ook want ek het geweet as Trompie nie luister nie sou dit verby met die kiepies gewees het. Hul is egter so mak hul wil sommer saam met ons loop.
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What a lovely experience to house sit there. Good dog Trompie 🙂
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It was awesome to be there. Trompie was very good. He really wanted to grab them when we went to feed them. The chickens were so tame they kept on coming nearer and nearer to us.
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Well done Trompie! We have to keep our 🐶 and 🐔 apart as it doesn’t end well 😦
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Indeed, those chicks look so good and tasty. The thing is I won’t stop till they are all dead and done with. Trompie behaved very well, I’m glad he reacted like that of the lead. I always have him on the lead.
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