Becky
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Well I’m glad that you can teach him while keeping your horse under your own protective eye. :-) I’m outta here after I eat lunch.
Those are great pictures. I agree it’s amazing how the camera shoots through fence. It did the same in the fourth picture. My level of science knowledge is “it’s magic” :)
Have fun :)
Becky
Oh, he does look good. The pasture looks good too but the addition of him in the picture is great :) He’s not too fat, he just looks healthy. (He is such a beautiful horse)
Thanks Duchess:)..
Becky
He looks terrific, and that’s another good example of the great zoom on that new camera of yours!
OK - We’re out of here for a short ride... Talk to you all later!
At the meeting for new handlers, one couple had a real problem -- they have a Lab, they also have a PARROT. This could get pretty hairy . . . .
Six weeks . . . that’s really a short time, should fix right up. I guess her eyes just look sad. Don’t you know she’s glad to be back home!
I was looking at your pictures again. In that third picture, are those bales of hay laying outside of horse runs? That would sure be convienent for feeding. Do you have some type of vehicle you carry the bales there and drop them off as you need them?
I was also wondering how you are going to feed the mare, Friday?, now that she is home? Do you know what and how much she was getting there to help figure what you can safely give her now? Or are you going to just go back to feeding her what you did before?
She was sure a stout thing in the before pictures:).
Also from the pictures, was the guy that had her living like in an RV park? Did he just have panels set up there?
Becky
Oh...well then.....yep that’s a awful sound they make. Just awful:’).
Friday looks much better today, she ate a bunch of carrots like they were candy, dived into her lunch time hay and got brushed. I believe she'll be smiling soon.
You know she's glad to be back!
. . . another good command for the dogs is "LEAVE IT!" If that doesn't work, there's always "DROP IT!"
We put Friday on alfalfa three times a day plus some oats and some Strategy. Not a lot and Bob is increasing it daily until she's back where we had her. We don't know how much she was being given, although apparently she only got hay. She has to be built up gradually, you're right about that. It looks like Sam is not nursing any more - he is getting hay and Strategy and cleaned up all the Strategy he was given last night.
The guy that had her has a really nice house and land with a metal four stall barn and panels. The turn out area for each stall is not large though. That was perplexing when we first saw her. Nice barn, clean shavings in the stall, fresh water. I really believe now he just didn't know how to take care of her but she probably would have gained weight and been okay there since she was away from other horses finally and didn't have to fight for food. I think the guy just didn't realize how bad she had gone down.
Just realized what you are seeing in the pictures. Her stall and paddock backs up to my neighbor’s fence and he has his old camper shell parked there. That’s what he was using during the coyote war :) so he could watch for coyotes without opening the door to his house.
Naw... you said “love it” first! :~)
Back from trail ride, spamming to get to the next page so I can post a bunch of pictures :~)
Back from trail ride, spamming to get to the next page so I can post a bunch of pictures :~)
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