Wild Horse

Well when mom got off work she hitched up the trailer to bring Dolly back to the ranch. I go out to catch her and she decided to wanted to play instead of being caught it was so damn cute. We played for 5 mintues and then she let me walk up and catch her. Then we loaded her up and headed to the ranch. She was snorting and dancing around but I thought what the hell and jumped up figuring she would settle down. Umm nope she was a ball of fire waiting to explode on me. So I go off and decided that I would turn her lose with the gelding for a bit and then take her into the barn. Since I had to go to work I left her halter on her making it easier for mom to catch her since somtimes she can be a challange. She tore across the field neck arched tail flaring, if I didn't know better I thought she looked like a darn Arab. She got to play in the field for a while and then mom had a hard time catching her. She is currently in her stall still full of energy, looks like the lower field will be closed to maintance of a new cross fence she it will be lunging time for her for a few days. Wish me luck, I might get to go for a ride on Wen. my aunt don't work and she said we might haul out. I don't get excited over things like that becuse normally they don't happen. However, I have to get that extra energy off of her. She hasn't been on a trail ride since her main training quite a few years back. I did a little bit about a year or so ago around the ladies property but never with other horses and she was used to the area we were in. So it could get interesting to say the least.

not much

There hasn't been much going on around here... We got the new stud pen up for Buggs so he should be going in it today. I plan to take my mare back to the Ranch as she has been at home the last few weeks. I will put her in the the stall and turn out daily, I also am going to try and get some weight on her for some reason she dropped weight and I can't get it back on her.

Barbara

Buggin Doc Hollywood

Buggs AKA Moose made it home safe and sound. He hasn't been handled since September and had never seen a trailer in his life. After roughly 2 hours he loaded up and was ready to go. He handled the 5 hour ride without a problem even with a few stops along the way. Without much problem he backed out of our 2 horse straight load like he had been doing it his whole life. The colt we hauled down did wonderful to, he hoped right into the trailer. Buggs walked into the barn and into his stall all tired from the trip. I was able to brush him down and get a lot of mudd off of him. He is much bigger then we thought he would be and looks really good.

Loading the colt

Today we worked on loading the colt into the trailer, he has hauled once when he was 1 month old. He is in for a 5 hour haul tomorrow, he did great going in and out he only panicked a little bit inside the trailer. Tomorrow we will be off to drop off the colt and pick up the new one.

Wet and Rainy

Well another day of rain and more rain.... We finished our second stall in the barn tonight!!! Our colt got lead in and shut into the new iso stall. This one is built as a weaning stall, it has 8 foot walls and a 5 foot door. This stall will also be used to get horses used to stall life that are not. We are planing on putting a small wire screen on it but it will come in time. Our horses are let out daily and handled all the time. We plan to cut down the rabbits and continue rebuilding the barn. We hope that by next winter each horse will have its own stall, our pasture tend to get muddy and really wet in the winter so it will be a nice change.

I swear....

Ok, I have said this serval times but I think I am going to do it from now on..... A blooger I speak to told me its a great way to keep a journal of what is going on around your place and what you have done with your horses. As I have sat here and read things I have blogged I forgot I even done that.....

Dolly is weaned and in our backyard doing wonderful.... She is be leaving to go down south in a few weeks to get bred. She will stay down there for a month, I sure will miss her.

This weekend were headed down to trade Jester ( Dollys 2009 foal ) for a 2008 AQHA Bay Stallion. He is from the ranch I worked at and I imprinted him at an early age. He is very frindly and very nice. He has a better pedigree then Jester and should breed in nice with our heard.