My 5 horses are making me gray! I moved Spook in between the 2 other Thoroughbreds and what a mistake that has been! All she wants to do is fight with both of them. She kicks the panels and has them all dented up! So I'm moving her back into her old corral as soon as it warms up a bit more. Horses... what a major headache! LOL!
We had beautiful weather this past weekend. I had another near horse disaster though. I decided to see how Ebony would do with a saddle back on... she's the one that I fell off of about 6 weeks ago and she ran off with the saddle upside down!
Anyway, I spent a few hours working with her on the ground and just as I was about to remove the saddle, my sister showed up and told me that I didn't have her tied right to the hitching post, so she untied her and I told her she'd better tie her back up and she said"I've got her"... well as soon as I started to pull the saddle off (no easy task on a 17 hand high horse!)that set Ebony off and she pulled back and Brenda let go of the lead rope and off Ebony ran... like a bat out of hell!
She ended up falling into one of the other horses corrals and injured her leg! I couldn't believe it! Don told me that my sis and I are disasters when it comes to horses! Ain't it the truth! It's always something around here! I do pray that your life is uneventful compared to mine!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Surenuff Learned A New Lesson!
I think Spook is always going to be the horse that gives me headaches and heartaches. It's hard to explain her, sometimes she can be so affectionate and other times she just turns her back on me. But I'm finding with patience, she usually comes back around.
I think she is the kind of horse that would be happy to be the only horse around. I don't think she really likes her stable mates.
Saturday while I was feeding, I noticed that the flake of hay smelled "funny" and I tore it apart and found a dead black bird in it! Geesh did it smell bad!
I ended up throwing most of that bale away!
That may have been what caused Spook's upset tummy.. not sure but I do know that she snubbed her nose at the alfalfa and seemed content just to eat grass hay for the past 2 days.
It's so cold and I know that these cold temps don't set well with her. They don't even set well with me and I spend most of my time in a comfortable home or office with the heaters blasting away!
I had a bad experience with my 2 year old filly Surenuff yesterday. I noticed that she had gotten the chains off one corral panel and it was leaning into the adjoining corral. So I went into Sure's corral and she has this habit of wanting to be right in your face and she just kept bumping me into the corral panel and biting at my head and grabbing my jacket. So I jumped up and yelled at her to "Get Back"! Well that set her off. She jumped up on her rear legs and started pawing at me. Scared the living bee jee bees out of me! So I kept screaming and yelling and waving my arms at her. I was yelling so loud, Don came running outside to see what was up and he saw Sure on her back legs lunging at me.
She finally backed me into a corner and I managed to scramble up and over the panel but boy was I hot! Don yelled at me to see if I was ok and I yelled back "I am now but boy this horse is gonna pay!"
So I grabbed my lunge whip and I spent the next 15 minutes teaching her what the command "GET BACK" means! I know that she was just "horsing around" but it really scared me that she felt no fear about rearing on her back legs and pursuing me!
Danged horses! I'm too old for this kind of stuff! LOL!
But she paid a price for her little antics. She was the last one to be fed and everytime she came close to me I yelled "GET BACK" and boy did she ever back up fast!
In fact, all the horses were backing up when I yelled at Sure!!
Well so much for another wonderful horse life experience!!
I think she is the kind of horse that would be happy to be the only horse around. I don't think she really likes her stable mates.
Saturday while I was feeding, I noticed that the flake of hay smelled "funny" and I tore it apart and found a dead black bird in it! Geesh did it smell bad!
I ended up throwing most of that bale away!
That may have been what caused Spook's upset tummy.. not sure but I do know that she snubbed her nose at the alfalfa and seemed content just to eat grass hay for the past 2 days.
It's so cold and I know that these cold temps don't set well with her. They don't even set well with me and I spend most of my time in a comfortable home or office with the heaters blasting away!
I had a bad experience with my 2 year old filly Surenuff yesterday. I noticed that she had gotten the chains off one corral panel and it was leaning into the adjoining corral. So I went into Sure's corral and she has this habit of wanting to be right in your face and she just kept bumping me into the corral panel and biting at my head and grabbing my jacket. So I jumped up and yelled at her to "Get Back"! Well that set her off. She jumped up on her rear legs and started pawing at me. Scared the living bee jee bees out of me! So I kept screaming and yelling and waving my arms at her. I was yelling so loud, Don came running outside to see what was up and he saw Sure on her back legs lunging at me.
She finally backed me into a corner and I managed to scramble up and over the panel but boy was I hot! Don yelled at me to see if I was ok and I yelled back "I am now but boy this horse is gonna pay!"
So I grabbed my lunge whip and I spent the next 15 minutes teaching her what the command "GET BACK" means! I know that she was just "horsing around" but it really scared me that she felt no fear about rearing on her back legs and pursuing me!
Danged horses! I'm too old for this kind of stuff! LOL!
But she paid a price for her little antics. She was the last one to be fed and everytime she came close to me I yelled "GET BACK" and boy did she ever back up fast!
In fact, all the horses were backing up when I yelled at Sure!!
Well so much for another wonderful horse life experience!!
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