Duke

Pulling into the farm this morning before 7:00am there is Duke standing in the middle of the circle drive just waiting to be put away. There is a board down in his paddock so he is put into the front shed paddock. It is small and muddy but has a round bale in it so he should be fine. Over to grain Raven and out of the corner of my eye, there goes Duke, he takes 2 trot steps and jumps the paddock fence. This is the problem with ponies, they are just too smart, he looked at the fence, considered the height, and popped over it. We need to bring him into Bridlewood and have Rhoda train him for PonyClub. He easily clears 4 foot fences. Autumn was up at the gate which made it very convenient to check her udder but no sign of filling up yet. She is not due until the end of this month. While she was being checked over Jenis came up to see why Autumn was getting attention so both mares were let out to graze with Duke. As Diane, Rachel and I were on the second barn loop of the walk, the 3 came walking out of the field to greet us. The mares were put back and Duke was locked up with the boys, I'm sure it won't take long for him to figure out how to get out of that paddock but it may hold him for a day until the fence can be repaired in his. The hay is now so tall it is falling over, we only had one opportunity to cut, just 3 short days of sunshine last week but the farmer worked on his fields instead of ours. Now there is rain predicted each day. It is very tempting to fence in the 17 acre hay field as we don't have our own haying equipment.