Mare Pasture

Right after the walk the mare pasture needed another round bale. We put one in on Friday but the mares rolled it out of the round bale feeder causing waste. Below Marika and Jewel are standing in the hay while their colts take a nap on that nice soft bed.

 Emma and her colt came right up for some attention

 Sangria's colt is smart, he stands behind the mare with the thickest longest tail. Today he was up with Emma and her colt using Emma's tail to keep off the flies. He is shedding off his foal coat and it looks black underneath. He was born bay so we are assuming he will be a dark bay or black bay when full grown. He has the curliest mane of all of our foals.

 Marika's colt jumped up from his nap and came over for some attention.

 After the bale was moved Indy had an itch on her belly and was trying to figure out the best way to scratch it. There really is a tremendous amount of waste when the bale is not in a feeder. These horses find all kinds of uses for hay.

 The foals watching Indy from left to right are Emma's colt, Ribbon's filly and Indy's filly.

Mark needed a sprayer brought down to the shop this morning and as long as I was there the first of the month bills could be paid a couple days early. I lost my glasses in the Berean move and decided since it has been 6 and a half years since my last eye exam it probably was time for a new pair. Sam's eye doctor starts taking walk-ins at 1:00 pm so I made sure I was there by that time. There was only a few minutes wait before it was my turn and I was pleasantly surprised to find my eyes hadn't changed much in those 6 and a half years. The eye doctor decided the eyes needed to be dilated which meant the rest of the afternoon either dark sunglasses were worn or a nice quiet dark room, perfect for an afternoon nap.
Karin called when they reached Boston, they made their connecting flight to Chicago and will be home late tonight or the wee hours of the morning tomorrow. We will be glad to have them home safe.
There is just too many mares on the mare pasture so 2 of the pairs were removed from that pasture and put in the pond pasture. Rosalie and Oksana were moved out of the pond pasture and put back in the middle paddock.  Emma and her colt were moved as Emma needs to be grained and Marika and her colt.  This evening Marika was teased and covered by Evan. Emma went over and started showing to Killian. If she is still showing tomorrow afternoon we will let Killian cover her. The paddocks are in terrible shape. Each time Evan is taken out he must be given a bath before he can be used. He has a nice dry shelter but the mud is deep by the waterer and by the gates. Poor Killian, even his shelter is muddy.  When Emily comes home he will be bathed then stalled. Wednesday we find out if Luna is pregnant, if she is she can go home then we will move Killian into that paddock as it is still in decent shape.