Hiking Trails

AT the feeding this morning both Lola's 12 day old filly and Soul's 6 day old filly tasted and loved the grain.  When a foal is curious then tastes and eats the grain it makes weaning much easier. Below is Lola's filly enjoying her own bucket.

Below is Soul's filly tasting the grain and then eating it out of her own bucket.

On the walk Hannah showed us a picture of the beautiful rainbow taken by Jubilee Plattner over Chad and LauraLee Plattner's house in Tremont, IL last night.

When we got to Mike and Diane's the tarp had blown off the jeep again so this time Hannah and  Ruth put it back on.

After the walk Valiant's shelter was cleaned out and a new bale installed. That took from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm as there was so much wet rotting hay. We did not have the hay feeder installed from last August until today. His last one rusted through and was not usable. Today I used a part of the old cattle round bale feeder and a part of one of the horse round bale feeders and made that work. Hopefully there will not be near as much hay wasted for this next year. Valiant loved that as he was in the pasture the entire time the skid steer was being used in his paddock. I now have 2 really big manure piles that will need to be spread as soon as we get the manure spreader fixed.

Karin took out a group trail riding using Ayanna, Cookie, Missy, Sally, and Sangria while I was working on Valiant's shelter so no pictures.
Anna dropped off the girls so she could get a few errands taken care of. We had an adventure on the 'death trails' exploring lots of different things and saw lots of fallen trees that were almost perfect as bridges across the creek. Even Rizzy used those logs as bridges.

If you would like to see the rest of the pictures from the hike click HERE. I was very glad for the hot water in the stall barn, the hose was hooked up and the muddy feet washed off up at the barn instead of dragging all that mud into the house.
Irish is due in 9 days but her udder is still not bagged up enough to bring her inside for the night. She is very low key and spends a lot of the day drowsing in the sunshine.