Weaning Day

 Amy arrived in time to go on the second round of the walk. She offered to help make a video of Kyro IF I would cook her breakfast. That was a great trade. We actually took both Kyro and his half brother Moonlight out to the field and made the video for Kyro's owner and Moonlight's owner. Kyro's dam is our Andalusian mare Madiera and his sire is Evan. Moonlight's dam is Rosaleigh and his sire is Evan. Check out the amazing movement on these two colts. Kyro is the dark bay and Moonlight is the black. I also took a few pictures for the website.

               

They were turned out in the field to graze for a few hours.

Amy left to head to Bridlewood about the time Anna came to clean the apartment. I asked if I could have the girls help with my next project which was to take a short video of Jewel's filly. 

Our next BIG job was the main job of the day. Today was weaning day for 4. We started with Jewel and her filly. The girls waited at the barn door and as soon as the filly followed her mom into the stall barn the girls shut the door. They were taken into a stall and a halter was put on the filly then the filly tied. Jewel was given some grain in the stall across the aisle.  The girls did the same job when Hadassah and her filly were brought inside. Again they shut the barn doors while Hadassah and her filly were led into the stall holding Jewel's filly. Hadassah was led right back outside and put in a different stall. We did the same routine for Madiera's colt and Rosaleigh's colt. Both the fillies are now in one of the big foaling stalls and both colts are now in one of the other foaling stalls. Madiera was loaded into the trailer first, then Rosaleigh followed by Hadassah and finally Jewel. The girls climbed into the back seat of the truck and off we left for Middle Grove.  They helped with the unloading by opening and shutting the gate as each mare was taken out of the trailer and put in the field. Below are a few pictures of the mares. They called a few times, then dropped their heads to graze for a bit.

Called a few more times then took off for the herd.

We stopped at Casey's to fill up the truck and the tummies as by this time it was almost 1:00 pm and past our lunch time.  After eating lunch the new weanlings were given fresh water,  grain and more hay. They are still calling for their mom's but are standing quietly.  I have them on the monitor and am pleased to see they have not dumped their water buckets. All is going well for the first day of weaning.  Phil picked up the girls, I made supper, and will now work on updated the website.