Nothing new to report with Tyson. He lost a little weight with the frigid temperatures but the weight is already back on. Ever since his major injury he's been a 'hard keeper' not to mention accident prone. I think he gets bored so he gets into trouble...he's a character, let me tell ya!!
Star is sweet as always. She's handling the winter very gracefully and enjoying her warm stall at night. Have I ever mentioned how she starts her Harley at feeding time? If not, keep reading...if so you can skip to the next paragraph... Star makes noise, a nicker maybe, that sounds just like a Harley motorcycle starting up! She kinda growls or grumbles with an eagerness to it. Hard to explain but it makes me smile every time she does it! The only time she does it is at feeding time - so stinkin' cute!
Melody has been the one that gets the most training done lately. She had her first trim with the farrier so we had worked on picking all of her feet before hand. She amazed me again with how quickly she caught on! Hubby helped me with this task because he's so strong! I didn't want to have her be able to take her foot away from me so Hubby helped out with her back feet. She fought him BIG time the first time he picked her back foot up. The second time wasn't near the struggle as the first and the third time she just picked it up and stood relaxed, like she's been doing this for years! We went to the other side and the struggle for the other hind was 'half-assed' and then she just stood there like she was supposed to. She picks her front feet up fine - has been since the second day we had her home! When the farrier came, she did fine with her front feet and only fought her back foot a little, just to see what she could get away with, I think. She did her other back foot just fine - no fight whatsoever! We will keep working on leading and her feet but other than that, I don't like to baby the babies. In my experience, foals who have been babied end up pushy and spoiled. I want her to be respectful and attentive to my every move, not uninterested. I know everyone has their own views on this but that's ok. I just know what has worked for me and what hasn't. I take her out and work with her on stuff about once a month or so, like yesterday I had to work on walking calmly through gates. She developed a want to run through gates so that she can get to playing so that was a lesson needed right away. But her next lesson with something new won't be for a couple weeks since we did the feet thing. Does that make sense? I address the issues right away that show themselves but teach her new things every 4 - 6 weeks and refresh the stuff already learned. I hope that makes sense...
Until next time!
Quote for the day:
"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
-Mark Twain
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