Fast and Furious Fencing Needed

My brain must be running on empty. There’s been so much going on that I haven’t had much time to post. Our neighbor has graciously allowed us to “mow” his lawn with some of the horses. He is like me in that I’d rather not have to mow when there’s good grass to be eaten. I’ll admit that I’m a little nervous not having the horses right in my sights but it’ll be good to spare the pasture for a couple weeks. If I can get my act together, I can get a couple horses over to the neighbors by this weekend and keep them there until we go on our family vacation (aka my once a year vacation to rejuvenate myself).

There’s only one hitch. His lawn has no fencing. Lucky for us the neighbor has everything to put up temporary fencing. We went over last night and put posts in and tonight we’ll put the actual fence up. I’m hoping that I can get one or two horses over to the neighbor’s by Friday but the temps are doing to dictate exactly how much I actually get done.

I also need to do some fast and furious fencing on the road pasture and the back pasture. I pulled Queen out a month ago so she could actually eat grass. But she’s not best friends with Dick or Rabbit and she is lonely. I need to get the babies (Mayhem and Sahara) in with her. But two strands of barbless wire will not keep those babies in. So I need to do some fancy fencing work ASAP for Queen’s sake. I think I have everything figured out as to who goes where. I did notice that I need to handle Mayhem and Sahara a little bit more this week/weekend. They are getting skittish. Sahara isn’t packing on the pounds as fast as I had hoped. I’m guessing she’s full of worms so we’ll see how she takes a tube of dewormer. It could be interesting.

I need to prepare for the upcoming heat. It’ll be in the mid 90s this weekend and I’m worried for the horses. The heat is just too much for the oldsters. I need to make a fast trip in to Walmart and pick up a bunch of box fans for the barn and leanto. I’m betting everyone will want some type of air blowing on them. I need to keep a close eye on the oldsters and Rain to make sure they are handling the heat. I’m seeing lots of baths in the very near future.

I realized yesterday that I missed Prize’s two month birthday. His baby hair has really bleached out and he’s losing his hair on his face. He’ll be identical to Savanna when he grows up. Savanna is also fading out. Of the black horses, only Chaos has not faded. Everyone else has faded in one area or another. I also realized that yesterday that Bo has been with us for four months. He looks a million times better than the first day he arrived but he still has a long way to go. I figure he’ll be a hard keeper but at least I’m prepared. He’s still slowly gaining weight every day. I can’t wait to see what he looks like next year after a full year of recovery. I just can’t stop thinking about his terrible fate he would have had to face had Borderlands not been at the auction to pull him. Would he have been rejected by the feedlot, would he have had to stand in a feedlot to be fattened only to face a terrible fate, or would they have accepted him as thin as he was? It’s all thoughts I don’t want to even think about. Bo is too amazing of a horse to have ended up with a fate like slaughter. But each horse has too much potential or training to end up being slaughtered. I’m just glad Borderlands could be there. And with the thought of Bo in my mind, I’m going to ask a question in my next post. Possibly another challenge or really just a question to see if this thought is even feasible in this area.