Moving Mares

On Sunday I moved the mares from their winter pasture to the small drylot pen. I don't want the horses tearing up the pasture when they haven't even gotten to enjoy it for very long. Since Queen was wandering everywhere in the pasture, I decided the sooner the better.

I finished off the second round bale of alfalfa and moved the mares on Sunday to the drylot. I think Babe prefers the drylot since there are no obstacles and she can't get lost. I do think she likes the summer pasture since it's smaller and has a distinct hill for her to help her find where she's going.

But since I've moved the mares to the drylot I may have to change up my evening routine tonight. The winter pasture has lots of places for the mares to get out of the wind. Unfortunately this little drylot isn't as nice. Now that it's raining and super windy, I'm thinking I'll pull the mares into the hayshed stalls and let them enjoy a windfree and dry stall for the evening. It might be a bit loud in the stalls, which is my only concern for Babe. She has to have everything super quiet so she can use her ears to see.

I guess I'll have to play it by ear to see how windy it is and where to put the mares. I'm hoping to get out right away to get started on chores. Mike is at training tonight so I have just a few extra chores to take care of.

Hopefully there wont' be any surprises like there was this morning. We occasionally have a wandering TomCat come on our place. He's such a doll but won't stick around. I call him Stubby because his tail is about half as long as it should be.

This morning when I went into the haybarn to turn on the light, I saw something sitting up on the strawbales. I was afraid it would be a racoon but figured I might as well turn the light on to see exactly what it was. No racoon, no skunk, no possum. Just good ol' Stubby. We cuddled for just a couple minutes and then it was on to chores. Hopefully Stubby keeps the mice down in the haybarn.

Nothing else exciting going on so far. The weather has turned chilly again so not a lot of time to do much outside. I do have to say, doing chores in the evening without coveralls is so nice. I'm starting to get spoiled again.