Friday, August 7, 2015

Stupid Paint

Well, we are back to square one with the big pasture. Last week before we left on vacation, Mike moved the temporary electric fence so the horses would have the ENTIRE bottom half of the pasture (along with the quarter that they’d been on for the past month). Everything was supposed to be golden. The last little quarter that they’d been on in June would hold them while we were in the hospital in September.

We got home last Wednesday night and being that the baby is sitting on a nerve, I didn’t feel the urge to check everyone in the dark out in the pasture and worry about tripping on a rock or falling in a hole. So I opted to wait. What did I find when I went to check on the big herd, the whole damn herd in the one part of the pasture we’d been trying to keep them off of.

I was more than livid when I saw it. I had no idea where they broke the fence. So much for having ANY pasture in September so that I wouldn’t have to worry while I’m in the hospital or have to call in yet ANOTHER favor.

I have my suspicion that it was King who did all the fence pushing and fence breaking.  I am putting him in with the ponies and that will be the end of this crap (sorry, I’m just that angry over the entire deal). I don’t know if the pasture where I wanted to put them in September will come back in time. There’s less than a month but we have been getting rain. I don’t know. I am afraid they were on that part of the pasture the entire time we were gone. Furious doesn’t begin to explain my mood these days with those blasted horses.

Next year when I’m finally physically able, we are dividing the pasture permanently. I’m going to deal with this any more. And it could be that King will become a drylot horse. He’s already got the beginnings of laminitis in one of his feet. He might as well be drylotted with the ponies. I can’t figure out that two years ago we had half the herd out at the  neighbors in ONE STRAND of electric and this time around there’s two strands and they keep blowing through it.

King.

He and Jim were the two that were never allowed over at the neighbors. Jim respects and fears electric (but if he does get loose he’s a runner). So it has to be King.

He is now permanently removed from the big herd until further notice.

F.U.R.I.O.U.S.

Anyone want a big fat, naughty, paint?

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