Horse Talk

[ChickenLover200]

I'd so rather deal with sticks! I hate picking up rocks, and every says there's no point in bothering with them since there's so dang many. It's not really an arena built for horses either, it's just a thing off the barn where cows were kept becuase it's an old milk barn, but it does the trick.

I'd help if I could you haven't seen how many sticks we have here

 

[abigalerose]

Lol you come pick up the rocks and I'll come pick up the sticks!

 

[ChickenLover200]

Lol you come pick up the rocks and I'll come pick up the sticks!

We just finished putting stone in our round pen. Have to fence it in, then work on picking up sticks and electrifying new pasture space. Got 11/2 acres

 

[abigalerose]

Good news:
-Phoenix has shed pretty much all his winter coat and he looks beautiful.
-Me and Phoenix had some good bonding time today.
-Worked on going forward and turning with June and made a tiny bit of progress.
-Worked on walk/trot voice commands while lunging with June and made a ton of progress.
-Learned that June handles standing tied like a pro.
-June and Phoenix are really starting to bond, it was all about the amount of space.
-June had her first bath yesterday and was very good.


Bad news:
-June was as stubborn as a mule for most of the time riding, she would throw her head up, back up, and try to nip my legs.
-She also kept slamming me into the fence, she was stuck to the fence like glue today, my knees have a million bruises.
-June also hurt her leg a little bit somehow, or more likely her hoof, she had little rocks in it that I picked out but was still walking on it like it was a little tender, if the rocks were what caused it then that could be why she was stubborn, and if that's so then I feel really bad, but she didn't show it till the end of our time together, but I'm giving her a few days to rest and then seeing how she is.


Also; I'm considering building a new round pen, in a flat really soft area with no rocks, and using that seat belt material so my legs aren't getting smashed and if one of the horses runs into it it won't hurt them, plus it'd be completely round so June wouldn't try turning in the cornerish areas

(Phoenix is smiling but it's blurry)

1 month difference, gettin in shape

 

[ChickenLover200]

Good news:
-Phoenix has shed pretty much all his winter coat and he looks beautiful.
-Me and Phoenix had some good bonding time today.
-Worked on going forward and turning with June and made a tiny bit of progress.
-Worked on walk/trot voice commands while lunging with June and made a ton of progress.
-Learned that June handles standing tied like a pro.
-June and Phoenix are really starting to bond, it was all about the amount of space.
-June had her first bath yesterday and was very good.


Bad news:
-June was as stubborn as a mule for most of the time riding, she would throw her head up, back up, and try to nip my legs.
-She also kept slamming me into the fence, she was stuck to the fence like glue today, my knees have a million bruises.
-June also hurt her leg a little bit somehow, or more likely her hoof, she had little rocks in it that I picked out but was still walking on it like it was a little tender, if the rocks were what caused it then that could be why she was stubborn, and if that's so then I feel really bad, but she didn't show it till the end of our time together, but I'm giving her a few days to rest and then seeing how she is.


Also; I'm considering building a new round pen, in a flat really soft area with no rocks, and using that seat belt material so my legs aren't getting smashed and if one of the horses runs into it it won't hurt them, plus it'd be completely round so June wouldn't try turning in the cornerish areas

(Phoenix is smiling but it's blurry)

1 month difference, gettin in shape

Nice pictures!

 

[abigalerose]

Thanks, bet you can't guess who the camera hog is!

 

[I Love Layers]

Thanks, bet you can't guess who the camera hog is!

as long as they don't eat the camera.

 

[ChickenLover200]

Thanks, bet you can't guess who the camera hog is!

Phoenix must be like my cinnamon and Eli. They will literally fight each other for camera attention

 

[abigalerose]

He likes to be groomed and he likes his picture taken and that's it lol. And they both like to play in the pond

 

[ChickenLover200]

Wehave a pond, but it is full of cat tails... (Not literal cat tails, but the plant) so you can't see where the water begins and ends...