Catching up…

I notice I’m getting a little erratic on my blogging – I shall try to get back to a daily post.

Since the last post, we’ve got the second paddock up and running at last, so the horses are on fresh grass and I’ve shut off the soggy end paddock, now officially named ‘Bog End’. When I opened the gate into their new paddock George went straight through, Dancer lingered near the gateway looking nervous and calling for her mum, and I ended up walking down to fetch Abe, who followed me amiably back and padded straight through the grass with an expression of polite interest, then Poppy strolled straight in and Dancer fell in on her hooves meekly. This evening they’d forgotten where the gate was so I had to go down the field and extract them for their meals – then run for it as they caught on and came thundering out! By the time I’d taken the short cut under the fence to the yard, they’d gone cantering round the house and I just got to the door in time to steer horses to their proper buckets!

I must take some photos of George at dinner time, he looks absolutely magnificent, all arched neck and a fine upstanding hunk of a horse!

Michelle found the short and eliminated it, by the way, so that’s done.

We’ve trimmed a lot more weeds today and I just have a short stretch left before I can put up the next piece of wire to make the next paddock.

Tomorrow I need to stalk the chickens when they leave their house in the morning – I don’t know where they’re laying but it’s not where I can find them!

The silkie chicks have been moved to their next enclosure – bigger again, with both food and water suspended so they’ll get used to the idea before they join the flock and have to fend for themselves in the henhouse. While I was doing that, of course, I had the four adults all ‘helping’… standing around my feet chattering about it and pecking me!!