Morning chores

The summer is definetly here. The grass needs mowing twice a week now, the mornings are beautiful and as you can see, misty dew is the order of the day before it quickly burns off in the early morning sunshine.

I had been feeding the horses in their bowls out in the field but now I've built two feeding stations inside the shelter and that should help a lot with the handling and elimination of having to find the bowls when the horses have finished kicking them around. There is always the fear of one of them stepping on the bowl and hurting itself.

Our rescue dog Beckett is pretty taken with the morning feedings. He insists on coming with me and finds it entertaining. As long as he's getting something positive out of it, then we're all ahead of the game.

I've begun to divid up the lower field. I've got 8 of the posts put into the ground and unfortunately each needs to be hand dug since the cedar spike posts are still not around. It's making for a slow go in the field setup. I did have to get a new electric device. The old one i had just wasn't giving out a jolt on the line. It wasn't an issue since both horses respect the fence line but you never know and it's just when you least expect it that there is a need.

I'm so far behind the game on the training of the horses. It's been taking all my time just to keep at the improvements. I think I'm almost caught up now. The shelter still needs some work but it is sound and dry for the horses. I've made a cross tie station so I can work on the horses without worrying too much. Tonight I had Jane out in the field seeing how Wyatt would act while I train her. As I suspected, he's a little uneasy when she's not there beside him.

Last week I had to run new water lines to the shelter. I have two watering stations but only need the one since they the horses are not competitive at all. It's a little different with the grain stations. I have two of them at opposite ends of the shelter. At least then I know they've both got a good go at getting an even share.
I've taken some advice from Jana an put down 4 bags of wood pellets and then soaked them. They're great for the shelter. It keeps it nice and dry and easy to clean out. The horses love the shelter to escape the hot sun and horse flies. I'm going to need to get some fly repellant product and start coating the horses with it to keep their irritation down some. This week Mike Arsenault is due up on Wednesday to trim up the horse's hooves. Wyatt is beginning to favour his back one so it's time to get the two of them set up.

With the summer started, the shelter in place, the horses now settled and the major work out of the way, just the fencing and the training for the horses to worry about. Well, that and painting the outside of the house in town. It's gonna be a good summer.