We have a decent amount of property here and a bunch of horses needlessly standing around in small corrals. The perimeter of the property is fenced and we have been working on some cross fencing but never seem to find the time to ever finish anything. We have both been just sick of seeing the poor mares just standing around mindlessly in inches of mud none-the-less. So today we took two of the girls, Sunday and Hornet and just turned them loose. We put Cody. the stallion where they couldn't get to them and closed the perimeter gates. These two girls were the two we thought would cause the most trouble, so I waited until Sunday's nose was deep in the grass and just let the halter fall. I petted her and walked away. Hornet was a good girl too. Just happy to be out and went to eating grass.
So I thought why not get another horse? So I went to get Cat and put her out. They are loving it. Nobody ran like an idiot. I was just sure somebody would hurt themselves on something. We will see if they are there in the morning! Then we will put out a few more with them. I think we have at least three others that we want to put out. My little BLM mustang mare is one of them. She used to be out with the cattle when they were in Tehachapi. Suena, Jeremy's buckskin mare is another. Min, the paint mare Jeremy has rode quite a bit. Charlie, Jeremy's gelding he doesn't get to ride much anymore. Heck we could probably put them all out but I think we will leave it at that for now. There is plenty of room where they are on the bottom half of the property for all of them. Hopefully our hay bill will be relieved even if just a bit!
We have a decent amount of property here and a bunch of horses needlessly standing around in small corrals. The perimeter of the property is fenced and we have been working on some cross fencing but never seem to find the time to ever finish anything. We have both been just sick of seeing the poor mares just standing around mindlessly in inches of mud none-the-less. So today we took two of the girls, Sunday and Hornet and just turned them loose. We put Cody. the stallion where they couldn't get to them and closed the perimeter gates. These two girls were the two we thought would cause the most trouble, so I waited until Sunday's nose was deep in the grass and just let the halter fall. I petted her and walked away. Hornet was a good girl too. Just happy to be out and went to eating grass.
So I thought why not get another horse? So I went to get Cat and put her out. They are loving it. Nobody ran like an idiot. I was just sure somebody would hurt themselves on something. We will see if they are there in the morning! Then we will put out a few more with them. I think we have at least three others that we want to put out. My little BLM mustang mare is one of them. She used to be out with the cattle when they were in Tehachapi. Suena, Jeremy's buckskin mare is another. Min, the paint mare Jeremy has rode quite a bit. Charlie, Jeremy's gelding he doesn't get to ride much anymore. Heck we could probably put them all out but I think we will leave it at that for now. There is plenty of room where they are on the bottom half of the property for all of them. Hopefully our hay bill will be relieved even if just a bit!
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