May
2009
The great cattle drive… and chase
May 9th, 2009 at 07:28 pm by Shari Thomas in Around the Farm, Family Cow, HorsesTwo horses, two sometimes cowboys, a cow and calf, and a pickup truck made this whole 1l2 mile process look like we were herding cats.
Our ranch horse, Neche, wasn’t really wanting to work today. This is the first time she’s been asked to actually work, as in help herd a couple of cows. She’s spooky and sometimes prefers to avoid us. We think she was a hard broke horse, that never got much love and attention.
Cindy and I spent a couple hours working her from the ground in the round pen this morning. That included a good brushing, and playing “follow the pellet bucket”, while we waited for our neighbor. read the rest of the story
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May
2009
Sparrows take over one of our saddles
May 8th, 2009 at 07:08 pm by Shari Thomas in Around the Farm, HorsesGuess neither Bev nor I will be riding for a while. This morning while Cindy and I were straightening up the tack room, we re-arranging tack and lo and behold… a sparrow had built a nest under the saddle cover.
Not only that, there were at least two very tiny naked birds. They’ve got to be less than a day old. We very carefully replaced the nest and cover, hoping mama bird continues to care for her young.
They’ll only be squatting for a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, Cindy will be the only one riding, and won’t be riding the youngest filly, Dakota, as that is the saddle we use on her.
We were also noticing we’re in need of new saddles as the trees and bars are too wide for all three of our horses. We don’t ride far, or hard, but still, we want our horses to be as comfortable as possible. Guess we’ll have to add another $1500 or so to our wish list.
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Jul
2008
Perfect Friday afternoon… let’s saddle Dakota
July 28th, 2008 at 06:08 pm by Shari Thomas in HorsesHere I was, working away on the computer when Cindy breezed by… “Let’s see how Dakota likes a saddle.”
Sure, we’ll just saunter out into the 100 degree heat, halter her, and put a saddle on her. Shouldn’t take more than few minutes, and I’ll escape from the heat again.
Would you believe that after haltering her, locking Dusty in his stall so we’d have less interference, we were out there for a good 45 minutes.
Here’s a photo journal of what transpired. Keep in mind, she’s just a little over 2 years old.
