Mustang Saga

I don't know what order to write in, so I'll just babble.

Buster finally had his recheck and everything is beautiful! You'd never even know he had surgery. So we're cleared to ride except he has this big ugly boo-boo right in the middle of his back. Darn it.

Also, we had a moose here 2 days in a row and the horses had a fit. The first day I had Halla by herself and she ran herself ragged. She's really lame on her left front now. I can't find an obvious injury so I'm wondering if it's in her shoulder. I also maybe see some stiffness in her hips.

I'm always of two minds about how to deal with something like this. Take them in immediately and get an answer, where they'll likely tell me to rest them and put them on anti-inflammatories, or just start the rest and anti-inflammatories for a week and see what happens.

Aarrrgh. What would you do? I have to work today anyway but I might be able to get her in tomorrow.

We've been chipping away at the Ty Evans weekly challenge. So far it's been very elementary, which is very good because Buster and I have had some trouble. But we had a breakthrough and now he can reverse directions on the lead rope/lunge line! Yay! He still doesn't give to pressure laterally very well. That was the assignment for the very first week. He does well in his snaffle bit but not so much in the halter. I'm having fun. I think he is too, most of the time.

Yesterday I was trimming some Hawthorn bushes and he was trimming some grass and he got bored and left. At speed. Bad boy! Waaaay back past the house to greener grass near Juniper. So I let him stand tied at the trailer for probably a good hour while I finished my task. Boring!

I had been working regularly with Halla too, until the moose came around. Darn it.

Also, we have baby bunbuns! The first doe had 2 and the second doe only had 1. Not sure if I should blame the small litters on the buck or what. It was his first time. I think I'll give him more opportunities to breed them next time. I decided to take the single kit and put it with the other two, and I felt like a jerk, but I didn't want it to freeze to death. Poor mama is still tending her nest, even though her baby is gone. I tried taking it away but that made it worse.  They are meat rabbits but that doesn't mean I don't want them to be happy.

I better get going! I've got critters to feed!