Not much to post yet as i am STILL waiting for my arena to dry out. I could use my round pen but without shoes it will trash her hooves for shoes.
Dave built a nice stand today for me to hang my hay scale from. I sure like knowing that I am feeding my horses exactly the amount of hay that they need based on the DE in the hay & level of exercise, pregnancy, stallion... My stand is right next to the hay stack so very easy to weigh.
I am really looking forward to finaly getting my minerals balanced too.
I thought I had found some excellent horse hay. Talking with the woman that owns the ranch they are trying to grow the best hay that they can... this lady went on & on about how wonderful this mountain hay is. well out of 27 bales 3 are bad, one had the bones from a fawn that got baled, some are wonderful but most are dusty & am finding pebbles in the bottom of my feeders. Does she think we are stupid or something?? I am bummed out as she had a hay analysis done & i was ready to balance... Oh yeah - the bales are supposed to be 60# each??? I've been feeding for 13 days with 3 bales left - I am weighing out 71#/day... It should last 23 days... geez....Oh well... going back to my usual guy on Thursday.
I got my extra stall that I use for hay all cleaned out on the weekend!! During the rainy season I can put Jemmy in there, then QT can have her own stall & Sapphire & Belle can share the run in barn. All are getting fresh sawdust tomorrow.
The mares were all passed out today in the sunshine laying in the sawdust out front of the barn. Belle decided to go flat out & was laying on Sapphires legs snuggled right up to her. Sapphire is so cute she liked it.
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