Lil Dreamer

The other morning, I went out to feed the horses and to my surprise, there was a miscarried foal on the ground.  I was surprised Lil was pregnant since the stallion had been in his pen and never was out around her.   I had been told numerous times that my yearling who has never dropped could not get a mare pregnant and so I didn't think twice about letting him out with all the other horses.  Well.  The comments were wrong.  My yearling had impregnated Lil. 

The vet said she was in her second trimester when she miscarried.  The vet told me Lil would be fine.

What to write about

I asked one of the other officers what to write about since most of what is going on right now is sitting and waiting for paperwork to be completed.  And everything seems to be the same, clean up after the horses, feed the horses, and so on.  She suggested I write about Lalique because I have made some progress with her.

It took about two days after Lalique's feet were trimmed to see any attitude changes in her.  Her attitude change came along with the realization that she didn't want to be caught because she didn't want to be shifted to a new home.  I don't think she had many homes in the past, but again, maybe she had.  She appears to want a home that she had put anchors down and have other horsey family members that she knows and a human leader that she understands what they want and expect of her.  Since she was a problem child (horse) and she is an older horse, we had made the decision to keep her in the sanctuary.   She now lets me come up and pet her except for the good night pet.  This still puzzles me as to why she doesn't want for me to pet her when I go out to say good night to all of them.

If all works out well.  We should have some horses that will come in and go up for adoption shortly.  But as I mentioned earlier, things are slow because we are waiting for the paperwork to be completed.

October 12, 2012

Been doing some cleaning around the pasture.

Posted on Facebook, horse body hair for sale for those that like to spin hair/wool, etc. for $5.00 per pound plus shipping and handling.

One of the cleaning tools fell apart while Veneta was using it and so she is going to go tomorrow to get another one.

If anyone has any extra material that we can build shelters out of that they want to get rid of, we would greatly appreciate having it.

October 9, 3012

Three of the minis had feet trimmed this past week.

Trixter colicked and is now doing ok.

The mother hen, we think, was picked up by a chicken hawk because she is no where to be found.  We have her two surviving chicks on craigslist.  It was originally 4, but we lost two of them last night.  Went out this morning and the cage the chicks were in was rolled over.

September 28, 202

Veneta has been busily trying to catch up on her chores around the sanctuary after her bout with 2 1/2 weeks worth of shingles on the back of the head.  Things are slowly getting to look normal again.

September 12, 2012

This morning when Veneta went out to feed the horses, they had all in the quarter acre pasture.  She thinks Thunder had managed to open the gate by pushing against it and the little ones all decided to have a field day.  She was going to do her normal routine to bring the horses in, but then she had noticed the neighbors horses were also out and so she thought better of it since she didn't feel it would be a good thing for the neighbors horses to be running through and destroying a 5 acres commercial vegetable garden.  So she went to plan B to bring the horses in which she doesn't like to do because it rewards the horses for doing the wrong thing.

All the horses (including the neighbor"s horses) were quickly brought back onto the ranch and secured in once again.  The little horses thought they would get a lot more grain.  Instead, they got their normal ration of hay.

Once all the horses were fed, Veneta did her regular routine and then went out and picked up some psyllium for the horses. 

The rest of the day went as usual.

Lalique today

Lalique came to us because she was an antisocial little horse.  When she first arrived, she did not want anything to do with anyone.  She did not want to be touched. 
     She has came along way since then.  She now doesn't mind being petted though sometimes she gets into a mood and doesn't want any touches for the evening.  Her latest little game is; she will go up to one of the other horses for no reason at all and pull out some of their hair.   If she continues to do this, we will have to devise a plan to break her of the hair pulling before it becomes a habit.
     Yesterday, we went to capture Lalique for the first time since she has been here to give her a west nile virus vaccine and she saw the lead rope and decided she didn't want anything to do with it.  She ran all over  the yard.  We finally set up a catch pen in order to catch her.  When we went to give her west nile vaccination, she decided she didn't want any part of that either.  Veneta ended up asking for help to get her vaccinated. 
     She is now vaccinated!
     It is very apparent that Lalique will need to be worked with to get her to understand halters and leadropes are not necessarily a bad thing.