Gotta love 'em - said through gritted teeth... *long*

[Chico Mio]

Son and I have just spent the best part of an hour rounding up my two hooligans from the village

FB had spent the whole morning yelling at the neighbour to the left's new mare and foal with her hooting back at him, bored of this my two then made a break for it. Fortunately they had just headed for the neighbours hay field and were busy stuffing themselves. As luck would have it, my other neighbour's elderly mother (read nosy old bag) who marches up and down the road all day was on my doorstep within minutes of the escape to tell me - hampered somewhat by the fact that my doorbell isn't working.

Anyway, we go headcollars and ropes in hand to catch them. MoM no problem a bit of side stepping and then surrender. FB !!! Well, did the big, 'Aren't I beautiful?' trot up and down just out of reach for about five minutes until he realises we've already got her, so he gave up. Back to the field we go, can't see a break in the electric fence so I assume they have jumped out. We set about raising the tape where I think they've jumped and while we are doing this FB is standing right behind us but MoM has wimbled off....and stuck her nose under the top wire......and then just kept going

Of course the wire is off because we are touching it so she just walked out under the wire!!! She made off to the field next door! FB is now going wild because she's out - and eating NICE grass. So I have to put a rope back on him, take him over to her, put a rope back on her and give both horses to my son to hold while they graze - once they can eat they are good as gold..

Meanwhile I'm frantically fixing another lower line round the paddock and clearing all the weeds from touching it. Eventually we get them back in and leave them to go and get some hay to keep them quiet (their paddock is seriously bald) on the way we are ambushed by nosy neighbour who wants to engage us in conversation about last night's calving at their place and all the while I can hear FB kicking off again! We had to sidle off at high speed to our hay stack, nodding and 'umming' and 'oooing' as we went. So they are now up there with some hay and I am nervously checking out the window every five minutes. Problem is MoM has no shoes and my energiser is not hugely powerful so she doesn't get much of a belt off it and just bulldozes through - I think I will be investing in a more powerful one....

All because we moved them from the tasty field that they have eaten down to the dirt and put them back in their scrub paddock to let the other one recuperate.

I'm shattered.

 

[yethersgill]

Sounds horribly familiar! I have a yearling that knows immeadiately that the 'lecy has died and just walks though electric fencing !!!

Hope you have recovered now

And WHY will ponies cross tape to get into fresh grass but it immediatley becomes terrifying once you try and get them back?????

 

[MyBoyChe]

My TB escaped from his field this week, only into the field next door which has much nicer grass in it fortunately, but even so!! He has been is this paddock since April and I have been able to keep his waistline under control but he's obviously decided enough is enough and can no longer resist temptation. I'm assuming he jumped over it but just as likely to have gone under as less energy involved, can't put a lower strand around cos have to leave room for the sheep to wander through. I have comprised and given him a long narrow strip about 50m long which seems to be keeping him occupied for now. As you say, you gotta love 'em

 

[mik]

he, he, sounds familiar, my boy did that last night and went in with the oranges, now he has spectacular tummy rumbles.

(he does this regularly so don't worry)

 

[Chico Mio]

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he he sounds familiar, my boy did that last night and went in the oranges, no he has spectacular tummy rumbles.

(he does this regularly so don't worry)

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FB adores oranges and kakis! When we were in the south he used to stand and 'talk' to the kakis tree, wumpling and chuckling trying to persuade it to move closer

He used to be allowed two oranges a day but would steal more if he could.

 

[mik]

My other one is in love with the mora tree (mulberry?) and after schooling we stop underneath and get pink lips and he salivates red, looks terrifyingly like blood, but he loves them, oh and the manderins, he adores those, and at the moment the figs, I really dont know why I am feeding them at all.

 

[MyBoyChe]

They do make you smile don't they with their funny little ways!!! Che likes blackberries, he likes to pick them himself so hacking out in the autumn through the woods is fun, every few strides he stops, sticks his head in a blackberry bush and really gently picks them off with his lips, has to be seen to be believed really, his slobber is a beautiful colour. I know i shouldn;t let him get away with it but I'm so busy laughing at him that I forget to kick on.