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Crisis, Christmas is ruined.

Vet just told Alice she is too fat. Ted is sniggering in the corner and has renamed her Fat Bird. Her baby brother, Dim Tim has asked if he can have her haylage seeing as she does not need it anymore. She slapped him for his cheek. Then the vet suggested Alice does some work and that really put the top hat on it all. It is not harmony and good will in our barn tonight !
 
Tell Alice Weightwatchers will have am offer and mr cart horse will have the smile wiped from his face! It will be going colder so Alice will burn it....as for Tim, oh dear he should meet Moon lovely but not bright... Wishing you a Merry Christmas
 
Poor Alice, not what a lady wants to hear, especially at Christmas!

My two 3yr olds amused themselves today by getting into the log store and removing a dustbin, two extras large white buckets and two large white sacks and distributed them around the yard!
 
poor Alice! unfortunately, she's not the only one going on a post Christmas diet! I looked at Ron yesterday and realised that for someone who is allegedly hunting fit, he's still rather...ahem.... rotund.

sugarbeet ration has been reduced, linseed halved....

but then I went to sort out the bale of hay in the field and realised that between the 2 of them they have eaten an entire 3foot round bale of haylage in 2 weeks, plus whatever they've been given in the stables!!
 
Ron has to keep warm, thats his excuse and he is sticking with it.

I wished I had my camera this morning, the 3 babies and the broodmare were in the barn around their round bale. Alice was lay down in the middle of it whilst the others ate around her. Life of Riley or what !
 
AdorableAlice said:
Ron has to keep warm, thats his excuse and he is sticking with it.

I wished I had my camera this morning, the 3 babies and the broodmare were in the barn around their round bale. Alice was lay down in the middle of it whilst the others ate around her. Life of Riley or what !
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love the picture this paints, very good Xmas theme!!
Hope new year brings lots of good things to all your herd, and Ted's adventures at Boot Camp bring out the super horse that is hiding at present!!
 
Ted, that was rude and naughty.

He has just reached over a gate and grabbed the neighbours 12h pony and thrown him up the field. These rugs are made tough aren't they ! nothing gave way when Ted was waving the pony around.
 
Tiddlypom said:
You mean he actually lifted the pony up off his legs? Good grief.

Maybe the pony had been calling him rude names, though.
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Front end only ! pony had been goading him for ages. Ted grabbed the rug right in the centre of the back and pulled upwards. It is a brand new good quality rug so I am rather relieved nothing got shredded. He has no pocket money as he is still paying for other misdemeanours.
 
AdorableAlice said:
He has no pocket money as he is still paying for other misdemeanours.
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Are there any photos of the pony tossing incident? I bet that the manufacturers of the pony's rug would pay good money for a pic, which they could use to market their product's resilience to abuse!

Or how about staging a re enactment? Ted could use his cut to get back in the black.
 
ah, yes, the Olympic sport of Pony-Throwing....

Ron is banned from being near small ponies for this exact reason. Well, that and he's actually a bully to anything less than 14.2. His previous owner used to have a 13hh new forest who Ron would pin in a corner and beat the cr@p out of, and he'd lunge across the stable if the pony tried to thief a bit of haylage through the bars... fortunately our Tom is an overgrown pony and so is safe, and the 13hh we had when we first got Ron would stand up for himself and give as good as he got.

Out hunting Ron will still try to bite ponies that are within a neck length of him when we're stopped. If that doesn't work he grabs the end of people's short crops (never a hunting crop/whip!) and steal it from their hand before attempting to beat their horse with it!! Naughty.
 
Can I have a go Dad ?

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Oh good grief! Wasn't there a previous incident with a hammer.......or am I imagining it? He really does seem to love your OH doesn't he ;) I see your posts come up and think "what's Ted done this time?" :) :) :)
 
Hetsmum said:
Oh good grief! Wasn't there a previous incident with a hammer.......or am I imagining it? He really does seem to love your OH doesn't he ;) I see your posts come up and think "what's Ted done this time?" :) :) :)
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There was, he threw a small one at Alice and tipped a box of staples out in long grass, in the dark and rain. Husband didn't like him much that night if I remember !

This picture is not that recent, I just found it by chance.

I am trying to catch him asleep in the haylage. The 3 babies and the old girl have a round bale in the barn, Ted gets in the middle and snuggles up, the others eat round him. I so want to catch it on the camera.
 
AdorableAlice said:
There was, he threw a small one at Alice and tipped a box of staples out in long grass, in the dark and rain. Husband didn't like him much that night if I remember !

This picture is not that recent, I just found it by chance.

I am trying to catch him asleep in the haylage. The 3 babies and the old girl have a round bale in the barn, Ted gets in the middle and snuggles up, the others eat round him. I so want to catch it on the camera.
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I do hope you get a picture, a curled up Ted I would like to see!!

My 2 rising 4 yr old cobs seem to spend all their time looking for mischief at present and work hard at creating repair tasks for husband!!
 
We could be in trouble.

Ted and his mates decided to practice diy skills on the boarded gate yesterday, one of them obviously had a toolkit for Christmas and used it to remove an entire sheet of weatherboarding and put it on the floor with the screws facing up. How they managed it is beyond me.

Alice had a 'wasn't me' look and the old mare had a 'kids' look on her face, however Dim Tim and Ted The Twit both had 'it was him' looks.

This morning I thought Ted looked a little off and possibly saw a short step behind. Out of all the horses on the yard the one that I could really could do without having a septic hind is him ! He has no experience of physical pain, plenty of mental but no real physical and the prospect of getting a plastic bag on his hinds is making me break into a cold sweat !
 
Oh no you should have checked the boys Christmas stockings for tools etc. considering Ted was after the hammer in the last photo of him. How do horses manage these things, and why do they always end up with the sharp bits upward.
I really hope he hasn't punchured his foot, that will not be fun to deal with, fingers and everything else crossed he hasn't.
 
Crossing fingers here: hope his leg is fine if only for your health's sake!

Bet you regret not blindfolding him whenever you and OH have done fence repairs. He's obviously picked up some skills.

Dare I ask how they all are in the wind?

PS Would love to see the hay photo: hope you manage to catch it.
 
Hope Ted is ok today. Whoever it was who though a toolkit would make a good Christmas present should perhaps think about a first aid kit for Christmas 2015! :)
 
Thought I'd see if I'd missed any Ted updates.
It seems suspiciously quiet!
Hope all is well with the gang, including the humans in charge.
 
Maybe with their newly acquired tools they have built a shed, gone into hibernation and are refusing to come out until spring! After all Ted does like a sleep.......... :)
 
Hello and how lovely to be missed!

We are ok, a little skint though, Ted theTwit, Adorable Alice, Dim Tim and the old mare inhale a round bale every 3 days, thankfully they do not need hard feed. At least the winter has been kind so far and I doubt we will see snow.

My health is ok even though the regular check ups give me plenty of stress, I am nowhere near as strong as I used to be which frustrates me and I still get ridiculously tired far too quickly. Just 6 weeks to the clock changes and light evenings and lots to look forward to.
 
3 days!!! Ouch!! I thought I was suffering when my two go through a 3 and a half foot round bale every 2 weeks (plus hard feed costs)...

how have you avoided the snow? We had a couple of inches lingering around for what felt like months, and even now that it's gone the field is sodden and I can't get the trailer out to go hunting! Thankfully my neighbour gave us a lift this weekend just gone, and I hope to be able to manage this weekend coming to get the thing out without trashing the field in the process... fingers crossed it stays dry!!

I'm sure the strength and so on will return to something approaching normal in time - and I'm also sure that the lighter nights and some sunshine will help! :)
 
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