LadyGascoyne
Well-Known Member
Well, where week one was a dream, week two did not exactly go to plan.
She was finally turned out with company, having been in her own field for the first few days and was introduced to the company of two retired mares.
Unfortunately, after only two days, the groom / yard manager decided that her Labrador-puppy-like exuberance was too much for the lame old ladies and so she was duly evicted from the field.
She then went into a new field, a field away from her friends and was turned out with a gelding.
He’s absolutely lovely and probably a better fit for her as the mares aren’t sound but she found being able to see her friends in the distance very distressing and spent a lot of time racing around like a loon.
So we just gave her as much space and as little interference as possible. It took a few days of flying around the field like a bat out of hell but she’s actually doing very nicely now, and the thoroughbred follows her around like a big lamb.
We scrapped goals for the week although we did manage a small achievement in that fly spray now goes on back legs too, but with a sponge. Next week, we will aim to walk out and have a bath.
The only issue is that the new field is full of very green, very lush grass and my formerly sleek arab is now resembling a balloon animal!
I don’t really want to make any more changes for her by stabling or moving fields, so I’m hoping that walking her out twice a day, in hand, will help to mitigate the grass. On the plus side, it hasn’t rained...
Advice welcome! Anyone else in the fat and unbacked club?
She was finally turned out with company, having been in her own field for the first few days and was introduced to the company of two retired mares.
Unfortunately, after only two days, the groom / yard manager decided that her Labrador-puppy-like exuberance was too much for the lame old ladies and so she was duly evicted from the field.
She then went into a new field, a field away from her friends and was turned out with a gelding.
He’s absolutely lovely and probably a better fit for her as the mares aren’t sound but she found being able to see her friends in the distance very distressing and spent a lot of time racing around like a loon.
So we just gave her as much space and as little interference as possible. It took a few days of flying around the field like a bat out of hell but she’s actually doing very nicely now, and the thoroughbred follows her around like a big lamb.
We scrapped goals for the week although we did manage a small achievement in that fly spray now goes on back legs too, but with a sponge. Next week, we will aim to walk out and have a bath.
The only issue is that the new field is full of very green, very lush grass and my formerly sleek arab is now resembling a balloon animal!
I don’t really want to make any more changes for her by stabling or moving fields, so I’m hoping that walking her out twice a day, in hand, will help to mitigate the grass. On the plus side, it hasn’t rained...
Advice welcome! Anyone else in the fat and unbacked club?