PolarSkye
Well-Known Member
I'll tell you what, this moving lark is bloomin' tiring! I'll tell you what else, I absolutely love our new yard 
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Yesterday morning I got up to (old) yard fairly early and started sorting/organizing what was going on the lorry, what was going in the bin (
), and what was coming home . . . Z showed up at about 10'ish and took Kal for a hack while I started loading my car and lorry and then when she came back she helped me with the heaviest stuff. We loaded a very confused Kal (erm . . . I don't normally travel in the rear partition and we don't normally take this much stuff when we go to parties 
) and headed over to our new yard.
We had travelled Kal in his brushing and overreach boots so we could turn him straight out, which we duly did. He has to walk through a mare's field to get to his and I know the mare's owner was a tad worried about her girl, but she didn't even raise her head
. He had a bit of a shout and a show off with the trotting ponies over the fence, met his new girlfriend (the mare) and then put his head down to eat - result .
Z and I cracked on unloading and putting away and when we had finished uncorked a bottle of bubbly and had a rest in the sunshine. Z was a superstar - putting up rug rails, etc., fetching and carrying and generally being a good friend. We agreed that she should work him today so as to keep him in a routine. He shouted a bit when we went past him in the lorry, but YO said he soon settled . . . and when I went back to bring him in, he looked up and clocked me when I stepped onto the yard, but didn't insist on coming in. He came in calm as you like, stood still while I bandaged and rugged him and went into his box sweetly. He did, however, turn into a spinny thing once in his stable - much pacing, craning to look over at the mare and generally being a bit of a stresshead . . . however after I left YO and her daughter when down to put her two BSJA ponies to bed and G (daughter) spent a good 45 minutes playing with him, feeding him apples and petting him - bless .
This morning he was very, very happy to see me . . . and it was clear from the state of his bed that he had been a tad restless (and I don't think he laid down either), however he was well and sprightly. I turned him and the mare out and did some odd jobs while waiting for Z. He has decided that the trotters are his new friends and are great fun to race alongside the fence - despite his size they are much, much faster than him - it's too funny.
He went into the school with his eyes on stalks, but it was more curiosity than trepidation - and once in he listened to Z, warmed up nicely and went really well. He wasn't, however, respecting the fences (just wasn't listening/paying attention - and these poles are feather light compared to what he's been used to), but given how much we have chucked at him in the past 24 hours, he was a superstar.
He gets tomorrow off . . . Z will school him on Thursday, I will lunge him in the morning and then bathe him and put him on the walker to dry on Friday and then we're off to Snowball Farm for a Hunter Trial on Saturday.
Our new yard is lovely . . . although there are ponies all over the farm, only four of them are stabled in a little horseshoe-shaped barn . . . Kal, his new girlfriend and the two BSJA ponies (both mares) . . . we are already calling them Kal's Harem. As I mentioned, there's a horsewalker, an indoor warm water shower, a solarium, a huge floodlit school and he can see everything from wherever he is . . . stable from field and vice versa. Oh, and grazing is nice - herby and varied grasses, very sheltered and well looked after.
YO is a delight, as is her daughter . . . and the only other livery is equally lovely. I think we will be very happy there.
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.Yesterday morning I got up to (old) yard fairly early and started sorting/organizing what was going on the lorry, what was going in the bin (
), and what was coming home . . . Z showed up at about 10'ish and took Kal for a hack while I started loading my car and lorry and then when she came back she helped me with the heaviest stuff. We loaded a very confused Kal (erm . . . I don't normally travel in the rear partition and we don't normally take this much stuff when we go to parties ) and headed over to our new yard.We had travelled Kal in his brushing and overreach boots so we could turn him straight out, which we duly did. He has to walk through a mare's field to get to his and I know the mare's owner was a tad worried about her girl, but she didn't even raise her head
. He had a bit of a shout and a show off with the trotting ponies over the fence, met his new girlfriend (the mare) and then put his head down to eat - result .Z and I cracked on unloading and putting away and when we had finished uncorked a bottle of bubbly and had a rest in the sunshine
. Z was a superstar - putting up rug rails, etc., fetching and carrying and generally being a good friend. We agreed that she should work him today so as to keep him in a routine. He shouted a bit when we went past him in the lorry, but YO said he soon settled . . . and when I went back to bring him in, he looked up and clocked me when I stepped onto the yard, but didn't insist on coming in. He came in calm as you like, stood still while I bandaged and rugged him and went into his box sweetly. He did, however, turn into a spinny thing once in his stable - much pacing, craning to look over at the mare and generally being a bit of a stresshead . . . however after I left YO and her daughter when down to put her two BSJA ponies to bed and G (daughter) spent a good 45 minutes playing with him, feeding him apples and petting him - bless .This morning he was very, very happy to see me . . . and it was clear from the state of his bed that he had been a tad restless (and I don't think he laid down either), however he was well and sprightly. I turned him and the mare out and did some odd jobs while waiting for Z. He has decided that the trotters are his new friends and are great fun to race alongside the fence - despite his size they are much, much faster than him - it's too funny.
He went into the school with his eyes on stalks, but it was more curiosity than trepidation - and once in he listened to Z, warmed up nicely and went really well. He wasn't, however, respecting the fences (just wasn't listening/paying attention - and these poles are feather light compared to what he's been used to), but given how much we have chucked at him in the past 24 hours, he was a superstar.
He gets tomorrow off . . . Z will school him on Thursday, I will lunge him in the morning and then bathe him and put him on the walker to dry on Friday and then we're off to Snowball Farm for a Hunter Trial on Saturday.
Our new yard is lovely . . . although there are ponies all over the farm, only four of them are stabled in a little horseshoe-shaped barn . . . Kal, his new girlfriend and the two BSJA ponies (both mares) . . . we are already calling them Kal's Harem
. As I mentioned, there's a horsewalker, an indoor warm water shower, a solarium, a huge floodlit school and he can see everything from wherever he is . . . stable from field and vice versa. Oh, and grazing is nice - herby and varied grasses, very sheltered and well looked after.YO is a delight, as is her daughter . . . and the only other livery is equally lovely. I think we will be very happy there
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