Chantilly & Claire are fitting in quite comfortably here at home.

 

 

I have them in the front yard right now……………….double electric-fenced from Brave.

 

It’s not a good time of year to consider pasturing them together.

Having foals in eleven months time would not be a good thing.  It would still be way too hot for a baby to be born…………….foals don’t thermo-regulate very well when they first arrive.

 

My plan is to let them “co-mingle” in November………………..but only if Claire continues to improve and put on weight.

Otherwise it will just be a date for Chantilly and Brave.

Bell’s already “in a family way”.

 

Claire is on her own schedule.  She is coming along though……………gaining weight slowly but surely.

She sure is enjoying her high-fat, special feed.

She’s not too thrilled with the 1/3 cup of apple cider vinegar I’ve started adding………………..but, she’s just fine with the coconut oil supplement.

Picky, picky, picky……………

…………..float her teeth and she immediately turns into a food critic!

 

 

(Bet a lot of you don’t know what floating a horse’s teeth means?…………………..I’ll explain that later in another post.)

 

 

(I wonder if turmeric is good for horses?………………..I’ll have to research that one…………….my children complain when I slip it into their food……………….why not irritate the horses too?)

See (“Button Braids and Stuff”–Post/Published—July 23, 2017)

HA!

Here’s the current battle I’m waging with the Clydesdale-princess-pony-butts………………..

They are insisting on wiggling around the barriers I temporarily put up (barriers meant to discourage the Clydes from coming under the over-hang, back by the generator & tractor & garbage cans & assorted junk).

Their plan is to hang their heads over the air-conditioner compressor when the A/C’s fan is running.

I guess they like the way the air blows up their noses(?)

They imitate Marylin Monroe in the movie, “The Seven Year Itch”.

That’s the one where she stands over the subway grate and her skirt hem flies up.

 

Except Chantilly and Claire have their noses over the fan so that their manes and forelocks fly up in the air……………………..

They are not the first draft horse, however, to do that on our farm……………..

 

Topsie (my husband’s big Belgian mare) used to do that too………………..that is, until she started “tapping” on the compressor with her petite hooves and ended up denting the coils and creating a HUGE air-conditioning repair bill…………

sigh…

Soooooooooooo………….being pro-active…

I’ve hammered up all the scrap boards I could find to deter the Clydes from their beauty parlor/hair-dryer treatment.

 

 

TAKE THAT, CLYDESDALES!!!

 

 

 

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…………………….(I’m the old dog in this scenario).

See…………I can learn from past mistakes…………eventually…