Postby Srhorselady » Fri Feb 17, 2017 2:09 am
This seems to be the week for walkabouts! My Mariano who is ALWAYS a perfect gentleman with excellent manners was being a little pushy and rushy when I was returning him to his stall. He knew his food was waiting. Anyway I made him stop, backup, and walk politely with me and boy did it piss him off. When we got to the stall I casually removed his halter (not following the approved method) and as usual he spun around and headed for his feed tub, like usual. NOT! The littl/big bugger went straight out the gate leaving me there holding the halter with my mouth open. Then he proceeded to play keep away, at a walk, stopping occasionally to grab luscious green weeds when I was a step back. Then he decided to capriole down the barn aisle to see who he could stir up. Then it was galloping thunder, all 1400 lbs of him. I'd had it. I went into the feed room and got a can of pellets and shook them. Immediately he was trying to fit his big muzzle into the small coffee can. I didn't touch him and walked into his stall and dumped them in his feeder. He was in the stall chowing down in 2 seconds. Guess who is now unhaltering the horses in the approved method facing the closed but not latched gate.. Mariano is a good teacher!
Tuesday somebody (probably a boarder) didn't latch the gate and Miss A. and her friends did a running tour of the farm. Fortunately the farm is way off the road and they stayed in the back. They ran to the pasture boarded horses, decided that wasn't interesting, then ran around and finally found a large patch of grass. Ariel and another mare were the ringleaders. Thank goodness there weren't any injuries, and Brad (BM) hopped in the golf cart and they were rounded up after about 2 minutes.