Spring in the Pasture

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Cool and Sunny

That's exactly how the horses like it!

I let them into the big 5 acre pasture and they took off running.

Echo was really full of himself!

He raced around like crazy.

Satire says, "Hey, wait for me!!"

A good roll is a must.

Then more jumping and kicking.

And more running.

Until finally they got down to the important job of grazing. The spring grass hasn't started to grow yet so they stayed out for about 3 hours.

Satire came back to the door a little early as he knows when his lunch time is!!!

I am already stiff. I walked that big pasture about 4 times! I wanted to be out there with the horses today.

Shirley

A Thing About Horse Fencing

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When Horses Get Spooked

This happened early last spring at our last boarding barn. This happened when either a couple horses got into a tiff or spooked and it set off the whole herd in the left pasture. They ran blindly through the fencing into the right pasture where another herd was.

The electric fencing was off or it probably would not have happened at all BUT here is the good news.

Not one horse was injured at all!!! Just think what a tragedy this would have been if this would have been just thin wire fencing or Heaven forbid, barbed wire! Also the pastures are fenced with no climb horse fencing which means when the horses ran across the downed fence, their hooves didn't get caught. If this had been regular farm or cattle fencing, for sure a hoof would've gotten caught and probably devastating injuries would have occurred.

So even in this accident we learned very important things.