He’s so good following along loose, the only time I tried it with Hank he hung back to eat grass then came galloping past us to take himself home ?If anyone fancies a virtual hack. Spare horse without a rider.
He’s so good following along loose, the only time I tried it with Hank he hung back to eat grass then came galloping past us to take himself home ?If anyone fancies a virtual hack. Spare horse without a rider.
It's brilliant when it clicks, but so damned frustrating when it doesn't.Asked someone to come and help me in the field with billy as im having a few issues.
My riding lesson yesterday was as i expected, a bit of a disaster. I said i couldn't ride and i was right. Several of the things that have already been explained to me by others have gone out the window clearly. It was like one of those repeditive songs. I dont know how to make it sink in. Its the fundamental basics that i cant even grasp. Its no wonder im having lots of issues. The biggest problem is me, as i dont set the horse up to suceed, but i can easily manage to set him up to fail.
It’s so easy to slip into bad habits, and then you build muscle memory for the bad habits, stick with the lessons and you’ll get there ?Asked someone to come and help me in the field with billy as im having a few issues.
My riding lesson yesterday was as i expected, a bit of a disaster. I said i couldn't ride and i was right. Several of the things that have already been explained to me by others have gone out the window clearly. It was like one of those repeditive songs. I dont know how to make it sink in. Its the fundamental basics that i cant even grasp. Its no wonder im having lots of issues. The biggest problem is me, as i dont set the horse up to suceed, but i can easily manage to set him up to fail.
That sounds really horrid, lots of healing vibes. Fingers and thumbs hurt like hell and are underestimated in the pain scale of things. (I once broke my little finger and it was vile for 48 hours until my mother took me to the hospital on the Monday!)My poor thumb is throbbing still this morning and its still bleeding a bit. Have just run under the cold tap to try and take the swelling down some.
I love the name Jonah for your ram.Two happy rams tonight. They were getting very frustrated and major scraps as they could smell the hormones of the girls on heat during the week. They were not even coming for there food every night. Wanted to put them with the girls a couple of weeks ago but weve had such gales and wet at weekends when im off i refuse to handle soggy sheep.
Had the day off work due to work being cancelled now we are back in lockdown. Made the most of the dry weather got the ewes in the barn and split them up to go to the two rams. Knew i couldnt manage to foot trim all 22 sheep so we did half plus the two rams. I was working on back feet, brother was doing front feet. Got the remaining ewes to do tomorrow whilst its still dry. But all jonahs lot are done and went across to the far field.
Unfortunately i did manage to sustain an injury courtesy of one fidgeting, kicking ewe. She was such a so and so, and kicked so hard my arm was thrown around and i managed to jab the point of the hoof clippers straight full on into my thumb. I put my finger straight on to compress it before the blood could spurt and brother went to grab some kitchen roll to wrap round. The wriggling so and so was just determined to not play ball and in the end i sat on her in the sheep turn crate with a throbbing thumb while my brother finished her feet.
We carried on foot trimming the last few but i was in plenty of pain with my thumb so found it difficult to do the perfect job. I was determined they were getting trimmed though before the rams went in.
Boys were certainly happy. 3 girls on heat and served within 30 minutes of seeing the ladies. At least there wont be anymore fights between them for a few months. By the time the boys go back together the hormones will minimal.
Nice beasts! I've probably asked this before (apologies if so).But do they live out all year round? All the coos up here go in at the end of November and don't come back out again until March.Keep telling myself i should post more here. But i find myself posting on threads instead.
Im having a very off day today. Second migraine this week. 3 in the afternoon and only just got dressed.
Fed up with it being cold even though its been dry. For the last two days its been blowing a hooley and now its raining and rain forecast for the next week. Have loads of things to do at home but no incentive. Very limited work due to covid, which is nice on the one hand, but i think is part of the problem. Im stuck at home which is making me lazier day by day. Must snap out of it.
Frustrated as i need to move the sheep around, still not done. That should have been done 5 weeks ago. Poor lambs still stuck in the shed. Can we please have a dry, mild week, so i can get them out. Think i will feel a bit better then.
The cows water had refrozen overnight. Desperate for a drink as soon as the ice was broken.
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