Rough week for the young one!

[JC5123]

So as most of you know, the western states are in the grips of arctic blast. So Monday night I went out to blanket the horses before the temps dropped to below 0. As I was walking out to the run in, I could see my saddle horse, but not my fiancee's yearling colt, but I could hear banging. The young whipper-snapper decided to roll inside the shelter and had gotten himself stuck under the side wall. (Don't ask me how) So I have a horse down and stuck. I call for back-up and begin to get him untangled. After we got him rolled over and he stood up it was time for wound checking. Well, he'll live, but he did a little damage.



Hanging out in the warm garage getting doctored up.


Doing better this morning despite the cold.

[Pathfinder]

Horses ain't the dumbest critters around (can you say cows?) but boy they sure do find ways to get stupid at times!

Hope he heals up OK.

[JC5123]

Horses ain't the dumbest critters around (can you say cows?) but boy they sure do find ways to get stupid at times!

Hope he heals up OK.

I think he'll do alright. He's not favoring that leg. And we caught him this morning harassing his big brother. (his favorite thing) Plus he's young and well tended. So I think he'll heal pretty well. I agree, horses are pretty smart, but they can find some pretty ingenious ways to hurt themselves.

Horses: Smart enough to get into trouble
Cows: Dumb, but usually too lazy to find trouble

I think we are going to try a few goats this spring. That will be a whole new level of chaos and mayhem.

[Solus]

Sounds positive for him...  Good.

I don't know what I'm seeing in the bottom picture.

Is that some kind of small shelter?  Looks like I'm looking into a barn door with no barn around it?

Goats have to much fun.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/goats-who-cannot-believe-theyre-really-goats

[JC5123]

Sounds positive for him...  Good.

I don't know what I'm seeing in the bottom picture.

Is that some kind of small shelter?  Looks like I'm looking into a barn door with no barn around it?

Goats have to much fun.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/goats-who-cannot-believe-theyre-really-goats

It's a 16' x 16' 3 sided shelter. Unfortunately when we moved onto the new property, there was nothing large enough for horses to use as shelter. I have all of the materials to build a 20' x 40' barn, but as you can see, I ran out of fall weather. So I threw up the shelter to get them through the winter. Once the barn is up I am going to attach wing walls and a big slide door onto that run in and convert it to hay storage. By my calculations it should hold 5 tons of small bails with a little room to spare. The 2 horses consume about 8 tons a year, between that and the extra room in the barn I should be able to store a years worth of hay at any given time.

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[Ulmus]

Horses are like kids, always needing attention. 

Glad to see he's ok.   

[crusader rabbit]

The really great thing about goats is their spectacular edibility.

Roasted...

Braised...

Marinated and grilled...

You could find yourself just looking for goats with unacceptable behavior problems.

I'm just sayin'

Crusader Rabbit