Horse parking (in the way) video clip....

[Absent Minded Farmer]

It would seem....

Whenever something is going on in the pen, there's always a volunteer to see what's happening & occasionally hold up progress.

No different today!

Mike

 

[Caryc]

Kind of funny that one horse power stopped that tractor of how many horses?

 

[docmirror]

Also known as the 'my horse wants some attention' pose.

On a similar note, I was up on Wild Horse Mesa in NM last week. A few wild(feral) Mustangs decide to visit. One of them took an apple tossed her way.

 

[37chief]

Also known as the 'my horse wants some attention' pose.

On a similar note, I was up on Wild Horse Mesa in NM last week. A few wild(feral) Mustangs decide to visit. One of them took an apple tossed her way.
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We adopted a wild Burro from the BLM in california years back. In a few months we had too. We didn't know she was expecting. The mother didn't like the baby, we had to raised it with a bottle, until she could eat real food. I would come home from my factory job at night and feed it Stan

 

[Phill Tibbetts]

We adopted a wild Burro from the BLM in california years back. In a few months we had too. We didn't know she was expecting. The mother didn't like the baby, we had to raised it with a bottle, until she could eat real food. I would come home from my factory job at night and feed it Stan

You might say the mother was a real a-s...

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Kind of funny that one horse power stopped that tractor of how many horses?

Got one horse holding up 30.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

We adopted a wild Burro from the BLM in california years back. In a few months we had too. We didn't know she was expecting. The mother didn't like the baby, we had to raised it with a bottle, until she could eat real food. I would come home from my factory job at night and feed it Stan

Had a neighbor some time ago that used to work for them. I recall him saying that happened more often than not.

Mike

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Also known as the 'my horse wants some attention' pose.

On a similar note, I was up on Wild Horse Mesa in NM last week. A few wild(feral) Mustangs decide to visit. One of them took an apple tossed her way.
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I get that a lot there. Mostly because I pay attention to those "poor & lonely", over-sized dogs.

Mike

 

[docmirror]

Huh - now that you folks brought it up, I'm looking at that mare again with a more careful eye, and thinking - she's gonna pop in 3 months or so. The BLM has tried a million ways to limit, control, regulate, manage(whatever) the feral horses in the west. Without a smidge of luck. They are small, and hearty animals. But I'm no kind of horse guy.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Huh - now that you folks brought it up, I'm looking at that mare again with a more careful eye, and thinking - she's gonna pop in 3 months or so. The BLM has tried a million ways to limit, control, regulate, manage(whatever) the feral horses in the west. Without a smidge of luck. They are small, and hearty animals. But I'm no kind of horse guy.

And the clientele can be as unpredictable as the horses. There's a few of them that end up re-homed. After hearing about it, the whole thing left me scratching my head.

Mike

 

[showcrop]

When we had sheep, once they were on pasture in the spring, I would clean out the bedding pack in their stable under the barn. I would do it in two parts, having one half blocked from access by the sheep. Except for small lambs, which could squeeze through. One year a bottle lamb, equating me on the tractor as lunch, kept trying to get to me on the tractor. I finally had to pick her up and hold her in my lap so that I could get on with the job.

 

[Texasmark]

I'm keeping some horses for a neighbor since I have plenty of grass. These graze for maybe an hour, stop by the water tubs and wash their mouths out (literally) then take on a load of water. Then they mozy over under some shade trees, they picked their favorite spot and take a nap. Usually one hind foot is propped up while they sleep......it appears the nearest horse in the first picture is taking a nap but the hind foot isn't cocked like these do.

After awhile, don't time them, they stop by the water tubs again and repeat the process over and over throughout the day......tough life....grin.