Sunday 9 January 2011

Best Laid Plans...

As the ground was covered with snow this morning we decided to change tack and to put three bales of haylage out in the winter field and run the horses back into it. Chris put the bales out and the horses watched with interest...! The gate opened and over they charged, Hector, Ned and Muley turning themselves inside out with excitement (well for mule it was mostly the ears that got turned inside out!). A brief moment of disbelief... "It looks like haylage, but its been so long I could be mistaken" then eighteen happy horses settled down to eat. No kicking, no fuss, no stress. We certainly don't feel we have left them to get hungry as an hour later there are six horses at the bales and the rest away picking at the grass, it is beautiful haylage, may not have been a huge crop but its the nicest round bale stuff Mark and I have ever seen.










2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, sis,
Hope you and mark had a good New year.really good to hear from you and mum.hope the weather does not get to cold, at least it wont rain. as it all seams to have fallen here in Australia in the last tow weeks, who said Australians have webbed feet.

Laura said...

It lives, it lives!!!

Hello, all bearing up well here, mild and damp here again, so plenty of mud.

Videos of Qld are absolutely horrific, at least we just get low level shitty weather all the time!