Hay frustration

[sand_piper]

Before I talk about the lesson today (which went well), I want to vent some hay frustration. I found a great hay company that is located pretty far away. I don't have a truck so I am rather dependent on having the hay brought to me

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[sand_piper]

Her worming schedule has stayed the same. But I have wondered if maybe moving her here, where no other horses have been for a decade, has drastically decreased the amount of worms in her????

I need to look up a better worming schedule, just in case!

I'm exercising her more frequently now that's she's so close to where I live. But, the pasture itself is not as large as where she lived with Athena. So it is possible that she used to run a lot more throughout the day.

When she was at the boarding facility in the above videos, she didn't have as much freedom of pastures, and was often in her stall + exercise run. But every time I went there, she was CRAZY with energy and ran and ran and ran and ran (as you can see in the videos).

Isn't it really shocking that they ate through 750 lbs of hay in a week or less????? I was counting on being able to feed them off of round bales 24/7 (like Dolly has ALWAYS had before) because of my allergies to hay! I really don't want to be handling hay twice a day. Ugh. I use a mask, but it doesn't filter every particle out, unfortunately. Maybe I should invest in one of those super expensive masks... :P Like a gas mask.

I am not sure about the stud colt question. :) Would she have been prancing around a lot more-- is that what it means? But no, no stud colts around in any case. :)

[penella22]

Yes, it IS totally shocking they ATE that much hay!! I have to wonder if deer came out of the woods and helped them or something...

I would guess you could still use roundbales, but like you said, just have to have a section of fencing for the hay, and a way to let them in for only a few hours a day...

The stud colt question...I know Dolly was at a boarding stable before, and I was wondering if they had any yearling colts or 2 yr olds or anything that they thought 'were too young' and 'totally safe' only now it turns out Dolly's pregnant...

Hopefully not...always better when these things are planned, right?

[sand_piper]

Ohh I see. Nope, I don't think there's a chance of her being pregnant. I don't know of any stud colts kept there, and also she was mostly kept by herself because she was too bossy with the other horses, they said! There were two horses she was allowed to be pastured with sometimes, and I think they were both mares.

You know, we don't have any deer here, but there *IS* a momma moose with two babies roaming around the area. I don't know about the babies but it's certainly possible that Momma came in and helped herself.