All natural horse care in the west of Ireland

I keep thinking about our hack out a week last Saturday (14th June) and thought I might as well get it written down whilst it is still fresh in my memory.

Every Saturday, weather permitting, three of us go for a hack. Me on Magpie or Polly and Annalice again on Polly or Magpie (We swap and change weekly) and Charlotte on Sam (Charlotte's horse).

A neighbour of ours who is a cattle man has decided to start breeding horses and I volunteered to help him out if he needed any help. Well anyway, he needed help to trailer load his mare and foal on Sunday.

I have been helping this man with his horse mainly for the horses benefit. I used to visit her every morning to give her a feed and handle her a little whilst she was in foal. She is a 16HH draft mare who is very sweet.

She had a colt foal on 22nd May and on the same afternoon a friend of mine was passing their field and could see no sign of the foal. He had fallen into a deep ditch!! He is a dark bay and all she could see was his little pink tongue throught the briars, popping in and out. It looked like he had been there a couple of hours.

Anyway my friend and her daughter managed to get the foal out of the ditch while my son was holding onto the mare. It must have been adrenalin that gave them the strenght to get him out of the ditch as we has pretty heavy. He was pretty cold and shaken. After a visit from the Vet and the obligatory shot of antibiotics the mare and foal spent the night in my arena.

They were transferred to a field without ditches the next day. 

Have you ever met a horse that knows the Parelli Games or can just seem to read your mind? I have owned Polly (LBI) for 5 years but have only had her back a few months (after I made a mistake of selling her). I haven't directly done any of the Parelli Games with her. We have been too busy going out on hacks and just hanging out together, but I think she knows the games!!!

Now if you met Polly you would think she was a bit slow but that is a front. I am starting to discover that she is one of the most intelligent horses I know!!