HC Minis - new pics pg 172

[chandab]

I did sleep quite well last night, and today, I'm doing laundry, if I don't Shayne will be naked and that's not a good thing when you are haying, the chaff is horrible.

 

[chandab]

Ok, a few candid shots from today. Very few are very good, and I had some problems with my camera, so lost a few I took.
I'll load them in more than one post.

Here are Baybe, Che` and Tilly. [baybe isn't as fat as the picture shows, she has gained a little since I weighed her this spring, when she was down about 50# from last year, but definitely not fat.]

 

[chandab]

Topper. He's not lame or sore, I caught him mid turn-around, so his legs were all over.

 

[chandab]

The girls, as a group:

They thought the old hay stack was better than their grass.



I moved them to the grassy part of their pasture:

 

[chandab]

The girls individually:

Caddy, my whoops maybe baby mare; now thinking just a belly (not fat, just a belly for some reason), I can feel her ribs and spine, so not fat, but something going on.



Her chunky daughter, Dolly:



Misty, the first mare I bought, feeling pretty good:



Tana, appy-bred mare with just characteristics:



and, with Bonny:



Bonny - my George daughter:



Showy:



I think that's all the girls.

 

[chandab]

And, the geldings:

Dakota, didn't want to come, nor lift his head out of the grass, but here you go anyway:



Jasper, my Cushing's gelding - hey Diane, I think he's Varnish Roan, what do you think?

In the barn, when I came:



Outside:



And, the two newest geldings, my 2012 foals, now big two year olds.

Monte:

Showing off his appy mottling:



All of him:



And, Manny, who isn't so little any more:



And, the boys across the fence from the girls:

 

[Ryan Johnson]

They look Gr8 Chanda, thankyou for the update

 

[chandab]

Jasper changes a little bit each year, if I have it right now, I believe he's 15 years old this year (he was given to me).

Monte's characteristics didn't show as much in the picture as they do in person, and I think he might get a little snowflaking, he has some white hairs on his back, but just barely.

 

[chandab]

Well, no foals here this year, I had thought maybe on a couple mares, but I was wrong. It's too late in the year to try for next summer, but if someone comes in heat before Sept 15, I might just try anyway, since I don't breed every year, it won't hurt anyone to have a late season foal. I think I'm getting Caddy's hooves back together. Jasper fell apart this summer, which unfortunately is a side effect of his Cushing's, especially if I'm not on top of his medication dosing; I think we are on top of it now, but it'll take time for him to recover the lost weight. I had an Open House for my little quilt supply business, yesterday, while there were only 11 gals that came, they sure had fun and we all had a pretty good afternoon.

 

[paintponylvr]

They are looking good Chandab! and I really would love to just have a visit "home". 11 ladies and fun with quilting? What's not to like? I SSSOOOO want to come up for a visit!!

Did you get part of this early winter storm??

We went from 100* on last Friday to just 60* on Monday back to 90* tomorrow! CRAZY. Gosh today was wonderful - little humidity and though warm @ 80+, felt wonderful since so little humidity.

 

[chandab]

Paula, no snow (unless you count the dozen flakes that tried to fall), but we did get rain and only about 43 above yesterday morning, only 36 this morning. Too much rain this summer has probably wrecked much of our hay, at least as far as horse hay is concerned; good thing the cows can eat pretty much anything. I'm looking into to alternatives to stretch what good hay we will have this year; trying to find some good hay cubes that I can easily get (not an easy task around here.

 

[chandab]

The site was down, and we lost our Like button, bummer.

Diane, I can get ok cubes from one supplier, but they won't be delivering this way again til the first week of October (I think). I did call the CoOp today, and the office girl said she'd look into it, but she'd been sick for two days, so was playing catch up and it might take a bit for her to get to my request, so we'll see. In the meantime, I'm contacting the few people I know that might have small squares, but not looking good so far.

For now, the girls are back on morning grazing, and they have access to the straw stack in their grazing area, it has two grass bales in it on the bottom that they have already dug into. When Shayne has a chance, he'll move some bales around so we have better access, in the meantime, I just need to keep a close eye that the upper bales aren't going to fall.

 

[chandab]

No cubes available at the local CoOp, but there is a place 100 miles from here that has a decent brand of cubes, so making a run tomorrow for cubes, same brand as the place that delivers, so I'll get enough to get me to delivery week, and go from there. I sure hope some of our homegrown round bales are clean enough for the horses, that would be a whole lot cheaper than buying tons of bagged cubes. I bought squares from a guy the first time 8 years ago, usually have enough for the barn. usually my FIL bring me about 100 bales, but his baler broke down after filling his barn (of course), so no extra bales. Man, I hope the round bales are clean enough, but we had tons of rain this summer, so we might not have diddly for the horses.

 

[AnnaC]

Really hope you can sort out the winter feed for your crew Chanda, it causes so many problems when the rain pours down at the wrong time of the year. Good luck with the cubes and keeping my finger crossed for you regarding the bales.

 

[chandab]

I got the last 10 bags of cubes from the "local" place, and in about 3 weeks if I need them, I can order from the place that delivers. I'm really hoping the hay guy calls and says he got in that last cut. And, then when we bring home our round bales that some are horse quality.

 

[chandab]

Diane, you have no idea how much I hope so too. On my way home, I swung through the town where my hay guy is near, and there were fresh cut hay fields and fresh bales in the area, so maybe, just maybe I'll get some more hay. I'll likely need it for Jasper, he wouldn't eat the hay cubes tonight, the mares scarfed theirs down; the geldings not so much. [i know they all would likely eat them if they were Standlee brand cubes, but with this off brand, they don't all like them. Picky beggers.]

 

[chandab]

I'm not very impressed with the cubes, they are hard and don't look to be of great quality, but they'll do for now. The mares are eating them just fine, the geldings are iffy, Topper eats them just fine, and the Cushing's gelding likes them mixed in his soaked beet pulp. the mares are splitting a 14-qt bucket of broken up cubes (8-qt bucket of intact cubes that I've been breaking apart by hand, any that don't break up will get soaked).

 

[chandab]

They'll help til we bring home round bales and I can start digging through them looking for decent hay, I'm hopeful that the centers will be good. Round bales shed water decently, but eventually if there is a lot of rain, they do get wet through and through. Sounds like when we ship calves this fall, we might be taking a trailer of cull cows down, if so, I'll have a trailer to put hay pellets in, so I can really stock up (more than the usual 15-20 bags), if funds are available for more than the usual.

 

[eagles ring farm]

Hi Chanda

I sure hope all works out for your hay. Love the pictures everyone looks great

 

[chandab]

Thank you Lori.

I'm hoping the homegrown hay isn't as bad as I'm thinking it is. Shayne will start hauling after he's done with harvesting wheat, and then I can try one of this year's bales. We have some year old hay here at home, but it's in really bad shape, so just cow quality now (I've opened a couple bales only to find mold after the outer layer or two are removed, so no good and they'll have to be hauled off).