December is all about eating, sleeping & playing with horses

you know the show - eat love pray, well this is eat, sleep, play.

canadian cold snap hit us for a few weeks of snow, wind and minus 20
the horses literally spent their days hunkered down in the hay piles, eating, sleeping and when awake, playing in the snow.

i wish i had it on camera, but we piled a huge snow bank (so the kids could sleigh ride down it) but we' would look out the window and see the horses! playing up and down the piled up snow.

so not a very eventful month was had, just one full of bedded down horses

James (the buckskin 3 yr old) has been started formally on ground and building him up to be under saddle soon (will post in next video)
also the 2 yr olds will start their on ground exercises, getting them well handled and started in the stages program.

the foals, are chubby and happy haha the last video i posted was about them working on their liberty work, which will be carried on with once the weather warms up. We are preparing the fillies to find their new homes - I know people are not ready for this, but realistically we need to do this, because we have a feeling more foals will be found this spring.

why?

the range was in a drought all season, massive fires happened, the grasslands are toast. IF we don't get the rain and water the range lands need, the feral horses will be short on grass...plus the stallions are still an issue, and one that we feel was the main cause of all the dead foals and foals pushed off mothers last few years. We need to plan and make preparations for incoming foals as early as May

learning what we learnt from these past few foals, we are better prepared for how to stabilize them feed wise and will be reaching out for resources right away. Plus we have decided that (if) we get several foals in again, we will be looking to re-home them right away!

Anyways, this is how winter has been for us so far.

we hope you had a memorable holiday and are in good health for 2022

Видео December is all about eating, sleeping & playing with horses канала Candice & Jordan Camille