Saturday, August 30, 2008

Do you feed your horse grain in the Summer?

Of course
5 (55%)


yes, but not as much as any other time of the year
2 (22%)

I don't have a horse, but if I did she/he would be just grass or hay fed 2 (22%)



I don't have a horse, but if I did, I would, but not as much as any other time of the year
0 (0%)


no, just grass or hay fed
0 (0%)

I don't have a horse, but if I did, I would

0 (0%)

I chose 'yes, but not as much as any other time of the year'. Why? Because they don't live in a stall, but out in the pasture all day and all night, and in the Summer, there is lot's of grass, so they can eat more grass in the Summer than they can any other time. They don't need as much grain, so I feed them a little less. Soon though, I need to start giving them a little more, then a little more, so by the time all the grass and trees 'die' they will be back to their regular amount of food. :)

No comments:

A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Valley Likes:

  • Apples
  • Attention
  • Carrots
  • Celery
  • Company
  • Grain
  • Grass
  • Having her ears scratched
  • Hay
  • Swimming across the lake to visit her horsey neighbors
  • Wide open space to run and buck :)
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill

Valley Dislikes:

  • being locked in the back pasture
  • being away from my other horse, Mississippi
  • being ridden
  • Having to stand still
  • anything I want her to do
  • being ridden in a direction that is not towards the neighbors horses or the barn
  • The 'Jolly Ball' I bought her. Lol
  • Being tied up without food to eat
  • Having her hoofs picked (although, she cooperates)
  • lunging
  • Taking worm medicene
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson

Things That Valley Does...

  • bites sometimes..
  • bucks
  • swims through lake to get out of pasture to visit horsey neighbors
  • chase my dog
  • anythin to be stubborn. She likes being stubborn.
  • Gallop and buck when I put her back in the pasture after she's been out for a while
  • Licks my hands
  • Tries to eat grass while I'm leading her
I bless the hoss from hoof to head -From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -I bless the hoss, as I have said,From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley


A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

The horses paw and prance and neigh,Fillies and colts like kittens play,And dance and toss their rippled manesShining and soft as silken skeins;...~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Names I Call Valley (in order of what I call her most)

  • Valley
  • Vales
  • Silly Goose

Our first day!!

Our first day!!
Adam, Valley, Me