Hey you guys,
I'm really bad, so I haven't been working with Valley, since like, I don't remember:(. But Luckily I see her and Chloe everyday, cause now I'm feeding them everyday. I think I told ya'll before that we are feeding the horses up at the shed again.
So I get to spend time with Valley (and Chloe!). I brush Valley everyday. Here's the routine:
1. Take my Rubber Curry Comb and do circular motions to get the dirt and extra hair out.
2. Take my Dandy Brush (brush with stiff bristles) and brush her all over except the head and legs (and of course not the mane & tail).
3. Take my. . .uh. . .I forgot the name of it. But the brush with SOFT bristles and do the same thing as what I did with the Dandy Brush, but I go over the legs
4. Then I hoof pick her front feet out.
I will do her back feet when she's ready, but I don't think she is yet.
Yesterday, (I was stupid and didn't feed them until it was almost dark) I was trying to brush one of Valley's back legs, and she kicked at me. So I immediately untied her, took her away from her food, and flexed her (I didn't know what else to do! Jessica, you need to help me with that!). Everytime she tried to walk, I flexed her. I also made her back up some. After a minute or two, I took her back to her food.
Well, that's about all! Oh wait! Um, Mr. Lynn is a guy I've been pet-sitting for (Have I told you about him? I can't remember, and I'm to lazy to check). He has 2 horses. Bob, and Cheif. Cheif has won quite a few awards in --- I can't remember! But anyway, his daughter Riley, is going to give me a horse riding lesson! At MY house, on Chloe! The reason it will be on Chloe, because they aren't sure how Cheif would do. Or whatever. Ok: It will be safer most likely, if I ride Chloe. But I'm embarresed to show them Chloe! And our tack!
Love,
Sarah
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~Benjamin Disraeli
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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
~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
~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!!
Adam, Valley, Me
3 comments:
It's called a body brush
Oh yeah! THANX ELLIE!
Yer welcome!
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