dec 26 2922
mixed bag-- that is what this community is... i can not believe 1400 people read this regularly ---- ok. so it varries between 1396 and 1410 after 2 days ...... i totally enjoy the group especiallky when they have either spit coffee on the keyboard because of laughing... or disagreed violently in an email to me.
it is an early morning mental exercise. for more than just me writing it.-- emails are sometimes rare..plus and minus...
now the camera numbers game. 50% watch the house camera 20% watch the donkey cam. 10 puppy hill and nursery cam. .. furthermore 40% are men...
so our 2 points of strong interest. asre.....the daily trials and tribulations of a bunch of animal people and to some the new world of large animals-- the learning curve has happened.. who knew you had to file the points off a horse;'s teeth ever couple years???.. or that the horse vet made house/ farm. calls??? ....
to take better advantage of the explore cameras, we ( janine) has cleaned up the arena and will be bringing over some of her rescue horses for wallace to ride-- on camera-- so you can watch the transition from plow horse to riding horse.... or in some cases wild animal to pet.
all of these draft horses from the amish country have worked hard--- and the amish take good basic care of their horses .. as you would a car,,, but when their usefulness is over they are usually sent to auction and sold by the pound .. some of the ones ERN buys can be "repurposed" by having wallace ride them. -- he is a bull rider and has not fallen off any horse yet .. but it is sometimes exciting to see him h ang on as the horse leaps around... what better place than our arena??? i. have seen this in the beautiful fields at meridith -- but winter is here... and our indoor arena might be better used-- it could be an education....
there are some ERN buys just to keep them out of the pipeline in those terrible trucks to mexico/
draft h orses and mules.... who.. like "mo" become a lawn ornaments -- and every year we think" is she going to last thru the winter? so far she has.... but it is hard to keep any fat on her .ERN refers to these reescued work horses or carriage horses as horses who have earned a "soft landing" of a few months in the beautiful pastures of meridith farm,,
however this year-- a few of the ones expected not to make it thru the winter have had a huge improvemnet in their health with the care they get here.. and now we will be giving them a second chance,, and that will take alot of hay.. which is judy and i running to salsbury weekly for the 80 bales ...
there is a book... "chance". about an amish carriage horse given a second chance with ERN, i couldn't find it on amazon... but it does exist....
