A New Day Started With Happy Horses!

I had a hard time sleeping last night because I was stressed about moving the horses and I was worried after yesterday, that maybe the move wasn't a good idea. This morning when I walked into the barn and was greeted by four relaxed, happy looking horses, I was reassured that though yesterday was a disaster with broken doors, stressed out horses, and an upset BO, today was a new day and it started out with happy horses. Always a good sign!

Things went great today! The BO was actually petting Tiger and visiting with her today. Then she remarked at how lovely she is when she's relaxed and asked if she was the Alaric's dam. Apparently, some of Tiger can be seen in him and the BO loves him, thinks he's beautiful. She said that she thought about it and all the horses have had a stressful time recently and just need to settle in. I was glad she understood that. This was their third move since February. Tiger was acting extra witchy and stressed when she first met her yesterday. While she was petting her this morning, she stated, "today will be a better day" and she was completely right!

The BO was shocked to find that though my BF built the door, my mother and I were the one's there putting it up. She asked "Shouldn't a man be doing this?" My mother laughed and said "Yes, but where is a man when you need one?" We all had a good laugh about that. It took us two hours to get the sliding door up.

I got Sharade and Spicie turned out in the pasture with the run-in stall while we fixed the door and they were visiting with the miniature donkeys over the fence. They spent all day out. Then I went out and fixed some fencing and checked the charge on the fences, and took a sickle to some tall grass that was shorting out the fence. Tiger and Alaric got a few hours out in there private smaller pastures once I got some of the overgrown pasture cleared out and got the fences in working order. Then I had to get my whole stable area cleaned up and organized. It was a very long day. My mother and I were there for 7 hours!

Spicie is spending the night in the donkey section of the barn in the donkey foaling stall until we get the fourth stall in the section I'm in, cleaned out. It is being used as a storage stall. She was hoping that two horses could share the foaling stall in the "horse section", but it just doesn't look like it's going to work 24/7. I can have two sharing the stall and pasture, but they act crowded once that door to the pasture is shut and that's when problems start up. Spicie has night blindness so leaving it open 24/7 isn't an option and Tiger and Sharade are too big to share a stall together comfortably and both can become very "marish" when together for long periods of time. We'll have to get it cleaned out this weekend, because she has a few donkeys coming due to foal and needs that stall back soon. The horses are completely fascinated by the donkeys. It's very cute!

For the past few months at the other barn, they haven't acted quite like themselves and I'd been kind of upset about it. Spice was stressed out and depressed, she just looked tired all the time. Tiger's attitude got sour and she started pinning her ears excessively. Alaric wasn't being social and he's usually very friendly with people and other horses. Sharade just seemed a little aloof, not quite herself. I had all my horses back as of today. I guess the other place just wasn't for them. They were completely back to themselves overnight and that's the best reassurance of all!