This message is from: Steve McIlree <st...@carriagehorse.com>
Bonnie's story reminds me of our guys yesterday morning. When I feed, I put them in the round pen to keep them from "helping" while I measure out their meals. They also get fed in the round pen so they think it's a great place when we need to get them out of out hair for some reason. The routine is, once I've measured their hay into muck buckets, I dump the meals over the pen panel into their feeders and then unlatch the pen gate. So night before last, when I flipped the chain latch up it caught without my noticing, and when I went out the next morning to give them breakfast they were still locked in. Since they had been all night without water I thought they would make a rush for the waterer as soon as the gate opened. No, they started checking my pockets for the dinner mint they usually get when I go into the pasture. After I gave them their mints, did they head for the water? Nope, they turned around, went back into the pen and stood by their feeders until I dumped breakfast in. -- Steve It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.-- Aristotle 384-322 BC Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw FH_L Shirts: http://tinyurl.com/8yky94l
