All The Puppies!

The puppies’ eyes are open now, they are running around, and playing a little. Our house is about to become over run with little, cute, playful puppies. While the puppies run, play, cuddle, and get attention, Saffron is smiling to herself, for she is pregnant. “The attention will soon be mine! Once those little puppies…

Riding Massey!

The day after we rode Willow was a nice day, a P.D. day for public schools; and since the day was nice, we took it of too. We decided to spend this lovely day with our lovely horses. Dexter and I went out to the barn, and Dexter walked Willow around, and I walked Massey…

Riding Willow, and Bonnie’s Jump

The day before yesterday, Dexter and I went to go work with our horses. Mommy said that I could saddle Willow and ride her around a bit, I have only taken one or two steps on Willow before- and that was before horse lessons. I was so excited, I could have leapt through the roof!!…

All the puppies again!

On February 12th, Zoe had a litter of puppies! Zoe has all of our attention now, and Saffron is sulking. I don’t know how Saffron is going to stay in the race for much longer… Zoe had eight puppies, five little girls, and three little boys. I’m so glad that they are joining us in…

Spring Horse Goals

I have a lot of goals for the horses, and I thought that I would share them with you. When I say Spring horse goals, I mean ones that I want to work at through the spring, and have completed by Summer- or earlier. It is kind of hard to plan goals for Bonnie, I…

Havarti and Brie

Last Sunday, not today, of course, we got a new cow. Ella, our Jersey milk cow, went out of milk in October. We thought that she was going to give birth in December, but it turns out she wasn’t pregnant at all. We tried the AI again, it didn’t work. Our neighbour offered to let…

Riding a Trot!!

Bonnie has been doing so well with her riding, she has finally started to enjoy it again. She “whoahs!” very well, I thinks she “Whoahs!” better when she is riding than while I am walking her! Bonnie responds really well to weight and leg pressure, and she prefers it! When I first started riding her,…

Lift a Hoof!

I have started to try to teach Bonnie to lift up her own hoof, and I thought I would share how it is going. It’s be a lot easier, if when it came time to pick out her hooves, you didn’t have to squeeze their chestnut forever! I would like Bonnie to lift up her…

Lily The Icelandic Sheep

I’ve been looking for some Icelandic sheep for a little while now. Icelandic sheep are supposed to be very hardy sheep, they are good for meat, milk and wool, and they are supposed to be good mothers. Our sheep die a lot, they do not grow very big, and Brie and April were the only…

Just a little realization

Bonnie has changed. The other day, I was finishing up my chores, and I sat for just a minute to watch the horses. I think Willow and Massey were eating out of the hay boxes we had built. Willow has been grumpy lately because of an eye ulcer. Willow pinned her ears and looked mad,…

Vera’s Puppies

Vera had a litter of puppies about two months ago, I was to busy loving on them, so I haven’t had time to write about them until they were all gone. 😦 (These are the puppies pictured above: The top left is Jacks, the bottom left is Jade, and the right one is Jinny.) She…

Three Ground Work Ideas

Here are some ideas for ground work you can do with your horses! I have came up with these and found that they have really helped, a few of them are things that you should work on anyways. Sometimes Bonnie presses into my space or wishes to take lead, and so these are some things…

Three more Flemish giants

Well, Lilac’s bunnies died, we are not really sure why. I decided to keep a look out for some baby Flemish giants. We found someone with a litter of seven, one boy and the rest were girls. The person who had the bunnies turned out to be the same person we bought Siri and Eddi…

Horse Desensitizing

I haven’t really done this with Bonnie yet, so I figured I would give it a try. One of my friends has desensitized her horse to many things with good success, so I gave it a try. Well, I have done it a little with the saddle; I will post about that later… Horses are…

Baby Bunnies!!!

On August first I bred Lilac and Lavender, my only female Flemish giants. Lavender bred successfully, or so i thought, but Lilac did not. I put them both in a large rabbit hutch, and we put dividers down the middle. We gave Lavender a nesting box. On October 9th, we came home to find baby…

Hay bale kittens

Breeze had some kittens under the hay bales, we knew she was pregnant, but then she suddenly lost her pregnant appearance. We started to look for her kittens, we found them under the hay bales. She went they under the hay bales frequently, so she kind of gave herself away… Later, one black kitten came…

Our cows

I have never really told you a bout our cows, not really. I wrote once about Burrito, but I think that is it. Now we I will tell you about our six cows. Isn’t that a lot? First up, I will tell you about Ella. Matzah Ella Coo is her full name, Matzah Ella as…

Kitten Update

The kittens are getting old now! Their eyes are open now, and they are all running, playing, and climbing everything! They are socialized with puppies. Zoe and Saffron had their litters right around the same time, and they both had large litters! I am glad the kittens are so quiet! We have named the kittens…

Puppy Update

These puppies are growing so quickly! They are becoming so, so playful. They always love to play. We have named most of them, so here are their names! All of their eyes have opened, and they are all so excited to run around. Keet is the smallest puppy, but do not fear, he still plays…

Puppies

Just a few days after Saffron had kittens, Zoe decided that she would become the new center of attention, and then Saffron and her kittens would be considered old news! During the middle of the night, Zoe decided to go crazy! She was crazy loud! In the morning, we let her out, and she went…