After my successful ride on Tuesday and feeling so well Tuesday evening, I was afraid that getting out of bed on Wednesday would be hard, it wasn't. However, this morning was a different story. I was sore in all of the places that you get sore after riding a horse for the first time in a long time.
My last long ride was in the summer of 2004, we took an 8 hour ride and I was quite sore after that, today wasn't that bad but I sure am feeling it. I hope that the weather permits us to ride for at least another 3 hours next week and hopefully even a little bit longer.
We have some neighbors with horses now who ride nearly every Sunday. They have been making some trails that are very convenient for us. We don't have to ride on the road for very long and we don't have to trailer our horses anywhere.
And now back to the farm news...I lost another Silver Lace Wyandotte hen. She just died on the roost like the last one. I hate losing them without knowing why but I don't know how old they are. The rest of the hens are giving us at least a dozen eggs a day and sometimes fourteen. I haven't had any hens go broody yet, so I guess they aren't convinced that Spring has sprung.
Calico continues to grow wider, as does Paris. Everyone who sees them say that they both must be bred but I am still not convinced about Paris, we will see in a few weeks. She has still not shown any signs of heat, so hopefully she is.
Angus is growing and getting a little too smart for his own good. We may have to confine him to his own area soon. He still has the run of the farm and we couldn't find him the other night at feeding time. He had made his way through the electric fence and was in the goat/chicken shed settled in with the goats.
When he gets to feeling his wild oats, he takes a run out into the big horse pasture. He loves being chased by our curious young horses, I guess it gets his adrenalin pumping like it does mine. He can outrun them now but I told him that as he gets bigger he won't be able to run that fast and then what is he going to do when they catch him?
4 comments:
I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT WHEN YOU START TO EXERCISE, IF YOU'VE DONE THEM RIGHT, THAT IT'S THE SECOND DAY THAT IS THE TOUGHEST AND YOUR BODY SAYS" WHAT THE HECK DID I DO???"
I AM ALWAYS A BIT SORE WHEN I START RIDING AGAIN IN THE SPRING. I PLAN ON GOING FOR A RIDE THIS AFTERNOON, HOPEFULLY.
AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE "LIST" IS COMPLETELY TRUE...WE GO THROUGH IT EVERY YEAR. SOME UNKNOWN PREDITOR IS ALWAYS FOUND!!! LAST YEAR IT WAS A HORSE EATING MOOSE!!! THE HORSES WOKE UP AND STOPPED SO UBRUPTLY THAT WE STARTED LAUGHING BECAUSE WE SAW HIM FIRST!!
WELL LOTS OF LUCK ON YOUR NEXT RIDE..I ALWAYS START SLOW. A HALF HOUR TO AN HOUR IS GOOD. THAT WAY THE SORENESS ISN'T AS BAD.. BUT IT FEELS GOOD DOESN'T IT??!!!
KAREN IN MASS
I'm so sorry to hear of you losing another hen!
I've always wondered how you can tell when a hen is getting old or even really old.
With dogs, cats and people our gray hair/fur gives us away. I wonder if they have any such?
Karen, I know that I should have started out a lot slower than we did but the first half of the ride was so much fun that I forgot that the farther you get away from home the longer it takes to get back home.
Do Moose ever attack horses?? I don't think that I would want to get too close to one with a baby.
Christy, I haven't done any research on the aging of chickens. That might be something that I will have to do. Maybe there is a way of figuring out how old they are but if there is, I haven't found it yet. But then again, before now I haven't really cared to know.
I KNOW THE FEELING OF IT BEING LONGER RIDE HOME.
AS FOR THE MOOSE ATTACKING HORSES, I DON'T THINK THE HORSES WERE GOING TO FIND OUT. BOTH HORSE AND MOOSE FROZE...THE MOOSE MOVED OFF FIRST AND WE KEPT OUR DISTANCE..I DON'T THINK MOOSE WILL ATTACK UNLESS THEY FEEL THREATENED. AND I HOPE HORSES CAN OUT RUN A MOOSE IF NECESSAY!!!
LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS AND MOOSES OH MY!!!!!HEHE
KAREN IN MASS
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