Thursday, May 7

In the home stretch…

You can lead a horse or three and a couple of mules to water, but you can’t keep them from…

trashing a neighbor’s house! We’re not sure how we’re going to explain this to the Gerbers.
But finally here we are in safe territory, the gate to Dryad Ranch, which abuts our place. This is where we let them go with the hope that they don’t choke on all the fresh green grass. These critters have spent a winter in Death Valley at the Furnace Creek Ranch Stables, where their diet consisted mostly of hay cubes with lots of nice supplements, but little to no fresh green grass that sticks up out of the ground that they can walk on and roll in. I’m sure they’ll stuff themselves on what must seem like endless dessert.

4 comments:

Pat said...

Hope it doesn't give them the colic...

Tom Hurley said...

Usually colicking happens when they go from good grass to alfalfa.

Praying Horse said...

Cool, we'll be looking for some new faces this weekend!

Hhhorses said...

Praying Horse—the new mules are Bill (white nose) and Rocky. Watch out for Bill, he can friendly you to death!

Will bring 9 more on Monday. They can't wait!