Thursday, February 26, 2009

A week of plotting and planning

This week Rose and Sweetpea had their feet done. They were tranqued, but just lightly and quite well behaved about it.

I spent the week wrangling an extra tall horse trailer for Rose and organizing a task force and plan for Peace. I knew someone who had recently bought a 17.3 hand Belgian for her husband so I contacted her to see how she transported him. Graciously she has offered to haul Rose this weekend! After much schemeing, we've come up with a good plan with several back ups for getting Rose this weekend. The bad news is that it may be the last chance for a while. A combination of the weather and the lack of cooperation from the barn management means that at the least we need to suceed in getting her out of this pasture, if only to a pipe corral or catch pen where she can be worked with over the next couple of weeks. The best case of course will be if we can actually load and move her.

So wish us luck for the weekend! Hopefully all will go well and these girls can get on the road to forever homes.

1 comment:

  1. What a great blog! I can't wait to meet the BIG MARES tomorrow :)

    When we first saw Jake (our 17.3 hand 2000lb Belgian), we thought he was HUGE. Now we are totally used to it! It's funny how that happens with big horses (they get smaller)

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