I’m pretty happy with how the pasture has held up this summer, even with Holly and Bangers sharing it with the horses. Still hand feeding, but not as much as we have had to in previous years which has been good. Everyone is looking fat, happy and healthy…particularly Tessa who …
Raj pony is a funny boy, he dosn’t particularly like the company of other equines and usually has a sour expression on his face when he is near them (and will show them his heels if they get to close to his personal space bubble). But he is quite chilled …
A massive thunderstorm developed around us yesterday, it was incredible watching the mammatus cloud form to the south east. We got a brief downpour, much to the horses disgust, but it wasn’t even enough to settle the dust.
A summer thunderstorm rolled around us today, a bit of rain would have made a nice change but it was like we had a bubble around us that it just floated over. Everything is so dry and brown, the horses are enjoying taking turns coming in to the house paddock …
We had a massive summer storm roll through last night that gave me the chance to practice my lightning photography. It is always stressful when there is no rain with the lightning though as the risk of fire from lightning strikes is so high.
The pasture has grown in really nicely with a bit more rain than past years, the horses and cows are all shiny and fat, Bangers is growing like a weed and Holly continues to provide us with beautiful fresh milk every day.
It was finally time to let Tessa out in the big paddock with the others today and boy did she enjoy the freedom to gallop around and strut her stuff!
I have been blessed to add this beautiful mare to our herd. Tessa is 3/4 Arabian, 1/4 Thoroughbred and is a ten year ex-broodmare. My plan is to start her under saddle myself, although I have started a number of standardbreds now, and re-educated a few thoroughbreds, Tessa will be …
With all the milk we now have from Holly each day, I thought I would have a crack at cheese making. My first attempts were cottage cheese and a couple of quick maturing hard farmhouse type cheeses. Time will tell how they taste!
This week has been extremely busy, but thankfully uneventful. I have continued to milk Holly twice per day and so far the iv canula has remained bandaged on her teat and continues to drain nicely when I milk the other three quarters. Well it can actually drain all the time …