| Some of the Herd! On Saturday 23rd February 2008 we moved Commanding View and CM Commanding Miss over to the paddock with Dolan, Ceilidh, Cutie, Burleigh and Killari... Here are some pics from the day! |
| Above is Ceilidh, and at right is Cutie. Both girls are looking rather round at the moment. Due in November 2008. |
| Dolan as you can see above and left decided he would have a big hoon around, hes pretty quick when he wants to move! He is a gorgeous boy, and it will only be another week or so before he gets weaned! Below is CM Commanding Miss (Jenni) and her lovely mum Mandy... Jenni decided it was all a bit big and scarey and stuck close to mum for the first 24 hours... shes getting a little gamer now. |
| Mandy is a beautiful girl... Shes looking pretty good for her almost 19 yrs old. She's a great mum! |
| On Sunday the 24th February, we had a new mare delivered and did some horse shuffling. Burleigh, Killari and Cutie moved down a couple of paddocks to keep the new girl, Tiki, company. |
| Above and left you can see Cutie having a bit of a hoon around in the 'new' paddock. Below is our new girl, Montica - Tiki is her paddock name. She stands about 16.1hh and is a lovely bay TB mare. No white on her. |
| If you are a little squeamish, please dont look at the photos below. Just after Tiki arrived early on the morning of the 24th, we discovered that Gryphon had injured himself through the night. We cannot find WHERE he did it, and can only assume that he was having a hoon with the older colt who was in the same paddock and has run into a fence - however there is no evidence on the fences or trees at all as to where hes done it! There was NO blood - the wound below is exactly as we found it. It was stitched up and he was started on antibiotics right away. |
| He was a VERY good boy while it was being stitched, and the morning of the 25th we had to restitch part of it as he had opened it up again overnight. It looks like hes actually chewed half the stitches out. So now ALL the stitches that are in it are with steralised fishing line (fairly heavy duty) as the normal sutures were just too fine and kept breaking. Half of his original stitches were fishing line, half normal suture material. Hopefully now with it all being fishing line, it will hold together. |
| Saturday 1st March Update... Gryphs wound is looking good - despite the stitches pulling through... We have put buttons in it as you can see here at left, only he now has a third set of buttons in the middle as well.... Sorry they dont all match! But at least we have pairs! |
| We finally found WHERE he had done the injury... in the middle of a fence panel - between two posts - on plain wire. We only found out that was where he did it as there was a tiny bit of hair and the fence was stretched there. It wasnt even the top wire! We are guessing he was hooning and forgot to pull up earlier than he should have and slid into the fence! |