A Day in the Life--feeding time, twice a day!
Soak the beet pulp for the seniors.        Put senior feed on beet pulp.             Rinse out the buckets.
Load up with hay.                             Let Ginny & Jacob get away from Sarah Beth to eat senior food.
     She's boss mare in their little group and would take it away.
Sarah Beth starts on her hay.     Up the hill with everyone else's hay.      Zoe & Zinah tuck in.
Most horses are very picky about who they will share food with.          Lena & Joe head downhill to
Juno & Rita will never share, but Thomas & Paul sometimes do.            get their senior food.      
Soak their beet pulp.                            Add senior food.       Lena first--she rules here.
Joe second. Don't try to go           Once everyone's eating happily, if it's fly season, put a flymask
against the pecking order!                                        on everyone during breakfast.
Dump out yesterday's water.          Scrub out the tank.          Refill. Only four more to go!
Usher Ginny & Jacob back down to eat hay with Sarah Beth.               Rinse out their tubs. The
     big, smooth rocks keep them                                                                                                                    from gobbling & choking.
Now the fun begins! We spend about 45 minutes after the dinner feeding, each with a wheel- barrow, picking up manure and carting it to a dump pile. Can you guess what we want from Santa? An electric cart!
Any leftover time is spent currying and giving ear rubs to those who enjoy it.
Lena loves having her udders  cleaned.   After dinner, apply flyspray and take off
Caution: know your horse before trying this!  flymasks. Wash them once a week.              
Whew! Did it make you tired just to see what we do? Still, it's worth it to see contented horses munching away, like Bonny here. And these chores keep us on top of their daily condition: how they're eating, how they're pooping; has anyone found a way to get injured? More on that with Rachel's recent accident, covered on the next page!