Not much

Been a busy but lack of picture weekend.  I got the girls thoroughly brushed out again, shedded out a lot of hair. Picked up what Aunt Lisa had left of a hay roll that I am unrolling and feeding out.  My hay will last this week but no further.  I will have to find a source of hay and get some more.  I REALLY thought my pasture would have looked better than this by now.  Minor mis-calculation on my part.  Now hopefully I can find some hay.  Though the seed I put down is sprouting.  I didn't think it would start popping up that quickly.  Just needs to go faster for the horses. 
I scrubbed out the water tub today, I put in the step in fence posts across the backyard and got all the wood posts out of the back of my truck with dad's help this morning.  So now I need to get some more concrete and the bracer post nails at Lowes an during the week this week Dad and I will start to put posts in.  I also need to get the pasture side step in posts in and then get all the tape strung up.  So much to do, so little time.  

Last of the weekend updates!

So Saturday was a heavy work day.  I had gone up and talked to Perry about hay, and like I am hitting road blocks everywhere, he didn't have a lead for hay either.  He said drop about 100 pounds of horse seed pasture mix on it before the rain and it should help it turn green pretty quick.  Hoping he is right I did it.  That was over $200 worth of seed.   I am down to 2 weeks worth of hay left.  Well, while I was out doing that, dad had gone over to get some fill dirt from Benny's pile and Benny brought a bunch over with his bob cat and re-made the bridge.  I seeded that heavy and put the last of my straw over it to help it grow quick.  

 

Then today was an interior kind of day.  I was in the barn taking some pictures of my babies that I kept back from the spring litters.  I culled out more than I am keeping, that's for sure! 

Top two pictures are the 2 of 6 total babies from Iron Tail

Presea's trio^  of the 7 she raised.  Below is one of 5 that Mirror had. 

Funny part was everything I kept back I didn't gender check until after I had made my choices and I kept back all does.  I know if any had been bucks I would have been super hard on them because Bucks are hard to sell to start with.  I won't give these guys much time to sell when I pull my keepers, they don't sell at Frankfort, when they are 8 weeks old, they will get culled out.  I have a litter of torts in the box, and I did breed Kensie to Wily so he has to go as well.  Time to trim down. 

Lazy few weeks

Horses are doing great, more or less. Hay is starting to get low so I am going first thing in the morning to go visit someone and see if I can't get some names and numbers and find some more squares for them.  Down to 17 left.  The pasture is greening up just SLOWLY.  

Spent a large chunk of my farm sitting money for some new posts, and a new tire on my truck.  Super impressive that the tire had just peeled off the dry rotted rubber and held air for at least a few hours.  

My future show babies are looking very promising.  

 And all the other breeders always complaining and saying you can't get good ring pattern using a steel and a tort. . . . I totally beg to differ.  Nice looking little gray.