Happy hens, happy teeth

We let them into their new run today and after a little hesitation they scooted down to the grass and stayed there all day. This is the run down to the trees at the bottom which were being eaten to death by the horses, now nice and safe, protected by the fence.

I don't think they could believe that we'd actually opened the pop-hole for them.

Ok,now we're going for it.

Yes!!!!!

The equine dentist came today and they were all very well behaved. Remy had quite a bit of work but was stoic, standing quietly with a resigned look on his face. Bonbon had a light rasp. The last time he came (6 months ago) she had no work done, he just introduced her to the gag and the baby rasp so she did really well. Corky was pretty much ok and Anky needed no work at all. All in all a good result.

We started Anky on the colostrum today, 100ml. The vet recommended 3/4oz (about 100ml) 3 times per day so that's what we're going to do.

Work in the rain

The sun had deserted us this morning, I guess two days in a row had tired it out.
It was raining, but it was warm and calm. I did some work with remy on the lunge, getting more relaxation at the walk and then asking for a trot transition. His transitions to trot are a little tense, but today we got a nice calm one. I did a little in-hand work and tried some leg yield. He moves smoothly over on the left rein, but is a little sticky on the right rein, with a tendency to ground the inside shoulder. We finished on a good note though with him lifting his shoulder and offering some nice steps.
Anky's been ok the last couple of days and tomorrow I have a friend coming over with some colostrum so we'll see if it helps. I have some freeze dried whole colostrum on order, hopefully here within the week.
And.........we finished the chook pen, they'll be so chuffed tomorrow when we let them in there. The sun will be back tomorrow.