I love the fact that he's putting his head all the way down now this is just
awesome Manzer and i just spend a lot of time hanging out together like this
so when i go and put his head out in his paddock or him and Nikas hay out he just
follows me around and Nika sits in her stall and eats so he kind of he's
allowed to go in and out of the paddock and then when I'm doing stuff inside the
barn then I leave this door open so he can kind of wander around I like him to
be able to investigate
as long as he's not getting into trouble she's maybe realized I don't know my dog
went that's just she's locked in the hay barn
see how he walks with the front feet he kind of toes out so that's my concern
now it's like every week I have a new concern about him he doesn't seem to be
limping now that's great you always love when they pick stuff up and then it gets
stuck in their mouth that's fun I've had that happen quite a few times the horses
for they pick it up and it just gets caught between her behind their front
teeth good boy but anyway so now yeah the thing is is
I'm watching his front feet and how they kind of stick out I don't know if it's
just because of how he's trying to reach the ground and so that's just kind of
how he's holding his feet or what I don't know there's so many things that
um there's so many new things to worry about every day and really I'm not
worried I'm not worried it's just a thing just another observation daily
observation this little guy but he's doing really good with his grain bucket
that's working out fabulous it's just the right height and he can just kind of
munch and wander and come back and munch and I don't worry about him knocking it
over and he definitely has his mom's
incredibly annoying eating habits so that's one yeah you I'm talking to you
that's one thing I watch him and I'm like oh my gosh
her her one really irritating habit how she eats
yep so I'm gonna go back to with her tongue
Sneaky's tongue is has got to be just an awkward size and from watching him from
birth on his tongue is clearly a little longer or bigger than normal so I wonder
if the odd eating behavior has to do with that doesn't matter
but it's just a again an observation the thing I like about having this elevated
tool is he can't pie at it and flip it over I always feed horses based on their
their habits so if I have a horse who like him I'm feeding him with his bucket
a little higher simply because he was having a hard time reaching down to it
and he was flipping it over and I didn't want it to become a habit because he got
frustrated so but there are horses too you know have a feed pan like that black
one in the corner and I'll just have it on the ground and they come in a stall
and they flip it over right away and then the grain goes everywhere and they
spend the whole time chasing the grain around and then it gets mixed in with
shavings and whatever else these floors are just concrete in here and I don't
really put shavings down unless I've got some urine or something to absorb
because horses don't stay in my stalls for very long but anyway so that's
irritating when that happens so with some horses I just keep a corner of the
stall swept clean and then I just dump the grain and that seems to work out
really well because it all stays in a nice neat little pile and they clean it
up without spreading it everywhere and if it's right in the corner they don't
have a tendency to want a paw at it because it's hard for them to reach so
that just kind of works out so for this little guy this is how his bucket is for
now and I would prefer to have him eating out of the green bucket off the
floor I think it's healthier better for him but for now this works out just fine
so we'll see how how he goes as he develops
and we have clover the world's cutest kitty cat well man's our here's the
kitty and he's immediately got a look at her and for those of you who have been
concerned about his hind legs look at how straight that little guy is now he's
like what are you doing back there so these legs are straightening out so
nice he looks a lot better than he did today is August 25th
so Mainzer is almost three and a half months old and this has become a thing
now where we just kind of hang out and barn together I just spend a lot of time
hanging out with him I want us to be pals you know yeah I'm gonna if you
think about it you know I'm gonna be spending
I hope I'm gonna be spending the next you know 20 to 30 years with this little
dude so you know I want to just have him enjoy being around me from the beginning
and yeah so this is a great way for us to just kind of hang out together
Katzie eating grass that's growing up through crack in the corner he's trying
to grab her to feel a little buddy okay juice box
it's like thank you my human getting all my itchy spots oh my gosh he looks so
much like Nica right there just his facial expressions all those muscles and
veins sticking out everywhere look I mean seriously look at that
muscle look at that that looks just like his mama it's awesome
and then this muscle right here is gonna be huge
he almost wants to sit down I mean this is the most gratifying thing ever I mean
just to have this little guy just show you that yep you hit the right spot and
that's exactly what he's looking for it's awesome I like that I don't want
him to ever become Rutten I can let him become rude about it but when I get the
opportunity to go and scratch on him I'm going to I'm gonna come in handy
when it comes to riding him
so at three and a half months old this whole guy's got o see if we can see lots
of to first he's got lots of teeth at three and a half months old and they are
growing significantly
now that I can keep him and his mom separated for a significant amount of
time now is when I can really start working on halter training him because I
want to be able to have him in a stall to work on that so it's gonna be it's
gonna be a process but now I'll have a little bit more time and I wanted to get
him to a certain point before I started fiddling around with it but he's also
he's to a point now where when I take him and his mom out in the yard together
he wants to venture off a little further than what I'm comfortable with I don't
want him taking off so I'm very cautious
but don't worry when it comes time for him for halter training I will make sure
to get all that on video so I won't do it unless I've got somebody here to the
video for me he's just trouble he's got to get into everything now he's going to
pull everything off the ball there
stinker
cute little white back foot he's gonna taste his mom's halter that's your mom's
alter lead rope Petrus
my entire herd Salters
he's like I gotta check them all out pull them all down make a mess
it's funny the halter that the lead rope that he has a hold of now is the one
that's attached to the halter that I got for him that is now way too small to
even consider
he was just ripping around out here pretty good little buggers fast just
like it mama