today is August 14th I have Nika in the stall eating her grain and she is her a
little window open there and then here oh you can see a duck waddling in and
you can see some cute little ears sticking up so what I have going on here
is Manzer is just still learning to be away from his mom so there's a wall
between them and you know there's little cracks between the boards and stuff so
he can like see her movement and such but this little guy is still dealing
with not being able to put his head all the way to the ground and I got pretty
tired of Nica trying to rip the feeder off the wall so I'm putting him in a
stall letting him eat some grain well mama eats her grain so that's kind of
like the time that they are separated and this is just kind of what I'm doing
for like right now I have a bucket to install on the wall for him just to make
it so he can eat but we're working on him being able to put his head all the
way to the ground it's just gonna it's gonna take some time you know after what
what he went through it's gonna take him time being able to put his head all the
way down and stretching those muscles and tendons out so this is just kind of
what we're doing I don't like having feeders attached to the wall and my
soles because they find that horses develop bad habits of either chewing on
them or flinging the grain out of them so I like to use these feed pans and I
put them on the floor or I'll put the grain directly on the floor if it's
clean and that's that seems to have worked out really really well so I don't
like the idea of installing a permanent feeder in here so what I have I'll like
to show you guys so I've got over here
hey Mary so the thing I like about what I'm doing here is he can come out he can
see his mom and then he could be like okay it's all good and he goes back in
his stall and eats his green so it's a good way for them to be separated but
not really I just I want it to be when we do decide to wean I want it to be an
easy process so this is just something that I thought would be kind of helpful
it seems to be working good and he's learning how to deal with the stress of
being away from the other horse so I'm trying to conquer any like separation
anxiety issues from day one pretty much so or from the beginning all right so
the bucket that I have for him I got this green bucket and it's got snaps on
it so it can be attached to the corner so I'm just gonna put some little eye
hooks in the corner of this stall and then I can hang this up there and I can
also take it down but this works he can't knock it over and I've got the
handles to this little wheelbarrow in the corner this is only done while I'm
in here with him it's just I just needed a platform of some sort a bale of hay
works good too but I just didn't have one in here so this is my solution
he's like and my mom
he has developed his mom's weird eating habits I think it has to do with that
ginormous tongue as she has a big tongue too
something I've been watching pretty closely are his hooves I really kind of
worried about his left front hoof I hope it's not clubbed so I don't know it just
seems a little bit more upright to me than the other one but Nika has very
upright hooves so I don't know I just spend a lot of time looking at them and
I guess I'm we're not trying to find things wrong but I just find it
interesting and I like to look at stuff so but I'm probably just overthinking
stuff but this foot right here I don't know what do you guys think does he look
like he's maybe clubfoot and off or does it look normal to you I look at him too
much I'm always looking at so nice and I'm just to stand here so good and quiet
for me to video his hugs good boy let's see if we can move this foot little bit
like to get a side angle without chewing on me
say hi to mama you say hi to your mom don't you jump on me a little stinker
you know you're upset that your mama's not right here hey this is good for you
glad for you
I had a big fan of him wandering out there so I'm probably going to put the
bars up just so he can't go that way he's still pretty good he doesn't want
to stray very far from his mom
a little dude
oh he's mad cuz I want to be with my mom I was like get over it like tap dancing
you're not allowed to jump on me though
it's like sheriff's straightened out
ouch
kind of matches the walls doesn't he
ok so it's been about 10 minutes of them being in separate stalls so I'm
gonna shut his stall door now so he can't come back out and then I'll let
him in mama cuz she's done with her drain so
okay little buddy holding the door closed in the door