Feb 25
It has been very cold here and snowing. All of the horses have to do shifts in the arena for exercise. I drove two of my other horses today and my fingers wouldn’t work well and I have found that when my hands don’t function, I might as well wait until the weather clears. I still touch and pet and move tails, feet, heads…of the Icys when I water and move them around, but I haven’t done anything much more than that. I put the bridle on Sam when I work other horses and he isn’t even chewing it anymore. He even eats with it. It is a non-issue for him.
Today when I let the Icys into their stalls, the two in the main barn, Sam and Treat, went into their stalls by themselves without me catching them. This is the first indication that they have accepted their new digs. Sam stands at the stall gate when I feed and wants to see what is going on. Treat stands back in his stall and doesn’t seem interested in what I’m doing. I was pretty happy about their development, though.
Feb 27
It is starting to warm up now and we will be back into rainy weather. I will start getting the Icys out again and see what those I have done something with have retained. I don’t want them all at the same level at this point because I am going to do a Training Workshop and use them as part of the workshop for people to experience. They need to be safe enough to work with, but I want to show people what kind of responses they can expect from untrained horses. Hopefully, I will have them at 5 different levels of training to show the progression. Not sure how much longer I can turn them all out together, though. They beat the heck out of each other they when they play so hard. Patches of hair are chewed out of their coats. I may have to break them into a pair and a pair with a spare. I’ll see.
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