Holly Goes Home

That title should say “Holly and Synergy Go Home”.   Too bad Synergy didn’t think it was necessary to get on the trailer last night.  Even worse, she thought it was necessary to stand straight up on her hind legs as often as possible and come down on top of Glenn’s head the last time.  Glenn is ok, just a little headachy this morning.

When I picked up these two from their previous owners, they both gave us a hell of a fight getting into the trailer.  They would both rear up when asked to move forward on to the trailer and Holly would use her size and power to drag us around and stomp all over us.  She had absolutely NO respect for us or her owner.

Things were no different last night.  It took an hour to get Holly on the trailer.  We fought with Synergy for another hour before she decided to tap dance on Glenn’s head.  At that point we called it a night and put Synergy back in the pasture with Kisses.  We’re building a round pen this week since Glenn is home and Synergy will be spending A LOT of time in there learning respect and finding out that rearing is NOT the way to react when asked to load.  Once I have her loading without all the fuss, I’ll take her down to Maggie.  Maggie can have fun undoing all the previous training (or lack thereof) that has made Holly the rearing maniac that she has become.

I don’t have any pictures from last night, but I did do the last Holly update over on Rescue Recoveries yesterday so go check it out.

Update on Kisses and Synergy

First let me tell you that Jacob is leaving for his new home tomorrow morning! And just wait until you see where he’s going!! I’ll post a link to the farm as soon as I get permission from his new adopters. He’s one lucky guy!

Remember what Kisses looked like when she got here? This is what she looked like last night, her two week anniversary here on the farm.

Once Synergy and Holly leave for Maggie’s house, I’ll put Kisses out with the main herd so she can make friends with the other youngsters. I’d like to start breaking her to saddle in a couple of months, but you all know how that goes. When I say I’m going to get something done, there’s always 50 other things that crop up and keep me from doing it. Like, now that the spring-fed water tank is an air-fed dirt tank because of the drought, I’m having to haul water for everyone DAILY. Ugh.

This is what Synergy looked like when she got here. Here’s what she looks like now:

Both girls still have a ways to go, but they’ll get there eventually. I did a Holly update over on Rescue Recoveries, so be sure to check her out. Also, did you guys see the Ellie update I did on July 5th??? Didya didya, huh huh??? No one commented, so I figured you guys missed out on seeing her in all her dainty plumpness. Go! What are you waiting for?

Synergy and Jacob

These are the second two horses from the same family where Holly and Kisses came from.  Anne and I got home shortly after 9PM last night with them.  Holly and Kisses recognized them immediately and came running up to the trailer to greet them.

This is Synergy, a 7yo Trakehner mare.  She’s a very sweet and personable mare.

 

Jacob is an 8yo Percheron / Standardbred cross who is definitely not hurting that much in the fat department.  He’s a great big sweetheart that scored a 65% on his first dressage test!

 

He went into the quarantine pasture with his girls last night, but after feeding this morning I put him in the bachelor pad with Quest, Maverick, and Stride.  It was a fairly uneventful meeting, except that Jacob managed to kick Maverick in the leg.  Mav gimped around for a few minutes, then was fine.  Whew!

I’m on-call for work this weekend, but have Monday off.  I’ll get on Jacob Monday for evaluation then get him up on the website.  I’m also going to finally try to get pictures of Frisky and Gentry for the website.  Wish me luck!