Every year we give our Christmas tree to the horses. They seem to really enjoy playing with it, tearing it up and eating it! Isn't this a great way to recycle trees?
It was a grey, gloomy, windy, muddy, miserable day. I am so sick of the mud! We had a record amount of snowfall over Christmas and then it warmed up to 40. UGH! When we buy our own place I have a plan all ready for managing *mud* for my horses...
Ted was the horse who loved the tree the best. He always would trot right up to it and munch on it and drag it away like a dog with a giant bone. We don't have him anymore and this was Foxy's first year to get a tree and since she was chicken, everyone else was chicken too... The Blazers didn't get a Christmas tree last year either, it was their first experience with this treat too.
Here she is telling everyone they had better run away. Spinner is waaay ahead of her!We tried bribery. Most horses love peppermint. Especially Tawshi horses...
Isn't Star getting big??
Foxy is still worried about the green monster:
Speedy didn't go for the peppermint trick so we tried the 'ol "scritches in the right spot" trick.
It worked.
Tom and his girl Foxy (and Tawshi looking for another candy cane):
Foxy and Star:
Cherish and her boy Spinner:
1 comment:
That is too funny Char!
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