So I haven't planted those trees yet (too windy) - one of the horses ate the tops off both karakas!!! I couldn't believe it....their necks are long when they want them to be! Hoping this weekend will be a bit nicer - the paddocks are a bit wet again. The weather has been like August - not cold but windy and squally! It'll be fine again and hot and then I'll be moaning it's too hot to plant trees. May have to move them away from the yard a bit more - or put some more electric braid up!
Poor Maraschino - Had a wee bit of a drama this morning - it rained a bit just before midnight last night and I was thinking oh dear they only have their light Summer covers on - they are shower proof but it was a bit more than a shower (5.6mm). Maraschino's was Blues old cover so it must be about 5 years old and had a couple of bite holes/rips I was keeping my eye on near the back. Anyway....
here you can see the neck cover
Woke up to snorting and jumped out of bed and put my joddies and gumboots on - Maraschino only had his neck cover on - nothing else!!! And Garbo was acting very dominant and seperating Coco and Maraschino each time they tried to get together.... He was doing 12ft cirlces at trot around Maraschino - travelling circles! The paddock was a mess so this had obviously been going on for a while.
As I turned the fence off and headed under the fence to get in there, I saw the 'dead' cover - completely shredded (picture will be on blog later) on the clay pile, muddy and wet...so I can only imagine what he must have been through to get it off. The Neck cover still had one clip attached (from the rug) and the other end of that used to be joined to the cover by a D ring - well that whole strip was trailing along beside Maraschino as he cantered away from Garbo.
Garbo was sweating - he stopped briefly to say hi and then he was off again seperating them....
I managed to get to Maraschino and undid the two buckles on the neck cover (funny thing is as soon as he put his head down to eat it would have come off) just in time before he was off again to get away from Garbo. Maraschino didn't seem too stressed although he obviously had not eaten since it happened.
He didn't stand still for very long. The paddock was all dug up - looks a mess!
I started filling in the divets and after about 3-4 minutes they settled and I went to get them some hay (wondering if they were hungry since all last nights hay had gone)... and they started eating hay... they have been happy and calm as a herd all day since... bizarre!
I went out and got Maraschino a new cover today (a strong one) and he didn't seem too phased about having a cover on again so it was not obviously too traumatic for him. Thanks goodness.
Dad and Sue are coming to stay this weekend and then we are going up to Matakana with them on Sunday and staying the night there.
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