Patience is a virtue!

Yesterday Peter came and picked up Victor. As I mentioned earlier Victor has huge muscle injury in the lumbar region as prior cases he's sometimes lame but mustly very stiff in the hind legs. The damage probably is due wrong riding and a wrong saddle. The person who's to blame is the one who originally should have bought Victor. Which is so sad. When I handed him over to the buyer he was fit and healthy!

However, it was not quite that easy to get Victor loaded in the trailer. Peter is a very patient man and very horse friendly. And I have to give him that, we tried many methods. Victor was not a Gypsy Vanner yesterday but a donkey! So it took us about 2 hours to get him up in the trailer. The annoying part is that when he finally is up in the trailer he's so calm and not at all afraid. It's just like he always have to try if he can avoid getting up there.

But we got him up in spite of a little drama. Among other things, Peter got slightly injured nothing serious though, but Victor was really in his fight mood. And suddenly my otherwise nice and calm horse transformed into a monster at 600 kg.

So patience is a virtue.

R.I.P. Hugin

Today has a true legend left us.
Bent Branderups famous stallion Hugin has today left us.
Hugin was blind but Bent has achieved fantastic things with him.
He died in a age of 29 years. Which is a really nice age.


My deepest kondolancer goes to Bent Branderup.

I just got a revelation

Today I got the greatest revelation and I'm renewed with new energy.
Today I got a man named Peter Als Nerving out to the farm. The idea was really he just had to show me some saddles. The saddle he had with him just sat perfectly on both Giga and Victor. It is a Hidalgo saddle and it'a made of leather which makes it adjust out from the horse's building. So it fits almost all horses. Impulsively I got training on both Giga and Victor. Which was just too wild. Peter teaches mainly riding by medieval methods when they rode horses in the war - with a new modern twist :-)

His methods are so uncomplicated for both the rider and horse. It all becomes a fun game and not a hard fight between horse and rider. The only word that constantly falls into my head is uncomplicated. His whole mentality is so straightforward and just something that suits me and my horses. I'm still a little tongue-tied, because I've never tried anything similar. And both my horses loved him. Even Victor that normally hates men.

However, he found a huge muscle injury in Victors back that he actually even offered to treat. So Victor will soon be sent down to his farm and gets treated. I am happy and can hardly be in my own body. There are still honest and nice people in this world, who really want one the best.



What a wonderful day!!!

Farriers look grumpy

One thing which has NOT changed in 437 years.... Farriers look grumpy because:

1. Their backs hurt.

2. Some idiot is telling them how to do their job.

3. The horse is screwing around.

4. They waited 7 months last time for the "check that was just mailed."

5.They've just learned there are "only" six more to do today", and, 

6. The six are in the pasture, and, "You don't mind catching them and bringing them in, I'm sure."

She HATES cats!

Strange, but for some reason Giga hates cats and has always done so. If they walk on her box she tries to squeeze them down towards the door, if they sit in her box she bites and kicks and if they are in the paddock she runs after them.

Today the farm's overly cute cat enjoyed the sun in the paddock. All was good until Giga came. First she stood and shaded from the sun and secondly she was very pushy. Her expression in the pictures says, "I'm considering doing something pretty evil, but I can't decide what to do". I could really see it in her eyes, It's after all HERS paddock and not the cats. However, when she got a little too close with her giant hooves the poor little cat ran for its life. I think if I hadn't been there, she had either bitten the cat or chased it out of the paddock.

Just my kind of Thursday

Spring is finally truly here.
This morning I trained one of the girls that rides and looks after Victor. He has started to play tricks and become a bit to much controversy. But the training went really well, he ended up accepting that he actually sometimes must sweat and work for his food.

After the training, I rode Giga. I haven't ridden in about 3 weeks due to illness. So it was so hard. Giga isn't in the best shape, so 30 min. of intens riding was fine for both of us.

After many hours at the stable, I returned home and enjoyed the last sun on my balcony with Bent Branderup.

Treatment of Victors mud fever

Treatment of Victors mud fever.

It is not his favorite thing in the world but he accepts it anyway when I say we have to!