August is a busy month on the farm and away. It's fall fair season, and some of our horses travel to fairs to participate in therapeutic riding demonstrations with Willowbank Stables of Treadwell, On. That means trailering and that takes one of us away from the farm with horses fairly often. Sneakers, Reba and Nikki all spent some time at Ottawa Central Canadian Exhibition (SuperEx) this week.
Finn will be leaving us shortly. He started the weaning process and will be heading off to his new home before the end of the month. Delilah doesn't seem to mind the daily separation time at all. Finn has been eating hay and drinking water from the troughs and a bucket for over a month. He's growing so fast that Delilah is shedding too much weight even with unlimited hay and twice a day grain rations trying to nurse him. His curly black foal coat is shedding out gray (but still curly). He's going to be a handsome fellow! At 3 months, he's already close to 13 hh high. He sure loves his daily scratches and attention.
Natasha works with Dash regularly. She rides him and free lunges him - and introduced him to jumping while free lunging. He loves it and has great form. Dash accepted the harness and showed us that he understands driving as well as riding.
Natasha also rides Nikki and Mackenzie when she has time - and is learning to drive. We hitched Sneakers up and drove him all the way to the Tim Hortons in Casselman and back one day - Sneakers was pleased as punch. Several people stopped to pat him and tell him how handsome he is along the way, too.
Nikki didn't catch when we bred her to Beau, so we're looking for another stud for her. Since she's a registered Paint, that would be our preference. If we don't find the right one for her soon, we'll wait until next year and breed her to Cool Blue Dream, aka Spook.
Firecracker finally shed out her foal/winter coat and is a beautiful bay pony. She's about 12 2 hh now and should finish close to 14 hh. It's hard to believe that she's a year old already. Her mom, Beauty, is definitely in foal to Star and due in April, 2009.
Jesse and Deer are moving to another farm this month. It's been a long drive for their owner to come and see them. Hopefully their new home will be closer and their owner will be able to spend more time with them. We wish them well.
We have a couple of places open for indoor or outdoor board for September. Contact us for rates and terms at dreamscapeacres@yahoo.ca.
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Jesse and Deer left because they were being neglected and not properly cared for by Dreamscape acres. Jesse was badly sun burnt all over his body and Deer had bad bites in her back and sides that were getting infected. Would not recommend boarding here that's for sure. If you do any business with Eleanor make sure you get it in writing and witnessed.
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