#16 ~ Our blue eyed Mustang filly is home! What an exciting weekend! Part 1

On Friday, August 25th, our new little Mustang filly came home with us! Her first trailer ride went smooth, but you can't help but feel bad for the little thing. All she has ever known is her 120 acres of peace with her herd, and we go put her in what probably seems like a metal box, and drive her down the I-5 with tons of semis. When we arrived at home she walked right into the round pen and immediately notice our other two horses. All the horses in the area were calling out as if to say, "Hey! new girl in town!". Todd and I sat and watched her with a cold beer and she was just as calm as could be. It couldn't have gone any better. Little did I know that Amber and JoJo would make the next day and a half pure chaos!

The next morning I went out to feed and all was well. After that I got in the round pen in with her and did a "join up" with her. Something I learned at Monty Robert's, Flag is Up Farm 12 years ago when I was learning to train my first babe.

http://www.montyroberts.com/ab_about_monty/ju_about/

As I was leading my little one (she weighed in at approximately 752 pounds and is 13:3 hands) Amber and JoJo started to go what I would call crazy, typical herd behavior really. Bucking, running, kicking, snorting.... and then our neighbor horses joined in! Well my little one did not like that to say the least, and spooked. I don't blame her, they would have spooked me too! Those ninnies! Well, about after 10 minutes of trying to catch her, yes, you read that right, I finally calmed her down and walked her back to the round pen. A broken finger for me, and a couple of excited horses, I decided it could have been a lot worse.

This morning I looked out into the back property and found her staring right at me through the window and I called out to say hi. All three horses looked fine as we put her in with the other two yesterday. When Todd got up, literally 5 minutes later he looked out the same window and said, "Where's the little one?" I said that I had just said hi to her.... As we both opened the slider and ran out we realized she jumped the fence, including the hot wire. Youngsters! Oh they can and will get themselves into any and every bad situation they can. We found her standing right on the other side eating grass and walked up to me as to say "Good morning mama!" Oh thank God our baby was right there! Have I explained to you about what goes on in a herd? I don't think so, but herd mentality can be quite brutal and at the same time it's very natural. I will go into that in my next post. As it is very hard to type with a splint on your finger! Haha.... Having a blast with our new girl!