Yesterday the cows were brought into the barns and yards for the Winter.
The Yard and Barn sit next to, and behind the Stables. From the Stables you cannot actually SEE the cows, just hear them. There are two cows who have found the move incredibly worrying or exciting, I don't know which, as quite honestly I know next to nought about cows. They are REALLY LOUD, and I mean LOUD.
Morse came in last night with the other two horses, It was dark when we brought them in, he was immediately 'worried' about the noise, even though he has been in a field next to the cows and has heard them before. I should have brought him in earlier when I could have risked taking him down a narrow alley to 'see them' but felt it was too much of a risk last night in the dark just in case he freaked and we could not see where we were at.
I stayed with him for a couple of hours cos he was stressing, would not eat his food or his hay, and as soon as I stood up in the stable and he thought I was leaving he would 'talk' to me. Gradually he seemed to settle and I left with the girl who owns the cows and lives on the farm saying she would pop up and check him, which she did. Apparently as the cows settled so did he, and a 10 last night I rang and she said he was fine.
I had a call from Nicky at 6.45 this morn to say he was totally stressed, sweating and tucked up, not touched his food or hay, I was up dressed and about to leave, thinking with the traffic it would take me an hour as it had the other morning (usually 15 minutes) and was quite stressed myself at the thought of him being stressed.......YO rings (bless her) tells me to 'go back to bed' she has been up, sorted him, and put him out, says there is no point in me sitting in the traffic when she is able to sort it for me, says she is glad of something to do as she is a bit LOST since not having to sort Sonny on a morning (PTS 3 wks ago) and that he was ok, more concerned about WHO was making the noise as he could not see them, so she has taken him round to see the cows in daylight.
MY POOR BOY!!!! and my fantastic YO/Friend who I have EVERY faith in, what a fantastic thing to do for us........however, I shall still be down there by 09.00 just to see.......... Just thought she deserved at the very least
a mention. How lucky are Morse and I.
The Yard and Barn sit next to, and behind the Stables. From the Stables you cannot actually SEE the cows, just hear them. There are two cows who have found the move incredibly worrying or exciting, I don't know which, as quite honestly I know next to nought about cows. They are REALLY LOUD, and I mean LOUD.
Morse came in last night with the other two horses, It was dark when we brought them in, he was immediately 'worried' about the noise, even though he has been in a field next to the cows and has heard them before. I should have brought him in earlier when I could have risked taking him down a narrow alley to 'see them' but felt it was too much of a risk last night in the dark just in case he freaked and we could not see where we were at.
I stayed with him for a couple of hours cos he was stressing, would not eat his food or his hay, and as soon as I stood up in the stable and he thought I was leaving he would 'talk' to me. Gradually he seemed to settle and I left with the girl who owns the cows and lives on the farm saying she would pop up and check him, which she did. Apparently as the cows settled so did he, and a 10 last night I rang and she said he was fine.
I had a call from Nicky at 6.45 this morn to say he was totally stressed, sweating and tucked up, not touched his food or hay, I was up dressed and about to leave, thinking with the traffic it would take me an hour as it had the other morning (usually 15 minutes) and was quite stressed myself at the thought of him being stressed.......YO rings (bless her) tells me to 'go back to bed' she has been up, sorted him, and put him out, says there is no point in me sitting in the traffic when she is able to sort it for me, says she is glad of something to do as she is a bit LOST since not having to sort Sonny on a morning (PTS 3 wks ago) and that he was ok, more concerned about WHO was making the noise as he could not see them, so she has taken him round to see the cows in daylight.
MY POOR BOY!!!! and my fantastic YO/Friend who I have EVERY faith in, what a fantastic thing to do for us........however, I shall still be down there by 09.00 just to see.......... Just thought she deserved at the very least
a mention. How lucky are Morse and I.