We had a man up in the Showlow area call and was interested in a donkey or two. After talking to him for awhile, he was interested in the little herd of three, Ruthie and her two boys Wister and Ruger. It sounded like it might be a good fit, although the 300 mile distance made doing a home study and delivery problematic, at least for us. Kathy at Longhopes Donkey Shelter said to have him send pictures of the barn, fencing, hay, feeding area, watering area, pictures of his other equine and their feet. Leave it to Kathy to come up with a good idea. She said that's what they ask for at Longhopes when it's a long way away.
He was also looking at a couple of young ones and this morning e-mailed to say they are going with the young ones. They won't even get them until May, so I assume they are really young. I'm sure that will work out good for him and I really wasn't looking forward to putting all of the pieces of the puzzle together, so it's a win, win situation. And we will keep looking for a 3 donkey home for them.
Steven is here today to help John put up a shelter in Wister and Ruger's pen. We already have two shelters built like the one they are building. John came in awhile ago to have me look at the first "bow" of PVC to see if it was OK. Nooooooo............! It was about a foot taller than the other two shelters. He said the PVC was the same length, but he forgot, that pen is only 12 feet wide. The other shelters are about 14 foot wide, so it makes them shorter. So they are out there trying to figure out how to make it shorter. It will have to be cut off, but how much? I told Steve he is suppose to be the voice of reason, but he said he's not getting involved in management he's just labor........!!! LOL
The next big project will be to replace the chain length fence between the dog pen and 2 of the donkey pens. The donkeys have used the fence as a butt scratcher, and it's about to fall down. The problem there is it will have to be replaced in one day between morning feeding and evening feeding. Should be interesting, I've noticed as we get older, it takes much longer to finish things.......!!!
I think for all practical purposes, winter is over. We have lizards, bugs and hummingbirds are coming thru, trees other than mesquite are leafing out. It's suppose to be in the 80's today. Of course yesterday morning was 32 degrees and John had a little ice on his bird bath, so who knows. I know one thing we are very dry and it's probably going to be a very hot summer.......!!! :-(
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Hi again,
Your PVC shelters sound interesting. Do you mean that you are bending the pipe in an arc from one side of the pen to the other? I've not heard of this idea before. You are a wealth of strategies! What does the shelter end up looking like?
I know what you mean about taking longer to get things done! I guess that is why we are retired! ;)
Yes we're trying it to see if it will work. We'll cover the pvc with the fiberglas roofing corrogated sheets. Two of our shelters are built like this, but the framework is metal not PVC. We'll see. I have a hard time getting John to understand that equine can destroy just about anything. He seems to think if it looks like it will work, it will.......!!! LOL
Read your comment about the PVC breaking. It will be intriguing to see what the new design ends up looking like!
Me too.......LOL
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