I'm sure the donkeys will be glad to get here. They had to spend the night in the stock trailer. I'm sure that wasn't what they had planned for the night. The plan was to stop in an area, where they could take the donkeys out and put them in a pen, BUT, they didn't get as far as they had planned, so on to plan B......!!! Haven't heard this morning how it went, I'm sure they are on the road, with their "traveling circus"...........LOL
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| Ah...the life of adventure......!!!! |
This morning the guys set the pens up for 5 more donkeys. John and I had to change the set up for our pans and hay buckets. I don't know how John's hay adventure went, but I spent quite a bit of time, standing in the feed room, trying to make sense of the whole system change. It's pretty easy to add one donkey, but adding 5 in different areas on the feed schedule, really taxed my brain......!! I'm sure the guys will be more than happy to tell me if it isn't right.
To put it mildly Frijolita is PISSED, there is no other more delicate word to describe her opinion of having to move. What really makes it bad is, she is no longer next to Tula, the head jenny. She is next to Smoky Joe, who is really far down on her list of favorites. Joe is a busy little guy, that thinks the world revolves around him, and he also thinks he is God's gift to the ladies. The girls all think he's a pest, and let him know it. I think he enjoys the attention, because it certainly doesn't slow him down much.
It will be interesting to see how the new guys react. Boaz will go into his old pen, Leddy and Turbo could go into their old pens, but John wants to put Turbo into the large pen, so we'll see how that goes. Frijolita is actually in her old pen, but poor Quilla's pen has been taken over by Shaggy Bill, who has to eat by himself. He is an air fern when it comes to gaining weight, we were feeding the 3 boys, Joe, Don Juan and Bill together, but Bill just kept getting bigger and bigger, so he's by himself now.
Quilla will go into the "temporary" pen that Casper was in. Frijolita's pen is also a temp pen, both of them have been in place for years. John actually took Frijolita's pen down a couple of times and just as soon as he did, we'd need it again. Before the rainy season starts in December the guys will need to build shelters in Leo and Quilla's pen.
Heard from Bryan, that Casper is still settling in and seems to enjoy having equine neighbor's on both sides of him. He said Casper isn't running away when he puts in the feed now, so that's a step in the right direction. I think he'll be OK, when he figures out Bryan is one of the good guys. Casper has been passed around so much, probably his whole life, that he's not going to waste his time trusting just anyone, so it will take awhile.
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