Mud and Company

A friend of ours called late last night about 9 pm and asked if we could bring out the horses to visit with a group of elementary kids that would be visiting his farm in the morning. He thought the kids would really enjoy seeing the horses.

We said yes with some trepidation. First, the horses were extremely muddy, especially Archer, from the melting snow, they look horrible. Second, Aliy has never been around a large group of kids. Third, Thistle believes humans less than 3 ft. tall eat horses alive.

Out of the three horses we decided Aliy was the one to take. Thistle was a definite no and Archer was way too dirty, not to mention the kids were coming at breakfast time and Archer loves her breakfast and gets grump if she misses it. (We will be working on that over this coming year).

Cadence helped me clean up Aliy and we took her to meet the kids. Aliy did really great. A group of 15 or so kids all got to pet her nose and then Robin lead Aliy around the farm showing the kids all the different things to see there. The highlight of the tour was the herd of buffalo that live on the farm. There are nine buffalo calves, about the same age as Aliy and the group got to throw a pelleted buffalo feed into to the pasture. The three big males came over first and then the entire herd came in to get the treat. The kids thought it was great. One of the attending adults took photos and I asked if she would mind emailing me a copy of Aliy with the kids, unfortunately she hasn’t.

This was a great training opportunity since Keeley and I hope in the future to take Archer and Aliy to different events around Colorado and show off Lippitt Morgans.