It's a gorgeous spring now that spring has finally arrived. I have my bedroom window open and everything!! I haven't gotten time to get out and ride at all the past 2 days, been spending far too much time hand grazing the ponies since Phoenix will not eat the hay at all. I'm at wits end with him. He'd better hold himself lucky that I love him and the fact that I know this is his last year. He won't live to see 30 as much as I'd love for him to do so, he won't. I can't put him into another winter, not knowing what will happen, and knowing what happens every spring the past 3 years. I can't get a real good dentist out to do his teeth so the vet does the best he can and we won't push back onto hay.
The only real good thing about moving Heidi to boarding is having the company to ride with plus not having to worry about the hay situation. I won't have to bring in a crap load of hay for the winter, and stack it in the barn, just 30 - 40 bales for the rabbits and the bottle calves in the spring. That'll be it. And thankfully the place I plan to board Heidi at does sell hay so I'll probably buy it off of him in the fall for them. It's also part of the reason I'm doing a rabbit herd sell down.
My mini rex is going, I'm cutting back my dutch, so I've got more up for sale than I have plans to bring in. I've got several of the blue Dutch brood does that are going to get put up for sale and if all else fails they'll be butchered. I'm very hopeful that Grace produces a NICE blue buck from Leo so I can keep that in his father's place. Leo's actually quite annoying. I cannot keep hay in with him because he digs it all out of his hay rack. I had to go ahead and buy that expensive hay from TSC since the bunnies don't want to eat the Montgomery's hay either! It's such a pain when everything has other plans!! I guess I'll be using the rest of the Montgomery hay to bed the calves with. Beats the heck out of buying shavings to put them on. Oh well something's gotta give!
I should be losing the Roark's field part way through the summer. He thinks I'll have a few more months so I'm figuring around Labor day to either put the ponies on hay or put Phoenix down and move Heidi to boarding. Which is probably the more likely thing to do. David said one of the guys looking at buying the place intends to run cattle on it- the field should be good for that! I just got done seeding a majority of it. I guess I'm glad I didn't re-fence the one end like I had planned on doing! If the co-worker of his buys it, I can keep the ponies on the fields and they might even let me fence in the other side and use that as pasture land as well. I probably won't use it as pasture land or pay to fence it in because Phoenix will be getting put down before winter- though it would keep him on pasture longer thus keeping him around. Either way I'm watching the way it goes to see what happens. It gives me a chance to work on an end game if I have to. I know a majority of my end game, it's just playing it out. Dad said he would put Phoenix down- his 41 Mag will do the job, but I know damn good and well that I won't be able to be out there for that. I found standing there when the vet euthanized Jasmine wasn't bad, I was there when Starbuck was euthanized. I was there with Sundown when Dad and the 41 Mag took care of her. I probably could be there, I just have to give myself enough forewarning to rationalize everything.
Either way, my field still needs to be dragged and seeded. I'll have to get the drag tomorrow from my Aunt, since it's hers and we'll just be borrowing it. I still have yet to buy the seed, but paychecks are still a little slim here. I'm trying to do too much on what little paycheck I do have. Good news for the paycheck is there's a guy 12 miles-yes 12 MILES from our house that will order in the PenPals rabbit feed! I have 3 bags coming in next week from him! And I'll use that to figure out how fast I go through 50#'s and this way since he only order's once a month, I'll have to figure out exactly how much a month I'll need and by the time he needs to order it I'll have it figured out and order my monthly allotment when he orders. It would be so awesome to keep my bunnies on the PenPals, everyone looks for their feed in the mornings, including Colby and Keisha!
I know this blog post is all over the place but my brain is also all over the place, I have a sinus infection that I'm fighting with right now because I don't have the heart to go back to the doc's yet. I'm not ready to see one yet. I didn't have a bad experience with the surgeon but I'm just not ready yet. I've upped my Vitamin C and hoping that, that helps. I've taken enough decongestant that my sinus' have dried out and now I can pinpoint the base source. I'm going to try taking Zyrtec D -currently I take plain Zyrtec. If that doesn't work then I'll be finding an allergy specialist and getting something stronger for take care of this, I can't stand having sinus infections off and on. It's gotta be horses, rabbits or hay! That's what I'm around 98% of the time! The constant pressure and the smell are the dead giveaways!
Either way I'd better stop at some point. I need to shower and eat dinner(Yes it's 10pm and it's dinner time!)
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