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15.12.2008 07:07

Horses on the move

As winter goes on here in Iceland, the outsidehorses are regularly checked about their state of fat and moved to other pastures or additionally fed with hey according to that. Yesterday was that day for a herd in Saltvík and our one year old horses were supposed to go to our winterpasture together with Hugsun, Huginn and Alrún.
When we arrived in Saltvík, Bjarni and Elsa were driving in the herd the icelandic way: horses in front (they know the way home) - car in the back. Then the horses were sorted in 2 categories: "fat" and "could use additional hey" and the horseshoes were taken off. Horses from category "fat" went to the pasture in Skógar to help their friends there to get rid off the last grass from summer, the others went back to the big field and get hey there.
While Bjarni and Elsa moved the first horses in their big trailer to Skógar, we went to Bakki to try and catch our young ones. That was definitely easier than we thought! No problem to approach them and put a halter on. Some were of the opinion that they don't have to walk with us on the lead, but just for short time.
Catching them was the easy part but then we had to wait in the cold for Bjarni and the trailer and that was not soooo much fun. I'd have loved to be in my thick winterclothes...
Today we'll have a look how the youngsters are doing alltogether and give them more hey if they have finished what was there.
Púki was really busy again, this time helping Ingólfur looking up addresses in the phonebook...



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