Hestar og aftur Hestar

12.12.2007 21:42

New inhabitant

Since today we have a new inhabitant in our flat!
A budgie joined us today and will hopefully feel at home here soon.
His name is Púki which means "little devil". It looks like he's deserving that name a bit as he's sometimes trying to bite before he decides to jump on the fingers.
Now we'll order a bigger cage and then get a friend for him. Maybe name that one angel

We hope everything will just go fine with him.

10.12.2007 09:25

Bye bye

Yesterday we had to say Goodbye to our guests!
Gisli took them to the place where they are going to stay during wintertime. We hope that they have a good time there and come back healthy in springtime.
Now our horses have their hey for themselves and don't have to share

.
But not for long as Farsæll and 2 other foals should arrive in the next weeks. Then we have alltogether 6 foals running around...

08.12.2007 18:20

Going for a visit

Today we went to see how our horses are doing and give them some extra food. Especially Perla should get a bit more as she's with foal and her foal from this year is still drinking from her.
She likes to get this extra food, but unfortunately the others too. So we let her eat behind the shelter and I take care that the other horses get a bit extra too and don't disturb her while eating.
We tried to give them mash again and some liked it a lot and others not so much. That made us change the recipe a bit and today they ate everything of it, not a crumb left... You can see in the pics from december how some of them try to defend the bowl with the rest of the mash... Must have been good!
Afterwards we wanted to visit our friend Dóri and his family near Ásbyrgi. On the way we took a short walk through Ásbyrgi and of course took some pics. You can find them in "Landscape" and "Ásbyrgi in wintertime".
I can only recomend to visit this beautiful place in wintertime too, not as crowded as in summer.
Well, we were a bit unlucky as Dóri was not home when we arrived, but at least his dog greeted us happily.
When we arrived back in Húsavík we had the opportunity to watch Gilsi a bit training his stallions. Hope they keep on doing well during training!

03.12.2007 14:35

Guests

We have 4 new guests in our fence!
Yesterday our friend Gisli brought 2 of his broodmares and 2 one year old mares into our fence.
They'll stay together with our horses now and make the herd a bit bigger.

When we put the 2 youngsters inside, the whole herd was running like crazy, chasing the newcomers a bit, but no harm was done. See the video "Putting new horses in the herd"
Shortly after they were all back to their routine and were eating like there's no tomorrow...

27.11.2007 13:31

Mash

Today we tried to feed our mares a bit of Mash for the first time as it is good for them to get it from time to time.
Well, the 2 ladies were not so eager to eat it but the other horses were definitely interested...
So in the end there was really little left and I'm quite sure next time we bring it, they'll be even more interested.
Have a look at the pics in "Horses"-"Feeding Mash for the first time..."