Hope came home on Saturday lunch time. She was terrified ... all of her friends had left at 6am and she had been left knee deep in cow slurry, on her own for about 4 hours. We then arrived, herded her into a trailer, drove her 2 hours and put her in a new stable ... all a lot to take in!
A couple hours ofter she had gone in
Yesterday I opened up the yard for her ... it's not very big but I wanted her to get out in the sun and think walking on the paving can only be better than a deep straw bed for her feet, which currently look like this...
Huge problem getting her to drink from a bucket ... she hadn't drunk for almost 48 hours. I gave her lots of soaked grass but she wouldn't touch soaked hay. I piled loads of grass into a bucket in the end and when she found the water she went mad for it! I had to keep moving my feet to get the poor thing to stop drinking too much!
Hooray!!!
Her eating has more than doubled now she know's that buckets hold water!
The closest she's been to us
She likes standing up here (up a step) as it makes her a bit taller!
Always hungry
You can almost start seeing what all of her fluff is hiding in the picture
She's going to have a lovely mane and forelock!
And that's it! She is shut in her stable every night. I'd like to almost get a bit of a routine with her so that she knows she will be let out every morning and will go to bed every evening. Hoping it might help her to settle a bit quicker. She's very curious which is a good sign and will come fairly close as long as you don't move or look at her. She likes being sung too!:D