Horse Sense....
Funniest thing in the world here...
My lovely neighbour called me the other day, and offered me a couple of cows to chew the grass and I happily accepted.
Got home and there were 20 new cows.
Cute as buttons.
All goods.
They hung out in paddock 1, no problemo. Put them in paddock 2 then realized our water was in paddock 1. Kept gate open and they just wandered between the two. Then we ran into a teensy issue. Cows needed to be in paddock 3 and 4, water was only in paddock 1. And the paddocks were in an L shape with a big (like HUGE) shed in front of one, then a corner, not like in a straight line.
I then learnt something new about cows. They're super smart.
Cows moved (all 20 of them) to paddock 3.
Cool.
But then a few hours later, I looked out and they had all disappeared.
Every. Single. One.
OMFG.
Breathe. Breathe.
Works out they had all decided that they needed a drink and I swear, hand on hoof, all 20 of them walked in a group, through 2 paddocks, behind the shed, then round the corner and back over to paddock 1 to have a drink.
Then all 20 of them walked back.
Super cute and hell smart.
My kind of peeps.
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And finally we got to the races last night.
Fucking awesome.
Had a fantastic night. There were some super cool conversations and threads, hundreds of tiny threads. The ones that weave the tapestry of, or should I say, to, the soul.
It was beautiful and quiet and exquisite.
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And bloody Mumma!
I moved the horses today, next minute I turn around and Mumma has something hanging from her mouth. I hadn't fed hay yet so it wasn't that, in fact, it suspiciously looked like...
A bloody haynet.
She's sussed out that we have horse accomodation here, which she is quite impressed with (extremely basic, but does keep the wind and rain out), then decided to eat the haynet.
Truly random, because she's not normally into stuff like that but you know, there I was chasing her round the paddock going, Stop right there and give that back!
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The littles ones are awesomely running round paddock, and acting like the little rockstars that they are.
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So Mumma stopped putting on weight about 10 days ago. I added in new food/vitamins/minerals, subtracted others but no, no change. Then she started losing weight. Added, subtracted...but nothing.
Until today.
When I was in the paddock and saw Caps sideways. OMFG he is barely fitting his jacket. Literally, he is stuffed into it and Viola! I had the answer to why Mumma was losing weight.
Cappy's eating all her food. Well, once I hung round and watched feeding today, he's not just eating his own, but Ralph, Chew's and Mumma's. Az has got smart and eats in another paddock.
Well, that answers that question.
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Now Cappy's sulking and Mumma's taking the piss.
So I stand there with a long bendy stick type thingy with a tassle on the end, and if Caps comes over to push Mumma out of the way and eat her food, I flick it in his direction. It works brilliantly. But I decided to take his cover off and give him a bit of a groom while Mumma finished eating, to soothe his ruffled feathers, and let's just say he was not excited.
In fact, he put up the talk to the hoof and was like, Ah Hell No... and then promptly proceeded to sulk.
Mumma then got her mojo on, and decided this was a perfect opportunity to take over leadership of the herd, and went round eating everyone elses food.
Then I was like, Ah Hell No...
So there was quite a kerfuffle at dinnertime while boundaries were re-instated.
Finally got everyone organised.
Caps is still sulking.
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So there I was putting up some springy gate type thingys so I could separate peeps as and when I wished to do stuff, without having to fight through everyone at gate.
Good on me.
Unfortunately after having done two gates perfectly, missed the nail and smashed said hammer into my finger on the third. Not so smart. However, it's had a bloody brilliant end result.
I've been hearing about urine (human) and it's amazing healing, antibacterial properties for ages now, and as you know, I'm a huge fan of a drop in your ear to stop ear infections. But just recently I heard about how good it was stopping blood and killing infections.
So since my finger was pissing blood out, I gave it a go.
Stopped the blood within minutes.
Used urine (mine and fresh) 3 times that day and once after my shower, before I went to bed.
It had healed by half, by this moring.
Used urine (mine and fresh - well, I'm hardly going to use yours), another 4 times today as I've been super busy outside moving rubbish, picking up horse poo, getting firewood, making and putting out feeds, touching horses and doing all sorts of living on a lifestyle block type things.
And the rate of healing is phenomenal.
I expect finger to be 90% if not 100% healed, overnight.
All photo's up on Instagram.
On a side note though, the young one is going to have twenty million different kinds of fits if he finds out that all those little bowls in the dishwasher, being washed with his dishes, were used for my pee.
Actually, now I'm writing this, for the sake of a continuing happy home Zen-like vibe, let's just keep this between ourselves.
Ps: If you're using this method on horses, you still use human urine.
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So that's been our week:
Still busy as here. I've just given up now and we do what we can, when we can, in the way that we wish. Bite sized achievements, and I try to just do better than I did yesterday. Sometimes that's not hard. Other days I just aim to be as good as yesterday.
Spirit have also calmed down around us for the time being, but then again they would have. I look at this as a temporary situation though, because I know what's coming.
But as I am writing this, peace reigns, happiness abounds, and all is as it should be.
Long may it continue.