Introducing our two new dwarf horses to the herd - Summer Vlog

So there's the new and improved larger pen. Meadow's on the other side. So we've got the little ones in here right now and we'll open up the gate and introduce them. They're just checking out the space. They did go over to the electric fencing and I think they know what that is because they turned around and came back. So it is now encompassing all of the buildings and it's this whole area right through here. So what we're going to be able to do is when we have the farrier coming, we can bring them all into this area and it makes it a little bit easier. So this is the electric fencing over here. We've got the water here. Ideally, yeah, putting it in a more shady area because it does get some growth. Yeah, putting it over here and we had discussed that and just shading from the around the rocks. We're going to do that. Come over here and check them out. There you go. Look at that. She's going to be the one that's put up more of a stink, I think, than any of them. Yeah, I could play that game too. Yeah, Astrid's like, what is going on? What am I missing? Ain't getting to know each other. There's going to be some rivalry. We expect that. Just stay away from the electric fence, guys. Oh, Meadow. Uh, yeah, she's like, she's like, I like shorty here. She's like, yeah, no. Yeah, yeah. JD's like, I don't care. I just want to get by you. I don't know what the big problem is. Female aggression. Yeah, shorty's just, excuse me, I want to eat some of this. Did you guys even notice they were here? Like, yeah, a couple newbies. We saw them. Which is good. Yep. Well, Levi's like the lead stallion to his group. I am worried about the water being... Hi, Levi. Yeah, it's more Meadow than anything, I think. Oh, yeah, he'll tell you. I just don't want fences. See, Astrid doesn't care. Yeah, now they're gone again. Drive-by Nang. Yeah, he might be small, but Hey. It's two boys meeting. Yeah, they were the son of their two blocks. The main guy. Now that's threatened. Oh, time for a poop. She's just walking by shorty. and my other half, Mark. Welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Tara's been wanting to do that. So we started off the video with putting the ponies, horses, I never know what to call them. They're miniature horses. One of them's half pony. Little horses. So we put them, and of course, if you've been watching, you know that we put the round ring up and put the dwarfs in the round ring so that they had a barrier that they could snip each other but not come in contact with. So we opened them up last Sunday and things went a little off the rails for a couple minutes. Shorty is the one, he's the elder. He's the oldest one of all of them. He's the smallest one. He kicked Levi's butt. Yeah, kicked Levi's butt. And after that, Levi respected him. And the next morning I was driving to work and I looked out and they were all grazing in the front like they were, they were buddies. So it worked out well. Yesterday when we were out for a petting farm, we were watching and you can see them in the distance. I started laughing because Shorty's sitting there staring Levi down. Yeah. And Levi's like, okay, I'm not gonna go. And then Levi goes all the way around, goes and picks up Shorty's girlfriend, JD, and then walks back with her between the two of them, like as if, like throw the woman into the middle. And it was just like, so they did, they're doing good. So we'll head up there and take a look at them. Yeah, I do have a cut here. You've probably been seeing this for the past couple of minutes. Never put a drill on the top of a ladder and then go to move the ladder. I know this thing, but did I check? No. So I had, I was moving a couple cameras around. Of course I had the drill up there and it came down and hit me here. So yeah, a little war wound. Yeah, see JD's right in there with everybody. Yeah, there they all are all together. She's pulling on that Chasberry. She's shedding out nice. JD. Yeah. So right at the end of the video, I didn't catch much of it, but Tiana, well, Tara was starting to pull the overgrown coat off of her and then Tiana pulled out the brush. Hey Shorty, you found the water. All right. Good. Yeah. So she was brushed and it looks like there was a massacre over here. So there was a lot of coat that came off JD. So that's what that is. The birds are probably having a heyday with that for nests. And speaking of that, I don't know if you can hear it. No, not so much now, but there's a grackle. Yeah. There's a grackle up in the tree. And if you look, I don't know if you'd be able to see it, but no, not quite. There was a little beak sticking out of the corner there. So they made their way up into that little hole there and there's a nest in there and there's actually one on the other side of the building as well. Levi. So we're expecting rain today. So yes, finally in the building, we're going to get some rain. So yeah, everything's good. Now, Levi, we did move the watering container here. So we wanted to tuck it in behind the building. This is the North side of the building. So it's not going to see as much sun maybe when it sets over there and maybe early in the morning, but that is going to work out well. And we wanted to keep it away from this electric fencing over here. Yeah, it's too tight of a section there around the trees. And like even when Billy was up here with the horses, they'd get in there and it'd be like a little like butt movement. It's too close to the electric fence. But things are surprisingly well. We haven't seen anything all week with these guys. And here's Astrid and Shorty together. Astrid and Shorty really like each other. They hang out. It's like the old ladies go for a wander. Yeah, so they're doing well. So the birdhouse update with the camera in it. Now, last week, I think it was one egg. I think when we were going over this last week, I think it was one egg in there. There's now five eggs in there. And I believe she's now sitting. I couldn't see very well in the beginning because she had put feathers up right up on the camera. Couldn't see it. So I snuck in when she was out catching a little snack and I just adjusted some of those feathers that were kind of up because she had kind of made a dome. So now you can actually see her and you can see the five eggs that are in there. All right, so Tara's done some cleaning in here. So this is all cleaned out. Yeah, so now it'll air and be treated and cleaned out and ready for hay. And this one was cleaned out somewhat because of the shearing that we did. So that's all done. There was only a couple spots of mice. Yeah, that's one of the things we want to watch is the mice, especially in the fall. Yeah, so did we get the little chicks? Did you make a little house? Yeah, I did. And it looks like she's using it. Is she in there? And I put the pigeons outside. There was something like three, wasn't there? Two. Oh, two. Okay. Oh, there they are right there. Okay. Let me see your babies. Yeah, she's really protective. Oh, look at that little striped one. Okay. She's not letting us see them. There. Danger, danger. So one black one and one little chipmunk. Yeah. So just the chicken coops left and we've got about six mice so far. So just these two left to clean out. And once they're watered, because they've now got water in there outside. Yeah. So we've opened up the outside. We'll go out and have a look at that. I can see the peacock's bum there. Right. So as soon as their waters and that stuff are empty, then we'll clean these out. And then this will all be... Whoops. I set off the mouse trap, I'm guessing. Sorry. I see another one over there. I guess you've been, yeah, you've been setting it up to clean. I got my wool up. Clean house. Yeah. Just in here and underneath the hay. Yeah. Another one and another one. We'll come in here and we'll move all the barrels and try to contain them all. Yeah. And get them out. Good morning. How are we doing? Is it going to rain? Can you guys feel it in your bones? I gave all earlier because of the anticipated rain. Bionics. And yeah. So the sheep are pretty much in here. Yeah. There's Bronwyn. I thought yesterday. Yes. I thought, you know, we should grab her and we should de-shed her. I know. Because she's hanging that around. It will fall off. Yeah. But it's just, you know, it's like, let's get that off. Well, you know, I should give her that Chasperry. Because she's old. Well, and will it, what is it again? It's to release. It's a hormonal. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yep. We did. I remember talking about that. Yeah. Look at that. All the goats are out. You guys are out enjoying. I heard it sounded like some thunder there. Yeah. A minute ago. So, oh, so. And they were all at the play structure. Look, they're all going to go to well, maybe. Uh, so this is the camera I was putting up. I changed the cameras around. This is the real link Argus four. There was a real link duo, but this one has the night vision, the color night vision, which I really like. And it's a 4k camera. And the other camera, it was infrared and everything was kind of black and white and the design of it. Spiders would get in there and make nests and you can't see anything. Uh, but this one has, it's got two lenses and it's a nice clean finish. Yeah. It looks like a little Wally. So, um, so I checked it last night and long behold over here at this hay, there were four foxes. I think it's the mom and the three babies, which are now full grown and they're running through the hay and they're jumping and playing. And then, well, then I panned over and you can see the geese over at the pond. If you didn't have cameras, you wouldn't know that they're in. So, so yeah, we'll take this paneling. Yeah. They haven't done anything in a while. So the moms and babies usually go for smaller, you know, mice and such chipmunks and squirrels, which is totally it's the boys. That's the full grown males that usually will come in and grab a duck or a chicken. Oh, look at these two boys right through the fence. They're like, come on, come on, bro. Good job. So this was all grown up and they've trampled it down. So we've just decided to make it one big pen. We had it previously as two separate ones and a peacock is, uh, is loving it. He's looking for a girl. There were two peacocks and one peahen, uh, but we sent the, uh, the pair off to somebody else. Yeah. The boys were starting to fight. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the younger male. So he's showing off to all the, all the chickens and all the guinea fowl. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that. Uh, so the goats, you guys are back in. Yeah. So this is going to come off and then that'll allow Tara to get the tractor in here. Cause this is, uh, probably a foot, at least a foot high. I see Piper is, uh, decided she's going to go to bed. I don't know where PD is. Oh, oh, right. Yeah. There they, there he is. He's getting this. Oh. Uh, so something else that was done as Tara was doing the Christmas lights, of course, yes, it's June, uh, but they're not only Christmas lights, they're Christmas and event lights. Yeah. That's a redneck woman, redneck woman. Yeah. I keep my all year long. Uh, yeah. So Tara's always liked that song. She's a redneck woman. I picked up another gate. Uh, that is going to go for the fencing. We're going to do over at the back driveway by our solar array. So that's going to go back there. So we may put that together this afternoon when it's raining, maybe an indoor project. Hey, Barry, how you doing buddy? Yeah. He's been getting lots of visits. Yep. We've got, uh, when people come in, go in and, uh, he's getting lots of pets. No, I didn't. Hey, excuse me. He just attacked my foot. Somebody needs to be put in his place. Is it? Oh, it is too. Oh, he's getting, uh, he's getting a little, uh, relaxed. No, don't peck him when he's down. Sheesh. There we go. We just hit the reset button. He's now reset. Now we pet him and we hold them and say, okay, now we've got you. He's going in the background. This guy's probably itching to cock-a-doodle-doo himself, but he can't because he's being swaddled like a baby. Yeah. He just jumped on my foot and I'm like, okay. Um, yeah. So, uh, Christmas lights. So these are just the led lights. Tara likes the white ones. And as you can see, we are missing some bulbs. So we're going to have to, um, there is a couple of lines that are damaged and we'll probably remove straightening. Yeah. Well, let's go up on it to get the tree. Yeah. See where the prime location is. It's a little crooked as it goes down, but it's been years because it was Kelly and her kids that came out and put these up with me so many years ago. Oh, it's been, they've been up for years. So I got to add one more row because the goats chewed that one too. Totally. Yeah. But now it looks so much cleaner because everything's up and they're not hanging. Yeah. And that's the big thing about if they're hanging and the goats see them, they're going to want to play with them. Yeah. This whole thing in here got chewed. All right. So I guess the, uh, kid goats and mamas are inside. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. They've been getting out into this area because it's been so dry. You can see everything's yellow. So we just really haven't gotten any rain. There's a couple of little green spots. So what we've done is we've opened the gate into the dog run, uh, and allowed these guys here to go in. Uh, we have been letting the other ones in here in the past, but they've got lots of greenery in the back. So, um, we, uh, we let these guys in and they're, uh, they're in here regularly. They're Sheldon and the kids. And the reason why I bring up the kids Um, so there's a little bit of fainting goat or myotonic ism. I don't know how you would say that. Myotonic goat. He's a fainting goat. And of course he has a little bit in there. So he started to lock up his feet a little bit, but not fully enough here to grab them. So, okay. Basically we just put the band around the goods. Good. Not even a whimper. No. All good. Tucker. Don't eat the camera. Okay. One more job is done. There's one and there's the other. Like nothing ever happened. So on another note, uh, those that have been following us real, uh, met hope in the last video, little hope, uh, did not make it. Uh, she ended up with an eye infection and the infection got her. Uh, so she, uh, passed in the middle of the night and, uh, yeah, sorry to see her go, but we knew it was going to be a hard, uh, hard trial for her. Um, but she had a great 10 days approximately. I'm not exactly sure how long it was. Um, but, uh, she got lots of snuggles in the meantime and, uh, it was a hard night for me and, uh, went and cleaned the barn the next day and had animal therapy for the entire day. So, uh, that's it. Sorry. I can't. So that is it for this video. Uh, I hope you enjoyed it. It was sad to, uh, to see, uh, that she had gone. Hope had gone. I got up in the morning and of course her little aquarium was empty and I figured that's probably what happened. I wasn't sure if Tara moved or somewhere, uh, but heard when I got home. So, uh, you try and that's the best you can do. Sometimes it does work, uh, like with Sheldon. So there's success stories there, but unfortunately, uh, Hope, uh, doesn't seem like she suffered at all. So everything was good. Uh, she seemed like we were starting to come around, but I was still guarded, uh, until, you know, she was completely healed. We had no sign of infection until there was a tiny little bit in the corner of her eye. And then that was, yeah. So obviously the infection got into her bloodstream and she developed sepsis. Uh, and, um, and that was the, she was gone. Yeah. She passed in an hour. So yeah. Yeah. So anyway, all the best to you and yours and we hope to see you next time. Take care.