Bathing the BIG Marey :)

Bless Old Mayfly, living out in the field gradually growing fatter and fatter.

The Grazing muzzle has been well and truly banned as she is such a stubborn madame she simply refuses to eat or move when it is on!
The field shelter has arrived now, however Mayfly also refuses to go into that unless the weather is thoroughly horrendous. At least it is there for her if she does ever give in, and wonder on in there, especially in this heat as the horse flies are out in fighting attack at the moment.

So she was shouting her head off at me with anger that I have been apparently ignoring her recently so I decided to bring her in and give her a nice long bath as she is all greasy and dirty. I think she enjoyed it a lot, so much so that when I turned her out she went for a lovely roll...how kind of her! Grrrr. lol

Her arthritis doesn't seem to be causing her any problems when tea is involved, the gate gets opened and she comes storming up to the yard on her own, goes straight through to the feed bins and shouts as if she wants to help make her tea as we humans are obviously too slow for her. She is soo funny :D

Sleeepy wet marey..... hahaa

Pure Anger from the FAT One!

This sums up Mayfly's reaction to the one and only dreaded MUZZLE!

The conclusion was that if she was aloud to continue stuffing herself full of grass she would actually lead herself to death! There is barely any grass out there at the moment so just imagine what size she will be once the grass properly starts to come through.

So the muzzle was the only option. We had been contemplating it for a while, but we knew all too well what her reaction would be. Pure anger and hate. We guessed right. I turned her out with it on and she spun round and stood staring at me as if to say "funny joke, now get it off!" When she realised that wasn't happening she went for the approach of trying to get me to feel sorry for her. She stood at the gate for hours refusing to eat and generally sulking! oh and how can I forget her snorting and puffing as if she couldn't breathe, I am not falling for as I know that the ponies cope perfectly fine with it so for once the spoilt madame is not going to be getting things her way!

Although I do think that give it a few more days and I reckon she'll of got it off, and I'll find it in pieces smashed up around the field! hahaa.

Cheeky Spooky Fat Horsey

Apparently things have randomly become somewhat scary at the moment...

Mayfly feels the need to spook or have a huffy fit over nearly everything, whether it has moved position, is making a funny noise or is just generally not how she wants things to be.
She's shot off along the track because of pigeons flying out the trees, zoomed backwards along the road because of a cement mixer, huffed and puffed over I don't know what and spooked at the broken filler that had been put next to the fence, which, I will add a 4 year old and 3 year old managed to walk past without blinking an eyelid and as Mayfly is 17 you would think she was past that stage, but obviously not!



Ahh she likes to keep the hacks interesting that's for sure, silly marey! :)

Also she is still managing to be faaatt even though he feeds are tiny and there is not actually much grass in her field. She never fails to live on air.
Although she does insist on pointing out to me that due to her not being able to eat enough she has become too tired to work properly out on hacks. hmm, like I am falling for that one because when she feels like a charge she can definitely manage it then...hahaa

Ride and Lead, Ride and Lead.

The ponies are sooo FAT!

Having to constantly ride and lead so they don't explode.

Of course this is leading to some sort of cow parsley massacre, it is getting a little silly now I can't wait for it to all die off! lol. I may have to resort to putting the flash back on, but I can see her just stretching it and carrying on munching anyway.

It hasn't been going too badly apart from the odd occasion when my arm nearly comes out of it's socket due to a naughty pony slamming of the brakes. I may come out of the saddle one of these days! that is if I don't break my arm before that...

Mayfly has been a little cheeky about it too, racing and pulling angry faces. It is amazing how fast she can march when she wants to. :)

Her majesty does still get a nice hack by herself, which she is thoroughly enjoying now the ground has soften up a bit. Just a shame that the stomach still seems to be growing.

Happy Birthday Mayfly!

Sunday 10th May - Mayfly's 17th Birthday :o)

She's an old girl now! Not so sure she has noticed though.

We went for our birthday hack on Saturday as I was grooming on Sunday. Went for a lovely 2 hour, one that we have only been on once before and that was a long time ago now.

I think she could still remember it, which was lucky as I was a bit sticky on where to go... ahaa.

It was a beautiful day and a beautiful hack to go along with it :D

We came across a puddle which I put her into trot for as I know she likes a good splash on a hot day, bless her little heart she popped into canter for a proper good ol'charge through it.

On her birthday she got a rest relaxing and sunbathing in the field as it was a day full of sun especially for her.

When I returned she was shouting at me as if to say, "I don't care where you have been, but I need my dinner!"

I wouldn't be surprised that if she went one day without her feed and herbs she would 'happen' to go lame the next day, fat fat mare cannot possibly cope if she doesn't get her feed!

I made up her feed, went down to the field opened the gate and gave her a little encouragement and off she trotted up to the barn on a rampage for her food. ahh she is a funny one :o)