Horses' Holiday Time

The horses enjoying their evening ration of hay at the start of their annual holiday for the next 2 months. They all had their shoes removed and feet trimmed yesterday by the farrier.

November started with a dramatic drop in temperature, albeit a beautiful sunny day, but they all have their woolly winter coats and are unaffected unlike us human mortals!

Today a contractor arrived to start fencing off an area of the top paddock for the free range hens, so Charlie Brown and Felix have joined Marmite and Maggie in the Mead.

If the weather turns foul Charlie Brown (the old man), and Felix will come back up into the school at night to have access to the field shelters. Grazing in the Mead is plentiful thanks to a kindly month of October, and is wonderfully sheltered all alongside the woods, with its undulations and outcrops of gorse.