Pink Ponies

I've been working Little John quite a bit on his stops and turns on the lunge, and he's definitely doing pretty good. Here's a quick video from today...tried to pick a part where you can actually see something since I positioned the camera pretty cruddy LOL It's a 15 min video but I cut out most of it to just 2 minutes so as not to bore you...I know lunging is not the most exciting thing to watch.

Yes, I am wearing sweat pants and Uggs haha! Our high today was -15 C (5 F) and sweat pants are the best for layering over top of long johns. And Uggs are just warm!!
http://s1115.photobucket.com/albums/k558/hoofbeats1/Little%20John/?action=view&current=MVI_2519_FIX.mp4

He's definitely feeling his oats today, you can see in the video why my lunge whip just stays on the ground with him. He moves off kissing and my body language really well. He thinks he's pretty cute there at 1:20 in the video haha! Tomorrow I want to start working on figure 8's with him so I'll try to get a video of that too.

Both boys got their tails wrapped today. Pink is the only colour of vet wrap I had on hand so they get to be a bit girly for a while....I'm going to try and keep them wrapped and keep their tails nice this year. Once summer hits I may bag them instead though so they can still swat flies.

Such manly steeds ;) They are also standing on almost 2 ft of solid packed snow there, so that's why my hitching post looks so low to the ground. It's not I swear!

This is how I wrap my boys' tails....here is a tutorial with pictures. It usually stays in quite a while!
http://www.horsegroomingsupplies.com/horse-forums/tail-wrapping-tutorial-with-pictures-169520.html

I've also added their grain back into their diets. No Player is not in work quite yet, maybe in a week or 2 depending on his fetlock, but I don't think it'll hurt him. He actually isn't as fat this year as other years despite having free choice hay in front of them 24/7. Not that they are skinny either, just at nice weight actually for winter time.

The grain I feed is MasterFeed's Exactor Lite.
http://www.masterfeeds.com/view.php?public/Animal_Nutrition/Equine
It's a higher fat, low carb grain for performance horses. It's also good for horses with stomach problems. I used it with my barrel horse in the past and he looked and performed amazing with it so I figured I'd stick with it for the endurance ponies this year too.

My hubby is coming home on Thursday so I will try to get him to take some under saddle pics of LJ and I together. For now this will have to do!