Kate met me and we got to Tory Hill at 8:00am... Daniel was in the stall, he had 3 manure piles in the yard, drank 1 1/2 buckets of water, ate most of his hay, and the straw bedding was all spread around so he must have been laying down at some point during the night... all my worrying was for nothing!
After they seemed like they didn't mind each other's presence, Jill told me to take Daniel out into the paddock attached to the barn. Daniel saw all the lush grass, set his head down and grazed. Then they let Charlie out. Charlie ran all over the paddock... and Daniel just grazed. Charlie came up and sniffed Daniel, Daniel sniffed back, and went back to grazing... and Charlie went back to running around the paddock.
I left to go to a graduation party, and went back at feeding time... I was glad I did because Jill was doing PM feeds and I offered to help so I could learn how they did things at Tory Hill. We hopped on the golf cart and went to feed the geldings. I got to meet Runner, Alex, Sam, Elvis, Cayuga, and Donnie. Funny thing is, just like at Legacy, every horse there has a "story" and in some way has some sort of limitations :-) We then went to feed Daniel and Charlie. At Tory Hill, they feed the horses dry grain in feedbags. Daniel's used to wet food, (he'll gradually be switched to what they feed), so Jill suggested that we put Charlie's feedbag on him, and put Daniel's feed in a tub... After they were done, she wanted to see who was "boss". As I expected, Charlie walked over to the feed tub, and Daniel just pinned his ears back and glared at Charlie... that was all Charlie needed to leave!
It felt SO GOOD to leave tonight and tell Daniel, "Be a good boy and I'll see you tomorrow" instead of, "Be a good boy and I'll see you next week!"
Then they settled down to just grazing.
Jill put a horse called Charlie in the yard next to Daniel. The sniffed each other and then Daniel went back to his hay. Charlie just paced, I think he just wanted to be out!
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