We've lost all the beautiful sunshine, but we are quite keen for a refill of the water butts as our supplies are running low...although just a quick refill would be fine, and then we'd like the sunshine back please! It's rained a bit today and there should be a little more tomorrow. We've got a few volunteers away on holiday at the moment so Margaret's been doing extra shifts to help Faye - Sunday in particular was our "big" mucking out day for the barn.
We've been experimenting with feeding time too - by putting lots of small piles of hay in the yard, the ponies have to keep moving around (which is good for their feet) and strangely it seems to make the hay ration last for longer too.
Quite a few people have asked about the hay and if we've made it yet...Although you might have seen lots of tractors out in Devon cutting grass, that has been for silage for cows. The cold spring really held up the growth of the grass so hay crops are far from being ready. Although the warm weather with a drying wind is perfect hay-making weather, there's not enough grass yet and our crop still needs to "bottom up". The last couple of weeks have seen a spurt in growth so everything's heading in the right direction. We're always in need of more volunteers for helping to bring the hay in from the fields once it's ready...so please do get in touch if you could be on call for an evening of "haymaking" in July/August...refreshments are provided! Thank you very much to Laura who donated many bottles of squash this week in preparation - we like to make sure we have enough supplies to keep our hay making workers happy!
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| Hay field...we need all this grass to "bottom up" so we can make hay for the ponies for the winter |
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| Fingers crossed for just the right weather! |
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