I took this photo with my phone yesterday morning when I was taking hay and water out to the horses. That's blind Cash inspecting the RTV utility vehicle. Cash has always been a very inquisitive character, and because he's blind, he uses his muzzle to explore things in his environment. He's always fascinated when I pull up in the RTV, and loves to reach through the fence to run his nose and lips over it. (Um, that's one problem with using smooth wire fences for blind horses — they can always reach through them if they really want to!)
We've had an incredible run of several days of warm, dry and sunny weather, so I've been able to start cleaning out the corrals and spreading manure. Because winter was so persistent and the weather didn't really "break" until last week, the grass hasn't grown much — so putting the horses out early like this isn't affecting the grass growth yet. Typically we wouldn't do this because they'd eat all the young fresh shoots, setting back pasture regrowth. We've left them out around the clock for days, and they are loving it.
And this is actually helping the pastures, because the grass is getting lots of manure just at the right time, plus the "litter" of left-over bits of hay on the ground that decomposes into the soil.
Meanwhile, someone gets to check out an interesting piece of equipment a couple of times a day.
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