05/01/2025
One of the hardest things as an agistment owner - other than the obvious 7 days a week, rain, hail or shine, twice a day feeding/rugging/fly masks, maintaining fences, pasture, facilities, infrastructure, dynamics between agistees, dealing with unexpected events, etc, etc, etc - is the pairing up of group paddocks, and managing dynamics between new herd members💖🐴🐴🐴🐴💖
As an agistment business is based off of people that are long term agistees, and people that come and go for genuine reasons - there is always a time where a shared paddock loses a horse - and a new friend/s needs to be introduced to a paddock🐴🍀🐴
This is something Glenferrie has been managing for the last 38 years, (even in the years of specialising in TB agistment/spelling/pre-training) - but never becomes something we take lightly, or don't put a lot of thought into choosing the right horses to become paddock companions together🤔🤔🤔
Yesterday saw the successful pairing of Amy's two beautiful Friesian boy's Gus and Zephr, with Tessa's two lovely Arab/SB lad's, father and son, Winnie and Teddy🤗 Despite the huge size difference between the pair - we knew Gus and Zephr were very fair previous herd members, and Winnie and Teddy were a bonded pair - and in a 3 acre paddock with plenty of room to move - it 'should' work!!🫰
And it did!!!! Here is a little video of the introduction - and despite poor Teddy getting a little reminder from Zephr that you don't go crashing up a strange horse's butt - it worked out beautifully!! And with two of our CCTV cameras zoomed in on the paddock for the day, feed time last night was a non-event ie no contesting for feed - and this morning we have a happy herd of 4 hanging out together!!🥳🥳
Another successful paddock pairing in the life of Glenferrie Stud!!!💖🐴🐴🐴🐴💖
