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How My Mare & I Became StableMates
Part One of Five
Week One: Objective for the first week was to establish myself as a provider, And show her that no one was going to hurt her.
Week One, Day One
Morning, Her arrival. As she was being lead off the trailer, I admired her from the top of her ears to the bottom of her hooves. From the tip of her nose to the end of her tail. She was by far the most beautiful mare I had ever seen. She was going on two years of age. She was perfect in every way, and she was mine. The question was weather I would be hers. Would she accept me as her lover. Only time would tell, and time was something that I had plenty of.
The man who sold her to me, told me that she had not had much human contact. That she had not been worked with since she was weaned. This told me that she may not trust humans completely.
When the driver brought her up to me. He removed her halter as I put on her new one. I had a catch rope hanging from the bottom.
Note: A catch rope is a small rope about 12 inches long, not too long where she could get it hung up on something, but long enough to catch her when need be. Hence the name Catch Rope.
I lead her though the gate into the pasture. Before letting her go I padded her forehead, told her that everything was going to be fine and that no one was going to hurt her. Then I let her go and when I did she went her way, out into the field to check out her new home, and I went mine, back to the house closing the gate behind me.
Evening, after getting home from work, I went out to the feed room and got her a couple scoops of sweat feed and a few flakes of hey, then I went out to the pasture and poured the feed into the feed troff and threw the hay into the hay rack. After she came up, I stood there leaning on the fence next to the troff. She was hesitant about coming up and eating with me being that close. So I moved down the fence line about ten feet, it was then that she went to the troff and ate. While she ate I talked to her. I told her how beautiful she was, and I told her that no one was going to hurt her. After she was done eating her feed, I left going back to the house to turn in.