Well, yesterday we put the wheels in motion to wean our horses' foals. Emma and Cuesta are our mares, and it is time to wean this year's babies from them, and we did it the "cold turkey" method. Our friend came down, we trailered up the babies, and took them off to my friend's farm.
Back here, Emma and Cuesta did not take it well at first, of course. They were totally upset in their stalls, yelling and calling out; but eventually last night they cooled down, and are pretty comfortable this morning. This needed to happen; Emma is covered with cuts from her colt, Domingo, who was getting to be pretty rambunctious and always jumping on her, etc. And we wanted to do them both at the same time, so they'd have a familiar buddy to go over there with; Jenny put up a nice fuss too but now they are both at my friends' place, safe and sound. If we had tried weaning at home, it'd have been a disaster; our horse stalls only go about halfway to the abrn ceiling, and a determined horse could probably jump right over them. But the moms are now seemingly enjoying their newfound freedom, eating as much hay as they can consume.. but it was quite an experience for mark and I who have never really dealt with foals before.