September brings the end of the stud season. Our last visiting mare left us yesterday. Six mares this year and five confirmed in foal, all on their first covering. We hope to get the scan pictures soon.

Caerba Legacy, Kyle to us, is looking forward to being ridden again, not that I expect he realises it yet! We are fortunate to have very close by fantastic hacking country. Not just up and down tram lines but 1200 acres of forest with plenty of tracks and very rarely do you have to come back the way you left. Several of the surrounding roads are quiet and have wide verges. As you may expect we meet lots of dog walkers, huskies in training, cyclists and of course other riders and the odd tractor or two.

With the change of seasons we occasionally get unfriendly fur beasties about. Especially as harvest is nearly completed around here and they no longer have the crop to shelter under. As the say if you have mice around the farm you don’t get rats and visa versa. At the moment we don’t seem to have either. Talking to our Presly Pest Control man he reckons the last winter really sorted them out and that is why we don’t have them at present. However here is some one who always checking to see if anything is about.      5th September

 

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