MAY 28, 2008
This morning we decided we better get busy on our pen for the Mustangs. We have an extra round pen that we don’t use much and it has good high panels, so we will use that.
When the Jere Johnson clan starts to do some building, we have lots of “board meetings”. For those of you who are married under 5 years, this means we fight like crazy over what we are going to do. So, today consisted of lots of “board meetings”. But we did get the pen up. It is really nice and the Mustangs seem to like being separated.
A word about the colts we put in the trap beside them. This seemed to really help our Mustangs. We would see our two colts talking through the fence to the Mustangs and when the Mustangs would get excited, our colts would settle them down. Because horses are gregarious and herd animals, they need to at least see other horses. And we also wanted to ensure that if the Mustangs jumped out, we would be able to catch them without chasing them down and roping them, or some other method that would set our training program back. We are believers in the Natural Method of horse training and would like to keep out as much trauma as we can.