Nevermore

I didn't get as much done today as I had hoped. Cramps kicked in around 10am-ish, so I was pretty useless for most of the day. I did get a little laundry done, but that was about it. Neighbor Guy stopped by to fix the tire on my lawnmower, and he was nice enough to throw down some hay for me. I was getting ready to rise from the dead to do evening horse chores, when he came in saying Never was trying to breed a mare through a metal gate, and she was trying to help him. Crap. By the time I get out there they've lifted the gate off the hinges, but luckily they swapped places: the mare in question was in his paddock with Sketch and two other mares, a foal, and Fiesta the hinny, and Never was in the main pasture with the older, apparently not in heat mares. He was a pretty good boy and allowed himself to be caught and brought in, but now I have to figure out how to rearrange pastures. I can't open up the back pasture until a week or so after we've baled it (so in probably 2-3 weeks). I've been planning to restructure the sacrifice pasture into smaller paddocks, and I guess now's the time. For tomorrow, though, I'll have to put him and Sketch in the roundpen. Sketch is not going to be happy.

I guess when I have the vet come out to float teeth and do Coggins, I'll have him check Glory the tramp to see if she's bred. If she is, I'll have to have it terminated, as I don't want her bred for a variety of reasons (really poor conformation, a very large hernia, she's only three, I don't need more half-breds...) I'd really like to get her spayed, maybe at the same time her hernia is taken care of, but my vet has never spayed a mare before. Maybe he'll cut me a deal...