Twin Tree Farm

Twin Tree really need this baby!

We haven’t done any updates on the ”house cow”. She’s doing really good! We named her “Lucy”. She will be 2 months old on the 17th. She had no idea how to be a cow, we brought her bed out to the barn, and she still sleeps on it at night 😉. She spends the days with the weaned calves, and night in her own pen with her bed, sweet feed and all the other goodies just for her. We had couple of days of crying (Brad mostly), but now we’ve all adjusted to the change, although he did let her back in last night “just to visit” 😉

The things that wise and veteran horse trainers DON’T say----
If you spend long hours down in the training arenas with the men and women who have spent years training, you won’t hear “He’s doing this because he’s a brat.”

Or “He knows better.”
Or, “He always tries to embarrass me.”
Or, “He loves to show off.”

Or any of the many anthropomorphic statements that less savvy humans make about why a horse is or is not doing something. So many people think emotionally about horses rather than rationally, and somehow they think that horses are somehow big, furry mini-humans in the ways that they react and respond.

They will say “my horse loves---” or “my horse hates,” or “my horse wants” placing human-like reasons for behaviors which have little to do with how horses evolved as a far different species from humans.

But try to un-convince them---It is a way of processing that I heard described as “eight year old thinking.” Actually, the way that I heard it from a veteran teacher went like this---She said, “It’s OK to think like a little 8 year old when you’re 8. Hell, what do you know when you’re 8? Not so OK to hear it when they’re 18 or 80.”

As I say, hang around the true experts, hear what you hear.