Babies teach you...

Lots of things.  Like how FUN it is to get out of fences!  And how FUN it is to eat silage!  All in freezing weather!

Things like...
how hair looks better with a swirl of beetpulp
how to dirtify a jacket in 30 seconds
30 ways to throw brushes into other stalls
why it is better to sleep on blankets than leave them hanging
ninety kinds of pig noises while eating breakfast and dinner mush
how to insert mystery pieces of hay into hair and clothing which miraculously re-appear during lab
why it is a good idea to always paint your nails a dark color
the necessity of overalls

and nine other bajillion things.

Babies are funny.  They are always experiencing things for the first time and are constantly wondering, hey can I do this?  Get away with that?  Do this anyway, even if you don't like it? 

All of the mares know which stall is theirs.  This makes feeding super easy, as I can just drop the gate and let them all in. 

Baby Horse enjoyed complicating Magpie's life as she is kind of sort of higher than her on the dominance bossy situation.  So she would gleefully scoot into Magpie's stall first, scarf three bites of her mush and then high tail it to her stall once I had let everyone in.  I prevented that by locking Magpie's stall for a few days, and dealing with the poor girl standing there sighing at me to hurry up. 

A few days ago, Mike had a bucket of wood chips by the fence.  Baby Horse grabbed the bucket handle and took off, managing to spill all the chips and toss the bucket who knows where.  She is also enjoying dragging any sticks, tools, or whatnot into the field and disappearing with it.  We solved that one by getting a super strong fence charger. 

I am ordering a Hoof Jack to help me with getting the girls' feet done.  I can just think of all the things that Baby Horse will try to do with that thing...