Poor Kidd, never really been off the farm and he is plunged into a new herd with nary a friend in site. The first night here he was not frantic, but he sure made a lot of noise wondering where the heck he was and where the heck was his herd. Come to find out he is quite the talker. He often will whinny at me as I am coming out in the morning. And even though he hasn’t really made a friend, he will whinny when anyone leaves or is coming back. Those first couple of days he sought me out every time I was in the field. I was at least someone that would be nice to him. Good for me to start our relationship this way, hopefully he will continue to seek me out!
Our first adventure was down to the round pen to see what kind of language he had and understood. I guess I was speaking pretty clear horse because he was responding quite well. I did notice that he would rather step into me than away. Although he is not a dominant horse in the herd, I think he would kind of like to be, thus stepping into my space. We certainly talked about that, especially when it came to picking up his feet. Silly Kidd, he thought perhaps he wasn’t going to be able to balance. So after a good long conversation about his responsibility in keeping his feet nice, we got his front feet trimmed. He has VERY nice feet. I haven’t seen such nice concavity in many horses recently. He will do very well barefoot.
We went for a nice walk through the play yard, not really attempting the obstacles, but checking them out. Down across the bottom of the field, leaving the herd well behind us, we went to our woods. Kidd is super curious about everything. In the woods I let him choose the path, which wasn’t the path previously trod, but one of his own making. Which was fine, mostly I could keep up, and when I couldn’t, I grabbed his tail and let him help, which he was also fine with. Every horse should be able to pull his rider up a hill! (This will definitely be an obstacle in the trail course I make one of these days.)
Kidd is most definitely and extrovert. I look forward to finding the games that he likes best to play!
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