Home Sweet Home

Today we went to Handeloh to get Baga and to bring her home to me. I was very nervous because Baga never liked to go into a horse-trailer and I was not sure how calm she would be during the two hours drive. But everything worked fine!!!
Baga didn't made any trouble because of the trailer - she only was thinking and sniffing a little bit and then she followed me into it!!! She also was very calm during the drive. She was so silent as if she wasn't on the trailer ;-)
As we arrived home on the Fire Lake Ranch, Baga first got the possibility to check the district. She seemed not to be nervous or similar and started to eat grass immediately! So bit by bit we gave the two mares on the same paddock. Nothing happened. The mares looked at each other and went on eating ;-) Some time ago we decided to put the gelding also on the same paddock because everything was very peaceful - but not longer! He attacked Baga immediately and they fighted together a short time. Then he went away to his mares and also started to eat grass. But the discussion was not over! He came again and again but Baga didn't left her position. If he came, she immediately showed him her ass and moved it ;-) Then he went away from her more often and the time between the attacks became longer.

Baga has a little bite-wound now on her throat but it's nothing bad and the gelding has small wounds on his front-legs. Both horses got an ointment (ísl. = smyrsl) on their wounds and the rest of the time was it nearly peaceful. All 4 horses will stay on this paddock this night and tommorrow Baga and one mare will stay there and the two other horses will go to another paddock with more grass.
I also cleaned Baga a little bit and got much of her winter-coat out of her. Then she got some body lotion on her neck (where the skin is hard and dry) and I plied her with "insect spray". She didn't liked it very much but she was not running away (or I should say she didn't moved very fast so that I could follow her with the spray) but I was a little bit unhappy about the spray and need to find out in the next days how to work with it better.
The owner of the stable/ranch has free time tommorrow and he will be with the horses nearly the whole day. Unfortunately I have to work and to sort out some things like bringing my camera to the post-office and buying some horse-food but after that (and after cooking some meal) I will go to Baga IMMEDIATELY!!!

I need to emphasize (taka fram) that Baga acted today exemplary/ideal!!! She was so cool and so good to handle and also Peter (the owner of the arabs and the stable) likes her much! No fight came from Baga's side, she is fine if the other horses also act fine. I also had fear about her because the other horses are very big (about 1,67 m) but I think Baga is able to tackle this.

I'll keep you informed how everything works.

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