Ride Em Cowboy!!

Bo is asleep. Horses can sleep lying down or standing. If a horse is holding his head up for a while, he is usually asleep. When they are awake their head is down to the ground and they are eating. Eating and crapping. That is just how it is with a horse. They also sleep mostly in the daytime because they are always on alert for predators. I have three horses...Bo...the one you see here. Bo is a Tennessee Walking horse. Smooth ride. My butt does not move out of the saddle even when he is trotting. Pud is the spotted horse and our baby. He is a Saddle Horse which is right under a Walking Horse ....a little more bouncy than Bo but still a good ride. And then there is Lady....she is a Quarter Horse...and you will need some padding on your butt to ride her. Lady is moody too...as most females are. If I don't ride Lady every day, she gets moody and shows her butt when I do ride her again. Throwing her head, snorting, running sideways, just showing out. Now with Bo....if I didn't ride him for a year, he would be the same. Same ole, good ole Bo! I love that horse. These horses are low maintenance horses too...meaning they eat grass in the warm weather and they eat hay in the winter. We give them a can of sweet feed mostly as a treat. They are certainly not depending on that one can of sweet feed for total nourishment. They have a pond so we don't worry about water. And they love their apple cookies. Always nudging at my pockets trying to get to their cookies. They recognize our car coming down the road and run to meet us knowing they are going to get a treat. I love to sit on the back porch at the farm and just watch them. I have discovered that they stand guard over each other while they sleep. When Bo sleeps, Pud and Lady are usually standing by him on "look out". They take turns. Even though horses are big animals, they are scared of everything. Most of their behavior stems from being scared and "on guard" all the time. They are very interesting animals and beautiful.The sweetest sound at the farm is the sound of their hooves beating across the pasture as they are running to meet us at the gate to get their treats or to be fed.