Friday, September 28, 2012

Friday Photos and an Adoption!

All was quiet today, a beautiful clear day.

Some great news as little Butterfly, a 2 1/2 year old Morab filly, was happily adopted to a new home today. Yay for Butterfly!


She is such a cute little girl!


Butterfly will move to her new home on Sunday. Butterfly arrived at Shiloh at 6 weeks of age...


Big Pasture at breakfast...


Big Pasture...


Wandering Burros sharing hay with Lucky Run in the Medical Units...


There goes little Florecita...


She was looking for her mom, Mamacita...


Wanderering BFFs Yep and Scrappy...


Wanderer Latigo...

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Manhattan Learns to Canter!

He doesn't know his canter leads yet but he is a good boy! A nice willing gelding who is looking for his new home.

Manhattan's Progress

King Tut and Cleopatra- The Peacock Escape!

Most of you at Shiloh know that Sally has been wanting some Peacocks at Shiloh. After her wonderful birthday gift of three white baby Peacocks (thank you Donna, Tony Antonisha and Kayley!), Ed found two more full grown Peacocks at the NSPCA last week. They surprised Sally when we returned from our trip out of town!

So, needless to say, Sally has been excited about her new Peacock herd! But this morning, we were both in the Barn stall that is temporarily housing the two adults, King Tut and Cleopatra, and Tut made a flying beeline for the open door. Sally and I were both standing in the doorway at the time and, unfortunately, we both ran out of the stall screaming which gave Tut the opportunity to escape! He flew (really well I might add) out of the Barn and right up onto the Super Gummie's shelter roof!


There he is, mocking us from the top of the shelter!


We had no idea how we were going to get him down or stop him from just flying away!


See his head peeking over at us?


Then the guys, who grew up on ranches in Mexico, came up with an old fashioned plan involving the girl Cleopatra...


Tut began to wonder what we were doing with his girlfriend...


The guys gently tied a soft string around one of Cleopatra's legs...


And placed her in the open barn door where Tut could see her. They tied the other end of the string to the Barn, keeping Cleopatra from also escaping...


Then we waited while Cleo and Tut talked to each other...


Finally the guys began to try to herd Tut off of the shelter toward the Barn...


It worked! Tut flew down and went back into the Barn with Cleo...


After removing Cleo's string, the two were safely and happily reunited back in their Barn stall.

Eventually they will be able to fly and roam freely all over the ranch. It will be so nice to see a Peacock herd wandering Shiloh!

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Traveler on Assateague Island

I am off doing what I do best- exploring.

Today, I took the girls to Chincoteague and Assateague Islands so we could see the Wild ponies! The upper half of Assateague Island is in Maryland and the lower half and Chincoteague Island are in Virginia.

I am sure most of you have heard about Misty of Chincoteague, who was the subject of Marguerite Henry's classic book.

The wild ponies of Assateague are hardy barrier island ponies- there are two theories as to what they are doing here. The first theory is that settlers in the 1600's kept their livestock out in Assateague Island and the ponies are descended from escaped stock.

But the theory I like best is that the wild ponies are descendants of Spanish horses who swam ashore during a Spanish Galleon shipwreck! That is the one I choose I believe!



Entering the wildlife area...



The signs warned that the wild ponies would bite, kick and charge- but the Jill and Sally were not too worried about that. In fact they seemed to hope that would happen!


Assateague Island is filled with marshes, beautiful pine trees- and Mosquitos!


There is actually a herd of ponies beyond the trees- but they were so far away they were hard to see...


Thy are out there- but you have to really look! The ponies are hardy and usually do not get much bigger than around 13.2 hands- although they will grow taller in captivity. Out in the wild they have a difficult diet of salty marsh grass which keeps their size down naturally.



Just when we had almost given up on seeing any wild ponies up close- we came across a herd crossing the road and grazing along the side!


There they go crossing the road! They even hopped right over the guardrail!


I got so excited seeing them that I didn't really get any good photos!

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Friday in photos

A quiet Friday...


Donkey Otie "helping" Felipe feed...


Wanderers...


Sanctuary horses Eden and Sully; Little Vacation Village...


Wanderers Huckleberry, Pokie Dot and Mamacita...


Sanctuary Horse Stretch; Little Vacation Village...


BFFs Waco and Juniper; Little Vacation Village...


AJ and Moses on a relaxing ride around the ranch...


Arturo on Manhattan...

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Photos from Weds...

First off- happy birthday to Sally! Today is her 70th birthday!

Some photos from today!


Jimmy Dean enjoying some berries


Sanctuary horse Goodness is spending some time in the medical unit so we can treat a cut in her chest from the Mesquite Trees


Okay Corral


More Okay Corral


Trigger, who has decided to stay in Okay Corral a little longer, gets a nice cool drink


Lucky Run is also spending some time in the medical area after she stuck her leg through the arena fence. We are treating scrapes on her leg...


Little Vacation Village


More Little Vacation Village


Wanderer Cowboy

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Photos from the weekend

Photos from this past weekend!


Melvyn strikes a pose in his Medical Unit. Melvyie is the best!


Lark and friend in Okay Corral...


Wanderer Trigger has decided to spend some time in Okay Corral. We don't know why he chose to go in one day at feeding time- but he did and now he doesn't want to come back out! He resists when we try to lead or usher him out, so we are just going along with it. We will wait for him to decide when he is ready to head back out and wander freely. What a character!


Zoolander, Okay Corral...


Yo and friends...


Sam and Iceman...


Kayley and Storm Cloud and AJ and Moses...

- Posted by Jill Curtis from Shiloh Ranch