Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Taking Care of the Horses

By HouseBoy

Audrey and her friend Mariam had the opportunity to take care of some of the horses they ride at the Delhi Riding Club this week.
Ms. Beeru, the Club's proprietor, gave them a nice long list of chores to accomplish early Monday morning.
The girls helped clean the stables. They worked on grooming the horses, braiding the animals manes and tails. They also made sure each animal had water.
The most interesting chore involved learning how to prepare and mix the horses' morning feed. The feed is a combination of cut grasses, oats and barley, graham, corn and rock salt. 

The girls had to mound these ingredients up in one of the stables and thoroughly blend the mixture by hand.  Then Mariam and Audrey had to carry large galvanized bins of the feed to each of the nine horses. Great job!
Many thanks to Ms. Beeru for letting them learn more about the horses they ride.

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