Clipped the beast and never a dull moment at the barn.

Since Poncho will be staying in work this winter I knew I was going to do some sort of clip on him. I just didn't know when I was going to do it. So when today rolled around and was a lovely day that I happened to be off I decided today was the day! It didn't go quite as I planned however. First I ended up having to go a little further than I had wanted to get a new blade. Then when I got to the barn another horse was being clipped so I had to wait my turn. No biggie though I was in no rush.

2 hours later and we were ready to get going. First I was giving him a mini bath on his back and butt to knock out some rain rot he managed to get. While we were in the process of that we hear lots of screaming outside from horses and people. I went to investigate... The donkey had managed to get loose in a field that's not her normal one and one of the horses decided she was no acceptable. So she was being ferociously chased around the field. Unfortunately I couldn't do much to help because I couldn't leave Poncho alone in the barn. But they managed to separate the horse and donkey with no injuries thankfully.

After that we were able to start clipping. It's been awhile since he's been clipped so I wasn't sure how he'd react. He was fine with the clippers, the sound was a non issue. BUT the second some of his hair fell to the ground he was terrified of it. Go figure of course he'd be afraid of his own hair. Luckily he got over that quickly. He was really good minus occasional fidgeting. I still need to fix up the lines but my small clippers battery was dead so that will wait for another. Now hopefully this clip will be good enough and I won't have to take more hair off.