Lambs - Chester & Me

The paddock that i take Chester into to get ready, At the moment has a Mummy Ewe and her twins, she hasn't got alot of milk but is building up slowly, so the farmer has to supplement feed them a little. I noticed that one of the Lambs was a bit wobbly so took him up to the house to get an extra feed the other lamb was doing well so i left it with his Mumma. This little fella in the pictures was the wobbly one. I took chester's cover off and hung it over my bike(yes i know crazy! i biked out to Chester around about 10km maybe a little extra in the rain and with a head wind, talk about brain dead lol, what we do for out ponies!).This made a little cave, nice shelter from the bitter wind. This little guy toddled over and snuggled into my bag which was in the 'cave'. oh so cute, sorry didn't get any pictures my camera was in my bag and i didn't want to disturb him.

I took Chester out on a short road ride just up to the corner and back, he got a little too excited and i was riding bareback so i really wasn't in the greatest place to deal with 'naughtiness'. I decided it was about time i got him into the groove again so i did some Clinton Anderson groundwork with him, he did quite well although to begin with he really didn't want to give up his union card :-P(just for you Clinton-ers out there) after we had gotten thru the lunging for respect stage one and two he was looking good :-) licking his lips and he brought his head down to so i quit while the going was good. I then decided to do some jefferies method, he did so well and i had a bit of an audience while i was doing this(some ppl where whipper snapping some grass from the side of the road, Also i had the local Hanoverian stud owners drive past, they certainly slowed down and had a good look) Chester was a little bit of a toad because he keep grabbing the lead rope and eating it, well atleast trying too, but besides that and a little pig-root it was great and we both enjoyed ourselves :-)

 Chester tied up to our makeshift 'Patience Pole' i tied him up for about 30-40mins, to think about the lesson

After his time being tied up i gave him a feed and let him go and do his pony things :-)

One Afternoon, when i was too tired to be any good to anyone but Chester

We've just moved as ya'll know, and we had done a bit of unpacking and sorting(at least we can see the lounge room floor now), So my head was swimming and i needed a 'pick me up' so i decided to go out to Chester boy and spend the rest of my afternoon with him. I got video's and pictures so shall share those, please excuse the random-ness of some of the video's i don't have a personal video taker(or just nice brothers that will stand there and take some pics/vids) so used a fence post. A few i took off Chester's back while riding him as well.

First Vid: Filming off the back of Chessie, showing us splashing thru the puddle:

Second Vid: Filming off a Fence Post, showing us splashing in the puddle(sorry about the distance):

Photos:

Chester doing his favorite thing in the world: Eating :-)

Wearing my beanie :-) 

After riding I decided that I would do the Jefferies method, i haven't done it before, but have been waiting/wanting to for a long time I was a little nervous about doing it because he has bucked before when i have laid down on his back, but we only got one small pig root nothing to worry about and i just carried on. I dragged a ol' log stump out from a pile of wood(as there is no way i can jump on his back from the ground) and used that as 'extra height'. For those of you who have no idea what i have just rambled on about here is a video showing the Jefferies Method and what i did with Chester:

 I would recommend this to everyone! it is great fun to do plus Clinton recommends it to, so thats gotta give it 5 stars :-)