
It's taken longer than planned to get started with the weaning. But I'd rather wait and do it in a manner that's better for both. When the horses are turned in Santee is put in the box next to Sioux, and stays there until the evening feed. Then he's put back with her to drink milk, eat and rest together like they normally do. But, after a little while he will be put back into the neighbouring box once he's had his little nightcap, so they're only really together for a short while in the evening. He will be sleeping alone in other words. The next step - still some weeks away - will be to turn them out separately as well. Sioux will be producing much less milk, and after a while do as she did with Biloxi. Stop letting him drink. So I expect that we will be done with a slow, but horse-friendly, weaning in by mid- or late March.
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