Due to our mishap with Reece attempting to jump the fence she was kept in her stall for about 24hrs. At first she was fine eating the hay and allowing me to go into her stall with her so I could get to the calf we are bottle feeding. There are only 2 ways to get to the calf’s stall, through Reece’s and through the outside paddock that was being remolded. We figured it was good to be around her as much as possible so we went through the stall. Once we got some heavy machinery to dig some holes for posts into the paddock and she heard the noise she began pacing like a crazy animal. By the time we got everything set up it was late afternoon and she had a solid, 8ft tall plywood wall to greet her. to open her stall door we had a rope system set up, so I pulled it the door swung a foot then the string broke and the door was stuck a foot open. So my sister, Hilary, who had the best access to the door jumped in and opened it fully expecting to see a blur of bay filly mustang go shooting out. But that did not happen. Reece stopped pacing, looked out the door and walked out with her head down so she could nibble on some grass as she meandered through her new paddock. She took a sip of water from her trough then heard the next door horses again so she started pacing…again. Hilary and I sat outside of her pen and read books while watching her be a freak pacing back and forth, taking a bight of hay, a sip of water then starting again. It drove Hilary crazy since she hates pacing. Eventually she settled down and stopped pacing so she could eat her hay and that was all we did.
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