This is Pirate, a black morgan filly who had a bit of an adventure a couple of weeks ago. I have a small creep pen for my weanlings and the yearlings are usually able to squeeze into for quite some time so I continue to feed them in it as long as they are in the pen by the barn.
I have an old bathtub in the pen that I use for feed so that it stays off the ground. The straw had built up over the winter and it sloped down quite a bit so the yearlings were standing in the tub to eat. I was thinking in the back of my mind I should remove the tub until all the snow had melted and the ground was not so sloped down.
I was of course to late and Pirate somehow slipped into the tub and was laying with her feet sticking out! It would have been funny if I knew in advance how to get her out! I tried pushing and pulling, no luck. I slipped a big soft rope around her front feet and tried pulling but of course I was pulling uphill and good luck trying to shift a 6oo pound yearling!
I had to go and find hubby, he was out working on a farm nearby, and bring him home. We tried the rope thing again but it was no good, we still couldn't pull her up and out. I was getting a bit worried as she had been in this position for at least two hours now if not more.
I finally decided that if we couldn't get her up and out we needed to take the fence down behind her and tip the tub that way. It worked like a charm! The tub was already tilted up and with hubby pulling her front legs with the rope we gently pulled her over and I pushed the tub and she just slid out the bottom side. She got to her feet and was a bit shaky but allowed me to halter her and then she followed me back to the pen. What a good girl.
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