Brothers together

Chickory  was relieved of her baby sitting duties today; it's the big day for Nitro- full weaning. He's not too happy but he'll get over it. After I put all the mares out, I put Rio in with Nitro and let them get used to being together in the big mare pen; they have been hanging out together across the fence from each other so it wasn't a big issue. Once Nitro realized there were no ladies paying him any attention, he buddied up with Rio.

They did a few laps of the pen first. 

In perfect unison.....

They spent the rest of the day hanging out together, then I moved them over one more pen, right next to Beamer- this is the pen that separates Beamer from the mares:

Beamer roared a couple of times, and poor little Nitro about jumped out of his skin, but they settled down quickly.

Tonight I'll put Gussie and Chickory across the fence from the little boys and mama Belle will go in Rio's other stall at night until she dries up, that way she won't be across  the fence from Nitro. I expect Nitro will snivel a lot for the next couple of days but he'll get over it. Meanwhile, the girls are all happy to be together again without any pesky  colts.