The girls get turn out together

I think a chiro visit is in order for Delia. I'm pretty sure that her neck is out, she is really touchy especially behind the ears. The way I understand it, the optic nerve runs through the spinal column and if the axis is out, or the 1st vertabrae (correct me if I am wrong please) it puts pressure on the nerve and affects the eyesight. Case in point- we went back to visit the cows yesterday, and although she is much calmer around them she still gets snorty and worried. They are Herefords, so there is high contrast between their white heads and their brown bodies, and of course the brown blends in with the brown background.
After I turned her out with Josie in the turnout pen, I always encourage them to run to get some exercise, and Delia was not wanting to break into a lope- and when she finally did- it looked like this:

Oddest thing I've ever seen for a lope departure! She did this for a few strides and then picked up her head- it's a small pen so she couldn't lope more than a few strides.

Curious, I got them going again to see if she would repeat this behaviour.

Sure enough. It almost seemed that she was checking to make sure the ground was there- by lowering her head to see it more clearly? After a few strides, again, she loped normally, and after that she loped easily every time miss Josie got her going.

They had some fun for a while....

especially Josie, who was showing off come of her cutting horse moves- always when the camera wasn't pointed at her though! But boy o boy she can drop right down to the ground on that front end and switch directions like crazy! Did get some cool shots of her though.

Man she is a little powerhouse!

She will be  2 years old next Thursday. What a lot of fun she will be when she grows up!

Then they got down to the serious business of searching for the tender new shoots of grass coming up. I didn't leave them out for long on the fresh grass though.