Beautiful sunny day & they are out in the paddock

Wow what an amazing day- these sunny days are just so clear and it certainly does your soul good to have such warmth in winter.  Well we decided that today would be a great day to try our boys out on grass.  Louka seemed the obvious choice so we put Louka into the smaller paddock and Sarg and Gypsy in another one a bit out of the way- Think Gypsy fancies the new boys a bit too much. As you can see in the photo it was a very easy atmosphere.  Louka is such a kind natured horse- there was no chasing or bucking- he just sniffed them all over and then they all put there heads down and ate grass...Big Boy kicked  (more a warning) at Louka when he came up behind him to check out his tail...but Louka so gently said don't do that or I'll boot you back and he did...not hard just enough to say "I'm in charge here" and that was that...They are all best buddies now....I have an electric tape across one corner - about 1.5 meters across and Louka took them over there to eat and I think tell them that it would bite if they touched it...and no one did....they walked past the cover on the gate, past washing on the line, a road cone...no reaction at all...Mae (my boisterous huntaway) ran straight through the middle of their paddock and they just watched her....Dennis drove the truck up the drive right beside them..no reaction- just watched....they are so calm....when I called them back into the yards Louka came running and then they followed...so it all went pretty easily today...Lynn was absolutely amazed at how far they have come in such a short time....when they inspected the concrete trough (they have only had a black plastic one up till now) they were such a hoot...they tried chewing it, then we though they would step into it, but no they decided to drink well at least Big Boy did, and then Oscar put his whole nose in and just let it run like a tap from his mouth..he did this about 5 times in all almost using his mouth like a scoop...he looked as though he was playing with it...I'm sure he would have laughed if he could.