This weekend Skagaströnd saw the starting fourth dimension stages of the annual Equus caballus roundup or rettír. The hundreds of horses who spent summertime living on the mountains were herded downwardly to a paddock to endure sorted as well as checked on.
My housemate , Outi , was right inwards amongst the activity , riding a local's Equus caballus through the mountainside to attention usher the other horses downwardly off the mountain. She explained that many locals permit their horses to pass the warmer months on the mountains , where the important mares hand nascency inwards the spring.
On Dominicus virtually of the horses were off the mount as well as had been taken to a paddock as well as then that their owners could pose them. We hitched a ride amongst a local adult woman as well as her Icelandic sheepdog/border collie , Krafla , to encounter the activity upwardly close. I'm non exclusively certain how it industrial plant , though. Dozens of horses , all awkwardly running roughly inwards paddocks , beingness sectioned off into concrete areas labelled amongst the owner's name. My other housemate described the whole thing every bit a 'total clusterfuck' which is pretty apt.
Once they're - somehow - sorted into their right concrete cube , the horses are either taken habitation inwards a trailer or herded dorsum past times the cleverest , designated Equus caballus , where they either alive for the wintertime , or conduct maintain a piddling checkup as well as are released onto the mount again.
