Happy Day To You!
I am so excited!! My last mare foaled and I now have ALL fillies, oh yeah. I can’t remember how long it has been since this has happened. I would have loved a stud colt, don’t get me wrong, but this is a dream come true! I am so very blessed, and so thankful.
These fillies are a very important part of my breeding program. I am also looking forward to great things from them in the show pen. Already looking forward to the first time I climb on their backs. But, I am getting ahead of myself. There is a lot of prep time before then, and I love every second of it!
I haven’t bred any of the mares back this year. I’ll probably really regret this decision next Spring when there are no babies coming, but right now this feels good. The great thing is, if I am missing having the foals, my friends are always happy to have me bring some of their mares home and foal them out for them. Yeah, I think I’ll be fine with my decision.
Join me in Celebrating Wealth with you precious animals!
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
Happy You Are Here!
I had an interesting, if you can call it that, thing happen yesterday. As I do every morning, I turn the mares and babies out of their stalls and runs to their pastures. Well, when I got to the youngest filly, I had quite a surprise! This dear little angel of a baby decided she was not going to get caught this morning. She not only was not going to get caught, she decided to get her mother all fuzzed up as well!
This filly has always be a bigger challenge to get haltered and started in leading. All babies are silly when they are learning something new and that’s really a good thing. I have found the more trouble they are, the better they turn out. My opinion is, the smarter ones will try you a lot more just to see how far they can push! Well, this little girl must be a genius.
It took me almost 45 minutes to get a halter on her. This is in a stall with a 30 foot run, good grief! I almost forgot to mention, this is one that has moves that put some of the trained cutting horses on notice. She gets down on her belly to make a corner and has done this since she was 5 days old. When she is playing, she can kick above my head. The other day when she was nursing, guess she bit down a bit hard, and her mom gave her a nip. Well, that didn’t set well with her & mom just missed getting her head kicked off. So you can see where I’m going with this.
Happy to say, we finally got haltered and out to pasture, guess this one is going to take a litle more work?! Let me add, when it was time to come in later, we almost had a replay of the mornings’ activities, only with a lot more room. Glad she was a little tired from all her racing around.
Oh yeah, it’s time to go tackle my little angel that grew horns!
Join me in Celebrating Wealth and Your Precious Horses!
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
