1st June 2019, will not forget this day in a hurry… Up at 4 am, bathed and plaited Reus and bathed and braided his son Reality who both had spent the night out. On the road to Farnham in Surrey, we missed the exit off the M4 and then we got back on track we […]
The mares have given birth, the mares are being great mothers and feeding their foals very well but make no mistake these foals are “calorie suckers”, it’s very important to feed the lactating mare. The mares and foals are out 24/7, they come into the stable every evening for a feed and this gives me […]
If you work with animals and children then you will know you have to go with the flow… They have their own minds and don’t necessarily understand what you want from them, so you have to wait and wait and wait! So we waited, all we wanted was one picture of all four foals together. […]
We didn’t manage to get Regent to a show last year, he was sold but we bought him back when his new owner suddenly experienced a huge personal challenge. I did regret selling him in the first place but he was supposed to be a filly to be retained (because I ordered a filly 🙂 […]
Well since Ghost’s accident her wound has healed really well, no discharge, limited swelling, no infection and today she gets her stitches out! She hasn’t coped very well with box rest and although we’ve kept our pony in with her for company, all she’s wanted to do it be out with her friends! I don’t […]
When breeding Appaloosas, part of the registration is parentage DNA testing. It involves pulling mane or tail hairs (with roots) and sending to an Animal Genetics Lab, the certificate is then sent with the registration documents and the results clarified with the dam and sire’s DNA on the breed association database. For our own satisfaction, we […]
Well, what a month! Two weeks (from the 15th to 28th April) we’ve seen the delivery of four healthy foals! At 344 days Catori gave birth to an unusually marked few spot colt, six days later at 349 days PP gave birth to a buckskin few spot filly, which we will keep because the odds […]
Horses are horses and we can’t wrap them in cotton wool although we do try so hard to prevent injury’s! Accidents happen no matter what! Ghost our new filly has settled well, she’s been accepted within the herd and now plays with Regent and Reality but and it’s a big BUT on this occasion their […]
Princesse Pacale – 348 days gestation Our lovely mare known as PP, is huge, she always carries very low and she has had enough… Her udder is ready to burst with milk, her pelvic ligaments have certainly slackened off and her vulva is elongated and swollen. She certainly is ready but the foal is obviously […]
A pleasure to watch him…