R.I.P "Crickets Star"

This morning Cricket delivered a premature, dead foal. It was a hard blow to us all, as we had been planning on keeping this foal. He was a gorgeous black tobiano colt. I had been hoping for a black tobiano colt. Though we were concerned for Cricket herself for a while, she is up and moving aorund now. She is looking for and calling to her foal right now. There are 3 more foals and 1 llama due soon, so lets pray for safe deliveries and healthy babies. Ebony is due next week and is doing well.

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We have buried Crickets colt in the side yard and have named him 'Crickets Star' as he looks like him mommy except he has a little star on his forehead.

Random Moments

This is our new lab pup Dewie. He is a great boy and lots of fun to have around. He comes out each day as I do my chores and he likes to nap in my chair.

Trixie watching a cat in the back field. Spring is definitely here and its been great out this week. The snow is gone....and will hopefully stay gone....the horses are shedding and its been great weather to be outside.

Royal now. Bigger and just as beautiful. She is a lovely girl.

Breyer having a nap in the hay with Ebony and Kiwi. Ebony is due to foal next week, so will keep everyone posted when all the babies start arriving (5 this year).

This photo is from a couple weeks ago with all the snow, but it shows all the big bellies of the pregnant mares. They are all doing well. Breeze is the first one due, on April 16th.

New Ones

Its been a long time since I last posted anything :( its been so busy, but lets get up to date. There are 17 horses in total at the farm now. We have a stallion, who is friendly and gorgeous. We have a couple new mares and a new yearling. Twist, above, is a 10.5 month old filly. She is really nice and very friendly. I bought her mom and Twist came along too.

This is our stallion Breyer. He is handsome, well behaved and an all around nice boy. He will be breeding the majority of the mares this year, so we will have to wait until next spring to see his babies, but they should all be very nice foals.

This is Royal. She is a new breeding mare. She is very young in this picture, she is much older and much bigger now. She is a nice girl and we are happy to have her.

This is Prika. She is the dam of Twist, above. She is in foal right now with a full sibling to Twist. She is due to foal in May. She will be bred to Breyer this spring after she foals.