313 days

Buffy's milk has changed from 10% ready to foal to 40% ready overnight. We are heading in the right direction. The new camera arrives and hopefully gets installed tonight. Then we will get a nice clear, crisp pic of what our girl is up to all night long.

311 days

Buffy is now on Marestare. You can actually watch her in her stall as she sleeps, eats and poos!!! How exciting is that. At the moment the picture is very fuzzy as I have a wireless cam and it picks up alot of interference. I hope to be able to borrow a wired cam this week and fix that. But none the less, it is pretty cool to be able to watch her no matter where I am, like during the day at work.

Of course she is not far enough along to leave her in during the day. She needs her exercise to keep fit for the upcoming event. But she will be in her stall and one Marestare from about 6pm at night to 9 am in the morning. Check it out, and I'll get working on getting the pic clearer.

http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=huybersutopia

300 days pregnant

We're starting to get close. Buff has foaled for me on days 326 and 337. So not so far from now we'll be seeing her precious little one.

Shaved Buff's belly in ensure baby does not get fur in his mouth when he/she roots for her udder. It is often an issue with minis as they shed insanely in the spring. Buffy has already started shedding bigtime.

Her udder is showing a small amount of filling, but nothing serious which is normal for her. I expect serious uddering to begin around day 310-315.

All is going as expected, will update when something significant occurs.

287 days pregnant

Buffy is coming along nicely, here are some pics of her baby belly. 40 days to go!

45 days to go!

Buffy is at day 285 today. I'm predicting that she'll foal on Mar. 11th this year. Her udder is not filling at all yet (totally normal for her), but she has started taking forever to finish her meals (also normal for her around 290 days). So we are on track for a very normal Buffy foaling, here's hoping she's hiding a gorgeous little leopard foal in there. It will most likely be a colt as she is carrying on her right side and she gives me colts when she does that and her pattern is CCFCCFCCF so next up should be a colt. I'll be happy as long as it is healthy.

2 more months and my leased stallion arrives!!! The girls are going to love him, I hope. Exciting times are coming!!

9 months pregnant

Flicka my new gelding.

Buffy is now at day 271! Boy where did that time go? Baby is bouncing around in there at supper time to let me know he/she is alive and well. This is Orions very last foal as he was gelded in Aug. 2010. I am hoping for a spotted baby this time, but then it would have to be a filly so I could keep it. :)

Flicka (my new gelding) is doing very well in his driving training. He takes cars, dogs and all other distractions without batting an eyelid. He's a calm fellow and is going to make someone a very nice little driving horse someday. In the mean time I am enjoying playing with him.

3 more months and the stallion I'm going to lease, Frankie, will be here and will be wooing my girls. I will breed 5 mares to him that are open right now. 2012 should be very exciting.

Three horses sold and two more bought

This is Frankie the stallion I will breed 5 of my mares to this coming spring.

Well I found a wonderful home for my two little fillies that were born this year and I also found a lady very close to home who is now the owner of Sugarplum, my daughter's show horse. Lyndsay will still be able to visit Sugar and also show her if she wants to. But with all the extra room that freed up I decided to add a little black brood mare and her gelding son. Marcella and Flicka are my two newest horses. Marcella will stay and be a broodmare for me, and I am presently training Flicka in the cart. He is doing excellently and shows no signs of fear or stress about it all. He is a wonderful, friendly little gelding. Flicka is for sale.

So now I have 6 broodmares. One is in foal for March 2011, and the rest will be bred in April to a leased stallion Frankie. Frankie is a pinto, so my hopes are that the 5 mares I breed to him will give me a few pinto babies, maybe even one I'lll HAVE to keep for my own.

Fun times are afoot.