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.

Only one foal due for next year.

Buffy is now 6 months along and I am beginning to feel the foal kicking. I tried to get all the other mares bred but it seems it was not meant to be. I guess God knows I only have so much room in that barn and I need to sell some before I bring anymore into the world. :P

I have gelded my stallion and started showing him. He got high point Pleasure Driving and High Point Overall in his first show since being gelded in Windsor this September. So with Orion being a gelding now, I have a outside stallion I think I am going to lease this coming spring to breed to my open mares. Looks like he'll be a busy boy as Carmel, Nellie, LB and Fly will all be ready to breed when the snow melts. This boy is a pinto so we should get some nice coloured foals in 2012 and I'm sure I'll get at least one that I MUST keep. :)

So for now, I am focusing on weaning and training this year's foals and looking forward to my one foal for next year which will be getting all my attention.

Final baby for this year

What a way to end the foaling season. This little one was also a red bag delivery, and when I pull her out..... Man oh man was I surprised and pleased. A gorgeous correct little pinto filly!! Here she is : Huybers Utopia Silver Penny. Named by my mom who is in palliative care in the hospital but always loved to see the new foals pics.

Penny

Baby has arrived!

Sherry was born on July 29th at 1230am. It was a partial red bag delivery in which I had to tear open the placenta in order for the foal to progress. But she arrived safe and sound and is doing great.

amanda

Wow, it has been awhile

Ok since I've posted her last I've had a beautiful little colt born from mare I bought 10 days earlier. That was a surprise to me, I had no intention of buying a mare, but could not leave this gal where she was. So glad too. She gave me the pinto colt I've always dreamed of owning. Life is funny that way, you just never know what God has in store for you

ANyways, Nellie is now at day 331!! Where did the time go. Her milk was testing at 10% yesterday morning and is at 40% today!! That's a fast change. I'm thinking I am pretty close here as her milk has been hard to express and I could only get a few drops but this afternoon I got two full streams! It has been my experience that when it starts streaming out, foaling is about 24-48 hours away. I will NOT be sleeping tonight, that is for certain.

Lady but has 29 days to go, but she seems to be shaping up for an early foaling. Too early to tell for certain on her though. Her milk is that of a non foaling mare, thank goodness. One bit of excitement at a time is enough for me. I"m getting too old.