Jurista

Our walk today was in below freezing temperature. Even though the sun was shining the puddles were iced over and the wind was blowing. Not what one would expect the end of March. Today it was determined that we needed to move Lily and her colt in with the other mares as we were going to need her paddock for a new mare coming in. We don't like to put new foals in with others until they are around a week old but Lily's colt is big and strong for his age. The best way to do this was to first put the other 2 mares in the big field then bring Lily and her colt over once the other mares were grazing. It went pretty well. Indy and Star were curious but Lily let them know pretty quickly to stay away.

 Above is Indy and her filly by Evan and below is Star and her filly by Evan.

 Lily took off at a run but her colt stayed right beside her. She soon settled down to graze when the others were deemed as no threat to her colt.

He was very curious about those other horses but didn't leave his mom's side.

I needed to head to Diane's office to reconcile the bank book so opened Violet and Tatiana's paddock so if the mares got thirsty they could go in there to drink. When those 2 were let out Violet had to put on quite a show. Galloping around with her tail flagged high in the air. It was kind of funny below Indy's colt is trying hard to keep up with her half sisters.  Indy wasn't too happy with that.

I didn't leave for Diane's until they were all grazing together peacefully.

The bank reconciling took less than an hour giving me time to drive in to Peoria to renew my license for another 4 years. This time the job got accomplished by 1:30 pm giving me enough time to get home to put the mares away before heading to Chris Erkert's visitation. When I got home though Lily and her colt were already in the breeding shed paddock. Either a fence is down or the colt ran through the fence and she followed then took him where she knew it was safe. The other 6 were still grazing exactly where I left them so they were all put away. Mom and I left at 3:15 pm for the visitation arriving just as the line started. It was good we weren't any later as I was booked to watch Phil and Anna's girls at 4:30 pm. Just as we got home Emily pulled up with the big truck and trailer. She had driven to Cleveland, OH to pick up our new Andalusian mare Jurista.

Jurista is a 10 year old 16 hand IALHA registered purebred Andalusian mare. Below is a video her previous owner sent to show us her movement. This is a high quality Andalusian mare.
 She is gray but has a good chance of throwing black when bred to a black as her dam is black.  Our plan is to breed her to the gorgeous 17 hand black Andalusian stallion Glorioso standing at stud in Michigan. Below is a video of him at liberty.


We will probably book all three of our Andalusian mares to him this year. Anna dropped off the girls then took the truck back to Meister's. The girls were busy tonight building things out of our firewood. OK maybe we do need a few new toys around here, although this kept them occupied for quite a while.

Today was another busy day. Thankful for the electric blanket tonight, the bed is going to feel great.