Goose Ranch Horses

Karin arrived at 6:00 am to take the truck and trailer to pick up the Goose Ranch mares for breeding. When she arrived both mares showed. We had Dr. Hoerr coming out this afternoon so made the decision to cover Brista and wait for Dr. Hoerr on Coke.  Lily was also on the schedule. After the walk Karin took out Valiant and had Shaeya work him then ride him.

 Valiant has such big movement

If you would like to see the rest of the pictures of Shaeya riding Valiant click HERE.  Next Evan was taken out. Below Shaeya is asking him to lay down. 

 Coke (one of the mares here to breed to Valiant) and her 2018 filly by Valiant were moved into the short shelter paddock as I was afraid Evan would break a board when they were in the paddock next to him.

 Brista was taken out to tack up for the trail ride. Brista is the other mare but she is here to breed to Evan. 

 Sarah arrived with Zion.

 Karin, Shaeya, Sadie and Hannah took Star, Brista, Sangria and Sally out on the trails. Below Brista is crossing the creek. 

 Hanna on Sally is next.

 Sadie and Sangria were third.

 Karin and Star went last. This was the first time Star was asked to go on the trails without her foal. 

 They had a good gallop in the field

 If you would like to see the rest of the trail ride pictures click HERE. We had to head over to the lake to cool off before vaulting started at 1:00 pm. David was here with Elisabet and Israel 

 Taunya had all of her children at the lake too. Below is Abe.

 Anna also came with her three girls. The lake is such a blessing and very well used in the summer. 

 At 1:00 pm we headed back to the barn to work on teaching Oksana it is ok to have triples. 

 She did very well until the trick below. We don't know if it was because of Faith's shadow but each time they got her up there Oksana would break into a trot. They finally just asked her to stand for this. 

 I took lots more vaulting pictures if you would like to see them click HERE. After vaulting we went back to the lake to swim while waiting for Dr. Hoerr to arrived.

 Dr. Hoerr arrived late afternoon. He sonagrammed Brista first. She has 2 follicles on her right ovary and both are at a 32 mm. She needs to be covered again Wednesday and maybe even Friday.  Coke had a 41 mm follicle so the decision was made to cover her today. That didn't go well. She will need to be covered tomorrow. Coke was kicking badly so we will need to twitch her, If we had not had her sonagrammed I would not have believed she was really in and that close to ovulation.  Lily was last and she was declared pregnant. Below is the nice big embryonic vesicle.

 She and her colt were put right in the stock trailer. Bunni was brought over from the cabin and also loaded then off I drove to Middle Grove to drop these 3 off and pick up Wicktoria. Karin beat me there and had both gates open when I arrived. We let the 3 horses out, then drove the truck and trailer up to the herd. We checked on all the mares and foals and discovered Galena and her colt were missing. Of course we thought the worst, as it is very unusual for ONE mare to be missing. Wicktoria was loaded into the trailer and we started driving. We got to the top and could see Galena but she was a long distance away so had to start hiking. When we got close we could see that she was in the wrong pasture and her colt was with her. What a relief. They came running to us, glad we were there to open the gate. They followed us all the way back to the herd. As we were trying to drive out I had to stop the truck and snap the next two pictures. We were surrounded by horses.

I didn't get home until 5:30 pm. Mark had the meat prepared and was just starting to grill it. We were joined by Taunya, her 4 children and her dad for supper. After supper we went for a golf cart ride over to the cabin to check the horses there. Mike had company and he took them all out riding. It is now late so I will finish the pictures tomorrow. Sure was a beautiful day, busy but beautiful.