PREGNANT!

Shaeya came at 6:30 this morning to help with the ultrasounds scheduled for this afternoon. After the walk, she was put to work. Our first job was to take Roxanne and her filly Giselle into the stall, halter and give her a tying lesson. We took her to the outdoor arena for another tying lesson and took a couple pictures of her.

She was not happy but figured out pretty quickly that pulling back doesn't help and stepping forward the pressure goes away. She is a smart filly.  Next out was Allie, the Goose Ranch new mare. She was teased and didn't show but didn't scream at the stallion so I had a good feeling she was probably in and didn't quite know how to react. She is a maiden mare. Shaeya round penned her and she did very well.

While we had her out we decided she needed to be de-wormed and she was given a tube of Safeguard. Right after she was put back we decided to de-worm the other two mares as they will be living in the same field when they are taken home. Coke and Brista were also de-wormed with Safeguard then Coke and Genesis taken out for a few pictures of Genesis. Shaeya needed pictures for the Friesian Heritage Horse registry.

 The registry needs to see both side and a face shot. We really liked the picture below and uploaded it to Sam's club to get that one printed out for Shaeya's room.

Shaeya had to leave at 4:45 pm as she had open house at her school tonight. Dr. Hoerr didn't arrive until after 5:00 pm. She stayed all day and didn't get to be here for the ultrasounds.  Sadie's dad arrived to pick her up right before Dr. Hoerr came so he agreed to let Sadie stay until after those mares were sonagrammed.  We had the Goose Ranch horses sonagrammed first. The first up was Allie the palomino.

She is in season now, had good uterine tone and had a 50 mm follicle. She was taken right over to Valiant and covered.  Coke was next and we are thrilled to announce she is pregnant.

Coke was bred to Valiant and is due July 4th, 2019. Brista was next and she had poor uterine tone, no edema but no pregnancy either. Dr. Hoerr does not think she is cycling right now.

Brista was the mare Dr. Hoerr discovered had 2 huge follicles on the same ovary both ready to ovulate. We know she was covered at the right time but we don't know if neither took one took or both took and were aborted.  Dr. Hoerr does not think we missed her  as today is just 21 days from her last cover.  So not sure what to think now for her.
We are honored to report that Oksana was bred to Evan and confirmed in foal due June 21st, 2019.

Star was bred to Valiant and confirmed in foal due June 22nd 2019

and Roxanne was bred to Evan and due June 30th, 2019.

We walked out of the barn to see this beautiful brightly colored rainbow glowing in the sky. It stretched all the way across the sky. I only had my phone with me and it took two shots to get it all in. We had almost an inch and a half of rain today and we were glad for it. 

This was all good, the problems came after Dr. Hoerr left. Star's colt refused to follow his mom into the paddock. I ended up just putting them in the field with the plan to move them as soon as Roxanne was put away. I brought Roxanne and her filly to the back gate, went to open the inner gate going into the paddock from the field Star was in, slipped in the mud from all the rain and fell. Without thinking I didn't let go of the lead rope. Roxanne spooked to see me on the ground in the mud and took off dragging me a few feet before I finally let go of the rope. By the time I made it back up to my feet I was covered in mud from my hair all the way down the back side to the feet. Meanwhile Roxanne had run to the far end of the field and her filly was on the other side of the fence both upset. I went to grab Roxanne leaving the gate and Wicktoria came bursting through and ran all the way down to where Star was squealing at Evan through the fence. Roxanne was caught first, she and her filly put in the paddock and the gate shut, then I tromped all the way to the end of the field to bring the other two up. By the time I got in the house to try to shower off all of the mud it was 6:30 and way to late to make it to church. Mark and I listened on-line.  Not the way I had planned to spend the evening. 

Mom, Diane, Joan, Beth, Rachel and David all flew out this afternoon for a trip South. They found cheap air flights going to Destin, Florida which is just a 2 hour trip to Gulf Shores. Diane was able to rent a car for the week for under $200.00.  Greg and Mike will be joining them Friday.  They are sure to enjoy this trip.