Foal Pictures

Three of us left at 7:30 for Middle Grove. We drove back where the horses were last night but no horses were in sight. Rosalie was taken out of the trailer, she called a couple times but no one answered so she was loaded back up and Mike called. He had his truck so drove to the top of the hill and found them. We drove back to the gate, unloaded Rosalie, she called and again no one answered so we started hiking up the hill and had to go almost to the top before we saw her daughter galloping toward us. Mike helped take Rosalie down to the trailer and load her and then we waited for her foal to get in which took about 10 minutes. We made it home around 8:30, unloaded then I went in for breakfast. Right after breakfast the camera was taken out and our horse loving guest came out to help get pictures of the foals. First one done was Rockaway (Lola's colt by Valiant). He was born April 26th so not ready to wean just yet. He is very friendly and really likes kids.

 Mori the horse loving guest was shown how to ask them to move for a few action shots.  He surprised me with how big his trot was.

When it cools down we will get a video of his movement. Next out was Irish and her colt. This colt also loves people. He is registered and dna'd in the Gypsian book of Friesian Heritage Horse Registry. His name is Prince and he floats!

Check out how far off the ground he is with that ground covering trot. 

Prince is for sale $6500.00. He is the typical Gyspy Friesian , The next foal out was Morgana (Soul's filly by Evan). She was registered in the Warlander book of the Friesian Heritage Horse registry and is sold. 

Last out was Dahlia (Rosalie's filly by Evan). She is our oldest foal born April 2nd, and also by far the tallest and not to brag or anything the most impressive mover I've seen! 

huge extension in her trot,

Way off the ground. All of Lily's daughters and grand daughters are amazing. 

IF you would like to see the rest of the pictures taken today of the foals click HERE.

But because she has been at Middle Grove since Rosalie was bred back I have a lot of work to do before she leaves for her new home in September. She needs to learn how to stand quietly to be haltered, she needs to learn to lead, stand tied, and load. She is smart so hopefully she will remember the training done before she was taken out. By the time we finished with her it was really hot.  Evan was brought out, hosed down and taken into the round pen for just long enough to have a good roll.

Since it was too hot to work horses we drove over to mom's to pick her green beans but found she had already picked them. Instead we went inside and visited for a bit, me with mom and Mori with Molly.

Mark was working on the slab insulation on the barn so we went to help.

It was a lot of work, still really hot so we left him and went to move bales. A new bale was put in the middle paddock, the back gate opened to both the middle and the far paddock and all the mares and foals here are back together. Yesterday I had 3 mares and foals in the far paddock and 2 in the middle as there wasn't much hay left in the middle. They were really glad to be back together. Today I wanted to go to Stock and Field to pick up vaccines for the foals but decided to call them first and they had none. TSC was called and they had none, finally Farm and Fleet was called and they had 6. I drove to Morton and bought all 6 and 2 more salt blocks.  From there I stopped at Walmart which is right across the street to pick up a watermelon, cake, hamburger buns, orange juice and salad mix for tomorrow's meal. Mark needed the orange juice to cook the tuna steaks he bought. When I got back one of the salt blocks was put in the middle paddock and the other put Whiskey's paddock as her's was about gone. The groceries were put away then Mori was given a driving lesson on the golf cart. We picked up all the net wrap, he drove the golf cart to the dumpster and almost ran into his dad's car. They were coming back from the playground. On the way back we met Berlica and Rochelle. We let Berlica drive the golf cart to her house then Mori drove it back to the apartment. Mackenson and Faith were here mowing. They are now back from Gulf Shores and had quite a trip coming home. The trip took longer than 24 hours (according to Berlica) I haven't heard the story yet from Joan except to know she had a flat tire, they had to sleep in the van and then wait for over 3 hours to get the tire fixed at Walmart.