We don't know how long he was out, or if he had a busy morning or not, but there goes my plans for no foaling season next year and a new stallion report is in order!
Well at least it should be a nice cross if it took as Ringo is our Buckeroo grandson (also a Rowdy grandson) and LeeLee is a daughter of World Champion Senior Stallion Little Kings Bay Ablaze on top and heavy Johnstons/Gold Melody Boy on the bottom. I just looked at Ringo's webpage and had to cringe - awful photos of him! Oh well that's not surprising seeing how poorly I man a camera!
I guess Ringo's repeated in/over/under fence testing along with yesterday Ivan getting into the stallion pasture - missed his friends now that he's a gelding? LOL! Being chased across 20 acres of hills changed his mind on that! Anyway, this seems to be a clear indication we need to redo all our fences!
Well if the economy stays on track (ie horses keep selling/DH stays employed) we'll be getting Lindeman back out to refabric the perimeter in a couple spots and do something about the deplorable interior fences that are in major need.
Ugh, I dread that bill!
Website
Other fun - worked on our website today adding pedigree info to the foals pages, and photos. I really need to delete alot of the information on there or combine it so it's not so unwieldy. It's out of date in some sections, and just a plain mess in others - but nine years of it growing and adding, it was bound to happen! So, I'm plugging away at it, between everything else that needs attendance. It will likely take awhile as I could do it on the laptop while doing all the waiting I do (a teenage daughter that doesn't drive yet!), so maybe it will get done sooner than I think!
Mares & Foals
The mares & foals are doing well. If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'm going to try and get some new photos of the foals. I'm very happy with what Bonus Bucks and Frenchie sired and the mares are all doing excellent jobs in the mother department. We've only had one foal heat diarrhea with Surprise (oh so lovely on a light colored horse). She was the one that received Foal Response the latest, instead of right after foaling (well when they're ready to stand that is!). So far we've been pleased with this product. It may be actually doing nothing, but we've had very robust healthy foals with a minimum of foal diarrhea since we started using it.
Note to self - order hay! I generally write this down and forget until we're down to the last four-five bales. We're truly luck Higby's is sooooo good at getting hay to us in a timely manner.
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