chandab
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My guess would be that Petal is a maximum white sabino, since you say she is "pink" roan at either end. Nice colorful foals.
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countrymini
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Your Oldies are beautiful Anna
cassie
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NAW thanks for that Anna! loved looking at your site, so beautiful!
Petal's babies were gorgeous! loved them all
Petal's babies were gorgeous! loved them all
Well all the girls are now homewith their foals. As I said Nutty and the other three not in foalers returned last week. Those three went back downour dell fields to join the herd and Nutty went in with the oldies (lots of grass to keepher happy and well built up for the coming winter. Yesterday I moved these 'oldies' into another field - lots more grass (!!) to put them alongside our driveway field ready for mares and foals to return - into the driveway field in the hope that once they all meet up again across a safe fence, we can perhaps join them up a) to give the oldies access to a barn and b) to give a set of "Aunties" for when weaning comes after Christmas.
Well got a call from Cathy mid morning to say she was on her way with three girls and three babies - and I thought they were coming tomorrow!! All arrived safely and unloaded into their field - lots of racing around and some quick chats to the neighbours across the fence. I then went back with Cathy to fetch Narcotics and Prue as these two are know for their "I dont really need to get into that vehicle" attitude if they feel like it. LOL!! However a bowl of food proved just too much to ignore and they both bounded up the ramp, I held them while Cathy bundled the two foals inside. The two mares promply fell asleep and the foals kept diving for the milk bars, very pleased to have a 'captive' Momma!!
Got a few pics, but then it started to rain, so let them to it - will take a few more in the coming days now they are back.
Ferret 'foal greeting' Hazel.
more next post.............................
Well got a call from Cathy mid morning to say she was on her way with three girls and three babies - and I thought they were coming tomorrow!! All arrived safely and unloaded into their field - lots of racing around and some quick chats to the neighbours across the fence. I then went back with Cathy to fetch Narcotics and Prue as these two are know for their "I dont really need to get into that vehicle" attitude if they feel like it. LOL!! However a bowl of food proved just too much to ignore and they both bounded up the ramp, I held them while Cathy bundled the two foals inside. The two mares promply fell asleep and the foals kept diving for the milk bars, very pleased to have a 'captive' Momma!!
Got a few pics, but then it started to rain, so let them to it - will take a few more in the coming days now they are back.
Ferret 'foal greeting' Hazel.
more next post.............................
It was photobucket that suddenly decided not to post the pics - trying again with one of my gorgeous Nutty and one of the group wandering off across the fields to investigate their new surroundings.
countrymini
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Love your photos!
chandab
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Lovely herd.
cassie
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I can't see them
i bet all your mini's are looking fantastic Anna
you take such lovely care of them.
OK my friends, just thought I would update you on what has been happening here on the farm for the last month or so. We have just start the work to convert our two old stone barns into residential dwellings - hoping to move into them and sell of our house and a few acres to ease the 'finances'. Busy busy and very stressful, but rather exciting too!! Trouble is that I have slowly lost all my stabling as I used to house my boys in one of the barns plus a lean-to, and we had other stables in the old tin barns that have now been pulled down, so all the boys are now over with Cathy and I just have my special Mootie still here with me using part of an old barn
as his night time stable.
This will take a while to post all the pictures, so suggest you just be patient until I finish LOL!! "Patient" - just like you are when waiting for a mare to foal!!
First a short fun video taken some 5 years ago when we first used an old tin barn to foal down in.
as his night time stable.
This will take a while to post all the pictures, so suggest you just be patient until I finish LOL!! "Patient" - just like you are when waiting for a mare to foal!!
First a short fun video taken some 5 years ago when we first used an old tin barn to foal down in.
Sorry for that - you lot should be awake/asleep at the same time as I am, then we wouldn't have any trouble!!
Found the other video in the end this morning, but it will take ages to load to photobucket, so will do it later. It is now 6am here, so I should manage to get more pics posted before most of you wake up - Hi to you Aussielanders, guess you are still awake?
OK here is what has happened to that barn.
Remember that this will be my back garden!! LOL!! Oh and little Mootie is now stabled under the remaining barn at the far end of these pics - the dome bit has still to go and he is under the lean-to the far side, which is actually in our present back garden, bless him!
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Found the other video in the end this morning, but it will take ages to load to photobucket, so will do it later. It is now 6am here, so I should manage to get more pics posted before most of you wake up - Hi to you Aussielanders, guess you are still awake?
OK here is what has happened to that barn.
Remember that this will be my back garden!! LOL!! Oh and little Mootie is now stabled under the remaining barn at the far end of these pics - the dome bit has still to go and he is under the lean-to the far side, which is actually in our present back garden, bless him!
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Pic of the back of my 'new' home, once it is all finished (WHEN it is all finished LOL!!) and I have a nice veranda at the back overlooking my garden, we will cut the overgrown hedge/trees down a bit and I will have a lovely view over some of our fields.
What has been dug out, and little Moots in his 'home' with his homemade blocked up wall to keep the wind off him now he no longer has the shelter of the removed barn.
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What has been dug out, and little Moots in his 'home' with his homemade blocked up wall to keep the wind off him now he no longer has the shelter of the removed barn.
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OK this is what has happened to the other 'lean-to' alongside the second double height stone barn where I used to house the boys.
All gone - now we just have to get the concrete plinth up to allow for the big barn's drains to be dug. Oh and well done to Hamish who has done all this work, with help from Euros's machine - which yesterday decided to break down so Hamish will be getting a few days off, but I'm sure I will find him some thing to do!!
Will try to get some up to date pics of the minis today just to keep things interesting - if it stops raining! Will also keep adding pics of the work on the barns as things progress.
All gone - now we just have to get the concrete plinth up to allow for the big barn's drains to be dug. Oh and well done to Hamish who has done all this work, with help from Euros's machine - which yesterday decided to break down so Hamish will be getting a few days off, but I'm sure I will find him some thing to do!!
Will try to get some up to date pics of the minis today just to keep things interesting - if it stops raining! Will also keep adding pics of the work on the barns as things progress.
countrymini
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So reminds me of those barn conversion shows on tv. Love the stone work!
Just another quick post - it is again past my bedtime, but after a lot more searching I have found that second video, plus it has taken almost 2 hours to get it loaded to photobucket!!
Again it is of our old tin barn with our homemade stables and is taken around mid April the same year as the previous video on the last page (that one was taken a couple of weeks earlier). This one shows some other mares and a few foals. For those interested the first coloured mare is Chapella a fully registered mini Shetland, the second mare is our spotty girl Shetland x American (Orion breeding). Then comes two little chestnut mares - again fully registered mini shetlands, but you will notice that they are lacking weight on their backbones. We bought them as a pair the year before (they are best friends and are always stabled next to each other or opposite so they can see each other) and we struggled like mad to keep weight on them. Found out that this weight problem occured in a lot of lines (pedigrees) in the stud that bred them - interesting? In spite of this, both of them have had 3 foals each for us since the video was taken, and by each of our stallions, without exception all the foals have been brilliant in conformation and temperament and have no problems in keeping a well covered backbone! Must also add that those two little girls are now as fat as any of my other mares and have managed fo produce all their other babies without losing any weight - the good Welsh grass has done the trick! LOL!
The final black mare is a full sized shetland, a daughter of old Bess crossed with a mini black and white shetland boy, BB has a week old filly with her by Falabella Anselmo, and BB herself looks much more like the condition I want my mares in when they foal. (will be putting this filly to Dragon next year for her first foal - she will be 5!) In the last stable - well the less said the better!!
Hope the video doesn't keep 'sticking' for you - it did for me. Oh and have your sound on, so you can hear Cathy's comments (both videos should have sound?)
Again it is of our old tin barn with our homemade stables and is taken around mid April the same year as the previous video on the last page (that one was taken a couple of weeks earlier). This one shows some other mares and a few foals. For those interested the first coloured mare is Chapella a fully registered mini Shetland, the second mare is our spotty girl Shetland x American (Orion breeding). Then comes two little chestnut mares - again fully registered mini shetlands, but you will notice that they are lacking weight on their backbones. We bought them as a pair the year before (they are best friends and are always stabled next to each other or opposite so they can see each other) and we struggled like mad to keep weight on them. Found out that this weight problem occured in a lot of lines (pedigrees) in the stud that bred them - interesting? In spite of this, both of them have had 3 foals each for us since the video was taken, and by each of our stallions, without exception all the foals have been brilliant in conformation and temperament and have no problems in keeping a well covered backbone! Must also add that those two little girls are now as fat as any of my other mares and have managed fo produce all their other babies without losing any weight - the good Welsh grass has done the trick! LOL!
The final black mare is a full sized shetland, a daughter of old Bess crossed with a mini black and white shetland boy, BB has a week old filly with her by Falabella Anselmo, and BB herself looks much more like the condition I want my mares in when they foal. (will be putting this filly to Dragon next year for her first foal - she will be 5!) In the last stable - well the less said the better!!
Hope the video doesn't keep 'sticking' for you - it did for me. Oh and have your sound on, so you can hear Cathy's comments (both videos should have sound?)
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