Ooooooo more puppy pictures!
They are just so scrummy, wish I could have a cuddle.
Diane, you really must take some serious rest time from now on - yes I do know how you felt it necessary to 'pull all the stops out' for your Mum's Birthday, but we all INSIST that you now take care of YOURSELF for a while!!!
OK if we are doing a 'hopefully in foal' list for this coming year, here are mine.....
Nutty to Dragon for her last foal (she's 22 this year and as we no longer breed her every year, she will be too old to cover again in the future, anyway she must have given us some 10-12 babies since I got her in the summer of her 3rd year!!)
Neyla (Nutty daughter) to Dragon for her second foal, a repeat mating.
Lady (Nutty daughter) to Dragon for a second foal.
Narcotics (Nutty daughter) to Spotbum (Cotics is 17 this year, lost a filly in the bag last year to Spotbum, so we bred her again. She's a snowflake spotty (by my old blanket spot boy Patch) so we are hoping for a spotty baby - filly she lost was pale chestnut with spots on its botty)
Nell (Costics daughter) also to Spotbum for her second foal.
Prue to Dragon for her fourth foal.
Vee to Dragon for her fourth foal
Neyla, Lady, Nell and Prue are all by my late black and white mini Shetland (British) stallion Romany Kajun who, for those of you that know British Shetlands, was the son of Romany Paco.
They were all covered late (August) as per the plan we are experimenting with right now, so not due until July approx. Nutty has told me she's pregnant so I'm hoping it is not wishful thinking on her part. Narcotics and Vee MUST be in foal as they are a right grumpy pair and keep attacking anyone invading their personal space (also they are usually enemies but now they are mostly to be found sharing the same blade of grass!!
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I think Prue is pregnant, not sure about Lady, as for Nell, well she is just a fat pig!! She feeds herself and in 2010 produced a tiny skinny little filly, who she really wasn't interested in, including not providing that much milk, so she is obviously one who grabs all the food for herself and gives nothing much to feeding her developing baby in utero! Will be interested to see what happen this time - if she's actually in foal!
That's my lot - will be going out to try the ring test when we eventually get a day where the wind isn't blowing up a storm, so will let you know the results.