HC Minis - new pics pg 172

[chandab]

I don't know if I have the patience to wait for this "phase" to pass, he's such a little stinker. I can get ahold of him and pet him and pick up his little hooves, nothing major, just handling him; but he's still using those back feet.

Put hte mares out on grass, area just has portable panels around it, and Monte got out and couldn't figure out how to get back in, boy did he get upset, and since I'm still the big bad monster, he wouldn't go through the gate til I moved well away from it, luckily the mares were too busy grazing to notice the open gate.

Such cute little guys.

Bonny is 311 days today, no major changes. forgot to check her milk last night, so not sure where she's at with that.

 

[chandab]

Treat him like his momma would.....a little slap on his rump with a loud "NO" and see if it helps. Momma would give him a quick "nip" but I don't want you to lose any teeth!!!

He's so tiny, I can't reach his butt with my hand (I'm 5'10"), so I usually "boot" him in the butt; I get a bit of a surprised response from him over that. But, he's not over the kicking phase yet. I need to go out and sit with them while they are on grass; both babies are old enough now to be past the initial bonding time and just mommy/baby time, so now its my turn.

 

[chandab]

Just for kicks and giggles, I went to the genetics testing site to play with the color calculator.

Misty is silver black, Topper bay; looks like Junior is silver black as well. From what I know about MIsty and Toppers genetics (nothing on Misty really, and only that Topper is Aa), the calculator predicted almost equally on foal colors; black, silver black, bay, silver bay at about 23% each and chestnut at about 6%. So, no surprize that Misty had a silver black foal.

Tana is silver bay dun, Topper bay: Monte appears to be grullo (black dun). I did test Tana she is EE, Aa, no cream, didn't test silver (its obvious) and dun wasn't available at the time, but she has markers. Calculator gave black dun a 6.25% chance; any variation of bay had a better chance at 18.75%. so, got a real good one there.

Bonny is registered cremello, but I feel she is likely smokey cream (maybe with silver, her dam was smokey silver dapple), Topper bay, so... Their foal has a few possibilities (I'll calculate with silver smokey cream): 23.44% smokey black, 23.44% silver smokey black, 23.44% buckskin, 23.44% silver buckskin, and 6.25% palomino. So, who thinks I might get a palomino? I got the least likely coloration with Tana; should we go two for two?

And, now switching to the other stallion: Che` is silver buckskin (well, silver brownskin, as we are pretty sure is seal brown with cream and silver).

Honey is black pinto (her sire is listed as red roan, so she's not homozygous black; and she looks tobi and sabino to me); so her possibilities with Che` are: An extremely long list of possibilities each at 5.47% all black-based (short list of 3.13% of red-based), so who knows what we might get with Honey. I just hope she's carrying and we have a foal fairly soon, but I won't hold my breath.

And, Showy, solid sorrel, if she's carrying: 16.67% each for sorrel and palomino; 12.50% each for bay, silver bay, buckskin, silver buckskin; 4.17% each for black, silver black, smokey black, silver smokey black. I'd love a little palomino, but I doubt it.

So, that was fun.

 

[chandab]

With Bonny, it would be fun to get a palomino, as that is just about my favorite color.

With Honey, I want a buckskin pinto colt to keep, so I'll probably get a solid sorrel filly.

If Showy is bred, a buckskin or palomino would be nice, but since she doesn't look bred, I'd take anything healthy.

 

[chandab]

Bonny looks to still be testing about 7.2 to 7.6; green with a hint of blue. I didn't pull out the chart, but still too blue to be dropping much.

 

[bannerminis]

Oh your babies are just gorgeous and I have to say that Belle is a little demon too and thinks its great fun to buck and kick but she gets a good shove from me and she is not finding it as much fun anymore LOL

 

[AnnaC]

OK I'll guess - useless with colours so probably completely wrong. LOL!!

Bonny - Silver smokey black.

Honey - (this will make you laugh!) Red dun pinto.

Showy - Cream dun.

 

[chandab]

OK I'll guess - useless with colours so probably completely wrong. LOL!!

Bonny - Silver smokey black.

Honey - (this will make you laugh!) Red dun pinto.

Showy - Cream dun.

I'm thinking your guess for Bonny is my mostly likely chance. The other two, I think chances of those colors are pretty slim, so we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Wings]

With Bonny, it would be fun to get a palomino, as that is just about my favorite color.

With Honey, I want a buckskin pinto colt to keep, so I'll probably get a solid sorrel filly.

If Showy is bred, a buckskin or palomino would be nice, but since she doesn't look bred, I'd take anything healthy.

That's always the way of it isn't it

I'll cross my fingers you get what you've ordered.

 

[chandab]

That's always the way of it isn't it

I'll cross my fingers you get what you've ordered.

Sounds good, maybe if enough cross their fingers for me, I'll get at least one exactly as ordered. But, if not, the green with purple polka dotted, healthy ones are just fine with me.

 

[chandab]

Bonny is still testing towards 7.2 to 7.6, that lovely blue-green color. So, we are waiting, still.

 

[chandab]

New pics of the little boys, taken today, July 4.

Here's Junior (2.5 weeks old):





Here's Monte (1.5 weeks old):





and, Monte getting alittle braver...

 

[AnnaC]

Oh they are looking great Chanda, such handsome little fellas - thanks for the updated pics.

 

[chandab]

Awwwwww.........such handsome babies!!!

Thank you very much.

How are the girls doing?

If you're talking the mares with babies, then Misty is doing fantanstic, and Tana is a little bit stressed, so I've put her on a little ulcer meds just to be safe (yesterday morning, she didn't eat all her food; gave her a handful of U-Gard pellets and then she finished her breakfast, I know it doesn't work that fast, but...). There's a chance its the feed, I just opened new bags of their regular feed and it smells different, not bad, just different (the new batch was really fresh, new stock at the store, whereas, I have no idea how long the previous batch had sat in the store before I bought it).

If you are talking the ladies in waiting, well, nothing new. And, Baybe is out with Che`, unless I missed it, she should be cycling now (first heat after foal heat), but she's telling Che` NO. So, we'll see.

 

[chandab]

Oh they are looking great Chanda, such handsome little fellas - thanks for the updated pics.

thank you. And, they are still being stinkers, but Monte is getting better. Now to work wiht Junior more. I'm mostly trying to watch them, and not handle them excessively, so they can just grow and play with each other, but its so hard.

 

[LittleRibbie]

Chandra, they are darling!!! what a perfect little star on Junior. His tail looks alot lighter than his mane...hes so cute!!

 

[chandab]

Chandra, they are darling!!! what a perfect little star on Junior. His tail looks alot lighter than his mane...hes so cute!!

Thank you. I'd have to look again, but I think it might be the lighting giving the impression that his tail is lots lighter than his mane, but he does have that lighter look along the edges of his tail.

 

[Wings]

Monte has such a great expression on his face in that second pic

 

[chandab]

Monte has such a great expression on his face in that second pic

He's quite the character for one so young.

 

[AnnaC]

Chanda, I love those lighter coloured tails with the darker coloured centre - they look so great/stuning on the adult minis when all washed and fluffed out!

Hows Bonny doing?