Morning all.
Been staring like mad at the cam but couldn't find Suzie - at last she moved into the top corner, she was hiding.
OK - promise you wont laugh? The little mare that you all seem to like is a mini Sheltland and her registered name is Boltwood JELLYWOBBLE!
Poor girl! We call her Jelly, but just to make it worse, her best friend is Boltwood Paving (paving slab?) who is known as Slab!! I insist on saying PaRving as against Paving when telling folk LOL!! Where do folk get these names from? How unkind can you get? We actually got them both from the closing down sale of the 'old' and very well known Boltwood Stud about 7 years ago and they are both 13 this year, a very sweet pair of little ladies and two favourites of mine!
And, if you promise not to shout at me (or report me to 'others' who will call me an uncaring owner at the very least) I will tell you that the big white mare seen walking at the end is our laminitis case. Petal is a full sized unregistered Shetland, known as Mammoth coz the ground shakes when she moves LOL!! She is on grass with the herd all year round and does have the odd bout of laminitis, but it doesn't seem to be the grass or her weight that causes it? She will sometimes suddenly get 'footy' after worming?? But I do watch her very carefully and she gets stabled at the first sign of anything being wrong - nothing wrong at the moment if you could have seen her 'shaking' the ground during the recent field changeover. LOL!! She is actually a skewbald (pale 'pink' roan and white, but was white when I got her as a 4 yer old - you can only see the markings during the summer months and after a rain shower! But she has given us many strongly coloured foals - unfortuately mostly colts, who have all found brilliant homes due mostly to their useful size and their fabulous temperaments. She had 2 fillies, one early on , which I sold, and one that I kept but sadly lost to colic when it was a three year old, so Petal is the only one of my original girls who has no daughters amongst our herd.
Cassie, I think it must be nearly time for Suzie to come in - the cam has gone very dark and I cant see her anymore!