Marlanoc Round Four!

[cassie]

have an awesome weekend with your special boy! can't wait for the pics of him!

how are your girls looking?

who is due first again?

I just saw a foal being born on marestare and I have to say I'm so glad I have good sized stables or paddocks that the mares can foal out in... the poor mare was in a tiny stable and after she foaled and got up she was soooo skinny!!

I had to turn the camera off it was making me sick how skinny this mare was

it wasn't any of our LB girls but so sad. she has a gorgeous little filly who seems fine but I'm sure hoping that the owners are going to start feeding the mare some more!

so sad

sorry I had to have my winge and I knew I'd get in trouble if I put it on marestare

 

[Wings]

I know what you mean about needing a whinge. I had to stop marestare-ing because I kept wanting to yell at people, the thing I saw the most was the mare going into labour and then half the family and their dog piled into the regular sized (not foaling size) stable to clean up any shred of poop, add straw, set out the kit, etc. Most of the time the mare is giving really obvious "go away!" signs but no one seems to notice.

That said I have seen quite a few good births and some very well managed mares on there so I was very appreciative that their owners chose to share that with us, I just wish some of the others would follow that example!

The girls are looking fantastic! Rivain or Twinky will go first after the 20th of September. Both are looking nicely round and I can feel movement in Twinkles which is getting a bit exciting.

Ashanti and Belle are due next. Ashanti has a baby shape beginning to show so I'm feeling hopeful. The Bellephant I'm still on the fence about but leaning towards in foal. I saw a really good breeding between Tinker and Belle so I'd be looking for something after October 17th.

Kalari is last up but she's not expecting before December so I'm not to surprised that she isn't looking as shapely as the others.

Anyway my weekend was great but I won't put up any pics right now because I just spent a good portion of an hour fighting with the site to upload a few... seems it's in a bad mood! I'm just lucky I copy what I'm about to post because otherwise I would have had to write everything all over again! So I'll try again later

 

[cassie]

I agree completely with you! some owners are amazing! and others like the one I watched the other day, I felt so sorry for the poor mare. but then I don't know the circumstances so I'll just leave it at that lol.

soooooo exciting!! yay for movement from Twinkles!

 

[cassie]

ok I know I wasn't going to winge anymore about the marestare thing... I just saw a foal being born and the guy who was helping deliver the foal would push "Becky" whenever she would sit up and kept making her lie down!

so horrible to see! she had only just started foaling and seemed to be doing fine buthe kept forcing her down

so sad. they had a little filly and she looks really cute maybe a buckskin but they gave her no chance to do anything herself poor thing.

ok rant over. lol sorry girls.

 

[Wings]

Rant away!!! You know how I feel about a good rant... its like a fart.... better out then in

 

[AnnaC]

You need to stop watching MS Cassie - must admit that I never do. I even have to switch some of the foaling vids off on here or I would end up screaming at the screen!!

Sounds that you are going to be busy again later in the year Bree - cant wait and good luck!

 

[Wings]

I'll need that luck, especially when Ashanti gets close!

Magni:





Mares:





The mare buried in my arms is a half sister of Magni's. I'm a bit smitten

Magni day 2:

 

[countrymini]

They are lovely!

 

[AnnaC]

You obviously had a 'good' visit Bree - everyone seemed very welcoming!! He is really such a sweet looking little boy and if he has a temperament anything like those mares, you are going to have a great new friend in the future.

 

DITTO to all Anna has said. Wonderful pictures, too!!

 

[Eagle]

He has the sweetest eye on him

I can see why you are in love.

Cassie I know how you feel, it is why I have stopped watching.

 

[Wings]

Thanks guys

He has a heart of gold on him! And I'm addicted to his canter... which is funny because the canter is my "scary gait" normally! I think it's because being 5 gaited and built to get the tolt AND pace which sacrifices the canter a bit. Instead of a big rolling canter he has a flatter "zoomier" canter which I actually like. I love grabbing a fistful of mane and letting him go!

The tolt is even more amazing, seriously if anyone gets the opportunity to try out a gaited horse go for it. You can't really describe it!

 

[cassie]

what a great weekend you had bree! they look amazing! what snuggle bugs!

 

[Wings]

They are the worlds biggest snuggle bugs! I think they're even worse then the minis

:rofl

I've got some older pics of Magni, just got to see if the old owner is happy for me to share them. If she is do I even need to ask if you're interested in seeing them?

 

You know better than to ask that question!!! LOL

 

[AnnaC]

Indeed you do - or you should. LOL!!

 

[countrymini]

Maybe you should, I mean we don't really like seeing his pics its just we feel we have to write nice comments to be polite.

 

[Wings]

:rofl

 

Maybe you should, I mean we don't really like seeing his pics its just we feel we have to write nice comments to be polite.

Good one!!!

 

[paintponylvr]

haha oh yeah man totally on the stuff day n night ya know?

can't stand smoking of any sort so no way I could do any of that grass lol thought it was a bit of fun though!

I agree with you Bree, if we get a good summer we can have lovely grass like we have at the moment bad summer though can be really really hard. we have just had some more rain today and on the weekend (perfect timing) so that should boost the cattle pricing (fingers crossed) and we are going to really downsize our herds so we can maintain our paddocks better

have fun on the weekend Bree! I'm sure you will come back with lots of fun stories to share with us.

how big are your "paddocks"?