After picking up our small mare, Stuffy, coming home from a lease out of state, I put her in with our stallion, "Iggy" in February. Was a little disappointed when I watched her then stand again for him the end of March AND the end of April. Then I think she may have been jealous - as after he covered a new mare in October - she stood for him again, so I thought we might be done with foals from this pair. Well, studying her now - she's really looking pregnant and I may have seen the foal move. She's not bagging up yet, but could be due as early as the end of January if she conceived on the first breeding cycle. Her first two foals from this cross are ASPC Foundation ponies and look to stay small enough to go AMHR, so I'm looking forward to her 3rd from this. Stuffy hasn't been shown ASPC/AMHR - but has done many local and 4H shows with children as young as 3 yrs old - in showmanship, halter, leadline, w/t, w/t/c - huntseat and western, has gone swimming in the Cape Fear river while trail riding, many parades. She's not a highly trained harness pony but has done a lot of driving - down the trails w/ both experienced drivers and beginners safely. In an 8 yr period of off farm leases, she "taught" more than 30 children to ride both western and huntseat while living with 4 other families besides our own and we are excited to have our youngest granddaughter start sitting on her now ...
I turned Iggy out with the next three mares from the middle of April thru the middle of May. I'm sure the one mare is in foal. This will be Koalah's 3rd foal frm this cross for us. The 2nd mare - hmm - not so sure that Bell is back in foal during this time period BUT when her filly was weaned, I removed her from the barn pasture and turned her out with him again and she stood for him off and on for a week in October (UGH, a September foal...). But that's ok since this mare will be 21 yrs old next year. I'd rather have a good quality, later in the summer foal than no foal at all. The 3rd mare was in heat - we did one hand breeding cover before they were turned out together. I wasn't sure that she'd caught - now?? Her shape has changed somewhat and we shall see. If she is - this will be her first foal since 2008 - she absorbed a foal in Dec of 2011 according to u/s..
Koalah - driving at a draft horse event (as a pair with Bit) with her 2012 filly (same cross) at her side.
Bell (92 mare) - with her 2012 filly (same cross). And then Bit (91 mare) - Bell's full sister. If she's in foal this will be our first foal from Bit since we purchased her.
"Iggy" or All That Style N Class (Raven of Bird Haven x All That Sparkle N Flash) is in my avatar or can be seen here -
Iggy
Then we have our last foal coming from our larger ASPC stallion - "AJ". We had only 1 cover before the mare went out of heat and then I was going to turn her in with him when he fell while running in the rain in the pasture and 2 months later was euthanized when work on him didn't fix his injuries this summer. He was 20.
AJ (WF Action Jacson - 1992 stallion)
and Tory (Cherry Hill Olympic Victory - 2005 mare)
We are pretty excited by our expected foal crop this year.
