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Pony Boy Learns A Hard Lesson

Pony Boy Learns A Hard Lesson

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* It was a hard beginning lesson…..but a necessary one….. My older daughter was getting tired of being run through….. …..or getting run over….. We were all tired of Finley’s free-wheeling attitude…..and hooves….. …..and now he’s started biting….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What A Pleasant Pony!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ …..and let’s not forget his laser-accurate/double-barreled kicks….. …..Great!….. …..We decided…..it was time….. *************************”The Tying-Off Lesson”************************* Finley needs to grow up and be a gentleman….. He needs to learn…

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***The Boy Is Growing***

***The Boy Is Growing***

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*****Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel***** Finley is growing……he’s three months old….. He’s at the stage of gumming his mother’s grown-up food….. …..trying to actually eat it….. …..dropping most of it…..in slobbery glumps….. I wanted to add a couple pictures showing just how much he’s grown….. He still nurses from Claire….. …..but he’s trying to eat their hay and grain more and more….. I need to open his mouth and check his baby teeth….. …..I’m…

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Claire Is A Great Mom

Claire Is A Great Mom

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Claire likes babies….. She is attentive…..engaging…..TOLERANT…..directive….. …..and protective….. I don’t know what her background was before we found each other….. …..I don’t think it was a very positive one….. …..she was certainly neglected….. But she seems to know that she has found a safe place….. …..somewhere where she’ll be okay….. …..(I still think it’s odd that she and Chantilly were both missing the same front tooth)….. …..(and that Claire can’t efficiently “scoop” with her lips when she’s eating)…..(food is always…

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~~~Claire And Her Colt~~~

~~~Claire And Her Colt~~~

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Bright and early the next morning…..(or was it just a continuation of the dawn’s twilight from the extended night we just went through?)….. …..Doctor Stevie Wonder arrived….. Patrice (See Glossary) was hauled up over my pajamas…..and we staggered out to the barn again….. …..it’s important to have a foal and mare checked as early as possible after any delivery….. There are some very important tests that need to be done….. …..the afterbirth needs to be evaluated by the veterinarian…… …..and…

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*****…..’Sup…..Claire?*****

*****…..’Sup…..Claire?*****

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As predictions go….. …..was it Tuesday…..?….. …..or…..was it……Thursday…..?….. Yep…..?….. Nope….. I can’t resist putting in more udder photos here….. …..you know I can’t….. …..Claire’s not talking….. …..Brave’s a good-time-Charlie….. So all I have is my overly-compulsive use of my (apparently now derelict) little camera….. …..(I can’t keep up with technology…..you blink…..and you’re immediately out-of-date)….. …..(that’s another story/for another day)….. …..but in the meantime….. I’ll continue to chase Claire around with my reliable/obsolete camera….. …..and take photos of her udder…..to compare…

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***Only Thirty-Eight Hours***

***Only Thirty-Eight Hours***

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*****And Again…This Is A Farm Post…There Are Graphic Photos Involved***** Addy’s filly did not make it… She was beautiful… She looked perfect… She had other places to be……. …..on a farm quite often…..I just feel like hired help… …..all I can do is put in the grunt-work, be genuinely involved, but I have no power… *****and then the real Powers-that-Be have their own design***** Addy’s baby died between feedings last night… My older daughter and I were feeding her every…

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………………..Dammit, Addy…………………

………………..Dammit, Addy…………………

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I “had” hoped that Addy’s baby would come on June’s full “Strawberry” moon… …..often a full moon can trigger these things… …..but, Nooooooooooooooo….. …..other things DID happen… *****Sooooooooooooooo***** …..Addy decided to colic……. …..sigh….. …..she went off her feed…..she went off her hay…..she stopped pooping….. AAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! (Time out for banging my head against the wall!) …..there was some good news……. …..and there was bad news……. The bad news…….was (obviously) that Addy colicked……. …..that’s super bad, especially for an end-stage pregnant mare……….

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Canoodling In The Country

Canoodling In The Country

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Dr. Stevie Wonder made a visit yesterday… He gave us vaccinations for Addy, so that she’ll be well-boostered for her up-coming foaling… We gave the big girl her annual botulism vaccination along with another Pneumabort-K (the name kind of explains the shot)… …………………………………AND…………………………………. Dr. Wonder ultrasounded Claire to see if her co-mingling with Brave has left her in a family-way……. …..and it has!!!!!!! …..Tra!  La!….. Claire has a bun in the oven! Brave………………………..you dog! Claire is about fifty days pregnant……….

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Addy Is In A Family Way

Addy Is In A Family Way

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Just when you think you are large and in charge… …..you realize you are really just clueless and bringing up the rear……. …………………sooooooooo, Dr. (Reverend)-(and yes, he reminded me that he has some sort-of-duly-ordained-computer-reverend-registry) Stevie Wonder finally found his way back home from Antartica to Florida… And…….Dr. Wonder recently came out to our farm to “ready” the mares for breeding this spring……. …….by “ready” I mean…….they needed to have their uteruses flushed… …….(you know this is a farm blog…….so, don’t…

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