Busy couple of months!

Well it has been busy here on the farm. I got called away on a business trip, no I did not bring back any horses! I actually missed 5 out of my 6 expecting mares foalings! Normally I miss only one or two on trips into town for supplies. They do wait for you to leave after all! I did get to be with Aware when she foaled this lovely filly.
Here is the line up of this years foals. Now I have to figure out names for them!
In order, as near as the staff notes indicate, by birth.
First on the ground was a gorgeous TB filly.

 The above filly is a Bay Tobiano with possible Splash markers. She is a granddaughter of Ivory Gold Coast and is 100% foreign bred lined. I wish her temperament was a little better, but she is a good bit sweeter then her momma!

The next foal to slip out into the world a couple of days later was this stunning Fjord Filly.

She is our most extreme expression of pangare that we have had born on the farm. The rabicano is just icing, if only she had inherited her sire's dun. I am very pleased with her temperament and hope she develops into a nice mare.

The third foal is a blue eyed Standardbred colt. He was born the same day as the Fjord filly. My hands didn't mark down am or pm on the chart and of course they don't remember, I feel lucky when they mark down a time at all!

His blue eye is Splash coming through from his maternal great-granddam (mother of his mother's mother), who had a high white hind stocking and a cornet ring. He is on the low side of our aspirations for the Standies, but he will be trained up and given a little time.

The next foal was a linebreeding experiment. Her sire is her dam's grandsire. The result a striking grey Welsh Cob filly.

Her temperament leaves something to be desired as I am hoping to start moving up in that area, but Dew's get are doing well in both Draft and Dressage so I have some lofty dreams for this girl!

The next foal, our second colt of the season, is probably the most anticipated foal of the season. Our Irish Cob colt out of our Dikanodi lined mare by Three Sisters' stallion Pride Of Caerul is not exactly what was on our wish list, but is no less stunning in every way.

Ivory Amber Silver with a Cornet Ring on his left hind with a sweet disposition. He's got the look to add to our Champagne hitch that is slowly building up.

I returned home to find I had missed all of the above babies being born and miss Aware uncomfortable and huge. I knew she would only hold on for a couple of days tops, and I was right. One good nights sleep was all I got because the next night she was in labor for hours, poor girl. It was like she was giving me the dramatization of the mares I had missed foaling. In the end when her, grey, filly slid out into the world I was overjoyed that I had been able to attend one of the foalings this year. Here she is the last foal of the season, Somali Filly

I am currently plotting out breedings for next years foals, far less as I am only AI'ing this year.