Beamer's brats

This photos shows Rio's submissive behavior towards Beamer. He comes trotting up, lowers his head and shoulders, and mouths -kinda like clacking his teeth. Sometimes he even pees like a dog does when it's submissive. Beamer accepts it as his just due as herd sire. Then he strolls off and grazes contentedly; all's right in his world.

There's that 12 o'clock dog again; tough to get a photo without Reba in it!

Rio is in another growth spurt, I'm having a hard time putting weight on him even though he has feed in front of him 24/7. I plan on measuring him again this weekend.

In these two photos you can see that the injury on his right front is healing well, no proud flesh and the swelling is mostly gone. Tomorrow I'll put him in the round pen and video his movement, I'm pretty sure he doesn't favor that leg at all but it's good to see it on a video so you can be sure. Nice to see that his heart marking stayed. 

I went to see Janice today, and had a look at Rio's ( and Kai's and Nitro's) full sister, Jazz (Sparkle N Peppy). Janice did a post over on her blog on Jazz, with photos from yearling up to date. She sent me the photos too, and here is one of Jazz, who is now three years old

Ain't she a beauty? I'm hoping Belle will give me another filly next year.
See those greenhouses in the background? That's what Janice does for a living, and I had a nice visit and picked out more plants for my flower gardens, and some tomatoes. Planting tomorrow.... and mowing... and hauling hay... and getting horses feet trimmed.... and feeding horses at my friends place... Sunday evening we're having a backyard bonfire....yep, going to be a good weekend! Have a great long weekend everyone!