It's been too hot to do much with the horses other than mucking and feeding. I did manage to trim Rosalee's front feet the other day, she has some separation between her hoof wall and white line and had gravel packed in there, so I got that dealt with; an hour of dripping sweat pouring into my eyes wasn't much fun.
Today while filling the water trough, I tried spraying Rosalee off when she came up to investigate, turns out she loves it. So then Mesa came up to see what was going on so I discreetly managed to get a bit of spray on her too. She wasn't sure what to make of that!
Then she started to get itchy when it was drying off, must have tickled. It always amazes me how flexible horses are.
She is doing well, comes up to investigate me when I'm in the pen and I finally got her to stop presenting her butt first by refusing to scratch it and going to her shoulder and neck for rubs and skritches instead, and now she approaches me nose first.
Thea is really good with her, Mesa comes up to check her out and Thea just ignores her- which is mostly because she is focused on Rosalee all the time, but it's good that Thea doesn't snap at her like some other dogs I've had.
Beamer isn't quite as flexible as his daughter. No, Beamer, flies don't move when you just look at them!
The horse flies are here now, and Belle just hates them These are the big black ones with the white streak on top.They are nasty! I've killed a couple of them on her as I dodged her efforts to get away from them. She still does not have a full milk bag, so she probably has at minimum a few days to anywhere up to a couple of weeks or more before she foals, so those of you whose guess has passed, feel free to enter again with an updated guess. Go to this post to enter another guess, or just amend it here in the comments if you remember all the info- and new people guessing are welcome!
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Yea, that's pretty warm for your area.
So what will you have to do about determining parentage of Belle's foal?
Ok, um how about July 3rd, buckskin filly, 3am? Winston the dadda.
BEC, because Woodrow is homozygous for dun, we will know if he is the sire once the foal is born. Then Ryan will have to add Belle to Woodrow's last year's stallion report, and I'm sure AQHA will require parentage verification DNA.
Amending my guess! Original was:
Cdncowgirl: Dunskin colt
Woodrow
June 23, 2 AM
Keeping everything the same except changing date to July 1st :)
So cute Mesa and Miss Thea together. Hope you have cooled off, I suppose the warm weather will get here sooner or later. Poor Belle no foal yet :(
Oh, what the heck same everything and the 28th :-D
The weather sure is weird this year...Your Beamer spot on photo commentary made me smile. Such a handsome guy! Mesa is bendy for sure, and cute to boot!
Beamer is stunning!
Im going with all the same stuff too but maybe June 30th.
Mesa is pretty adorable, i love when they do cool bendy things that look so awkward and yet graceful
It's hot here, too. We spent all weekend at Lake Roosevelt to stay cool, returned home today to a huge storm, and now are without power and AC. I hate the heat. I'd rather ride in 40 something than 80 something any day. I'm not a fan of black flies either. I'm hoping we get past this heat and into a cooling trend. I think I'm still in the running for foal watch.
34C??? Oh you poor things! We're just out of a heatwave and it was 26C at its worst, I can't imagine! Mesa is a little gymnast! :)
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