Babysitting Some mares are amazing with their foals, some are monsters, and others are indifferent, like Mirror Image was with her first foal, Mandan. Danny for short. I can still clearly remember the mare’s surprise at seeing the little, black colt that suddenly joined her in the
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Hay and Foxtails Back when we were still young and foolish, or possibly simply delusional, hubby and I wholeheartedly believed that we could drive truck, raise a family and make hay as well. On top of that, there were fences to build, a yard to keep and
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Dragons and Lambs Mama horses can be ever so unpredictable. The sweetest, most gentle mare can turn into a fire-breathing dragon, when she foals. It always amazed me how our quietest, most respectful and obedient mares, mares as sweet as lambs, were the ones that wanted to
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Chico Once in a while, we would buy back a horse we’d previously sold. We always appreciated, when owners at least gave us the option to do so. It never happened very often, but when I got the call that Manny, a gelding I had sold was
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The Bigger They Are The bigger horses are, the harder you fall, for them. At least that’s what seems to happen here. There’s something incredibly endearing about Draft horses. They usually have a gentleness about them that’s as big as they are. Tom was that horse. He
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