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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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 Trouble with Tyler It was my strict policy, or somewhat strict policy, to not keep geldings. Geldings don’t make sense on a breeding farm. They take up pasture space that a productive mare or stallion, could be using. That corral, that pasture, the time spent, could
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The Only One Horses come in all sizes, shapes and yes, personalities. There are some who believe that only humans can have personalities, but I find that idea both ludicrous and narrow. All the animals I have known throughout my life have shown me otherwise. My first
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The Stud that wasn’t For all my big hopes and plans for Paprika, sometimes plans need to be revised or entirely scrapped. When we’d first seen him, we had learned that he had gotten loose and bred a mare. Of course when hubby purchased Paprika for me,
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