Well we had an oopsie here and it looks like I will have 3 foals next year.
I shuffled pastures so that the Lightning and his girls could stretch their legs in a bigger pen so I moved the minis into one half of my big pasture, the big horses into the other half and Lightning and his two ladies into the mini pen in front. The two pastures butt up to each other but they can't actually touch. (So they can't breed between fences.)
Well my hussie of a pony mare (40 inch, palomino grade.) came into season and has been hanging around the fence for the last week or so. I kind of had a feeling this could be trouble but it has been deadly hot and I wanted everyone to have the best areas I could with the most shade so I let it be.
We have a cell phone tower on the back part of our land. An area I don't let the horses into. But to get to it, the company repair and delivery people have to come through both the mini paddock and the big pasture. It involves a series of gates that for some reason, this company's people seem to have an extremely hard time understanding. So they open the gate....in runs mare.
Oh well. It makes her happy.
No, I wont lute her. I have room for the new baby (actually hoping for a colt to keep daddy happy) and her last daughter is a superstar. My only regret is that she is my swayback mare. She was ridden by heavy riders young and bred several times before we got her. The vet has said she is sound but I was hoping not to breed her again for obvious reasons. BUT she adores being a mother. She lives for it. It is the one time she is actually a happy mare. It changes her completely. So while it wasn't what I wanted to do, we will let it stand this time and welcome one more baby into our midst next spring. This baby is going to either be palomino or cremello.
Lightning is happy, Aurora is happy. It's all good.
Pics are of Aurora and her daughter, Astra. (the decorated one)
