What a day!
Eileen Morgan
jump course, tacked up Belles, had a lesson. She has gotten FAT FAT FAT.
Man is she an air fern. No more being in the back yard for two hours of
better grass. . . they were getting 6-8 hours on a tapped pasture per
night, half a bale of hay between five horses for the day, and two hours
in the afternoon in my yard. Everyone is slick and shiny and Belles is
hog fat.
Anyhow, our lesson went well--lots of bending lines and roll back turns,
whole course set to 3' and 3'3", including a swedish oxer. She was
super. Carl came out with Spot Check, who was waaay better than two
weeks ago when they tried to do a lesson but still slightly tender
footed--not so much that they could not do a nice lesson, lots of
trotting, some cantering at the end. Then I came out with Moonlight and
we worked the courses a little differently--fewer roll backs, more
bending lines, very few straight lines. Started tiny and built the
fences as we went and she showed us she was not being intimidated. She
really is doing well, moving better, jumping better, more elastic. All good.
Came in, ate early lunch/late breakfast, took a shower, then went out
and harrowed a bit Carl missed in the middle pasture and the entire back
pasture. We have rain forecast, so I decided that I needed to go ahead
and mow the roughs out in the back pasture so that the grass is all the
same height, especially since I harrowed down the roughs. So then I went
out on my little lawn tractor and mowed the pasture (I really need a
mowing deck sooner or later).
Came in, checked the mail and email, then went out and Carl worked the
front end loader while I drove the manure spreader and lawn tractor and
manure spread the center portion of the back pasture where the ground
and grass is the most poor.
So . . . isn't it nice I'm on break and can finally relax??
Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest
http://www.themaresnest.com
Jill
>
> So . . . isn't it nice I'm on break and can finally relax??
>
How is the wee missy getting on?
And what are you doing with Dancer these days?
[just being completely nosy <g>]
--
regards
Jill Bowis
Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk
Eileen Morgan
> Eileen Morgan wrote:
>>
>> So . . . isn't it nice I'm on break and can finally relax??
>>
>
> How is the wee missy getting on?
She looks fine when I stop out--I've not seen a training session yet.
She is SUCH a mama's baby I want the trainer to be able to establish
some rapport and such without her trying to suck up to me during the
session. She seems to be settling in nicely, though.
> And what are you doing with Dancer these days?
Light work under saddle in all my spare time, plan to call the vet once
I set up my riding lessons for next week to do a palp and see where she
is in her cycle, pull a culture.
> [just being completely nosy <g>]
Happy to oblige!
JJ
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> Jill wrote:
>> Eileen Morgan wrote:
>>>
>>> So . . . isn't it nice I'm on break and can finally relax??
Yes it is! Glad to hear it.
>>>
>>
>> How is the wee missy getting on?
Jill read my mind...I was wondering too.
> She looks fine when I stop out--I've not seen a training session yet. She
> is SUCH a mama's baby I want the trainer to be able to establish some
> rapport and such without her trying to suck up to me during the session.
> She seems to be settling in nicely, though.
Great! I do have to stop by some day...
>> And what are you doing with Dancer these days?
>
> Light work under saddle in all my spare time, plan to call the vet once I
> set up my riding lessons for next week to do a palp and see where she is
> in her cycle, pull a culture.
Good luck with that. Are you wanting to breed her *this* year?
JJ
Eileen Morgan
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks for a late April, early to middle
May foal in '09. Of course, that is what I was shooting for all three
prior foals I've had and Bard came May 3rd, Belles a month early on June
9th, and Rain July 5th. I would rather too late in the season than too
early, but you never know with these mares. Callie, Bard's mom, was a
catch on the first breeding, carry uneventfully drop foal easily. Then
the second breeding first she didn't settle the first year, then the
second year she got stuck in transition heat and didn't ovulate forever.
She finally ovulated, caught on the first breeding for a June foal, and
then in the fall she aborted the pregnancy. I picked up an open
broodmare, but then two weeks later the breeder called to let me know a
cute little mare with two prior foals by Rambler was up for sale dirt
cheap--I remembered the mare and her babies, one a three year old and
one a yearling, from prior visits to the stud farm. I made an offer of
half what was being asked, which was accepted (and it was less than the
cost of feeding and breeding the mare I had in hand). I ended up giving
the broodmare to the stud owner and thus Belles joined me.
And of course the Moonlight and Rain story is the stuff of legend--kept
getting pregnant and kicking out the pregnancy in favor of a new
follicle, finally came home bred and did it again, did one last AI with
Regumate planned, the semen got stolen in transit, and the big drive to
the stud farm to get the boyz myself. <rolls eyes> What a hoot. Must be
one of the few times the mare owner saw the collection in one state and
the insemination in another, three states away.
JJ
>
> Hopefully in the next couple of weeks for a late April, early to middle
> May foal in '09. Of course, that is what I was shooting for all three
> prior foals I've had and Bard came May 3rd, Belles a month early on June
> 9th, and Rain July 5th. I would rather too late in the season than too
> early, but you never know with these mares. Callie, Bard's mom, was a
> catch on the first breeding, carry uneventfully drop foal easily. Then the
> second breeding first she didn't settle the first year, then the second
> year she got stuck in transition heat and didn't ovulate forever. She
> finally ovulated, caught on the first breeding for a June foal, and then
> in the fall she aborted the pregnancy. I picked up an open broodmare, but
> then two weeks later the breeder called to let me know a cute little mare
> with two prior foals by Rambler was up for sale dirt cheap--I remembered
> the mare and her babies, one a three year old and one a yearling, from
> prior visits to the stud farm. I made an offer of half what was being
> asked, which was accepted (and it was less than the cost of feeding and
> breeding the mare I had in hand). I ended up giving the broodmare to the
> stud owner and thus Belles joined me.
>
> And of course the Moonlight and Rain story is the stuff of legend--kept
> getting pregnant and kicking out the pregnancy in favor of a new follicle,
> finally came home bred and did it again, did one last AI with Regumate
> planned, the semen got stolen in transit, and the big drive to the stud
> farm to get the boyz myself. <rolls eyes> What a hoot. Must be one of the
> few times the mare owner saw the collection in one state and the
> insemination in another, three states away.
Well, let's HOPE this time goes w-a-y smoother than Moonlight's! <fingers
crossed> I forget, do you have a stud selected already? JJ
Eileen Morgan
> Well, let's HOPE this time goes w-a-y smoother than Moonlight's! <fingers
> crossed> I forget, do you have a stud selected already? JJ
Thanks. I've stacked the deck as best I can--she's a third time
broodmare this season, no troubles so far.
Huntingfield Proud Tim: http://www.dandelionfarm.com/
He's the chestnut stallion, not the grey, and also has his own page plus
lots of his get on there.
Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest
law
> JJ wrote:
>> Well, let's HOPE this time goes w-a-y smoother than Moonlight's!
>> <fingers crossed> I forget, do you have a stud selected already? JJ
>
> Thanks. I've stacked the deck as best I can--she's a third time
> broodmare this season, no troubles so far.
>
> Huntingfield Proud Tim: http://www.dandelionfarm.com/
> He's the chestnut stallion, not the grey, and also has his own page plus
> lots of his get on there.
>
Wow .. from the "get" photos, he puts out a consistent look that sure is
purty!
LisaW
--
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves
amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through
all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the
traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his
victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the
baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a
nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no
longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
------------- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Eileen Morgan
> Eileen Morgan wrote:
>> JJ wrote:
>>> Well, let's HOPE this time goes w-a-y smoother than Moonlight's!
>>> <fingers crossed> I forget, do you have a stud selected already? JJ
>>
>> Thanks. I've stacked the deck as best I can--she's a third time
>> broodmare this season, no troubles so far.
>>
>> Huntingfield Proud Tim: http://www.dandelionfarm.com/
>> He's the chestnut stallion, not the grey, and also has his own page
>> plus lots of his get on there.
> Wow .. from the "get" photos, he puts out a consistent look that sure is
> purty!
I like him--and he is a lovely riding horse, as well. Came to the USA as
an unbroke breeding stallion, 9 yrs old. Within two years he was
eventing Training level and doing show jumpers. Not that many older
unbroke stallions can become a horse that a non-pro rider can compete.