Friday, October 29, 2010

Cool pic of Roxy and her curly colt!


Today I wormed all our horses except the foals and newly pregnant moms! It is getting cold-- so this is the last chance until spring! (Wormers are effective between 40- 80 degrees-- the worms go dormant when the temperature is out of that range) I wormed 12 horses by myself, as my hubby is off scouting elk for his hunting trip. All my horses were so cooperative, except one new mare I purchased. She was hard to catch! I had to laugh--- as I was playing the catch game for about 1/2 hour-- my "Taboo", alias "Boo" mare was following me like a shadow. I had already wormed her and I guess she really liked the stuff!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Curls and LEGS! 2010 Curly stud colt out of "Dallas"


"ZGC Dallas" 2010



"Dallas" is four this year! His first foal crop is here and he is 100% CURLS! GOOD BOY!

"Gandy" x "Dallas" curly filly born July 6th






"Dallas" has done it again! A gorgeous bay based grey filly! She is tall and elegant with a pretty head and big soft eye! PRETTY GIRL!

Sisters



My sister Sherrie teaches school-- ( You know the 3 good reasons for being a schoolteacher? JUNE, JULY, AUGUST!) So we head for the hills to ride! Our favorite trails are up Payson Canyon, good trails that loop and are SOOO pretty! It had rained a few days before we went on our ride... about an hour up the trail, our horses were nervous and kept looking toward a marshy area.... when we came across this tree, we knew why! MOTHER BEAR!

SuMMeR FuN 2010






Aren't grandkids FUN!

"Tasha" x "Dallas" curly filly born Sept. 15th




So "Dallas" is 5 for 5-- 100% CURLS for his first foal crop! Check out the paint job on this girl! Because "Tasha" is also a curly, this filly could be homozygous for curls! We will watch her coat for the micro-curls! What a great summer!

"Sassy" x "Vegas" colt born.


DANG! Another straight haired colt out of "Sassy" x "Vegas". He was born Sept. 15th and is a chestnut with a big blaze! He will make an awesome gelding! (Photo is of his full brother 2002)

"Roxy" x "Dallas" foal born!






So.... I was HOME ALONE for the week--- In the morning, when I checked my mares, "Roxy" was in labor! Sure enough, that night, August 24th, 10:15 p.m., her foal was born! So by myself, (I usually do this by myself anyways!) I dried it off, treated the navel, gave it a vitamin shot, pro-biotics, and made sure it nursed. I was so excited---- another curly!! ("Dallas" is 100% curls so far) AND a bay FILLY! Was hoping it would be a amber champagne like her mom, but HEY! I will take curls any day!
I made sure mom was okay, checked the placenta, buried it, then went to bed-- about 1:30 a.m. I got up at 3:30 a.m. (I wake up every night at that time with a major HOT FLASH!! :< anyways! )
So the next day was hot and the little girl was acting plugged up. So I gave her an enema-- weird for a filly-- usually colts have to be helped--AND treated the navel-- AND again did this by myself.
So day three I went out to check my gorgeous curly filly and I am like-- YIKES! Her navel was swollen or herniated big time! A closer look revealed that indeed the curly filly was a curly HORSE COLT! I really do need to wear my glasses at all times! WARM FUZZIES TO YOU!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Stardust's curly smokey filly is two weeks old!




Just like her mom, Stardust, this little girl has energy! I had turned her and her mom out in the pasture for an hour, then would put them up. The second day, I led Stardust into her pen, hoping the little filly would follow like she had done the first day. She stopped outside the gate and would not come in! When I came out to shoo her into the pen with her mom, she used that as an excuse to take off! After a fling around the pasture, she came back outside the gate, and stood there. I picked up a rubber feed bucket and threw it behind her! Startled , she jumped forward through the gate! Captured!
The next day-- same thing. When her grazing time was up, she refused to come through the gate-- rubber bucket-- pop into the pen!
Day three-- she had it figured out! Instead of jumping forward when the rubber feed bucket plopped behind her, she darted to the side and ran a victory lap around the pasture, tail flying high! She won! I have left the two in the pasture permanently!

Monday, June 14, 2010

"Princess" x "Gypsy's Yellow Major L." horse colt-- 1day




June 12, 2010 was a very GOOD HORSE DAY!






So this weekend it was stormy-- cold and rainy all day long! My significant other, Morlin, is out of town, helping Kara and Chad move:> So Sat. night about 10 p.m. I went out to put my 2 mares with babies inboard in clean corrals. "Princess" is due in 1 week, and "Stardust" in 2 weeks-- her first foal and MO Foxtrotters' first foal sired by our stallion "Dallas". ---I'm like yeah with my luck we'll have foals tonight! It was dark, so I opened "Stardust's" gate and I am like-- wow she is peeing alot---- then it is like--YIKES! It was her water breaking and the foal was coming! So I calmly (Yeah) lead her into the clean corral next to her and then ran to get some grass hay to throw down in the pen.
On my way up to the barn I grabbed "Princess" who I knew was going to foal that night, and put her in a stall under the barn. I run down the hill, throw the grass down for Stardust (and YES! she plopped down on the pile of clean, dry grass,) then run to the house to get towels, navel dip and vitamin shots. On my way down the hill, as I pass the barn ( by the way---Stardust is major claustrophobic, that is why she is out in a pasture, I REALLY DO LOVE this mare!) I hear gruntings coming from "Princess's" stall. I run up to look-- she is in labor! Since she has had foals before, I leave her to herself!
By now "Stardust" has delivered! I let mom and foal have some time, then dry the baby off. This is MO Foxtrotters first foal out of our stallion "ZGC Dallas". Because it is so dark and the foal is wet, I have no idea what it is or looks like. After drying the foal off I can see--YES! IT IS CURLY! Gorgeous rings of curls circling a perfect star on the foals forehead!
Then I race up the hill-- "Princess" has delivered. I help dry the foal with a big head off. Then I run back down the hill, and treat the navel and give a vitamin shot to our new CURLY FILLY! Then it is back up the hill, and I treat the navel of the horse COLT and give him a vitamin shot. I decide he is BIG all over!
As I watch "Stardust"'s mom instincts kick in-- she is awesome!- I hear the stall walls being bashed. I run up the hill to check it out. The BIG colt is having as hard time standing on the mats with the slippery grass hay . By now Morlin is home and he helps me carry the colt out of the stall. The colt has contracted tendons on his front fetlocks, making it hard to stand. He finally stands and trys to nurse. He keeps falling over. I run down the hill and check on the new curly filly. She is standing and nursing. She looks like she is a smokey black! How did I get that out of a buckskin mare and a chestnut stud? WOW!
I check the colt again, he is laying down. By now it is midnight, I try to go to sleep, but I kept checking the BIG colt -- he finally nursed well and his legs were getting better. By morning his fetlocks were going the right direction. He is the DITTO image of his mom, a sooty buckskin with 4 white socks. One pretty colt! And YEAH! I am keeping the curly filly! GOOD NITE!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

"Gypsy" delivered--- A curly horse colt sired by "Vegas"



Today, May 26th, 2010, is a GOOD HORSE DAY! "Gypsy" gave us a sorrel CURLY colt! His sire is "DCC Vegas"! He is super friendly and long legged! Hopefully he will be as big as his mom-- 16.2 hands!

Tuesday, April 6, 2010


"Dallas's" first foal arrived! It is a curly tri-colored paint filly out of a straight haired paint mare! GREAT JOB, "Dallas"! The mare and filly are owned by one lucky lady in Oklahoma!

Monday, March 22, 2010





I can't wait 'til spring! Today (March 22nd) I saw a new foal! <: CUTE! So now I am getting excited for our arrivals--- I have awhile to wait, June 5th to be exact! Our first arrival should be "Gypsy's". Hopefully she is a curly! "Gypsy" is bred to "DCC Vegas". Then "Princess" is due the week of June 19th. "Princess" is bred to a 16.1 hand palomino stud -"Gypsy's Yellow major L.", alias "Texas"- that is out of "Gypsy". "Princess", a sooty buckskin, has given us buckskins when bred to palomino. FUN!

MO Foxtrotter mares bred to "Dallas" 2009


OKAY! I am so excited to see what "Dallas" produces. This is better than Christmas. The mares that are bred to "Dallas" are: "Gandy", a buckskin based grey-- due July 21, 2010, "Stardust" , a so gaited sweet buckskin, due June 29, 2010, "Tasha', a black and white curly paint, due: Sept. 30, 2010, and "Roxy" a gorgeous amber champagne, due Sept. 19, 2010. See photo of the mares!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

MO Foxtrotter fillies 2009






MO foxtrotters welcomed four new arrivals this spring! The first was a curly tri-colored filly out of "Tasha", our curly fox trotter mare. The second was a sorrel filly our of "Sassy". The third was a amber champagne paint filly our of "Roxy", and the fourth a sorrel filly out of "Gypsy".