Amera

This last Sunday, Amera went to her new home in South Dakota.  She is by Cinco and out of a customer’s mare with all-around type breeding.  Amera was a very friendly filly and I hope she will do well for her new family.

Badger

A few weeks ago, we also got a new mare.  She was actually purchased back in March, but we had trouble getting a hauler to bring her up to Minnesota from Alabama.  Her name is Badger, and she is by the same sire as our stud Cinco.  Badger is for sale but hasn’t found a new home yet.  She is very shy of people, but gets along great with the other mares.

Other updates in the horse program: Hailey and Heidi are in Wisconsin getting bred to two pretty palomino studs.  Sassy left today for our friends farm to get bred to a stud in Texas.  Minor and Hugs will be staying in the family, congrats to the Brekke’s!  Misty gave some rides to the neighbor girls last Saturday and they plan to come back for more rides this summer.  The breeding season is winding down, and I’m crossing my fingers we get some nice healthy colts born next spring!

I skipped over a few of the foals, so here they are!  Above is Sport.  He is out of Okie and by Parker.

This pretty girl above is Vixen.  She is out of Dancer and by Cinco.  She has two older full sisters, both with taller socks than this girl, but this one has the sweetest face of them all.

This boy is out of Patsy, the strawberry roan mare, and by Parker.  Both he and the colt at the top of this post are sold, with their dams, going to the same home in South Dakota.  They’ll be leaving the end of the month.

So that’s all the foals for 2009, six total.  We had one that we had to euthanize, due to severely contracted tendons, it couldn’t stand to nurse and we had to make a heartbreaking decision to spare it any further struggle.

After all the sale horses are gone, we’ll have five mares in foal for next year.  One of those foals is already sold and three of then will be true Halter type foals.  I’m very excited for next foaling season!

Our last foal was born a couple days ago.  She is a beautiful black and white filly out of Sassy, by our young cutting stud Parker.

It seems strange when you lose someone who is such a big part of your life, that the world doesn’t stop.  Everything continues on and you feel so distant from it all.  I am still grieving, but I don’t want to focus on that here.  I am going to try and focus on the same things I have always shared here, what is happening around the farm.

I am thrilled with this new filly.  She is the type of filly I’ve been hoping to get from this mare all the years I’ve owned her.  I took Sassy off the For Sale list and decided to keep her for now.  She’ll be bred later this month to the stud in Texas that I bred Hailey to last year, Barlnk Macho Too.  Unfortunately, we lost Hailey’s foal this year, and she was already booked to a different stud, so I had a rebreed to use, and Sassy is the lucky girl who’s going to use it for me.

It looks like this filly will probably be classified as a black tobiano, though she may carry the overo gene.  I don’t think she carries the dun gene or she would have been a lighter color.  When she sheds off her foal coat we’ll know for sure.  She is for sale (I can’t keep them all!), but isn’t cheap and we have one customer already trying to make a deal on her.  We’ll see what happens.

Now When the Number of My Years

by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Now when the number of my years

is all fulfilled, and I

From sedentary life

Shall rouse me up to die,

Bury me low and let me lie

Under the wide and starry sky.

Joying to live, I joyed to die,

Bury me low and let me lie.

 

Clear was my soul, my deeds were free,

Honour was called my name,

I fell not back from fear

Nor followed after fame.

Bury me low and let me lie

Under the wide and starry sky.

Joying to live, I joyed to die,

Bury me low and let me lie.

 

Bury me low in valleys green

And where the milder breeze

Blows fresh along the stream,

Sings roundly in the trees -

Bury me low and let me lie

Under the wide and starry sky.

Joying to live, I joyed to die,

Bury me low and let me lie.