Jul

Its been awhile

I know I am slacking. I am so busy and so dang tired my eyes are crossing. I have been dealing with some family stuff and my other horse Maggie is having some pelvis/hip/back issues that I am trying to resolve. So stress yanno, nothing none of you don’t know about

Anywho, Shy and Beebles are doing greaaaaaaaaaat! Shy is getting fatter and is compelety food driven I think she may have 4 empty legs cause this mare can PACK the food away. She gets 22 quartz of grain a day, plus 1-2 bales of hay! We are backing her off some of the grain and supplementing with cool calories and her corn oil. So hopefully we can get her down to a reasonable amount of grain now. She eats a hole in my wallet as well LOL. But what can I say, all these feelings of AHHHHHHHHH there goes 100 another 50 another 100 when I see her and she nickers at me and Beebles is bouncing around. How can I mumble and complain after seeing that???

Shy is trusting of me with the baby now, I can take her and she does not care, as long as their is grass or grain she is set. Beebles on the other hand after a little ways she starts calling for Mom, I think she realizes there is a lot more to the world then she thought only a few weeks ago! Today we let Shy and Beebles in the dry pasture where the girls hang at night, Beebles refused to walk through the gate, its a trap you know. So Shawn walked Shy in and Beebles reluctantly followed. She started climbing the dirt pile with me and meet some other horsies. Shy gets REALLY protective over her when other horses are around. But they walked sniffed ate then exited, honestly I think Shy just wanted to get back to eat grass! Shy had her feet done last Friday, her balance has not improved, but we let her use the wall to brace herself and me holding her and rubbing her she did ok.

Beebles, well what can I saw?? She has mexican jumping beans in her butt! She spends more time zipping around the property and in the air then on all fours. She loves meeting the horses and showing off. She is quite the little girl! She is gonna be hell bent for speed I tell yeah, o and can not forget the scratching she loves. She also had her first hoof trim on Friday, she did really well, she had 1/4 inch taken off her right front, that should set her on the road to a perfect fetlock. Karina told me this is one of the best well behaved babies she has trimmed!! That made me feel good since… well I have never owned a baby. Ground manners and ground work is my niche’ anyways. Karina fell in love with her, of course Beebles showed off for her running, farting and bucking the whole way.

Beebles is now completly halter broke, no more walking on 2 legs and bucking at me. She still likes to rear and kick on the lead line, but after a few she settles down and walks next me, she is still young she is only a little over a month old. She is starting to go through her foal shedding, omg does she look funny, bald then hairy, bald then hairy. To cute though.

Beebles and Shy would like to thank all the visitors that have been out, they really enjoy the attention! Thanks everyone for the support! I am sorry this is so short, my eyes are closing, I am really sleepy so I will post some pictures a video link and let that be it.

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Karina trimming

Look at that tail

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Jul

Even though its raining we got a little ray of sunshine!

Wow, beebles and Shy are doing ok!! I tell yeah my cheeks and belly hurt so much from laughing, who knew watching a baby learn could be so entertaining. I deff, feel for Shy this baby could keep up with the Energizer Bunny and then some!

Shy has not lost any weight!!! Her grain has been bumped to 14 quartz a day (I believe) Jen has done an awesome job with helping me with her feeding, she has more under her belt in rehabbing and feeding post birthing mommas. She is getting her Omelene 200 and Omelene 300. We pulled the hay stretcher and upped her hay, she is getting about 2-3 bales a day and hand feeding on grass. She loves her food and so does the baby! She is still choking but we have not had to intervene, she knows what to do… She is still having her seizures and thats something I think will always be apart of her.

Shy loves getting out for her grass and walk time, she puts her head in the halter now and rushes to the gate, I personally think she waits for this time daily. I can’t wait until next month she and Beebles will have their own pasture!!! When Beebles is old enough we will intouce my other horse in the happy litle herd. Anywho… geesh I need to stay on topic.. I have ADD of writing.. follow at your own risk. Shy has made a HUGE mess out of her Jimmy Ball, she has molassas all over her and she even got it in her frelock which took me FOREVER to untangle and de stick! Se spends spends 90% of her time eating the other 10% drinking, sleeping, and dreaming. She is a eating machine! I do have to say I could have not asked for a better momma! Even though I KNOW that baby tuckers her out!

On to Beebles, holy molly she has fire under her ass all day and all night! She is a fiesty one! She loves to run, buck, fart, rear and stomp. Her new favorite thing is to run into the flock of chickens and once that make noise and scatter she drops into a trot and holds her head high like yeah I am the QUEEN! She cracks me up.

I have been working with her constantly, She wears her halter, even though she would rather stomp on it in the grass, we are getting the lead line and learning someone is attached to the other end. She picks all 4’s up PERFECTLY!! The one thing that I am really trying to get a hold of is her drive bys. She loves to run by you and kick you… and OMG it hurts OMG. And she is so fast, to catch her and discipline her is not as easy as some say. Sometimes its like you don’t even see it coming. I have poor reflexes due to a riding injury to my head, for me to catch her mid air… not gonna happen. I will get it… she is still young. I can’t not believe she almost a month old! Time flys and she has MORE then DOUBLED in size!!! She is growing up wayyyyyyyy to fast.

Lately EVERYTHING must enter thy mouth, from shoes, pants, rocks, dirty, trees, halters, ropes, she loves to try and eat hay, grain and grass and pretty much… anything. She loves lick the salt block. She has gotten so brave, she has no issue leaving mom’s sight and taking off exploring, sometimes getting her back into their paddock is an ordeal. She is VERY independent. The other day she went exploring and decided she was going to taste the fence… and she did and she squealed and ran to momma, Shy bumped her like your fine and off she went bucking and whinnying and just plain old TICKED. What can yeah do? She has to learn sometime!

I have decide I think little one is going to be an eventer or jumper! She loves to jump and loves to run… her breed says it all. I told my friend Karina after showing her some videos and her claiming she is gonna be a pistol… I calmy said yup and your the first on her back… I think she laughed for a good 5 minutes!

So July 10th Karina will be out to do Shy’s hoofies (by the way I cleaned them the other day and her balance is still not there) and to trim babies hoofies and mess with her for a little while. I can’t wait for them to meet her (Kirk and Karina).

This past week has been busy busy busy, with the horses, my work and family life that I have not had time to sit and post. Also there have been plenty of visitors out to see the bundle and give Shy carrots and hugs and tell her they are sorry this happened and that she looks good (that choked me up having kids say that). Anyways, both of them are celeberties in a lot of hearts and the support and emails I am sure give Shy strength!

PS. Thank you Judy, Sully and Cindy F. for your donations Hugs!

So here are TONS of pictures, not 90% of the pictures Beebles rarely had 4 hooves on the ground