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

She loves to be a bronc!

So cute!

I am wanna be stallion!

Kiss my cute little Butt!

yehawwwwwwwwwwwwww

She looks like she has floppy ears

Beeles and friends

mmmmmm leather

whats this? Can I eat it

There she goes again.

Beebles getting her butt scratched, Look how good Shy looks.

Shy doing what she does best and Beebles well doing what she does best

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sooooooo cute.



Thursday, 9. July 2009
sometimes in llife you question yourself if you did the right thing. looking at that mare and that whizz-bang baby, i think you did. taming that little blister will be exciting, i am sure. best wishes to all of you.
Thursday, 6. August 2009
Nice post — this really hits home for me.