It was an absolutely gorgeous evening on Wednesday when we went to check on our mare herd.
The mares have split into two bunches. We knew we’d find some babies eventually. As you can see from the above photos there were no babies to be seen with this bunch! There were however some really fat, and very uncomfortable looking mamas!
What we didn’t know, while on this little outing, was that we’d manage to catch a mare in the act of having a foal! Of course, it wasn’t just any mare- it was one of Kelsey’s girls! We caught her right as her water broke! More on that later, though. You’ll have to wait, ahem, because there are very nearly 300+ photos of the event! I need to sort through them all! It was the first equine birth for Zach, and his kids, Ty and Kelsey to witness! It’s just such an amazing thing!
But in the meantime, here are some photos of the other babies we have on the ground…
Grade mare with a red dun foal by WDX Nukem.
A red dun filly by WDX Nukem out of DX Mystic Chic. This is a first foal for this mare.
Here’s another red dun filly. Her mama is a palomino mare named Raffia Sioux, and this filly’s daddy is WDX Nukem. For those of you that are interested, I believe I’ll do a post on horse colors in the coming weeks. So stay tuned!
This mare always has big babies- so big in fact that they look “over” at the knee for a few weeks. Her filly was very friendly. She came up and smelled me and let me rub her velvety, soft nose.
I will do my very best to get the photos and the story up of the birth we were fortunate enough to witness. I must say it was probably Divine Intervention on so many levels.
In the meantime, everyone have a happy Friday. I know we will!
XO
Well there you went and did it to me again South Dakota Cowgirl! You made me gasp and yearn over your gorgeous landscape and horses. Just precious and beautiful and awesome…and so many other adjectives!! Love, love, love your photos!
Thank you for sharing …. it brought tears to my eyes.
Thank you for sharing your eyes, too;)
Love, Zoe
So cute!
Oh, what sweet photos… make you melt.
They are so cute!! Can’t wait to see the other pics.
I love the looks of that big filly! Well actually they are all looking pretty good! I bet it is like Christmas every time you find another baby!
That is such a big beautiful baby! I love its marking on its face. Wow that was a hard sentence with out knowing the sex. I’m sure you probably said it, but I don’t know.
Would love to learn about the colors.
Can’t wait to see the birth!
that last baby looks like she’ll be a monster! Love all the red duns! Maybe you should post a pic of daddy so we can see what he looks like! That’s definitely luck to get to see a baby born while out in the pasture like that, glad the kids got to see it, it’s for sure an amazing thing to see!