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August 12 Wow, the 2011 babies are growing and shedding off! Now that the heat wave has backed off, we'll try to take more photos. Check out the Foals page for links to their web pages!

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• June 30 Due to an extremely heavy workload in 2011, I decided to cut back drastically on my breeding season. In 2012, we are only expecting the foals on our 2012 Foals page. Hopefully, we will be back up to about 8 foals in 2013.

• June 3 Well, Sooty didn't read the textbook, and flunked the exam. Yesterday, she was a 3.6 at 11:30 a.m. Today at 9 a.m., she had already ovulated and it didn't appear to have "just" happened. We inseminated her anyway just in case, but she will probably be open. Dang!

• May 30 Zena has a new blue roan colt! No white, and the longest eyelashes I've seen for a while. Wow!

• May 21 We've had a long and horrible day here. We lost Shesa Champagne Cody to a rapid and severe colic. At the first sign, she appeared mild but we called the vet. By the time he arrived, she was rapidly going downhill. No time to grieve properly, as we are now working to get her colt going on milk replacer. Run with the wind, Cody. You were one in a million!

• May 12 Storms were coming last night, so we checked Cher over. We thought she would wait until next week, but you know how pregnant mares and storms and newborn foals go hand in hand? Yep. They do. Missing Cher at "morning peek out the window," mad rush on the Gator to the pasture, new grullo roan filly!

• May 10 Cody has a new champagne colt!

• May 3 Holi had a grullo filly at 5:45 a.m.

• April 29 One more ready to go! Margarita Haidaway (Midnight Haidaway x Haidas Little Pep) is waxed up and looking ready! Update 4/30: Grullo colt born at 1:30 a.m!

• April 25 Doll has a new blue roan colt, but he needs prayers. He's very weak, and I'm having to tube feed him.

• April 22 Mae's filly just arrived!

• April 14 Twister just foaled, and it looks like a buckskin filly. Yea! We finally have a baby to play with. :-)

• April 13 Hess QH's had a red dun filly during the night by Berry Sweet Whizard. Congratulations!

• January 25 Check out our Foals page to see upcoming due dates and new foals as they arrive.

• July 6 Congratulations to Rye's new owners at Tri-Cross Ranch!
  I feel great about his new owners, and wish them the best of luck with this fantastic horse!

• April 5 Crowheart WYO Boy is nearly back to normal following a negative side effect of a dental floating in June of 2010, so once again I have to face my original 2010 plan and offer him for sale. He is available as a stallion in April and possibly May. After that, we may geld and keep him.

• March 1, 2011 I have grullo colts and a grullo roan filly (yearlings) in the pasture with LONG hair that is dingy colored, and I can tell that they are silver and blue underneath. I'm afraid that I'll sleepwalk in my sleep tonight, fire up the big Oster clippers, and shave them to see how pretty they are. Come on, warm weather!

• May 31 Peppy is ultrasounded in foal to Spin Whiz Me for 2012. He is a silvery grullo, homozygous for dun factor markings and is a cream carrier. The foal will most likely be grullo, with dunalino and red dun a possibility unless Peppy is homozygous for black (then it must be grullo).

• April, 2011 Underway again, making a super 2012 group of babies!