4 posts tagged “mares”
Here the girls are following me along the fence line as I use the Deere to move straw bales 'round to the back of the barn. It was pretty cute -- Myf would actually trot along to keep up.
Yesterday I bought the two ponies I'd been looking at. Annie is in foal, so in the end I'll have three Welsh ponies. (I'm going to have more ponies at Crickhollow than Arabs!)
Since the filly wasn't registered yet, the gal I'm buying them from let me choose her name (or the bit that goes behind her prefix, anyway), so she's going to be Trevethan Myfanwy (pronounced: mih VAN wee).
I'll be picking them up October 11, which should give enough time for their coggins and Myfanwy's papers to get back. I have a few things to pick up & do to get ready for them, but I fear it will be a long few weeks until then. I'm taking off work so I'll have time to hang out with them at home for a couple days after & get to know them. And take pictures. I'm sure I'll be taking lots of pictures.
In the meantime... I shall be shifting lots of hay this weekend. I want to get a pile of the stuff from the first couple cuttings up to the barn so the third cutting (or most of it at least) can go in the hay shed. It's cut and waiting to get baled, so I need to get a move on. It's questionable whether or not I'll have time to ride this weekend.
So after a disappointing trip last Wednesday to look at a Swedish mare who might've been a really good deal, but who turned out to be nothing I want deal with, I renewed my hunt for a nice Welsh pony mare. I found this girl in Wisconsin and actually decided to send an e-mail inquiring about her this morning. They have her filly from this year on the sale page (right above her listing), and her '07 colt on their foals page. Cute babies.
I am a little concerned about her age (22), but I'd only really want her '09 foal & to use my breeding to Khan on her (for '10, I'd say). Maybe breed her to Merry after that, but I should think I could retire her at that point or after the Khan baby with no regrets. It's not like I have any need to be breeding constantly. I'd just want a couple babies out of her and then she could hang out and just be, maybe get fussed over by the occasional little girl.
Speaking of little girls, Gimil has been giving rides! I need to get some pictures up, but he's given rides to our neighbour's 18mo daughter and to my mother's cousin's five year old. The five year old was adopted from China and currently lives in the L.A. area, so the whole pony/farm thing was very thrilling for her. She just wanted to keep riding, but Gimli and I aren't used to this whole five-year-old-girl thing, and we got tired way before she did. (Side note: she was very pleased to find out that Gimli is the same age she is. It was pretty funny.)
