I'm still around! I just haven't had the time to update my blog..well, at all! I am the one and only floral designer at our local Michael's Arts & Crafts store. Holidays are extremely hectic for everyone working there, and my quotas were nothing to laugh at. My hours have been cut back and it is more mellow in that regard, but my hands have been full training my project mare (that I did find) while attempting to market and sell a friend's horse. This week was Valentine's Day. Although I gave up my own floral business this year, I did work temporarily for a local shop. It has been chaos, but as of five this afternoon it was over! Ginny (my project horse) is at a stage where I am not having to kick her butt and work too hard with her. She is just about where I want her. And I found a buyer for my friend's horse. Now I can relax a little? Not likely. I have a little time to breathe, but hope to find a new job very soon. I'm just not getting the hours I need, or was promised.
But enough about all of that non-farm related news. The count down is on to the first kids of the year. Tifa is due February 29th. We are fifteen days away from the big event if she were to play by the numbers and go an exact one fifty. She has been steadily expanding, but has really plumped out this week alone. I know she is carrying at least twins, but I'm really crossing my fingers for triplets. If I could custom order her babies, I would want two does and one buck. One of the does and one of the bucks needs either blue eyes or moon spots! I will, of course, be happy with anything I get as long as they are healthy.Sherry is 100% bred and due the end of March. I fully expect multiples this time around, and would not be shocked with triplets or quadruplets. I can feel them tumbling around, she is getting massive, and she started an udder a week or so ago.
I'm REALLY crossing my fingers that Banshee is finally bred. Odin just was not getting the hang of covering the girls. He wasn't extending. He got ahead of himself in his excitement and would jump on, go to town without "prepping", and exhaust himself. It finally clicked for him the very end of January, which just happened to coincide with a growth spurt and a definite increase in bucky odor. I held Banshee for him and witnessed successful covers on two separate days with the characteristic hunching up of the doe. If she isn't bred, she'll come back in within the week. I went ahead and allowed him to breed Angel as well and he did a great job. I witnessed a couple of successful covers between him and Fae yesterday evening (she has been in with him.)
Poit aborted her kids by Final Stand awhile back. She has cycled twice since then and I put her in with Odin last time around. I doubt he caught her last month, so I'm waiting for her to come back in so I can put him on his breeding stand. She is just a very tall doe, barely under the height limit and he is still not done growing. So if Odin is not firing blanks and everyone is fertile, I should have six does bred for 2012 thus far. One in February, one in March, and four in July.
I am also picking this girl up soon:
Not the best photo I know, but I'm very excited about this girl. Her bloodlines are awesome, and she is selling bred to a great buckling from Camanna. Her name is Gladdie Acres BV Cupcake, who is Pholia Farms on one side and Piddlin Acres on the other. Her entire pedigree is crammed with milking stars and champions. The buck she is going to be bred to is Camanna LI Moonlight Dandy, who is by the same sire as my little Odin and out of one of my absolute favorite Camanna does. Her name is Camanna CS Moonlight Sonata. She is a finished champion who is just stunning. Would love her bloodlines in my herd. She is being bred now, whenever she decides to come into heat, and will be confirmed by a blood test before I pick her up.
I've got another doe I'm talking to a farm about, bred for April kids, but I don't know if I could afford her right now. I would love to buy her, but it will likely only work out if I can talk someone like my husband or family members into giving me some cash to put towards her as an early birthday present. I'll keep working on it. She has blue eyes and is bred to a buck with Caesar Villa lines I've always wanted to have.
And my new mare!
She is a grade pinto mare, probably 12-14 years old based on her teeth. I believe she is half Arabian. She is for sale if anyone is interested! Lol. She DOES have a tail, I just have it wrapped to keep it mud and tangle free and encourage it to be gorgeous and long. It is to her pasterns. She was underweight when I bought her and out of shape with a poor neck. We've worked on collection and flexing to the point her entire neck structure has changed. She is super quiet and a great trail horse. Jumped right in the river for me. She does a western pleasure jog, does haunch turns and forehand turns, side-passes, backs, etc, etc. She generally picks up the right leads. All I want to get done with her now before I start marketing her hard is a more collected lope with consistent leads and side-passing poles, backing obstacles, and other things for a trail course. Asking $1200 now, but will ask $1500 when all of that is going well.
Postponed Charry's breeding until next spring because we are hopefully moving to Idaho come summer!
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