We have some 24x24 pens, so I imagine that’s what he’ll graduate to
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Oyyy! She is fatter than my problem child and you need to put her on a diet pronto! You don’t need a foundered mare to deal with, take my advice! The problem child ( who is not foundered) is down in the barn crying that she is hungry. You can have that one cup of RB and glean what you can from the unfertilized pasture. No fancy hay for you. So far it is working. Easy keeper is a cuss word!
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I’m an equine nutritionist. We have the diet covered. 
She’s actually not as fat as she looks in photos - a BCS of about 6. She’s half QH and very wide, deep-bodied, and well muscled in addition to the blubber. She also isn’t metabolic, per last spring’s full blood panel testing.
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She’s also just had & lost a foal: the girl is entitled to some emotional eating brownies!
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Me, too? 
She’s exactly the weight I’d want her to be if she were nursing a newborn foal, since lactation has such a high calorie demand. Not so much the condition I want her in as a performance horse, thus the new grazing muzzle. Going back to work in a couple of weeks should help in the calorie burn department, too.
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Rizada’s foal was 10 days old today and the two mares were out on a small pasture for a few hours this afternoon. In the beginning of this video you see Roslyn hoppping around at a tree sprout…about three feet tall, still without leaves on it yet this Spring. She has not yet encountered a sticking-up wobbly stick. It was really so fun to watch her! And then, she was so jazzed by that, she had to zoom around and around and around…LOL
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Well, it’s a great big world out there! Mama says, “Seriously, kid? Settle down before you fall. What did I just say!?”
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OMG!! 
she really keeps her momma hopping, doesn’t she! Your videos are just priceless.
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Roslyn wants to graze. The area she is in has been tread upon and is very short. And her legs are lonnnnnnnnGGGG! … she eventually figured it out, but the contortions she went through early on were pretty funny. In this video she was frustrated at the weed for being unreachable.
Here are a couple of photos of what position she finally utilized. Perhaps one day she will learn to go-for taller vegetation.
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Seems like the foursome are getting a bit closer to each other?
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yes. I hold my breath every time the two foals approach eachother.
Now…they DO know one another. At night, there is only a cattle panel between them…so they have been next door …visable and touchable…since birth.
@weixiao Update on your guy? Haven’t heard anything from you since you posted about him being under the weather… hope he’s ok! 
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Lyra is at 320 days today! So now I can stop worrying about an early foal from her and start worrying about everything else. She wasn’t super thrilled with me taking a picture instead of letting her out with the rest of the herd.
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How rude of you! lol
Doing much, much better, thank you for asking! Keeping my fingers crossed until he finishes abx and the bloodwork is all ok but we definitely seem to be on the right track!
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Fuego looking more like the stout boy he’s supposed to be. It’s crazy now to look back at his early photos and how tiny he was
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Robust! Fuego and his teddy are about the cutest things ever!
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We should have a COTH forums Horse of the Year award. My votes:
2022 - @Heinz_57’s Bo (who really came into his own in 2023, but I think he and Henry really both deserve honors so I’ll game it a little)
2023 - @2bayboys’s Henry the Handyman
2024 - Fuego (I know it’s only April, but how could anyone beat him?)
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