I love love love him. 
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@Arzny how’s Hop doing?
@grzywinskia how is your mare looking?
@BeasFamilyFarms a few weeks still to go for your mare, right?
Hope all the mares and foals are having a good weekend but especially little Fuego!
Happy Daylight Savings, everyone!
Clearly, we have not adjusted to the time change around here just yet. That’s Arielle in the background and Addy (her '22 filly) at my feet, in the same position as the last photo of her I shared on here. She has a hard life, doesn’t she?
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Mine is holding steady. Not enough milk to really test but I’m testing it anyway. I’d be shocked is she goes on her due date looks like we might be in for a waiting game.
“Bento” is doing well. He had a minor umbilical infection at week 2 when his stump dried up and fell off; 7 days of gen & pen took care of it quickly, but he was NOT a fan of all the injections. Major drama, big squeals, bellowing like he was being attacked, kicking, fighting…it was an ordeal. He became very afraid of people, hard to catch; manageable if it was only 1 person in the stall, but if a second person came in, he KNEW it was pokey-stabby time and was quite difficult.
Thankfully just a few days after the antibiotics ended, he came back around and is friendly with people again. He is still suspicious of activity near his hind end-- NO TAIL GRABBING!-- and unusually reactive about his hind legs. By this age, most of my foals are having feet handled regularly and pretty good for the farrier. He’s good about the front feet, but the hind feet can be little weapons right now (leftover from the hamstring penicillin shots). It’s not the feet themselves…ironically I can handle, pick, even rasp his hind feet when he’s laying down. Just when standing up, he gets very defensive about the hind end. Something to work on.
He’s extremely playful, way more “coltish” than Sheza’s other foals. He nurses very aggressively, bites anything he can get ahold of, and is quite vigorous in his leaping/rearing/bouncing on Mama. Sheza is typically a patient, tolerant mare who never disciplines her foals…but this one is different (and, at 18 perhaps she has a shorter fuse). She will snap at him for chomping her udder, and I’ve seen her kick him twice for his incessant rearing and stomping on top of her. The kicks were VERY much deserved, were hard enough to mean it but gentle enough and placed properly on his chest to avoid injury. His feelings were very hurt, but he needs to learn his place in the world (and it’s not on top of mom…or people). Good mares truly are worth their weight in gold, and Sheza’s one of the best! Little Bento definitely needs some friends, and I may end up turning him and Sheza out with the yearling fillies to give him playmates to run with, but who won’t tolerate his arrogance.
He is feeling quite grown up now that he is tall enough to stick his head out the stall door, and begging for face rubs as we walk by is his favorite.
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Bento looks great! But what a handful!
Cute little monster!
I can’t post photos because she isn’t mine, but the barn where my younger mare is boarded has a new arrival, as of 2 am Saturday morning. She’s a BIG buckskin Lusitano filly. Mama was overdue by 2 or 3 weeks, and her filly is very healthy, so we’re all relieved. She had that very noble Lusi Roman nose. There will be another foal soon.
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I love broodmares! People that have never had a foal have no idea how much Mama teaches the baby. We have a mare at the barn that was an orphan. When she came, as a 3 yr old, her ground manners were horrendous. Much pinning of ears and baring teeth. I told her owner I thought it was because she didn’t have a mom to discipline her. I was amazed when the owner didn’t realize the mare will wallop the stuffing out of their kids if necessary.
@quiteann, I hope you can get permission to post! I would love to see a Roman nosed Lusitano baby!
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I second this. Pretty please.
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Vet visit went about as well as we could have hoped. Everyone was super happy to see him and amazed at how much he’d grown. Because of how underdeveloped his hocks were at birth, and the angles of his hind legs, the bones are a little narrowed towards the front. He will likely need injections in his hocks as he gets a little older, but the vets words were “when you start riding him”, so that’s pretty encouraging that he does see that as part of his future. We also took foot x rays as he’s due for a trim and new set of glue ons, so we have a little more information on how to trim him.
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What a great sounding update! Go, Fuego, go!
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Excellent update on little Fuego! It’s very encouraging that the vets are talking about a future for him as a riding horse.
@weixiao thanks for asking!
We are still a few weeks out and wouldn’t be surprised if we’re a few days over her date. This is a leased recip mare, so we don’t know too much about her, but she’s been business as usual lately with no changes. Just over here back home hoping there’s a sweet little filly growing away inside 
Though obviously we’re thrilled with a healthy colt as well!
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So because us horse people are nuts and hopeful that someday things will go right, I had Fuego’s mom bred again for a 2025 foal. They found twins at the first check, so pinched one and are supposed to recheck today. Hopefully all will be ok but I am so glad they found them this time!
Our other mare is at 316 days today. She is not at my place but is in great hands being watched closely!
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She’s well. As she is DH’s mare I have to get permission to post from him so things are on a delay!
Genetic testing for my mare that was going to Emerald came back and she will not be bred. It’s disappointing, but she’s also just a super horse to have around and live with, so I don’t mind too much. She’ll start back under tack in a month or so.
What were you genetic testing for, or is that question out of line?
PSSM, WFFS, & cervical spine films are done on every mare we breed.
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I’m sorry about the disappointment, but glad your mare is a good egg and fun to have around.
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Not a profile, but here is Uma at 5 days. BO has given me permission to post. The gray is the other pregnant mare, now about a week overdue.
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My poor girl presented with premature udder development and vulvar discharge two days ago (not purulent but thin and brown) so we started placentitis treatment. We checked the placenta and baby via transrectal and transabdominal ultrasound and both actually look healthy. Placenta is average in size with no separation and baby is hitting growth milestones and active. Hopefully this means we caught it early enough that treatment can help her carry to term!
Interestingly, the terminated fetus is hard to visualize now. We expected it to be mummified, but with how little is visible I’m not sure if anything could be absorbed at this stage?
I’ve read all the threads on placentitis on here and I’m heartened by the stories of positive outcomes. Keeping fingers tightly crossed that we can be one of those happy endings!
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