Rizada made a Mini-Me! 
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Rizada reminds me of a miniature Clydesdale.
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Brenna and i both are working hard to deal with this little guy. Don’t you love how she swung her rear around to move him around!? And… Don’t you hate that he kicked her? The good news is i’ve had him in a halter since he was a day old, and he knows he can’t get away…he’s leading pretty well actually. Today he reared up at me and unfortunately learned that there is a “ceiling” above his head when he does that …lol. He doesnt’ buck and kick at me anymore either…that started and ended yesterday. Brenna has yet dealt with him about it, but she will.
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Since Brenna seems pretty aggressive about guarding her colt, I’d give everyone some more time to adjust before turning them all out together. 
JMHO
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She and Hazel will go out onto a stretch of land along the creek while Rizada and her foal, Roslyn have ownership of the corral and sheds. After a couple of days in that turnout, Rizada and Hazel get to go into the 5 acre. And Rizada can have the spoiled turnout. Then…1-2-3-all-together-now. And i’ll be out there with them. Brenna will be in a halter and i’ll be on the gator so i can zoom in and separate. And grab her.
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It’s nice that you have a farm where you can shuffle horses around.
Good luck! What a surprise to have two unexpected pregnancies!
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Friend has a vid of her day-old kicking Mom in the head 
The sound was cringy, but mare skull thickness trumped baby hoof hardness.
My money is on Brenna to teach the little monster Manners 
Your Turnout Schedule sounds like the final All Together leaves plenty room for all. 
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welll…they won’t join the herd at large for a month(ish). I’m …afraid. These guys are mustangs, and most of them out there are too. But, my fear may not be reasonable, but it’s there. I have a plan… I’m going to introduce some of the herd into this five acre with the mares and foals one at a time. So there will be some aunties ready and waiting to perhaps help. I don’t know…i really don’t … just wingin’ it here.
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My colt was exceptionally mean to his dam. I bought him out of a farmers field before he was weaned, and halter broke him there before I brought him home because he was obviously a handful. Very energetic, as foals go.
His owners were afraid of him and brought their lawn chairs out to watch me work with him. I think they thought he would kill me. He turned out to be a very trainable horse, under saddle as well.
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You could post your Plan on the Sporthorse Breeding forum & see if anyone there has IRL experience intro’ing mares & foals to an existing herd.
I’m no breeder, nor do I play one on COTH 
But it seems to me, as mustangs, that might give some kind of an advantage.
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hahahahaha!
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i’ve found that i do not have to repeat a lesson more than two times. brushing, haltering …leading (w/butt-rope of course)… Once he catches on, he remembers and then, we’re kinda done …it’s just smoothing down the edges at that point.
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I thought it was hysterical. They clearly expected more excitement than they got. I had my husband lead the mare and the colt and I followed. He was like a foal kite at first, but he was a quick study, and not out of the ordinary really.
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Every situation is different.
Ours were broodmares that were pastured together and brought in to foal in a large sandy lot, next day foal and mare haltered, foal with butt rope and both led, gently, mostly letting foal do as it wanted, with little restrain, led to larger individual pens with stalls.
Then after foal heat, around 3/4 weeks old, pairs turned out to pasture with the others, some already with foals.
All got along great, looked after each other’s foals, pastures were miles long and had draws and canyons and prairie flat land to roam and graze, but still they all had to come to water and get supplemental alfalfa to headquarter pens.
Foals during the three weeks in learned to be handled and tied to a fence with their dams while we cleaned pens, fly spray, pick feet.
Foals were only tied loosely after they knew about giving to the rope.
On the top pipe rope slid around, tied below and for 2/3 minutes only.
Foals moved around but no one pulled back, we turned them loose before they would get uneasy and worried.
We never had a foal fight or much less get injured, we were right there and at times didn’t even tie the rope, just held onto it, there mostly tied the very young long enough to back off and take a picture.
This picture was still in my laptop, as a baby and at weaning:
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good info. cannot see photo however…
Hmmm … is showing for me?
Was a visual of how we tied them, so foals can wiggle, don’t feel restricted, as rope slides around.
I had a friend who tied her TB foal and it broke its neck. I guess you never can tell what they’ll do.
I think that you’ve had much more experience with foals than did my friend. She had decades of experience riding and training, but no foal handling experience.
I waited to teach mine to hard tie until they were late yearlings.
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You should not tie unless horse, any age, has learned to give to pressure first and then you tie responsibly.
Still, accidents happen so easily, some time without even constraining a foal, it may flip and break it’s neck, had it happen to a neighbor that was just watching his foal play around and that happened.
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They’re so fragile, but then aren’t all horses?
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I started one like that. His dam was a skittish TB, and he used to grab whatever he could get his teeth on and shake it at her and chase her around with it.
But as you say, he turned out to be really smart and trainable.
