i’ve always loved blacks and bright bays. I have a soft spot for blacks for sure. There are more blacks in my herd than any other coat color. They just draw me. Both those blacks in your photo look pleasingly plump and sturdy as heck!
cute young you and your cute dun gelding made quite a pair! ahhh…those were the days huh!!!
Ha! They are bays LOL! Either growing in or losing summer coats 
Except for her brown muzzle, my mare is almost totally black. My gelding is a beautiful dark bay. Someone called them my chocolate horses!
And yes, they are both air ferns
you must have a really good pasture. Kudos to you!
I actually keep them off the pastures from March through July - this weird weather in Michigan is keeping the grasses higher in sugar and I watch that with them. Good hay, tho!
Nice balance!
Nice strong healthy foals! Awesome to see yours and their enjoyment in this circle of life.
Seeing your pile of sand(?) brought back a funny memory of Will, the first horse I had as an adult. He was in training at HIgh Prairie in Denver (now the Colorado Horse Park) until I broke my humerus ball coming off him at a jump.
I ultimately ended up having surgery with hardware and a bone graft and was going to be out of commission for a long time, so I pulled him from HP and found a woman with a very casual backyard boarding barn where Will could have 12-14 hours turnout every day in nice pasture. He became a little bit of a pet to her daughters, who let him wander free around the barn with a similar setup to yours here (he was a very sensible TB and seemed to enjoy it, so I crossed my fingers and let it continue).
Anyway, they had a big pile of sand/dirt and Will loved climbing on it and into it. Many times I showed up to find him perched at the top like a mountain goat! The was pre-smart phones and I wish I had been able to capture on film, because I lost him to e. coli a few years later at a different barn.
Yay!!
Using the trailer ramp as a pillow, lol!
I know your babies are learning to intelligently navigate all the hazards and terrain and obstacles at your place, but I couldn’t help imagining how fast my colt would have grabbed and strewn those t-posts out of that nice pile you have! He would have done it gleefully at their age and he would still do it stealthily today at age 2!
I love her crooked blaze!
And did I miss that her RF has a half stocking?
I like her markings! I wouldn’t consider them a flaw at all.
This was the thread that you created for your foal watch - we enjoyed seeing them grow up with you. No need to take down your own thread. I understand the hurt feel and response, I would have felt bit also. It could have been expressed better. I’ll sorely miss seeing how your foals run and play on varied terrain and how much they need that shared foal experience. It’s such a good natural way to raise foals that also get to experience a lot of exploration and confidence building. They have natural secure personalities from the interactions.
What is going on? I love this thread. Just change the title if it no longer works…but don’t delete posts.
nope. i’m removing every single one of my foal offensive duplicate foal posts. One thing i never want to be is where i’m not wanted! After everything that happens on Dressage i shouldn’t have been surprised on here. Everybody’s a gate-keeper in the horse threads and it just really pisses me off.
You know for a fact that is not even close to what was said over there.
Not even slightly what was said.
You are free to not post your photos (or remove them), but do not blame it on something that was not done/said.
Here is how it FELT:
You have your own thread…don’t come over here and pollute us with the same pics of your damn foals. We’re kinda sick of seeing them everywhere. Stay in your own lane.
Or you can read it this way (which is how I read it) - they like your foal photos, they look at them here in your thread about your foals and enjoy them here, but many people have limited time to enjoy the forum on a device that sometimes scrolling is not the easiest thing to do and it was sometimes frustrating to have to scroll past the same photos you just looked at in this thread, over in that thread too. Why not pick one place to share them, since both threads are in the same section of the forum.
You get plenty of love from all kinds of posters in this thread of yours. I do not see any reason to have a melt down about the other thread.
you aren’t me. So you are welcome to feeeel the way you do. As am i.
You are right, I would not want you to stop your tantrum and try to see it from another point of view.
please leave me alone.
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