Beautiful horses and mules, everyone! FuzzyHens.. That BABY!!
FeyRaine- lucky horses you guys are getting.. Not many people willing to take all that on at once.
I sold my last horse at the end of the summer.. well- "sold" very cheap to a friend.. I just don't have the time anymore and he was wasting away, much too good a boy for that. He is an ex rope horse and had the golden "been there, done that" easygoing personality that I just melted into. Hubby actually bought him for himself and I stole him, lol.
Anyway he was my handsome boy and I'm glad I still get pics and updates, and I know he can come back here if/when he needs to. <3
wow lovely color & so intense looking!
The funny thing about all this is as you horse ppl likely can tell, I'm just about a newbie. I mean sure I had a couple weeks of 1 hr/day horseback riding lessons as a kid at summer camp (u, er like mumble mumble over 35 yrs ago) & I've ridden maybe a dozen times in my life since then. Including on my honeymoon -- we went on a 2hr group trail ride in the smokey mountains and I kid you not, MY horse got stung by a bee & bolted off back down the trail passed all the others at top speed. IT was like out of a movie. I was very proud of myself that I stayed on the horse & after we had passed everyone I got him to slow & stop, by which point my (new) husband was right behind us. The flustered trail guide was way back at the front of the line shouting. (I did call out as my horse took off that it had been stung so ppl might try to get out of the way & understand why I went flying by). Maybe that wasn't the perfect thing to do, but the trail was narrow, the horse was in a panic, & I figured trying to pull him up to a stop right in the faces of the other horses was going to get me, him & them no where pretty, whereas letting him pick his own steps and run it off until we got to a wider area let me focus on hanging on for dear life!
Anyway, we did rescue a couple donkeys a few yrs ago. It was heartbreaking as the male did not recover (we contacted & communicated frequently w/ a national Donkey group but sadly he was too damaged , we ended up re-homing the female where she could be w/ a new companion). So that is my big equine experience.
We spent several hours meeting these 4 horses, I felt really good about how they reacted to me. But I'm still mindboggled, about their size (even though as I said part of the can't pass this up is 3 of them are exactly what my DH needs in order to ride w/o hurting the horse , & the 2 make such a perfect pair for a draft team, & the smaller one should be perfect for me). But its going to be a several tons of work, as well as a serious feed bill addition so no rose colored glasses about that!
& speaking of no rose colored glasses--
Bator A (due dec24) down to 36 eggs (from 64)
Bator B (NYD HAL) down to 32 / 68
most of the loss was that I could finally tell for sure what was up in the 2 doz super choc dark maran eggs, & most of them were clear or early quit blood rings for certain ,sigh.
well, if a good percent of what is left hatches I will still be very happy, & have plenty to share w/ those promised chicks.
esp. since I'll start saving eggs soon for the next hatch, which if I collect after dec31 will include pure SFH eggs, woohoo!!!
we will doo awesome we have some great support 
