So our new little foal is a week old. She has had quite a week! I must admit that she is going to be one of our favorites. She has the blanket like Zippy but “frosty” legs like her mom. Her coat is dark with the lighter “frosty” colors showing thru. She has 5 spots in a row on her left side that look like finger prints-all lined up. She has a big white blaze and tiny snip on the end. She also has one eye that is half blue, which we love. Frosty has had one other filly, Diva, with a partial blue eye, so she is in good company. And this is all before I get to her personality! She is spunky and independent and of her own mind already. Yet despite her independent nature she is already figuring things out and fitting right in here at the farm. Mom Frosty is an excellent mother and we are truly grateful for this! She makes it look easy and has bounced back remarkably fast, as she always does.
We got the call yesterday that they are ready for Zippy again down in Texas. I have not heard back from the hauler yet, but it sounds like he will leave in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile cases of the disease that has delayed his departure (for safety’s sake, as he is healthy) keep popping up in Northern Wisconsin. All tied back to the one equine clinic in Kentucky were everything seemed to have started.
Yesterday Nicole started working with Sport in the arena. Her job will be to get him started under saddle. Meanwhile I am going to get Trace started on the longe line. Sport has really grown and filled out over the winter as we anticipated. I will put a stick to him to be sure, but I would guess he is 15 hands now as a two year old, with more growing to do.
So enough about the good stuff- there must also be some bad stuff. The water running to Luke and Spice’s pasture froze Friday. It froze somewhere underground as the hydrants still work fine, just no water is running to them. The below zero temperatures we have had for what seems like forever are to blame. The frost line must be pretty deep by now. I rigged up an old water tank. Using my truck, I can fill the tank and then fill each of the tanks in the pasture so that I do not have to carry buckets of water. It kind of looks like the thermos we setup when Finnegan needed a wet-nurse, only this is a 100 gallon version. I will snap a picture when I get a chance.
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