at last they are home safe and sound......now just waiting a few weeks to get the pair of them scanned to see if they are in foal
here is little Apache Dawn kissing her new mate bye before they left for the stallions place
and this is who they stayed with........he is 3 years old and a total gentleman. the chap who owns him takes him in the shafts to collect feed every week.
and finally, Apache stretching her legs after coming back with her mum..
wey hey......
Kathy
Wonderful photos Mogs. Have you got plans to have working horses, the Daddy to be looks wonderful and how nice to collect food with a horse and cart.
nanny-now and forever
mogs it looks idyllic
mogs
kathy
one of the geldings we have is a ride and drive so hopefully we can use him soon. a long time since i have driven a horse and cart........fofl
just have to get a harness and cart then try him out.
yeah, the dad does the feed run regular, a round trip of about 15 miles and he is sound as a pound even tho he is only young at 3 yo.
Becki
Lovely pics. A horse called Apache at the stables gave birth to a colt this morning. It's very cute.
mogs
awww......i take it the apache you speak of is a coloured too.....lol
ours is called Apache Dawn to use her full name, but we call her baby or patchy....lol.
she is getting really adventurous now, when i sit down for 5 minutes on the milk crate, yep all mod cons here.....fofl, she tries to climb up on me.....i keep telling her goats do that, and she is not a goat.......
but i have now started to discipline her and teach her is it not the right thing to do.......very cute now, but a full grown horse doing it, might be a bit of a shock to the sytem..........ouch......... and if you rub her bum she backs up onto you.......hhhhhmmmm bad habits must stop.....
she is now starting to nibble at the grass, but cant understand what the funny stuff in her mouth is and pulls really strange faces....lol.....and if you tickle her neck she nibbles your arm...sort of grooming me.......but teeth are now coming thru so it pinches a little, so i think that is another thing i will have to stop her doing........big teeth hurt.....
mum and aunt are still very protective over her with strangers, which is good, because people tend to walk accross the field, which they have no right to do but thats another story, and both the mares will charge anyone who gets near the little one tho she is fine with us. better than having guard dogs....lol
Becki
Apache is a grey but in the summer she has patches of (proper) grey underneath. All foals are very cute
Kathy
I've never used a horse and cart but would love to learn the whole thing. It's on our list of plans for the future (Coco and me!).
It must be wonderful watching your own foal Mogs, I'm a sort of great Aunty to foals but hope to be Granny to Maggie's foal next year.
mogs
the exciting part is over really .... waiting to see what she was carrying....lol.....now the adventure begins..... for little one and me.
the driving the horse and cart thing......i used to have a job ( my first actually...lol ) driving the cart on the beach where i grew up. we would catch the horses, 30 of them, then tack them all up, then would ride them about 4 miles to the beach. my job was the cart and horse. now that was very idylic...lol.
we would use different horses every few days. John, whose business it was, ( and still is) has a riding school in WSM and also about 40 ponies and horses that would work the beach. we were there from Easter til the end of september, rain or shine.....lol.
ahhh those were the days.
in fact he is still there everyday throughout the summer, on Brean Sands Somerset, behind the Seagull pub, near Pontins, tho he no longer takes the horse and cart down just riding ponies and horses.
so soon i am going to get rid of the rusty braincells and have another go at driving.....shouldnt tak that long for it all to come back to me.....just have to be aware of the idiots on the roads nowadays.......who dont give a monkeys toss about anyone or anything........
mogs
well i now have the harnesses, just need the cart, and the time do get on with it.......
Kathy
Look forward to hearing about it Mogs, and pics of course!
mogs
it is certainly going to be a bit nerve wracking........
not driven horses in years.....might see if i can find somewhere that does a refresher course, or see one of my mates who drive.
then ofcourse, it is finding out if the cob actually is a ride and drive .......hhhmmmm......lots of longreigning i think.
yep piccis to follow, but i might not start for a week or so, bit busy this week.....
Have you got plans to have working horses, the Daddy to be looks wonderful and how nice to collect food with a horse and cart.
