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| DO I HAVE A HORSE STORY TO TELL..... Last Saturday evening we went out to the shed to check our last two mares to foal. Here was an unbelievable shocking surprise.... There stands two little colored foals both cuddled up to our old black and white mare Spitfire. Couldn"t be.. Checked on Starsplash (the other mare), no..still big as a house and no baby. We couldn"t stop looking at them. Both had enough legs, heads looked good, walking baby steps but quite well. We stood in awe as we watched them nurse. They didn"t seem to find it that difficult. One was quite a bit bigger than the other at birth. Then came the WHAT IF'S What if she doesn"t have enough milk. What if she rejects one What if there are physical defects in them. The only solution was one day at a time. Mom (Canada West Spitfire)AMHR 37" Dad (Pearl Creeks A Tres Too White)35"Tracy Grandsire (LTDS Two-Tone Trigger) Spitfire is a 17 year old mare that has been sadly abused in her younger years. She is a super mom but will not allow us to touch her babies or herself. She has been with us for seven years and has given us a baby every year. Her foals are sweet and gentle and I have kept two previous fillys for replacement mares. She is absolutely a marvelous broodmare and will live out her wild little mustang life on our ranch. BACK TO THE BABIES. They are doing just fine. The smaller one is catching up to the larger one in size. They eat, sleep, play, act goofy and worry their mother a lot because two are hard to keep under your thumb.... We feel totally blessed to have these precious little fillys. We named them........ Flames of Hope and Charity of Fire Hope is the larger one and Charity the smaller. |
| More pictures to come and I will try to keep you informed of the raising of these twins. |
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| Sylvia Piercy or Don Fraser R.R. #1, Busby, Alberta, Canada TOG OHO (780)674-3859 |
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