LPPaintedPonys - Cherry FOALED 31 AUG - PICS pg 12; Stuffy FOALED pg 6,Tory FOALED pics pg5, Koalah

I bred quite a number of mares last year.

The first mare due would be "Tory" - or Cherry-Hill Olympic Victory. She is a 50% arenosa bred, 40", chestnut Tobiano, color tested - no silver or cream (she put "frosting" in the two bay colts' manes/tails that she produced, so thought she might be a silver carrier). She had one cover to our larger Shetland stallion - AJ - now deceased, so this is his last foal.

AJ:



This is her first foal by one of our stallions - she was bred when I purchased her and she produced a very nice Shetland colt who is being shown in Tx. She was covered on 29 April and 230 days is March 25th. 340 days is April 4th.

When I took these - her first comparison preggo pics - she is 298 days.

I believe the 2nd one will be "Stuffy". She may go ahead of Tory... LP Painted StufNpuf. 1996 Shetland mare that is 37" at the withers. She is by the black/white shetland stallion above and out of a small shetland mare. I will be taking ehr to be inspected for AMHR at a show here in NC in April. She gets her one Tobi gene from her sire and her one silver gene from her dam and doesn't have the bay gene. Don't know yet if she's homozygous for black or not.

She had been leased out the fall of 2011. Upon picking her up, I just cleaned her up and then put her out with "Iggy" (All That Style N' Class - in my avatar). That was on Feb 25th and she came into heat w/i 24 hours and stood for him. However, I noted her standing the end of Mar/beg of April and again the end of April/beg of May - so I'm not exactly sure when she's due... She ran with him all year - non-stop. We'll just watch her w/ pictures I think!

Iggy:



Iggy is on the right side (nearest the camera) and Stuffy is on the left side. I'm working on making them a pair. He needs some more work as a single, too.

I do have some pics from right before she foaled in 2010 (Cupid). Just missed his birth - in the dog kennel/stall set up in my carport outside the kitchen window when I sat down to dinner. In the 10 minutes between my last check and my butt hitting the couch, our oldest daughter walked in and asked about our "little cupid"... !! I dropped the plate and raced out - his hind legs were stillin the sack and he was working on standing! Silly mare knew we'd been a watchin' all day (had the day off from work - then took the next). Didn't see any signs of her gettin ready with her next one (28 feb 2011 filly) - maybe she knew I'd leave her outin the pasture instead of bringing her in that night (to same kennel/stall) - it was a beautiful nite! 0530 the next AM, there's an extra pair of wet, wobbly legs thru my kitchen window in the pasture...while the girls' getting ready for school!









picaso doesn't seem to mind "Pony Porn", yet -

Next? Koalah or Wa-Full Koalah's Silver Fluff. ASPC & AMHR (but overgrown the top height). She's 43" at the withers, single gened tobi - having her color tested to see if she carries sabino (think she does based on 2011 mare she produced by Iggy). She arrived pregnant with a silver cream (?) colt that will make permanent AMHR height around 37" at the withers this summer. She has produced two awesome fillies for us by Iggy. Both will go over mini heights and are sustained in the ASPC Classic futurities. This is her 3rd Iggy foal (will have a 4 up hitch of Koalah babies when we are done!).

She was hand covered on the 2nd and 3rd of may - then Iggy turned into the paddock with the mares in the evenings from May 4th thru May 9th.

Look at those baby bellies Hoping for safe foalings and healthy foals for all of your girls

Beautiful ladies! Sorry to hear about AJ. I'm sure he'll give you some lovely foals to remember him by

wow the girls all look great and HUGE The daddies are gorgeous

Thanks for starting a thread here, we will look forward to sharing this journey with you and your girls.

countrymini said:

Beautiful ladies! Sorry to hear about AJ. I'm sure he'll give you some lovely foals to remember him by

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Thank You! Actually, AJ gave us many foals to remember him by... Most were crossbreds out of various mares that we had as larger riding ponies and horses. We currently have two here - a 2 yr old purebred colt - will be gelded this spring and a 4 yr old 1/2 arabian gelding.

I'm hoping this one out of Tory will be a filly that Iw ill retain. We'll see. When I really want a filly - I don't typically get one... The tiny little mare above is, surprisingly, his first foal for us. She is the only one that I retained - when our daughters outgrew her as a riding pony, I leased her out to a total of 4 different families before she came back home permanently. She taught more than 30 children to ride and is now giving lead line rides to our two granddaughters... I believe both will learn their first riding lessons (alone) on her.

This will be her 3rd Iggy foal for us (or AJ's 3rd grand foal).

I think you guys are reading some of my posts wrong, LOLOLOLOL - but that's ok.

AJ (black tobiano stallion) is the one who is now deceased at 20 yrs of age. Last foal coming this year from Tory (chestnut tobiano). His 1st registered shetland daughter was our first foal in 1996 and she's having a foal for us by stallion below...

Iggy (silver tobiano - ASPC HOF earner in halter) is our current mature stalllion. He's sired quite a number of foals in the last 3 years (for us, small time breeders). Unlike AJ, almost all of Iggy's foals for us have been registered Shetlands (AJ's were mostly unregistered x-breds. He had 6 Shetlands for us & 4 outside Shetlands).

Besides the two silver pinto mares due soon, there is a solid silver dapple mare and a bay pinto mare due to IGGY later. He also sired the colt that was aborted the day before Valentines Day (different thread). I'm not sure which babies I'm most excited about - CAN"T WAIT FOR ANY... This rain is terrible!!! Just a mucky mess - even in my sandy lots.

THANKS for the welcome to the Nursery! Looking forward to sharing the "baby belly" pics and maybe I'll eventually get a cam.

Would have gotten the pics today - but the wind is blowing at 35 - 50 mph gusts here (our little wind measure thingy actually logged one at 47 around noon) and I just didn't stay out long enought o get the pics. Not supposed to be buried in rain or wind tomorrow.

The girls' all seem to be holding on nicely - no real changes that I can see. I plan on going out again later tonight - just to see if the wind "loosened up" anything that I need to keep an eye on...

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So what about thinking of names??? Do you ladies help with that?

Our farm prefix is LP Painted.

The first stallion/mare combo is - AJ - WF Action Jackson x Cherry-Hill Olympic Victory. Foal is guaranteed Tobiano, will be bay or black. AJ's last foal. I called Tory's foal last year - LP Painted MO-Olympus ( the "MO-" comes from his sire. Bought "Tory" in foal. Oly is showing in TX).

The 2nd stallion is Iggy - All That Style N' Class. He's a delightful pony - silver, homozygous black, homozygous but minimal tobiano. All of my foals seem to be on the more solid colored side from him - a couple hmmm - are you a pinto?? If I could order some extra white this year - I would!! I seem to be using the "N" as an "and" for the foals currently have...

Mares bred to Iggy -

"Stuffy" - LP Painted StufNpuf. B mini/Shetland. Foal will be either silver or black Tobiano. Her 2 other "Iggy" foals are both silvers. Names of them are ... StyleNcupid (2010 gelding) & ...WyndNstuf (2011 mare). I've had the idea that I shuld pull in names from her pedigree - Just realized that both Cupid and Wyndy tie into her pedigree (Prince Gale and Silver Cupid), This foal should stay small enough to go AMHR/ASPC.

"Koalah" - Wa-Full Koalah's Silver Fluff. AMHR but way overgrew height limit, Shetland. Could be black or silver - tobiano. Two silver tobi fillies by "Iggy". 2011 - ...FlashNfluf (call her Flashi - she's in TX showing), and 2012 - ...ShamrockNsilver. If born in March - StyleNirish, IrishNstyle, Irishsilver, silver Irish... April?

"Bell" - Little Jims Silver Bell. Shetland. Foal will be silver tobiano. 2012 "iggy" filly is - ...Classic Bell (Classy). Was out with Iggy thru May 9th. This mare also stood for Iggy in October, after we returned from TX. So... was figuring a Sept baby. But... she's turning nicely round - even if she's small. Her filly last year was very tiny compared to our other Iggy babies, so this one could be an April baby coming closer to middle/end of April and small right now...? will include her pics tomorrow! No "real" udder development yet (has had a lot of foals - understand from previous owner that he bred foals from her that weren't registered between the ones that were). She has 10 registered foals. Purchased her in foal & 2010 filly - ...Silver Toy (call her GG. Kids wanted to call her "Girafe" as there is a marking on her left croup and tail thta looks just like a Fisher Price giraffe. Giraffe didn't work for me!) Don't know what to call this one.

Castle Rock Miniatures said:

LP Painted AJ's Victory Lap - First thing that came to mind -- in honor of his last foal!

Have to give the others some thought.

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OOOO - THANK YOU!! Nothing like that had occurred to me! That's first on mylist!

And here's some pics I got on Friday and hadn't gotten posted yet...

Tory - I haven't yet gotten a good shot of her udder, but she's only had very little development there. Nothing like some of my other mares - if I didn't know that she'd already had foals, I'd almost swear she was a maiden. She's badly in need of grooming & a hoof trim. All of our mares have been spooky since the windstorm two days previous to this...







Here's Stuffy - she's coming along but I don't know when she's due since she was covered 3 months in a row.

Here's Stuffy's udder - some fill but no where near ready yet. I need to find the pics I took right before she foaled in October 2010.



Here's Koalah:

Love the colors on your mares. Wow.. Koalah sure looks huge in her belly.. My word!

sparklingjewelacres said:

Love the colors on your mares. Wow.. Koalah sure looks huge in her belly.. My word!

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Thanks on the colors. I love my silvers - and really neat now to have spots. Yep, Koalah stays huge... even at the early stages of her pregnancies. She has been ever since she foaled Ranger (sired by a 36" mini/aspc stallion). Ranger was HUGE at birth - 44 lbs. Didn't get his height, but think he may have been "over cooked". But since then her two fillies have been pretty big as well. The stallion I've bred her to is 40" tall, but more petite (I think) than the stallion that sired Ranger. The filly's are a nice cross. You can see Koalah's foals in her produce record on her page - Koalah. I'd love another filly, but a colt that could be sold would be nice too. I'm retaining her fillies right now. The pair I have now - 1 is out showing and the 2nd should be. Both will drive and will also make a really nice pair. I can't wait!!!

Castle Rock Miniatures said:

WOW! They are looking great!!! Can't wait to see these babies!!

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Thank you. Me either! Both the silver spot mares have produced 2 siblings to the foals each has coming now... Very exciting - I love to see what I've got coming... 1 month out! WEEEEEEE!

I may have a silver dapple mare that is also bred... She was covered between 2 & 9 may (he ran in the pasture with the mares). Then she stood for him when she was turned into his pasture after her 2012 filly weaned - the end of October. So...?

I'm a little late to the welcome party but welcome all the same! wow your girls are gorgeous so are your boys! I absoloutly love silvers! will your girls be coming up on marestare? thanks for the awesome pics and please keep them coming!

p.s I love Koalah's name hehe I'm from Australia so we have Koala's here and they are the most beautiful creatures! hehehe made me laugh when I saw her name but it suits her she is gorgeous! can't wait to see all your babies!

Hi Cassie - thanx for the welcome.

That's FUNNY - . Her name comes from her sire BUT my understanding is that his name was supposed to be Kahlua (as in the liquor) and it was spelled wrong! So I probably should name one of her foals Kahlua.

No, sorry, won't be on marestare. I don't have cameras or any way at this time to hook them up. Was thinking about it, tho...

paintponylvr said:

Hi Cassie - thanx for the welcome.

That's FUNNY -

. Her name comes from her sire BUT my understanding is that his name was supposed to be Kahlua (as in the liquor) and it was spelled wrong! So I probably should name one of her foals Kahlua.

No, sorry, won't be on marestare. I don't have cameras or any way at this time to hook them up. Was thinking about it, tho...

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ROFL that is hilarious! you should name one of her babies that! so cute

oh thats ok, well I'm very happy that youre so good with taking the pics that means lots for us do you have foal alarms on your girls?

No, don't use those either.

The mares that I've stayed up and watched nights & nights in a row - usually foaled in the 5 minutes I went to other room(s) to eat dinner or to potty.

One mare foaled (Koalah - 2011 - filly now showing - Flashi) after I moved her out of my kennel stall under out carport right outside of our kitchen. She walked up the hill to the barn, stood and whinnied while tied at her feed bucket while feeding, ate, and I checked her again before going back to the "stall" to clean it. I was taking the 2nd load of manure to the burn pile when I heard the "plop" and looked up at the barn. Couldn't see anything, so ran up to check. She'd not even laid down - just popped out the foal who was all gangly legs. I wrapped a towel around her, turned mum loose to follow and carried her back down to the stall. quickly got it re-bedded and shredded paper put down over shavings and she went on to do the standing and nursing, while mum worked on passing placenta (was very "crampy" - and was up and down).



Stuffy did something similar in 2010. Had a "feeling" she was ready - kept her in all day and watched her off and on from kitchen window over the sink or the window in the door. Went out several times and checked her "bag" and her vulva. She held off... did get to eat lunch - tho my friend and I kinda swapped out going back and forth to look. Friend stayed while I went out to feed the rest of the ponies. Then cooked dinner while friend went home to take care of hers. Went out and put hands on her before fixing my dinner plate. I'd then sat down on the couch and had taken maybe two bites when oldest daughter arrived home from work and asked when ".... did the new Cupid arrive?" and raced out (dogs got my dinner, LOL) to see him. His hind legs were still caught in the sack (think she'd just stood up) and he'd tried his legs at least once ...



Arab mare in 2005 - stayed up with her all night several nights in a row - checking every 2 hours. She was out in the barn. Had a house full of middle school girls (6 - 8th grades), who helped feed and groomed ponies/horses while on spring break. Really thought mare was ready and was soooo disappointed by the fact that she hadn't gone yet. I joked with the girls, as I left for work, that she'd wait a little longer and then "go" before I was anywhere close to being able to leave work. SHE DID! I left around 0830, then got the call at 1030 that she'd had a filly (it was close to Easter so she became "Gel e Bean") and all the girls watched! Several of the girls were really grossed out, others were fine and 1 was interested in handling the mare and foal along with our youngest daughter. They all forgot the camera & pics until the filly was almost dry...



The mare above had both of her 1/2 shetland fillies - during the day. The first one was in the afternoon - maybe 2 hours or so before I went out to the pasture to feed (I was w/ hubby signing the contract on the property where same mare is standing on grass above while she was preparing to foal in the pasture)... That filly became "IC" because the temps dropped fast, and the snowstorm hit... Pic shows what's left of the snow when the filly is 3 days old.



Most of our mares seem to foal right before we are headed outside to do chores or to check on them... LOL. Some in stalls or pens set up for foaling and some in the fields on grass. I've yet to see the actual "birth" of any of my ponies - though in the past 10 years I've delivered 10 foals for other people.

Just missed the abortion "birth" 3 weeks ago as well...

a lot of our foals have been named for the weather or for holidays...LOL. We have 6 winter/weather names - Autumn, Blizzard, IC, Wyndy, Rainy & Frosty. 3 holiday names - Gel E Bean, Cupid & Shamrock. Several "space" names - Star is the dam of Comet and Rocket. Several from markings - Pixie wing, "Toy" (white marking on croup off of her tail looks like the toy Fisher Price take apart Giraffe, barn name GG), Flashi, Lacey, Simi (short for Symmetry), Jewel, Velvet. Several off of dam's "indian" name (Black Eyed Sioux) - Jammin' Sioux, Cherokee, Shield, Apache. And then - just some names, LOL.

Hmmm- need a Flutterby, Butterfly & Spring.

Tory was at 325 days yesterday and there is serious progress. Even with her "dancing" around, I was able to get some good shots of her udder.











I didn't get pics of Koalah or Stuffy yesterday or today. Will get them tomorrow and post them tomorrow nite... Will see if can test Tory's milk tomorrow, clean her vulva area and get picture (s) of that area...

Looking good. She is such a pretty girl