Bow's 2015 Foaling

Hard to believe that we're 10 weeks old today. She's a stinker for sure though! She does not spend too much time with her dam, instead she spends her time with her half-sister. When she's not with her sister she slips underneath our LIVE hotwire fence and joins her gelded sister, her gelded half-brother, and the 2013 colt I've been waiting to geld (until testicle #2 drops....). Thankfully none of our boys are aggressive towards her, and her sire watches over her pretty well until she rejoins the mare herd to nurse from her dam.

She is definitely a chunky filly. I don't have too many complaints about her, and I've actually been fortunate enough to have conformation pictures of her full sister as a foal that I have used for comparison. Let me tell you, Adeline is DEFINITELY the better filly out of the two, despite looking like a body builder. I am going to have to put her dam on a mare/foal feed since she has lost weight over the past month.

But, pictures!







8 weeks old:

Thank you. It actually shocks me how mature she looks compared to her full sister. As a two month old, she looked like her full sister at 3-4 months old. Very thick and "built". She didn't keep her cute and tiny baby look for long.

I am lucky to have such a nice "bachelor band" to not harm her. I actually ended up having to SELL one of my 2013 geldings because he was aggressive towards her. She slipped into their dry lot at about a month old and I caught her in my arms. My 2013 gelding ended up hoofing her on the back while my arms were wrapped around her. The absolute lack of respect for such a young foal and for myself was the last straw with that gelding. Beforehand he had ended up killing two adult barn cats (cats were trampled or spines snapped from biting, left them with severe nerve/lung damage and had to be put down) that ultimately left a fresh week old litter of kittens orphaned. I will put up with a lot of behavior issues, but complete disregard for a defenseless foal is not something I will. Thankfully he went to a good home out of state though, I made sure of that!