Recent content by Bluewater Minis

I don't have plans to build one, but you can always purchase a sleigh and then copy it... Here's the one we have. Good luck!

If the stallion you're looking at is reportedly only AMHA registered, I would look up his dam in the AMHR studbook to see if there is a matching foal. Sometimes they have a different name in the other registry and you may not find them under their known name. I have a mare that I purchased as...

If you can't get the meds from the vet you normally use, call another vet. I couldn't believe that my favorite trusted vet didn't seem worried when we consulted by phone about Lacey's lameness. So I called the vet that I actually HATE (the idiot had told me last year to PULL on a mare's...

Wow! What a timely post for us! I read this thread yesterday morning, and realized that our little Lacey (the blind filly with cataracts) may need to be treated for joint ill. She had come up lame on her RF last Friday morning, but had no obvious signs of injury or heat. She seemed fine...

I'm so sorry for the loss of your two colts this season...it is truly heartbreaking when it happens. Here's a hug for you and your mare(s).

I'd vote that it's gotta be sabino. We have a sorrel sabino mare (Pippin) who started out solid and now each summer shows more sabino roaning in her coat. Her winter coat darkens back up to solid sorrel. Even her face shows more white sabino roaning each summer. We have another mare (Bambi)...

Just be patient with her. I started ALL our mares and fillies with neck scratches or another favorite spot, and while scratching in one of those spots, I'd get the other hand working down towards their belly for a scratch or two. Just gradually desensitizing them over time (in some cases...

I'll bet he went UNDER the fence...you may have to add a rail a little lower down. But he could have jumped over, as we have a 33" mare who vaulted her 4 foot paddock fence twice (and there's no way she went under the fence). I'd still bet though that he went under as one of our stallions can...

Hi there, We've been feeding Safe & Sound (by Acco Feeds) or Safe Choice (by Nutrena) and generally are pleased with coat and body condition, but this year with our lesser quality hay supply I have two broodmares who are not doing as well with this feed. They are current on dewormings &...

Thanks everyone! I had to go play with my new baby Rocket again after posting his photos, and each time I mess with him I'm even more in love. His sire is more aloof, but his dam is a love bug, and Rocket looks to take after that part of her temperment -- BUT he really is a little rocket...

After some heartbreak over the past month with diagnosing a filly's cataracts and then losing a pinto colt, we're happy to announce the birth of our latest foal -- a handsome pinto colt whom I think will be a silver bay. He is sired by Cross Country Sharp Dressed Man, making him a Lazy N Redboy...

We had an issue about a year and a half ago with a neighbor's dogs coming over and messing with our minis while we were gone. The first time our other neighbor heard the whinnies and saw the dogs running the horses, so they ran over and chased the dogs off. The next time we found blood on...

Thank you everyone for your kind words, thoughts and prayers. Just when I think I can't cry anymore, there are more tears. I know it will get easier with time, but it's hard not to blame myself and wonder "what if?". Hindsight is always clearer, and next time I'll just have to trust my...

I was planning to post photos and announce the birth of our latest addition, a chestnut pinto colt by AMHR National Champion NFC Peppys Playmate, but the day did not turn out like we thought. "Manny" was a lovely dark chestnut pinto colt with a funky 1/2 blaze on the lower portion of his face...

I haven't yet read through all the responses on this thread yet, but I have been thinking about a breeding stock division for over a year now. I had found an exquisite mare that I absolutely drooled over and wanted desperately , but she was 36" tall and still had her AMHA papers (one of...