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WOW!!! It's amazing how much they can change color. I guess I will just have to wait and see! Thanks for the pictures!

Thank you! For future reference, what is it about him that would cause you to say "liver" chestnut? What's the difference between chestnut and liver chestnut? Is liver just darker or is there something else?

Yes, that's what I was thinking. He does not have a black mane and tail or silver, so he couldn't be bay or silver bay, I just do not know where the dark splotches come from. So there is something called a sooty modifier that can throw dark splotches?

We just clipped a couple of our colts yesterday. One of our colts was born looking like a sorrel pinto. Over the last couple of weeks, he started shedding out very dark around his eyes and his ears and we noticed that at the root of his hairs he looked very dark. After we clipped him, he has...

Thank you Sandy! I am so glad Gracie is happy and laughing again

Ahh Nathan! I knew you would have very abrupt, specific answers for me ~ THANK YOU! I knew I could count on you!

Thank you Stacy for your "2 cents worth!" I would like to think that my 2 senior stallions are those that just know when the time is right. I pasture bred my mares last year and these 2 boys got every mare given to them pregnant in the first month. I had 8 mares all foal in the month of...

Thank you for your reply! The mare that has the stains down her back legs did not get them the first day that I hand bred them or the next four days when she was in the lot next to the stallion. The next day after she WAS bred, I did not try to breed them, but for the next 3 days, I tried...

Thank you so much for "bumping" me, I really do appreciate it! And thank you for sharing your thoughts!

I have the best solution of all! Just send her to me! I have 2 two acre lots that are both more than half shaded and one more smaller lot on our lake that is almost completely shaded. I think she wants to come live with me Poor baby, I know how she feels. I have very light blue eyes and...

I am hand breeding all my mares that I want bred for 2012. I have hand bred mares before, but never so many, and I did not realize it could be almost as exhausting as foaliing season!! Anyway, I have some questions as each of my mares have behaved completely different! 1) Will some mares...

Thank you for the information and sharing of experiences! I am very relieved he does not have to be moved right now since I do not really have any other place to put him at the moment I was pretty sure he could not be fertile and I am glad to know there are no other reasons why he would...

At what age can he actually be fertile and need to be seperated from the mares?

I am used to seeing foals jump up on their dam's backs, or any other horse/or foals in play, but one of our 1 month old colts will walk up to any of my mares that are in heat sniff around them for a minute, "drop", get an erection, mount the mare from the side, swing to her rear, and immediately...

WoW! Then I have plenty. Thank you so much for the conversion!

I just had a mare lose her silver bay pinto colt at about 4:30 this morning due to dystocia/red bag. I had stayed up with her all night and was right there doing all I could do when she went into labor. By the time I got the little colt turned right so that he could be delivered, it was too...

Thank you for your kind words. My mare seems to be doing fine. I did go ahead and start expressing her colostrum and since she did not seem to mind at all and it seems to be helping her expell more fluids, I have already taken a good bit. I have another mare I was worried had wasted her...

One of my mares went into labor about 30 minutes ago. I had stayed out in the barn quietly waiting where she could not see me all night long. I was there and helping her during her labor, but could not save the little silver bay pinto colt. By the time I got the colt turned around, it was too...

I am so, so sorry for your and Gracie's loss. My first foaling of this season ended in a terrible tragedy as well. I had a total melt down and about decided to totally get out of the minis that I love so much because as is stated so much on here, "breeding minis is not for the faint of heart"...

Yes, the mare did drip for almost 2 days straight. She has not dripped since then and it has been another 1 1/2 weeks. Now when I express a little milk to test, the milk that was white, has turned back to opaque yellowish-white. Can colostrum build back up like a local horseman just told me...