Dream's Foal Thread!

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Hey everyone!

I know this isn't anything to do with pregnancy or foaling, but I am too excited not to share!!

Today I just started my training with Dream for next years liberty class. She did AMAZING! I wont be showing till next fall, so hopefully that will give me some time to wean the foal and work with her more. Today I had my lunge line on her and had my carrots in hand, and made her run around me. Then I used my hand signal that I want to use for that and it took her maybe about 3 times before she came to me without the lunge line attached to her. I know I have ways to go, as I will be teaching her to come to me, put her head in my lap so I can put her halter on, and then I am going to do some figure eights with her, so this will take some time, but we made a lot of progress today, even though it was the first day. I was very surprised at how much we accomplished in one day.

Just had to share, once she is completely trained I am going to video tape it, so I will show you guys it if that's something that interests you.

I will possibly be doing this with crystal too, but I am going to take it one step at a time.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Fantastic!!!! Now don't get disappointed if she "strays" a few times during her training. But this sounds very good indeed!!!! Good job!!

Thank you!! I am very happy, but training is all new to me, so I have been researching it.

I much prefer hand signal training then fear based training. unfortunately I know a few people who don't agree with me. But, that's there problem, I have to deal with my own horses.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Absolutely! I'm not into any type of "fear" -- horses shouldn't fear you, they should respect you and work for you "from the heart" !!

Exactly! Now if we can just convince a few more people....

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Hey everyone!

Remember my dog, Addie, her pups that I showed you? Well I never got to show you them at 8 weeks old, I feel very sad, as I forgot, but I am going to show you now, and also some pictures of maddies pups! they are all in there new home!!

I took a tone of pictures of my pick of the litter, Reece. She is a red fawn, but actually turned out to be a red sable, which is very rare, that's why she has the black ticking. And now that she is older, she has a lot more!

 

[Wings]

Since I'm a liberty nut I'm looking forward to your video

 

[AnnaC]

Oh my those pups are simply gorgeous! Such beautiful, trusting little faces - to tie in with Diane's comment, they deserve to be in homes where love, respect and reward predominate!

Good luck with Dream, it sounds as though you have already made a great start.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Since I'm a liberty nut I'm looking forward to your video

Thank you.

I am very excited!

Oh my those pups are simply gorgeous! Such beautiful, trusting little faces - to tie in with Diane's comment, they deserve to be in homes where love, respect and reward predominate!

Good luck with Dream, it sounds as though you have already made a great start.

Thank you! They are so sweet! Yes, I agree completely. Yes, I am very excited, will be out tomorrow again to work with her!!

Those puppies are just tooooooo cute!!!! How wonderful they got good loving homes!! Did you keep any?

LOL thank you!!! They all went to great homes!! I wanted to keep two of them, but we already have 6 dogs, and we are going to keep the moms and spay them after they are done with puppies, and then keep them, as I love both of them and would never want to use them just for puppies and then have to rehome them. NO WAY is that going to happen!!

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Hey everyone !

Dream had a fantastic day today, she ran and bucked and kicked, she was so excited to be out in the arena! I also had a FANTASTIC time with Kelsey on our photo shoot with crystal! I will most definitely show you guys the pictures once I receive them!

Anyways, I was able to take some shots of Dream today and wanted to share.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Just beautiful!!! And there is nothing better than a good roll when it's all done!!!!

Thank you!! Oh totally! I was shocked that I got that picture.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Kelsey was very kind and gave me a sneak peak of Crystals photo shoot! So I am going to share the pictures with you.

 

[AnnaC]

What great pictures of two very pretty girls! It's great to see them having fun isn't it!!

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

What great pictures of two very pretty girls! It's great to see them having fun isn't it!!

Thank you! Yes, I was very happy that they were having such great fun out in the arena today. Very spunky!

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Hello everyone!

How is your summer going? Mine is going superb! Dream is officially 63 days today! Crystal is 29 days today, and has not come in since 18 days, so I think she caught this time!!! I hope so, as we have been trying since April. She will be vet checked next week, so I will let you guys know what the vet says.

Anywho, Kelsey gave me the rest of crystals photo shoot so I would like to share with you all some of them.

 

[cassie]

hehe so cute!! what lovely pictures

very pretty, can't wait to see what Crystal is cooking!

 

[Wings]

Looks like you had fun, no idea how you keep her clean though

:rofl

I hope she took this time

 

[AnnaC]

Great pictures!! She's such an attractive girl - keeping my fingers crossed that both she and Dream are in foal for you.

 

[All Decked Out Mini Farm]

Thank you everyone for the kind comments!

Crystal was preg checked at day 34 and came out not pregnant.

The vet that we use has arthritis in his fingers and doesn't have good sensitivity in his fingers either. She has not come in and she should have came back into season already if she were not pregnant, so we are going to use our other vet and see if she can feel anything. Crystal would be day 23 if she were in season, and day 41 if she were pregnant.

She definitely has been a hard one to get infoal, we will see what our other vet has to say.

 

[cassie]

oh I really hope she is in foal for you!!

 

[AnnaC]

Oh so do I - good luck with the second vet!

 

[Wings]

Fingers crossed