Jerry and I spent most of the weekend just playing with Timmy instead of doing chores. We ran out of material to work on the barn, but that was ok because Timmy "needed" us to play! After serving breakfast to the Prancers and after they were all turned out, we brought out our coffee and just sat and watched them all at play in their various fields. That was the most relaxing part of our day.
The most fun part was giving Timmy his sponge baths! Oh how he loves his little sponge baths. Jerry holds him and I just take a bucket of plain water and ring out a sponge and rub him all over for some heat relief and he thinks that is sooooo fun! Then we turn him loose and he runs! ZOOOOOOMMMM! What a fireball.
He also seems to be shedding hair on his face. I always thought that horses were going to be whatever color they were at birth, but I guess I can be wrong on that.
His face is black underneath the brown,
and down near his nostrils, from what I can see now is a white marking of some kind.
So far it looks like an upside down triange shape. Possibly a blaze is coming, not sure, but his daddy Nick does have a thickish white snip and part of a stripe there.
Hard to tell what it is, but there is a definate white marking now on his face.
On both sides of the top of his black tail, he has two white patches of tail hairs coming in. Is this the mark of a skunk?
He has a black area on his butt, that was there when he was born and also black "shoulder pads" that was there since he was born too. There is black hair under all his brown hair on his body. So I wonder what he's going to turn out to be. Gee whiz, just when I thought he was going to be a plain old BAY a color that I know what that is!
Could he be turning black? And it is definately black, not seal brown or dark brown.
We did get some fencing work in. Finally finished Nick's new field that I have been trying to get done for months. Just one more field to finish now. I have to get another roll of fencing and 20 more metal tee posts. And oh yea, make more picket gates.
A huge thank you to Judy from Zachary Farms for calling Jerry on the phone and giving him some directions on how to correctly trim his little feet and some links for pictures to look at. We did try and got some done, but not a lot because my rasp is HUGE so I have to get a smaller one on Monday, and then we are going to do it some more. It's all fun!
Here are some pictures that were taken today of Timmy wearing his halter like a big boy! We are making him wear it a little bit every day. I'm not really leading him on the rope at all, but just clipping it on there for now.
The most fun part was giving Timmy his sponge baths! Oh how he loves his little sponge baths. Jerry holds him and I just take a bucket of plain water and ring out a sponge and rub him all over for some heat relief and he thinks that is sooooo fun! Then we turn him loose and he runs! ZOOOOOOMMMM! What a fireball.
He also seems to be shedding hair on his face. I always thought that horses were going to be whatever color they were at birth, but I guess I can be wrong on that.
On both sides of the top of his black tail, he has two white patches of tail hairs coming in. Is this the mark of a skunk?
We did get some fencing work in. Finally finished Nick's new field that I have been trying to get done for months. Just one more field to finish now. I have to get another roll of fencing and 20 more metal tee posts. And oh yea, make more picket gates.
A huge thank you to Judy from Zachary Farms for calling Jerry on the phone and giving him some directions on how to correctly trim his little feet and some links for pictures to look at. We did try and got some done, but not a lot because my rasp is HUGE so I have to get a smaller one on Monday, and then we are going to do it some more. It's all fun!
Here are some pictures that were taken today of Timmy wearing his halter like a big boy! We are making him wear it a little bit every day. I'm not really leading him on the rope at all, but just clipping it on there for now.
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