Here is my favorite girl, because I worked so hard to get her here (took three years for the mare to hang onto the pregnancy), and because she is everything I hoped for (almost...was surprised to see black out of two buckskins, not because it can't happen, just figured...well...maybe a dilute?):
Raftered Hearts Raven Star
(Mountain Highs Winsalot II (Buckeroo grandson) X Samis Imadorable (Orion Light granddaughter)
(she is also in my avatar and another shot of her here):
This mare was NOT conditioned for these photos, nor clipped. I did clean up her face and clipped her muzzle, but other than that, she had a bath and came out of the pasture w/her then four month old filly still on her side, and in foal three months as well.
So looking forward to her next foal with Incredible, especially now that he is with Debra.
And our other producing mare, Mouse's dam, Cherry Bomb (so named because her sire and dam had their tryst on July 4, 1996.):
This is Gramma Pony's or Dell Tera's Betty's last foal, the only one she had for us, and our unexpected gift. She's given us four beautiful foals already, one pinto filly and three colts by the same stallion, each a different color, one black, one silver (Mouse) and one palomino. She is a silver chestnut, obviously.
She is also due to foal by Incredible in January of '06. She is also broke to drive, and despite her explosive name, she is the easiest mare to drive, and pretty much just handles everything with great aplomb.
So I have to list the two that are not producing, but "A" mares nonetheless:
Cherry's dam, Dell Tera's Betty. Taken on her 29th birthday this last July. She has very few teeth, but holds condition really well on her sr. pellets. Not many living daughters of Dell Tera's Hippy, but she is one of them.
and:
Lailah's first foal, a 2005 filly by Crabby Chicken's beautiful Pharaoh son:
Raftered Hearts Raven's Lark.
Unless someone can talk me out of her, she will be in our broodmare herd someday.
Those are my "A" mares (have no other size of minis right now anyway, so that's all my mares! *LOL*)
I think what we lack in quantity, we make up for in quality. At least I tell myself that on the years when we have maybe one foal at a time.
Liz M.