This year has really been good at Hairicane Ranch with definite progress towards our horsey goals. Years ago we went to some of the mini races and decided to get some minis so we could enjoy driving and do the races too. Well by the time we got land to actually have minis the mini racing in Florida went belly up. Over the years we got some of ours fairly well trained but never 2 at the same time. This year, thanks to Keely, we now have 2 VERY well trained driving stallions. And all 4 of us, horses and humans, have a blast going out for drives. Next we want to go on more group trail drives and start showing a little in driving.
We have constantly upgraded and added to our herd and now have most of the top bloodlines that I have admired for so long. I like a flashy horse so the upgrading has included buying appys, overos and some dilutes. This years foal crop was our best ever due in large part to Slate our Orion son. We are keeping 2 appy colts and 2 appy fillys all sired by Slate to go on with. While we lost several Slate overo fillies, born prematurely, we did get 2 loud overo/tovero foals sired by our young Cisco overo stud. We also managed to have 3 diliute foals in our foal crop. And in this slow horse market we sold about 38 horses this year including 26 that went out of the country. That totaled half our herd and now we have a more managable number and much lower feed bills :aktion033:
Next year will be exciting as we should have our 1st foals born sired by our black fewspot appy stud, our Little Kings Black Velvet son and our frame overo linebred Rowdy stud.
We have constantly upgraded and added to our herd and now have most of the top bloodlines that I have admired for so long. I like a flashy horse so the upgrading has included buying appys, overos and some dilutes. This years foal crop was our best ever due in large part to Slate our Orion son. We are keeping 2 appy colts and 2 appy fillys all sired by Slate to go on with. While we lost several Slate overo fillies, born prematurely, we did get 2 loud overo/tovero foals sired by our young Cisco overo stud. We also managed to have 3 diliute foals in our foal crop. And in this slow horse market we sold about 38 horses this year including 26 that went out of the country. That totaled half our herd and now we have a more managable number and much lower feed bills :aktion033:
Next year will be exciting as we should have our 1st foals born sired by our black fewspot appy stud, our Little Kings Black Velvet son and our frame overo linebred Rowdy stud.