Tra la la .... BABIES!

Man this year has been a year of surprises! So last week I went out to the field to catch Moriah for her Preg Check and when i got to the gate can anyone guess what I found???? Yep thats right, a BABY! haha :P Satin foaled about three weeks early at 324 days.  here is what she looks like.

We named her Oprah (pending registration her name will be Chic's Missing Oprah) we decided that name on the day of Oprah's last show. Shes a spunky little girl who loves to run when we let her out of the barn haha :P with all this rain we have every stall full up in the barn with newer or injured babies. Lets just say i'm sick of cleaning stalls lately haha Well update on some babies. When the weather clears i'll go take better pictures of some of the other babies. but its sooo nasty outside that you can't even tell if the babies have white socks or not haha its that bad!

This is Tarzan, who is Jane's foal by Ike Take Time. When he was born he was the biggest foal i've ever seen! his back came up to my hip. :)

This big boy has been named The Hulk, when he was born he certainly did not look like a new born. more like as if he was a couple of weeks old. His neck is so thick and he is just a tank. He is out of Monkey and Fame. love love love

Now meet Rio. He is out of Jill and Chic. He is a stunning baby and absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately he was born with a utrophic (spelling??) eye, meaning his bottom eyelash rolls inward, after the vet unsuccessfully tried the usual method of pumping the eyelid full of penicillin and rolling the eyelid back out, she tried doing a couple of tucks with stitches on the corners of his eyes. It worked :) and he will be just fine <3 When he wants to he holds his head up really erect almost proud like and looks amazing. If i had the money/time/place to buy and raise this boy he would be on my list to get! :)

If you look at the top picture and at the second leg from the left, do you see that odd bump on its leg near the hoof? it actually is a second foot that started growing there before he was born. Since he is not one of our mares i was so excited to get to see his foot. i thought it was absolutely cool, although i don't know what the owners are going to do about it and whether or not it is surgically removable or not.

I thought this was just a lovely picture of the mares out in the field. We got to see about 20 baby canadian geese but didn't have our cameras with us at the time. Man this year has been good so far. I'm working with a girl from Olds, her name is Amanda and she is just awesome!! her driving of the quad on the other had is always fun haha here was my reaction the one day.

Since Amanda doesn't like photos i had to sneak this one in as she was comin through the gate. truly she makes my job entertaining and we have such similar senses of humor that is makes work even more fun. Practial jokes are definitely part of the day. Feeding is never uneventful. Either its her running me over or me dragging her behind the trailer in the mud. haha I love it! <3