New girls to Ickie

Elisabeth and Mikal came on a wisit today. They even bougt a gift to Ickie...two new girls. Ha was so happy to meet Emily and Olivia. Showing off, and then dooing his best to keep all the girls in one hird.Se how well he traned his "old" girls. They are all standing still and waiting while he chases the two new ones
Olivia is really groving into beein a beauty

Ickie is done chasing... then the other girls had to take an closer look - and thelling the newbies a thing and two about whos is beeing i charge.
I even managed to get a shoot of Nelly with her head up.. normaly she is ALWAYS eatingEven a little jog... To bad with her feathers.. thay ar all so terrible mud burned...

It's a girl!!!!

Yesterday Netta tricked me again... every year I have no idea that her foal is do so soon. I guess she preferes to do it all by herself.. and I hva to admit, I do understand her:)
So when I cme home late from jobb - she was standing there, proud showing me her new foal. I'm so happy wiht her - a black and white filly. Unusall drawungs on her.. spots on one side, and then almoust white on the other. She already have good fether - and she moves like all the Netta babies.

- Mona -

Makeover!

After many days of sunshine and a fairly high temperature, I expected the girls to finally shed their wintercoat.

Some of them are almost done, but Lilo - our bay yearling filly - still looked like a little mamoth!

We decided to shave her to get her 20 cm long wintercoat off - for months now I`ve been so excited to see what is hiding underneath all that hair....

And her are the pics - first one of her in full wintercoat!

And here a couple of hours later - a totally different horse!!!

And she even has a white spot on her belly - I had almost forgotten about that :)

She needs to fill out a bit and gain some waight, but I believe she will be a little beauty in a few years!

(And she is also in need of a bath - I couldn`t put her trough that too after the shaving - we`ll save it for another day...)

Look at the teddy ears - we couldn`t shave them hihihi....
Olivia had a quick wash as well today - her she is enjoying the sun and out of all the "winter-dirt"....unfotenatelly a little bogburned after all the mud we`ve had this winter, but I hope it will grow back soon.

The two fillies showing off.

Look at all the hair flowing on their feet:)

~ Elisabeth ~

Wow - what a weekend!!!!

Okay, first of all I have to warn you - you`re in for a lot of pictures now!

This weekend we went to England - the home of the Gypsy cobs.

We had made arrangements to met up with Loretta Rawlings and she would show us around to some of the leading breeders/dealers of the breed and we`ve had an amazing weekend!!!

And we just want to send a big THANK YOU to you for making this weekend so great and taking the time to show us around!!! And of course a big Thank You to Michael, Gordon and Jim for letting us come visit and see their fantastic herds!

We`ve learned so much and seen so many beautiful and spectacular horses!!!

And we all hope to see you again sometime soon - we`ve had a wonderful time :)

And now to the photos - I snapped over 500 pics this weekend and unfortenatelly I can`t blog them all....

But here are a few of them - enjoy! :)

Some of the stallions we saw - I couldn`t keep my eyes of them, they looked so, so good - the pictures don`t do them justice!!!

I kept drewling constantly all weekend.......

Lloyds

Guv`nor

The Pink HorseMonty

Rocket Tricky
Harrison

The Ringmaster

Abe

Beautiful, heavy mares in all the colours you can think of!
And lots and lots of lovely foals running around :)

And I just have to show these yearling fillies - we where stunned!

True beauties and look at all the hair on them already!!!

Okay, that`s it for now :)

~ Elisabeth ~

More Foals!!!!!

Yesterday I went to the field to see to the horses. Ther I found my mix pony in labour. I got to be a part of the birth. A pretty little filly. Dam Cheyenne Sire: Lord Sinclair Primrose - 3 days old. Her feet has already straigthend up... She is so sweet - calling for me when she hears my woise.

Orlando.. two days - he is the typical Ickie baby. Smal short body, with a pretty little head

Had to put in a photo of Nerfertiti - her winter coat is off... and look at the lovely dapples she has!! And then I'm really woudering if she is in foal, or just har a really fat tummy... she has no udder yet...

- Mona -