The birthday girl is one year old today, i will never forget her birthday, given the shock of it all!
My OH is 6ft tall so you can see how big she is.....
She refused to eat her birthday treat - sugar donuts - being a well brought up girl who doesn't do junk food.
Her mum had gone out but came back in as no one else had come out as OH had forgotten to tell me he had got the donuts so i went back up to get them. Suze came back on the yard, heard the gate click, thought it was a stranger as she thought i was probably in one of the stables i.e. down at the yard. She leapt in the air, snorting, ran around very scared, till she saw me when she stopped. I walked over, gave her a donut, and put her back out again. What on earth have people done to this mare.
Foally very carefully sniffed the donuts, tried a little piece and spat it out....oh well can't please everyone! The donkeys thought donuts were good, Rose and Molly had 2, Leo less impressed as they got stuck on his teeth. Suze had one but didn't want a second, so her birthday tea this afternoon we will have to try something else.
I remember her birth so vividly, going up to the barn, Vodka callling frantically, expecting a broken leg or something similar as it was a panic call, everyone still standing, then seeing all this blood in Suze's stable and wondering what the heck she had done to herself, then finally seeing a wobbly very wet foal. Given the length of her legs, thank god Suze managed to foal on her own. I have never been so scared in my life as i looked at them both and wondered ok, what do i do next?
Fleurette is a super chilled little lady, quite the best foal we could ever have wanted, and Suze, well, she is at least in a better place than she has been for most of her life.
My OH is 6ft tall so you can see how big she is.....
She refused to eat her birthday treat - sugar donuts - being a well brought up girl who doesn't do junk food.
Her mum had gone out but came back in as no one else had come out as OH had forgotten to tell me he had got the donuts so i went back up to get them. Suze came back on the yard, heard the gate click, thought it was a stranger as she thought i was probably in one of the stables i.e. down at the yard. She leapt in the air, snorting, ran around very scared, till she saw me when she stopped. I walked over, gave her a donut, and put her back out again. What on earth have people done to this mare.
Foally very carefully sniffed the donuts, tried a little piece and spat it out....oh well can't please everyone! The donkeys thought donuts were good, Rose and Molly had 2, Leo less impressed as they got stuck on his teeth. Suze had one but didn't want a second, so her birthday tea this afternoon we will have to try something else.
I remember her birth so vividly, going up to the barn, Vodka callling frantically, expecting a broken leg or something similar as it was a panic call, everyone still standing, then seeing all this blood in Suze's stable and wondering what the heck she had done to herself, then finally seeing a wobbly very wet foal. Given the length of her legs, thank god Suze managed to foal on her own. I have never been so scared in my life as i looked at them both and wondered ok, what do i do next?
Fleurette is a super chilled little lady, quite the best foal we could ever have wanted, and Suze, well, she is at least in a better place than she has been for most of her life.