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Tessa's Filly Sold
Ruth is now back from Niagara Falls and told us all about her trip on our walk. When we reached Joan's house she showed us all the work her children, their spouses and her grandchildren did on Saturday. It really was impressive. We had to stop 3 times for traffic on our drives. Mike had saddled both Shadow and Roseberry and took them with the 4 wheeler.
Then David stopped by with is truck and trailer hauling a lawn mower but had trash to dump. And last was Mike driving the tractor over to Joan's to pick up the remains of Spark's hot tub trailer and that was put on top of the other scrap.
They had Fedi's dump trailer and my truck loaded with scrap. Fedi went with Joan to take it to the scrap yard and they made over $700.00. I left for the bank to put the check in for Basilea but on the way home my phone rang. It was a buyer for Tessa's filly. 
The man was thrilled and told me he would mail the deposit check today, then told me her name was going to be Lucy. I explained that would be ok but purebred Friesian foal's names are supposed to start with G H or I this year. He is going to think about if he wants to change the name or not. Anna went to help Mike and Diane clean their office. Braelyn was up cleaning the foaling apartment. Sarah was here working with Harli when I needed to leave. The shipper for Basilea gave me an eta of around 1:30 pm so when Joan brought the truck back that was hooked up to the stock trailer and Basilea was loaded and taken to the water tower. The trailer was 41 feet long and with the truck it would make the turn into our drive.
Basilea was a little confused about the ramp but after thinking about it for a few minutes walked in. They have a long trip and are going to do it in 2 days. Today they hope to make it to the far East side of Ohio where they have 2 nice stalls waiting for them. There is another horse on the trailer so I am glad she wasn't traveling herself. Tomorrow is a 12 hour trip to make it to Maine. Hoerr vet clinic called to report Dr. Hoerr would be leaving shortly for our place. I took the golf cart over to get the mares in the stalls when Emma from the clinic called back to say, "just kidding" He isn't coming he got an emergency call in Tremont and then will come. Sarah was here with Berlica and Zion practicing their vaulting. They showed me what they were working on.
About an hour later, after all of my help left, The clinic called again and told me he is just leaving Tremont now. I was able to get 4 of the mares, 3 with their foals and Penny into the stalls. Mike brought Dancer over. Penny was sonagrammed first and we are thrilled to announce she is pregnant. Evan is the sire of this foal She is due June 24th, 2027. We could even see the heart beat.
Next we walked into Rosaleigh's stall. Her colt was fascinated watching what Dr. Hoerr was doing to his mother. Check out his eyes! I think he was shocked to see that long arm of Dr. Hoerr's disappear into his mother's rear end.
Rosaleigh is also pregnant and is due April 6th, 2027. This foal was so far along we could see the ribcage on the ultrasound.
Next was Tessa's turn. She was bred to Valiant the same day Penny was bred to Evan and we could also see the heart beat of her foal.
She is due the same day as Penny June 24th, 2027
Next we had Dr. Hoerr ultrasound Harli to see where she is. She had a very big 53 cm follicle but did not have any edema or seem to be in season. I teased her to both Valiant and Evan. Dr. Hoerr gave her a shot and we will try tomorrow morning at 7:00 am. She may or may not ovulate, but at least I will know when to start counting for the next cycle. Last was Dancer. She had a clear but older CL but had some developing follicles so was given a shot to short cycle.
We will bring Oliver home on Friday or Saturday, try to breed her then haul them back to Middle Grove together. It is good to have a plan.
After supper tonight I went back to let the mares into their paddocks then over to the cabin field to check on the hay. This hay had been put up dry but then the bales were rained on by 5 inches of rain. They just didn't look like when we bought them. Mike put one in the cabin field so I checked on that one. They have a good amount eaten out of the middle. There is some stems but most were green and fine.
They will do ok on this hay for the winter but there will be more waste than usual. After the 5 inches of rain in the spring they now have been rained on by 8 inches more. Hopefully most of the rain rolled off the net wrap. Sarah and her girls were out riding Penny and Jury. I met Rachel and David on the road speaking to Spark and Rhonda. Mike was working, using the excavator to put out the small fire they started to burn some debris.
Diane came out to visit so by the time I got back in the house over 45 minutes had flown by. It really is wonderful living out here with so many family members as neighbors. We sure do enjoy visiting. Rachel and David leave tomorrow for Ireland.
