Tag: stallion

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number six.

Gannets on Bempton Cliffs,Flamborough,North Yorks.Lindsay.

Squirrel taken near the Castle Mill Stream in Oxford CH.

ONE LONELY SHEEP PEEPING THROUGH A GATE ON EXMOOR, MARIE.

The view from opposite the stone wheel at The Peak National Park in The Peak District. Karen, Stoke.

Sisco has seen it all before through and decided bed was the best place
whilst the silly puppy Ally was outside in the cold white stuff.

Emmi and Sox will be returning to Denbury by the end of the week. Emmi went to the Stallion yesterday and all went well. In three weeks we will have her scanned by the Veterinary to make sure that she is in Foal.

Our Mare in Ireland also went to a Stallion yesterday. Unfortunately she did not take to our first choice Stallion, although she was covered by him three times. If she does not get into Foal by the second choice Stallion I will not put her in Foal this year and leave her until early next year.

Checking back on the Diary, Lady is due to Foal in three weeks time. I will be leaving her camera on every night from next week. For the past two years she has been very late Foaling. I think she was getting on for a month late last year. I know that I was keeping watch every night for about two months. I wont be wanting that this year. With a bit of luck she may be early.

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. Getting short of photographs again.

Sox.

Cockatiel on the balcony which there a lot and will feed from the hand. Once again from Australia. Elsie.

Picture for the Forum; taken in my garden in Wales. PM.

I met these two on the coast path between Boscastle and Tintagel. CH.

A waterfall in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.

Thank you for all of your suggestion for the naming of Emmi’s Colt Foal. We have thought about what we would like, and although there were a lot of suggestions you sent in that we did like, the more we looked at him and his leg markings, we could not give call him Sox. The four white markings on his legs are in fact known as stockings, but we couldn’t really call him Nora Batty. Socks on a Horse, go to the first joint from the foot. The first joint being known as the Fetlock. Stockings go to the knee that Sox has.

Sox is very well marked Foal with four Stockings and a Blaze on the front of his face. Stockings on Horses do tend to make them stand out. Emmi has got two stockings and a sock. You may have seen how friendly Sox is in the stable. As far as he is concerned every person is his friend. He goes up to every one to greet them and he lets you know if you don’t give him the attention that he expects, by pushing you with his head. He is a happy Foal for ever bouncing and skipping about. The sooner Lady Foals and he has another Foal to run with the happier we are sure he will be.

I spoke a couple of days ago to the Stud in Ireland that we have our Horse at, that we are hoping to get in Foal. She has been to the Stallion twice. As of yet the mating has not been successful. She is going back to the same Stallion again this week and we can only wait again. Every thing is happening as it should. There doesn’t seem any problem with the Mare and the Stallion has already shown that he is fertile by getting other Mares in Foal this season. Now and then a Mare and Stallion don’t manage to produce a Foal. You put the Mare to another Stallion and they go straight into Foal. I will be disappointed if we don’t get a Foal from the Stallion that we have chosen as our Mares Sire and the Stallion we have chosen has produced Group three winner. We have started to look for another Stallion that she could go to if the mating is not successful this time.

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

Bliss and Misty.

Dave my partners best firend Patch or Fat Man as we all call him. f Newquay harbour from up at the top of the road. Sue.

LINTON FALLS. Lynne.

The first two photographs on today’s Photo page were sent to me by Bliss and Misty’s Trainer in France. He is pleased with the way that the two Fillies are progressing. On speaking to him he has told me that if they keep progressing as they are, they could have their first race in June. I reckon that they look very good. Let hope they run as good as they look.

Unfortunately for a change the weathermen got the forecast right. We were woken just before 3.am by the wind forcing the rain onto the window. The wind was shaking the windows of the Farm House so fiercely that we thought that they may break. It carried on for a good two hours and then became a lot less windy. When we got up to feed the animals it was still quite calm. By 9.30am the wind started to blow up again. Not as bad as it was in the night but still quite fierce. It was to wet and cold to let the Foal out today, and it doesn’t look as if it going to be a any better tonight or tomorrow.

The camera has turned up for the remote controlled Duck, hopefully Jack will get time to finish it during the week and post it back to me. If we get it back in time for the weekend, I will try it out on the lake.

I had a little fright this afternoon, when I looked at the Foal on the webcam. Emmi was pawing the Foal as if she was trying to get it to get to its feet. The Foal was taking no notice, of even making the slightest of movement. The way it was lying didn’t help. It was tight to the wall, bum in the air and head into the stable bed. I really thought that it may have died. Even when I got to the stable and touched the Foal it didn’t stir until I lifted its head. It has started to have a little nose into Emmi’s feed bucket. It is surprising how quick that they do join in with eating the feed. We have to start thinking about giving the Foal a stable name. Send in a few of you suggestions to the Forum.

We now also need to think about what Stallion we are going to send Emmi to this year. I don’t really like ending the Horses on long journeys to the Studs. We don’t have a very large choice in the West Country. The Stud we sent Lady and Woody to has closed, their better Stallion have been taken back to Ireland. There are a couple of Stallion fairly close by, within a couple of hours travelling time that I may consider sending Emmi to. With Lady it is going to be a problem. Her breeding really warrants a good Stallion, but there is nothing close by that would be suitable for her.

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number one.

My dogs, Maggie and Millue waiting for their tea.FF (Rose)

These two beautiful Black Labs – mother and daughter, I think, possibly, kept visiting us at our Campsite in Cornwall last year. They looked to be quite comfortable posing by our Landy!!
Julia.

My sisters Springer Sam from Cornwall I don’t know if men are welcome on this site as we don’t get the time to natter like the Ladies! I’ve spent many hours since June last year watching your site and love it. CH Oxford

Hope you can get this have called it evening chat. Cant remember when I took it. Elaine.
Sunrise over St Ives Bay Cornwall.Lindsay.

Sunrise over St Ives Bay Cornwall.Lindsay.

For the past two night I have shown the lower Badger Sett entrance feeding site. When it is zoomed in at the back you are able to see on the right hand side, one of the sett entrance and exit holes. You may have seen the black and white photograph of a Badger coming out of the hole that I put on the Photo page a little while back. This place was the first that I had ever put a camera up to try to see the Badgers. We didn’t see many Badgers, as at the time. The Sett only had three Badger living in it. The other reason was that it was not the main entrance and exit hole, that at the time was well hidden. I only found it by chance, when I thought that I had broken my leg after as it disappeared down a hole very close the main entrance, that I first visit when I feed. The little field that it is in, would now be too dangerous to put the Horses into, as there are to many Badger excavations, that their legs could go down into. last year when I was putting in a wire for the camera that faces the main Sett entrance, there were so many holes that it has made it quite dangerous for me to walk about. Ever few steps that I made by the hedge, one of my legs would find a hole. We leave the field un-grazed or cut to encourage the Voles, in the hope that a Barn Owl will start feeding and eventually find one of our nest boxes.

Our Mare in Ireland, that went to the Stud to be covered by the Stallion, did not get in Foal. It was probably a good thing, for she could well have had the Foal in December, making it a yearling, only a few days later. She was put to the Stallion again If that covering puts her in Foal, the foal would be due on the 24th of January next year. There will then be a very little chance of a December Foal. The covering of our Mare was the first that the Stallion had for this year and it would not be unusual for the covering to be unsuccessful. I would be disappointed if this covering does not take. We will know on the 10th of March one way or the other. I purchased the Mare without seeing her or knowing very little about her, other than she is a very dark bay, and that she had won one race, so when I spoke to the Stud today I asked them for an opinion on her. It seems that my purchase was very good. She was described to me as being a very good type, getting on for 16hh. and If we are successful in her getting her in Foal to the Stallion, it should produce an excellent Foal. The Stallion had its first runners last year. 48% of those that run won their races. This is an excellent strike rate. Even better, one of the winners won a Group 3 Race, the Dam of the winner being by a Stallion called Royal Academy. the same Sire as our Mare. So as you can imagine I am hoping.