Hot Weather Breaksfast for Minis/ Cool Water Ritchie Water

It's always a challenge to keep your minis (or any animal) cool when the weather gets above 95 degrees. I have discovered several ways in addition to those you read on the internet.

What to feed them to keep them cool? My horses breaksfast on a special gourment delight seen to the right. It may be a little hard to see the but the horses know. It is about 3/4 pound of alfafha/grass hay, with a fresh watermelon slice garnished with a sprinkling of oats. Nourishing and tasty the herd is ready for breakfast.

Coming towards her breaksfast is the foal, Neyitira. Behind her is the two year old Kissed by an Angel, then Neyitira's dam- Summer Breeze, the little colt Dyn-O-Mite and several more.

After the meal they like to loaf in the open shelter, complete with a Ritchie Combo Unit. This automatic water insures cool fresh water  that both the mares and foals can access.

Just word about these Ritchie waterers. They stopped making this model..I do not know why...I have three of them and by next week a fourth. They are the right height for adult minis, too high to poop in but just right for all the smallest minis. The low waterer are great for the short ones and the foals. I can keep horses on both sides, because the other side has the same configuration.
Clean, fresh, cool water and in the winter you can adjust to the perfect  warm water for the horses.
Ritchie, in my mine you  blew it when you stopped production on this model!!

One more photo, below is Rebel (Lucky Four Rebelchase Rebelheir) hanging out with his new friend, ZeePa, the black Russian terrier.

Toad Hill's June Bug

Toad Hill's June Bug - 2012

June Bug was foals 6/12/2006. She is registered AMHA/AMHR.
Link to foals:
Toad Hill's Dyn-O-Mite
Toad Hill's Mint Julep

                       Stout's Blackberry 30.5"
            S Bar P's Sir Prince (HOF) 32.25"
                        S Bar P;s Missy Mistry of Marion 33"
Sire: Toad Hill's the Great Gatsby 33.25"
                          Little Hoof's Midget Mite 31"
              Koch's My Angel 32.5"
                         Koch's Little Brandy 36"

                         X Calibers Little Navajo 31.5"
              HCM Navajos Bold Innovation 32"
                         NFC Tiny Mites Delight 33/5"
Dam: Klavohn's Oreo Delight 32.5"
                         Star's Sunburst 28"
              Klavoh's D. Q. Double Delight 31"
                         Sunshine Sweet & Low 28"

The Thundering Herd

This is a compilation of three photos of a several of my black and white pintos running then turned it into an animated gif.

From front to back:
Weaning filly....Summer Breeze's 2012 foal.
Weaning colt....Kiss Me Kate's 2012 foal
Mare. Kiss Me Kate
Mare. Summer Breeze
Stallion..Rebelchase Rebelheir
Weaning Filly (You just barely see her head, last horse)...Faerie Queen

June Bugs 2012 Colt-Dyn-O-Mite

Photos: 7/1/2014

ANNOUNCEMENT: Little colt will be registered as:

Toad Hill's Dyn-O-Mite!

Back to the birth announcement:
Gone all day, come home and June Bug had a little surprise by her side. The little kid is really small, will have measure him

The little kid was able to walk under his mom. She is about 34" tall but he did not seem to have any trouble going under.

Here he is all standing up straight, looking into the camera.

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As soon as I figure out a name, he will be registered both AMHA and AMHR. He was foaled June 6, 2012.

PEDIGREE OF COLT:

		Dell Tera's Checkers
	Dell Tera's Low Rider
		Dell Tera Sarah Lee
Foxfire's Picture Perfect
	Foxfire's Fire Ball
		S Bar's P's Sir Prince (HOF)
	Toad Hill's the Great Gatsby
		Koch's My Angel Baby
Toad Hill's June Bug
		HCM Navajos Bold Innovation
	Klavohn's Oreo Delight
		Klavohn's D. Q. Double Delight

 Photo Taken June 7, 2012

 Photo Taken July, 2012

Tovero Foal? - Got that Right!!

NEWS FLASH!!

Received	Breed	Name	Tobiano	LWO	SW1	SW2	SW3	Red/Black
7/28/2012	Miniature Horse	Toad Hill's Ghost Buster	nT	nO	nn	nn	nn	EE

Photos 2014

Photos from September, 2013

Photo Taken: 9/09/2012 - The coat has finally shed...he is JET BLACK!!

TOAD HILL'S GHOST BUSTERS is LWO positive and HOMOZYGOUS black.

He is heterozygous for Tobiano.   The photos below are when he was about a week old in "baby hair."

Last night (May 16th), I got up before 10 pm to check on horses before going to bed. One on the lawn, almost exactly where Willow had foaled was Katey with a very long legged "tovero" (I think she may have both LWO and tobinao genes, will test for both) foal.

Since we did not have Fancy Pants around (the sire of her first three foals) last year, we decided to breed her to Avalanche, a LWO overo, 33.5 inches. Now Katey is 32" and it did worry me, but I was assured by vets she should be okay, since the mare biologically controls the size of the fetus.

I was very surprised to see such a tall little guy. Can't believe how all those legs fit inside little Katey.

Does this foal have a medicine hat, only one ear is black, the other is white.

PEDIGREE:

                                AMHA: WINTER KNIGHT MMR 32.50"   

                 COLORWORLDS NEON KNIGHT 33.00"                  

                                AMHA: SUNKIST GOLDEN GIRL 30.00"   

SIRE: Mini Bucks Avalanche 33.00"   - FRAME OVERO                                         

                                                OH CISCO 33.50"

                                CIRCLE S CISCO'S KID 32.00"       

                                                JUMPIN MISS NO FLASH 35.75"

                                               

                                 HACKETT'S TINI TONI 30.00"     

                MINI BUCKS MIDNIGHT SKY 34.00"                         

                                S BAR P'S MISSY MISTY OF MARION 33.00"         

                                               

                                               

                                                AMHA: RAINBOW RIDGES STARBURST CODY 30.50"

                                WF FLASHY BOY 32.00" 

                                                CIRCLE S MISSY 34.00"

                 TOAD HILL'S OREO 32.00"                           

                                                UNREGISTERED SIRE

                                QUINCY MADE CAMEO 34.00"  

                                                UNREGISTERED DAM

DAM: Toad Hill's Kiss Me Kate 32.25"    TOBIANO                                  

                                               

                                                AMHA: RAINBOW RIDGES STARBURST CODY 30.50"

                                WF FLASHY BOY 32.00" 

                                                CIRCLE S MISSY 34.00"

                 TOAD HILL'S WIND IN THE WILLOWS 36.50"                        

                                                UNREGISTERED SIRE

                                 QUINCY MADE PATCHWORKS 37.00"    

                                                QUINCY MADE EMILY 36.50"

With all the excitement, little kid takes a nap with Katey watching over her.

NOTE: As I was creating this post I received a call from Cindy, a lady I had sole Toni Terrific, an all black mare to. She was all excited, Toni had her first foal...a filly last night as well. The sire: Avalance, the same as Katey's foal. Must have been a three some that night. I will go up tomorrow and get photos of Toni's foal to post under Avalanche's post.  :-)

Sire: Mini Bucks Avalanche. His sire is Colorworld's Neon Knight and his dam is Mini Bucks Midnight Sky.
Dam: Toad Hill's Wind in the Willows

More recent photos

Photos June 5, 2012

Colt and Filly Meet the Peacocks

More Photos: Sept. 09, 2012

Summer Breeze's First Foal- She's a Filly!!

July 30, 2012: NEWS FLASH!!

This filly is:

Horse Name	Breed	Tobiano	RFactor
Toad Hill's Princess Neytiri	Miniature Horse	TT	EE

This means she is HOMOZYGOUS for Tobiano and HOMOZYGOUS for Black.

Photos: July 5, 2013



Original Post: June 5, 2012

Toad Hill's Summer Breeze has her first foal.  Summer Breeze was not scheduled to foal for at least another month I thought, but you never know what the mare wanted to do. She was in a pasture with three other bred mares and two fillies. Got up about 5 am to start chores before going to work and there was a small pinto by the feeder with Summer, her filly and two other mares. I quickly escorted her and the foal out of the pen and onto the lawn.

One thing I have noticed, foals born on pasture (or lawn) are more active and alert than barn stall born ones.

Anyway, YEAH Summer!!!, this FILLY is perfectly marked.

Looks almost exactly like mom on one side and conformation looks just like daddy, Rebel.
Filly 1 day old.


More photos to come.

Sire: Lucky Four RebelChase RebelHeir
Dam: Toad Hill's Summer Breeze

June 5, 2012

Photos Taken: June 5, 2012

 

PHOTOS TAKEN 7/30/2012