2008 Flying V Ranch News

The most fun in breeding horses is the anticipation of the foal’s arrival. Each spring is like Christmas; who is going to foal when and what is the foal going to look like? The three broodmares I purchased in March 2008 were already in foal to a beautiful big buckskin roan. We got a blue roan, a buckskin and a black; all three are exceptional colts. Next year I get to anticipate the arrival of my stallion’s foal!

I have a foaling pasture that I like to use to bring the mares in when I see they are getting real close to foaling. This pasture is located up close to the house and just outside our bedroom window. We lie in bed and look out each morning; “Is there a baby yet?” Lovie was so big I thought she was going to explode while Midnight just looked like she was being fed well. Midnight’s previous owner warned me that she never shows; she just pops out a baby.

The wee morning hours of June 14th we looked out the bedroom window with eagerness, “Is there a baby yet?” Our focus was on Lovie in the top pasture and noticed a dark figure walk out from behind her. “Yeah, she’s had her baby!” Then we noticed Midnight in the lower pasture walking toward the water trough and behind her a quick ghost like image darted past. We both started and looked at each other, “what was that?” “Oh my gosh; it’s a little buckskin baby. Midnight had her baby too!”

When we went out to the pastures to gather up the mares and get them in to stalls so we could imprint the colts, we noticed that Lovie gave birth along her fence line that parallels Midnight’s pasture and Midnight gave birth along her fence line that parallels Lovie’s pasture; and both colts had the same amount of dampness so they were born relatively at the same time. What are the odds of that?