Foal Friday - 2020

[milliepops]

Sorry I missed out this week! I have been away racing most of the week but I promise I will do some when I actually get more than a few hours at home!

Still loving catching up with everyone elses foals too! They grow so quickly though you don't always notice it until you look back at previous weeks!

haha yeah, just looked back at page 1... what a weed!

 

[monte1]

So sorry, I seem to have missed a few Fridays, everyone's foals are looking fabulous and all growing up so fast
Ollie has been a good boy, had his first trim from the farrier a week ago and was actually quite well behaved once he stopped trying to dash off :-D , he is certainly not scared of anything.
we have been practising some in hand work in preparation for Futurity videos and went on a little road trip on Friday to use a local indoor school and film all the footage, Ollie was a superstar, travelled like a pro, stood by the lorry when we cleaned and plaiting them both and then spent a fun hour in the school trying to get all the filming done- lovely photo of him and mum together hopefully attached

 

[Dyllymoo]

I love this thread, really makes me smile

 

[Surbie]

Please keep posting pics on Foal Friday, I really love seeing how they are growing and changing.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Nothing is beyond the realms of Dum Dum's teeth! His own head collar included! Though he has outgrown this one now! I have had to squeeze it on him this last week so I will need to look out my next size up! Don't get me wrong he is still a midget compared to what he should be but he is slowly growing up! Thankfully his bone seems to be filling out so he isn't as light legged as I thought he was going to be, he won't be like his sire though which is a shame as he has proper tree trunk legs for a shetland! He also currently going through the losing of the baby fluff stage and is turning black!

 

[milliepops]

I've hardly seen my gang today, so here's a snap from Tuesday

 

[Surbie]

Love Dum Dum's fluffline and Hera's ancient Greek reclining & dining style...

 

[lme]

Bit late but here’s another photo of Oz. He’s turning dark liver chestnut and appears to have grown 10cm in the past 3 weeks ?

 

[milliepops]

short of time again this morning so some pretty rubbish snaps

starting with my usual view when I crouch down to get a better angle... she comes over to see whats going on

getting the eyeball while she's having a snack!

 

[SashaBabe]

I can just imagine her saying "what are you looking at?" in that last photo

 

[monte1]

oh I love Foal Friday- even though I have been a bit lax of late, here are a couple of Ollie taken a few days ago.
we had some really great news this week, he was awarded gold grading at the futurity evaluations- and was featured and discussed in the webinar as well i am a very proud mum at the moment

 

[Bradsmum]

What a very handsome chap Ollie is too, no wonder you are v proud. Can't believe how much Hera has grown. Loving Oz's colour change and defluff. They are all super cool.

 

[ihatework]

He’s a lovely quality foal monte1. Remind me how he is bred?

 

[monte1]

He’s a lovely quality foal monte1. Remind me how he is bred?

thank you Sire is Vagebont Dam is by Roosevelt Quainton

 

[ihatework]

thank you Sire is Vagebont Dam is by Roosevelt Quainton

Not stallions I’m familiar with, but they have done you proud ?

 

[J&S]

Lovely head on your foal monte1.

 

[DabDab]

Congrats on the futurity monte

Is Hera getting as big as she looks MP?

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

The stubborn streak is coming out ... to get to their new digs they have to go through another field in which my TB's ever so kindly dug a moat around the gateway! Would Dum Dum go into the water? No! He would sit in it like a dog, on a loose rope quite happy but he wouldn't go through it! Even when he had all for feet in it he wouldn't go forward! I ended up having to take them the long way round that only involved squishy mud and no puddles! Pips was being MOST unhelpful with her child and kept trying to tank off into the field so I couldn't wrestle the little bugger efficiently by myself!

 

[J&S]

What a little monkey! But what a lovely scamper when he gets to the new field.

 

[milliepops]

Is Hera getting as big as she looks MP?

I think she's 12 hands ish now ?
Solid little number though ?

 

[Parrotperson]

he's going to be a proper Shitland!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

The stubborn streak is coming out ...
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But he moves very well, when he feels like it!

 

[SashaBabe]

So cute. Love the zoomies

 

[splashgirl45]

what a little character, love his face when he was sitting down,

 

[Bradsmum]

There's a little ponio who knows his own mind but still gorgeous.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

He has no fear - not even of water! He plays with the hose and loves my OH squirting his water bottle in his face he just didn't feel like walking through a 2in deep puddle that was only about 2ft across the way!

Stubborn.com ???

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

Yet again, late to the party. I was holding onto it instead of taking pics Friday. Farrier came to trim her toes! She wasn't too convinced but it's done now.
She is a pain to take pics of and the flies were horrid today. Anyone good at removing flies from pictures?

 

[splashgirl45]

she is so pretty, i am sure someone on here is clever enough to remove the flies for you...not me though!!

 

[Keith_Beef]

she is so pretty, i am sure someone on here is clever enough to remove the flies for you...not me though!!

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

Thank you so much Keith. What a gem. ??