Tomorrow

.... will be the day I'll drive her to the stud! Wohoo! :)

She's not in heat yet, but I wanted to bring her there just in time. :)

Vid of the stud

Here you can see vids of the stud I chose. :)

Vid of Zauberfuerst

Vid of his Sire Interconti

Vid of his Dam's Sire Caprimond

I'm sooo excited!!

A little math exercice ^^

As I already posted somewhere below, my Bella is a Bavarian warmblood. This breed has got an open studbook and is open to any licenced European warmblood breed and some Thoroughbreds. They only must be licenced (keured) and also accepted by the Bavarian warmblood comitee.

So my Bella is a registered Bavarian warmblood broodmare but when you look at her pedigree she's in fact:
50% Anglo-Norman
25% Hannoverian
~25% Trakehner

Pedigree Bellarina


The stud I chose, Zauberfuerst, is
100% Trakehner

Pedigree Zauberfuerst

So when everything works well my awaited foal will be "made of" these breeds: ^^
65% Trakehner
25% Anglo-Norman
~13% Hannoverian

.... math is fun when one waits for her mare to get in heat! :D

One week left

Today's only about one week left until I'll drive her to the stud or to my vet's clinic. My vet said her next in heat phase will be around april the 30th.

Until then there are a few more things for me to do:

1.) let the farrier come (it's about 7 weeks ago when he did her hooves the last time and I don't want to make a "messy" impression at the stud...

2.) ask the vet again wether the little amount of harmles bacteria might influence her fertility and wether he wants to clean her one more time before

3.) change her status from "allowed for slaughter" to "NOT allowed for slaughter" in her euqine passport. Though it wouldn't matter as I never want to bring her to slaughter or sell her, it matters when it comes to medical treatment. Horses who might be slaughtered are not allowed to get heavy medicine, which would make the meat unhealthy for humans. And I don't want to risk her not getting the medicine she needs when she's a few hundred kilometres away from me at the stud in case of an emergency.

Until I wait...

... for her to be in heat again, I could post a vid, so that it doesn't get boring... ;)

This is the way I always load her since 2 years or so, isn't she handy? ^^

Too late...

The vet came today... of course now it's too late. She's not in heat anymore. I have to wait 18 more days for the very first try... ugh.... :( :( :(

The only positive thing today was the great weather and the fact that she's behaving absolutely perfectly now for any gynecological examination. She's not even pinning ears. My vet was right, she got used to it. :)

She's in HEAT!!

OMG!! Could she have a timing which is worse? I don't think so...
Nobody works here in Germany on Easter sunday or Easter monday... so I phoned my vet today and asked him wether he would maybe have a look at her on monday and check wether her ovums are ready or not. I'll have to pay a huge holiday extra fee than but well... I think I can't wait until tuesday. And my vet won't be happy to work on a holiday neither...

The guy I phoned at the stud today told me they would "produce" semen on monday, but I had to pick it up myself, they won't sent it. Great, a huge vet bill and I'll propably have to drive for 5 hours just to get the semen.

This should better work out! :D :P

Bella's last show today!

Today was Bella's very last show I think. I will not manage to show her again before I'll let her cover and I will not show her when she's pregnant. Of course I will still ride her, but showing seems to be a little bit too more stress for a pregnant lady.... I want to reduce stress as much as possible then.


And when she will have had a foal and is 18 or so, I don't want to start showing again... I only want her and me to have fun and a relaxed life then. ;)


Today at our last show we were really bad because she was too excited. She's always very excited at her first show of the season so I expected that and I'm not dissapointed. We had a lot of fun in spite of that. We even met a very nice couple who told me they owned a half sister of my Bella and they just loved her. Especially her character and her looks must have been fantastic! My Bella reminded them a lot of her! They looked at my Bella and said: "It's sad we could not have a foal of our wonderful mare before she had to be put down.... could we buy your mare as a broodmare?"
Of course they didn't mean this seriously, because they knew I would never sell her. But we exchanged numbers and I promised them to tell them when she had her foal so that they could come and see it. :)


It was a funny day! :)

Not completely negative... again!

My vet phoned me 3 days ago.... he told me the laboratory had told him that Bella is not 100% bacteria free yet.... :(
He had cleaned her uterus with a mild desinfection lotion for 2 times now. She is already getting used to it, wohoooo!! :) But still, there's a tiny amount of bacteria left.

He told me if I would wish to let her cover naturally, he would not be sure to allow her for this kind of breeding or not. As I will use artificial insemination there's of course no rule about how bacteria free the mare has to be as she can't make the stallion sick.
But my vet wonders wether the few bacteria she has now might maybe decrease her fertility a little bit.

He wanted to clean her uterus again when she's in heat the next time. As I said: "oh, and I was already hoping that she could be bred when she's in heat the next time....", he thought about it a few seconds and then said: "Well, let's give it a try. I think she's bacteria free enough that it won't affect her fertility too much."

So she will be bred to in 2 weeks or so, wohoooo! I mean even with this few bacteria, the only bad thing which might happen is that she won't get pregnant with that try. If that's the case, I'll let the vet clean her again an we'll have another try next month.

Found my stallion!

In order to make it a bit easier for my purse I decided not to chose Imperio. But I found another one at the same stud who is like the more "cuddly" version of Imperio. He's another Trakehner and his name is Zauberfürst. :)

He was given premium status at his keuring (licencing). Now he's 5 years old and he was rideability champion at his 30 day test. When he was 3 years, he also was Vize-Bundeschampion.

At the stud, I was allowed to just go into his box and have a look at him, pet him and so on. He was very curious and very very very well behaving and cute. He has got a face to die for, honestly. :) I fell in love with him from the first minute on!

As the Sire and Dam's Sires of my Bellarina's pedigree come from this stud, they could give me brilliant advice concerning what foals out of mares with a similar pedigree looked like. They told me I really need to choose a stud with a short back as Bellarina's Dam's Sire was a really heavy and long backed guy. So Zauberfürst was one of the finalists in my favorite-stud-list. At the end my intuition sais it had to be him and the boss of the stud said he was sure I wouldn't make a mistake with Zauberfürst at all. :)

Can't wait until she's in heat the next time! :D