Zauberfuerst placed in 3rd level

Zauberfuerst, the stallion Bella is pregnant from got his first placing at his first start in 3rd level dressage for young horses! He is 6 years old and I think that is quiete an achievment! He placed 2nd! :)

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No trouble with the other mare

Oh good!! I was a bit concerned Bella would be trouble when let out ont he paddock with the other pregnant mare. She has become a bit aggressive againt other horses recently because of the hormones. But the two big ladies just stood there being bored and ignoring each other. Good! :D

Now they are used to each other and hopefully won't make any trouble on the pasture together when they will have their foals. They will be let out with two other mares and their foals so that there will be 4 mares and 4 foals overall. :)

I bought a foal halter

:) Only 22 days left!

Yesterday I bought a cute little foal halter. I was a on a horse festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd. There were little shop tends standing around the arena. Some also had foal halters. I wanted to bux a noble leather foal halter bur none of them had leather halters for foals. So I decided to buy a normal one first and a leather halter later before I go to foal inspection. So I'll be able to try if it fits. This makes sense as leather halter are a bit more expensive. ^^

So I found a really cute black one with silver horses on it. They also had really cute pink and light blue foal halters. But as I don't know for sure wether it's going to be a colt or a filly I don't want to buy something like this yet. ^^

I also bought a foal training DVD by Linda Tellington Jones. :) I love her TTEAM and TTOUCH methods and I already used it to train my mare. I'm absolutely convinced that this mehtod helps horses to think about their actions and become more self aware and self controlled. So I absolutely want to train my foal the same way. :)

29 days left and my mare is crazy

Arrrgh… my crazy mare fell down on asphalt today! A friend of mine, who is a vet, examined her and said she and her foal were alright. Crazy girl… Usually she is soo soooo calm and well behaving. She always respects my space. Today she didn’t. She got frightened, slipped, jumped into me, I fell, she strumbled over me and fell herself. *rolls eyes* Oh dear… I can’t believe how much might have happened to her, her foal or ME!

Good news are that my vet looked at her right before the incident and said she looked really good ans sporty for her stage of pregnany. Weee! :)

She is already developing a little bit of an udder. Weee!!

My barn owners said I should get her used to another pregnant mare she doesn’t know yet now. She is supposed to share her pasture with that mare and her foal in spring and summer. So we should get them used to each other before the foals are born. I hope the mares will let the other mare live and won’t fight. Hormones are making them a bit more “aggressive” already.

17th birthday

Today is my mare's 17th birthday. It's the first birthday she celebrates being pregnant. ^^ Let's hope for many many many more birthdays for her being that fit and healthy. :)

No hoof shoes and it works! :)

Uff… honestly, I really had nightmares about taking away all 4 hoof shoes from Bella. Taking away the 2 hoof shoes on her hind legs has been a disaster in autumn, so that we had to put hoof shoes on again.

But this time it really worked! :) I learned from my mistakes in autumn. I use hoof hardener 3 times a week from the very first day on. I don’t let her walk on hard surfaces at all if possible and she’s not on the pasture every day yet. And I use hoof polish twice a week and pic her hoof put as good as I can.

She walks around as if nothing happened. You don’t see any difference in the indoor, even not in trot or canter. And she walks on hard surfaces really well too. She has got really good hoofes on her front legs, which is most important. The hoofes on her hind legs could be better, they are a bit small and have some little holes on the sole… I hope they will become a bit better in the next weeks.