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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Sitting on the tarmack at New Orleans airport, I had the opportunity to meet a father and his grown son from North Carolina. You ever strike up a conversation and have an immediate connection?
Yesterday, I experienced that and it was talk of quarter horses. This brought back a lifetime of memories of my younger years – the quarter horses I had, raised, shown and loved. My love for horses extended to my oldest daughter and as she grew….she trained, rode and competed with some of the top eque read more...
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Monday, June 29, 2015
There is nothing like having an elbow locked cria in the birth canal with a maiden mom.
What an experience that was, trying to help deliver a mom who had stopped pushing (and for good reason).
Glove and lubed up, going in and trying to figure out what was wrong. Not my idea of fun, watching this little cria stuck and not going anywhere. Hoping we can help and trying not to hurt mom and cria.
This story has a happy ending.....Thank God we were able to push the cria back in and gently p read more...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
This time of year means nicer weather, the promise of babies being born and most importantly, fleece harvest. Shearing is one of the most exciting processes that validates the quality of our fleece output, herd, health and breeding improvements made from the year before.
The manual process is done by our shearer, a professional in her own right who works very hard to ensure best the fiber yield, animal & human safety and pleasing style. A shearer’s job is a difficult one and a good shearer ma read more...
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Monday, May 11, 2015
At the 2015 Priority Auction, we sold a dam & cria pair – Patagonia’s Cholena & her cria, Liberty’s Allegiance.
Liberty’s Allegiance, a little true black girl with a gorilla face and fleece smothered head was, let me put it mildly….very hard to part with. They say, to be successful at auctions, you have to sell your best. And this little girl, was outstanding!
This weekend, at the CABA Classic show held in Portland, I got a chance to show her for her new owner Nancy Chapel, of Patagonia Es read more...
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