Draft Mare

Blog featuring RH Queen O Anywhere aka Sydney, a Belgian draft x Appaloosa mare and our dressage and health adventures. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

[draftmare]

I've gotten to ride once this week, then it was too hot, and now it's too smokey. This summer can sod right off.

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This is fun. Not.

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It just keeps getting worse. 🫠

[draftmare]

I've gotten to ride once this week, then it was too hot, and now it's too smokey. This summer can sod right off.

[draftmare]

This is fun. Not.

[draftmare]

I've gotten to ride once this week, then it was too hot, and now it's too smokey. This summer can sod right off.

[draftmare]

Two kids with two different philosophies. One would rather stand in the shade all day, and the other never comes up for air.

[lusitanohorses]

[draftmare]

He's back! And he touched his nose to my fingers when I ran out to see him this morning. I'm so happy. I have been so worried about him.

[draftmare]

Effie did not want to be photographed tonight, but look at these feather colors! 😍

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A pretty girl. 🥰

[draftmare]

Nuggie! Cars are not for chickens!

Driving along and suddenly there is a Nuggie. Thankfully I was just driving around the farm to deliver water to the back pasture.

[draftmare]

Oh course Arty couldn't start getting hives from bug bites during the July 4th sale. Noooooo, he had to start right after! So, a vet visit later, I am now looking for a 72 or 74 fly sheet that is not mesh. Needs to be durable Polyvinyl or Textilene material. Like, oh I dunno, the $200 Rambo. 🫠

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It's been a week and a half since I released Elliott, and I have seen zero signs of him since. Hopefully he is just laying low to heal. I try really hard to not get attached to feral cats because we have a big coyote population here. Outdoor cats come and go pretty quickly. I had high hopes since Elliott seemed to be sticking close to the house and barn. He was getting pretty brave around me too.

Now there is a brown cat coming around and eating from the food bowl.

[draftmare]

Watching me, watching them.

[a-big-chicken-nerd]

CHICKENS FOR YOU MY MYSTERIOUS BENEFACTOR!!!!!!

[draftmare]

Oh Nuggie, tables are not for chickens.

[tomorrowsgardennc]

technically Nuggie is correct because tables are for chicken nuggies and this is a chicken named Nuggie so therefore it does belong on the table thank you for your consideration.

[draftmare]

Nuggies are not for eating! Nuggies are for snuggles and sitting on tables.

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This weather is lame. Finally got to ride my pony after not riding for almost two weeks other than a lesson. Was done by 7am and it was already starting to get gross.

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While obsessively cycling through my cameras as my neighbors spent another night shooting off explosives, I caught this little one so asleep she was about to nose dive off the perch.

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Turning into one heck of a pretty bird.

Tonight is the babies' first night sleeping in the coop. There was some serious temper tantrums happening to start. I snuggled them up with an auntie on both sides, and by my third check everyone was falling asleep.