Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
from the Oregon A-Team,
Ashton, Anna, Archer, Atley and Nana
3 dogs: Rosco, Bella and Molly
4 horses: Nevada, Thunder, Maisey, and Dune
5 cats: Mocha, Bandit, Silver, Cinder and Fortress
10 chickens
As 2021 comes to a close, we look back on a very big year for our family.
We’d like to welcome the newest member to our ranch family: “Expressive” born on May 17, 2011.
We waited a long time for this foal (baby horse)! Although most horses carry a foal for 340 day, Anna’s mare, Elbe, carried this baby for 374 days! She was a month overdue. At one point, weeks after the baby was due, Anna was convinced Elbe wasn’t even pregnant; only fat. She wasn’t showing any signs of being pregnant except for the “hay belly”. As it turns out, Elbe was “cooking her just long enough to be perfect.”
As Trakehner foals must be named with the first letter of the mother’s name, her name had to start with an “E”. With the help of her Trainer, Jeannette, we decided on “Expressive”, we call her Penny for short.
She is an absolutely adorable baby Trakehner. She is not as large as our last baby, Linux, who is a colt (male).
Here are some pictures of her.
What another great year. 2010 was another whirlwind of adventure.
To the right, you can see our latest addition to our Ranch, Linux, Trakehner colt (boy). You can also see Anna, Ashton and Mocha.
Today, our Trakahner Mare, Liana, gave birth to her first foal; an adorable Trakahner colt.
The Trakahner breed puts more importance on the mare (mother), so a Trakahner foal’s name must begin with the first letter of the mare’s name. Before we knew what gender the foal was going to be, Anna did a facebook survey with some filly/colt names that she liked. Here are Anna’s facebook posts and the comments from people who liked Linux:
So we have a baby horse thus a name survey 🙂 With this breed of horse I have to pick a name that starts with the same letter as the Mom’s “L”. Here are a few picks for if it’s a girl!
1. Lanai (veranda) 2. Lareina (queen) 3. Laveda (cleansed) 4. Leala (loyal) 5. Lavena (mother of roman people) 6. Lexie (protector of mankind) 7. Labella (beautiful) 8. Laurette (little angel) 9. Lila (night) 10. LishaHere’s the Boy’s
1. Lark (songbird) 2. Lake 3. Lanier (woolworker) 4. Lander (landowner) 5. Larkin (fierce) 6. Latif (elegant) 7. Larch (a type of tree) 8. Lacrosse (a game) 9. Lancelot (attendant) 10. Linux (computer nerd name 🙂
Don’t forget this is for a horse so it can’t be hard to say quickly. It also can’t be a name that has been used before so don’t be offended if I can’t use a great name as it may be taken.
Kori Curry I like lander best and Linux the computer one second
Dawn Denison Larkin is cool. Ditto with Linux
Devin Hanson Linux is cool 😀 I bet Ashton will like that one too.
Anna Wow guys thanks for all the feedback! Glad you like Linux 🙂 Not sure about the Twilight thing lol..Sorry Marla Lucy is taken 🙁
Ashton hahah @ linux. That’s hillarious. I also like Lander and Lancelot.
After the majority voted for “Linux” (Pronouced: Lynn-ex), and as a tribute to her nerdy husband, Anna chose Linux for the new colt. (Linux is a computer operating system like Windows.)
Here is a picture of him on his birthday:
Liana was 4 days late. Which just so happened to be when Anna left for a weekend horse show with Ossette. The first day Anna was gone, Carol was feeding the horses, and saw the new baby out in the field. We figured he was born around 4:00. He was so long-legged, it took him 3 or 4 hours before he was able to stand and drink.
It was sprinkling that evening, and a beautiful rainbow came out.
*UPDATE: Here’s some updated pictures of Linux a couple days to a couple months old*
You can see more pictures on Anna’s Top Priority Trakahners Website.
Hi All,
Here’s a picture diary with some notes of when my family came to visit this year! We had a great time.
One of the many projects everyone worked on was putting up the fence around the “foal paddock.” Everyone pitched in and worked hard. It cam out looking beautiful. Grandpa Joe even took time to help spread the weeds. =) (Just kidding, he worked on it more than anyone else.)
Here’s some family photos: