We woke up this morning as we always do, and we went out to feed the animals. This time I brought a camera to take pictures of all of the ridiculous animals.
Because of the weather, we’ve been keeping the below three horses in the “large paddock.” Today, we let them out to run around in the field. They ran around for a good 10 minutes.
From left to right is Maple, Onora and Aspen.
While I was out in the pasture I took a picture of our house in the snow:
Update: Our baby mustang now has a name: Maple (or pancake for short).
So as I mentioned before, babies pick up a lot from their mother, and it just so happens that Aspen is scared to death of humans. So when momma freaks out and walks away from “those two-legged creatures” the baby follows. But today, 7 days after Maple’s birth, Anna got to show Maple the goodness of scratching:
As you can tell, Maple just loves getting scratched. Near the end of the video she even tries to jump on Anna cause she loves her so much… go figure. =]
On a similar note; earlier today, Maple had a huge burst of energy and did sprints around her pen. She ran all the way over to the hay shed, and back, and around her pen. I wasn’t fast enough with the camera =(
Enjoy!
-AshtonAnna
Here is the baby mustang running around at two days old!
Enjoy!
AshtonAnna
What a crazy morning.
(Let me first introduce the latest additions to our “ranch.” Anna purchased two wild mustang mares (females) at auction. Here they are:
Nevada and Aspen.
After purchasing the mustangs Anna was reading through the pamphlet they gave her, and it said there was always a possibility of a wild mare being pregnant.)
Now that you have met the mustangs, here’s this morning’s story:
The first thing Anna tells me in the morning is it looks like the coyotes ran off with our chickens. She couldn’t find them anywhere. So we both went looking for them, and found them a good 70 yards from their coop on the north side of our house.
After we brought the chickens back to their almost franticly lonely duck (poor guy), we decided to take a walk down our driveway to see how our newly-planted, baby trees are doing. We’re about half-way down our driveway and Anna says. “What is that?!?!”
Remaining as calm as possible, I look over into the pen and see this:
What is that in front of aspen? No way, it’s a baby! Enjoy the pics of mini-aspen:
I’m sure there will be more to come from AshtonAnna’s Ranch.
-AshtonAnna
UPDATE: This just in: the new foal is a female (filly)!
We’ll be choosing her name tomorrow.