Sable Morgan Horses

Out riding Kruiser on a nice fall day

2009-09-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

I have been having a great fall riding Blue and Kruiser almost every day. Blue is just back from the trainers and doing great but I have only been riding him in the round pen. Kruiser and I head out to enjoy the fields and great weather.

Taking Photos and Videos of the horses

2009-08-01T05:18:00.000-07:00

WE have been taking a ton of photos and video of the horses. I am working on updating the web page and posting the video on You tube. The sun has not been around much and when it does come out it is way to hot! Oh well I am about half done with the raw footage, now to finish up the rest of the herd while they are nice and shinny.
Here is a shot of a couple of the yearlings racing around, Zebra and Lizzie

The first cut Hay is done!

2009-07-23T05:27:00.000-07:00

Well how lucky I am, our hay is up and baled with no rain and today is starting to rain! We got 103 big round bales so I will have lots of feed for the morgans this year and finally a year with good feed.
The cost of food is skyrocketing around here on account of the drought so it is a very good feeling to have all our haying done.
The 2 horses out for training are doing good and I hope to go and ride them this week.
I might take Kruiser into a parade in August. I had a phone call from the organizer to come and bring a horse. It has been many years since I rode Boogie in a parade and I might be ready to go back and do it again.. We will see.
The yearlings are filling out nicely and I have been doing up videos and photos of all the horses to update the web page.

Walk the Line

2008-08-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

The weanlings are looking for the mamma's but are willing to follow Maddy instead. My daughter took this cute picture while we were going from one pen to the other and the foals just started following behind Maddy.

A boy and his colt

2008-05-25T05:43:00.000-07:00

A boy and his colt. This is my son Maddy and his new horse. This colt is so friendly and easy going he will be a bit of a challenge to keep him thinking he is a horse and not a human. Maddy has been haltering him and we are going to start leading him around soon, although he already has been led a bit.
He is calling him Zebra since he wore a zebra stripped coat for the first couple weeks after he was born. He was foaled in April and it was really cold out so he needed a bit extra to keep warm.
Zebra sees a person and leaves mom to come and check them out. He loves scratches and petting and is learning not to be nippy. He brings along a couple of his buddies at the same time so Maddy had been working with them slipping the halter on and off them as well.

Morgan Filly in Bathtub

2008-05-25T05:23:00.001-07:00

This is Pirate, a black morgan filly who had a bit of an adventure a couple of weeks ago.
I have a small creep pen for my weanlings and the yearlings are usually able to squeeze into for quite some time so I continue to feed them in it as long as they are in the pen by the barn.
I have an old bathtub in the pen that I use for feed so that it stays off the ground. The straw had built up over the winter and it sloped down quite a bit so the yearlings were standing in the tub to eat. I was thinking in the back of my mind I should remove the tub until all the snow had melted and the ground was not so sloped down.
I was of course to late and Pirate somehow slipped into the tub and was laying with her feet sticking out! It would have been funny if I knew in advance how to get her out! I tried pushing and pulling, no luck. I slipped a big soft rope around her front feet and tried pulling but of course I was pulling uphill and good luck trying to shift a 6oo pound yearling!
I had to go and find hubby, he was out working on a farm nearby, and bring him home. We tried the rope thing again but it was no good, we still couldn't pull her up and out. I was getting a bit worried as she had been in this position for at least two hours now if not more.
I finally decided that if we couldn't get her up and out we needed to take the fence down behind her and tip the tub that way. It worked like a charm! The tub was already tilted up and with hubby pulling her front legs with the rope we gently pulled her over and I pushed the tub and she just slid out the bottom side. She got to her feet and was a bit shaky but allowed me to halter her and then she followed me back to the pen. What a good girl.

Mare steals Foal, another mare this time

2008-05-04T05:20:00.000-07:00

Is there something in the water up here? Indy foaled early and out in the field a couple of days ago. She was not due for at least 3 weeks. She had no signs she was going to be early, no bag or anything.
I found them at breakfast on Thursday(maybe it is just Thursdays?) and Sam was standing over the new foal but I could see Indy hanging around so I checked both of them and saw that Indy was the mom.
I got the baby up and started walking her back to another pen and Sam was determined to keep Indy away. She went right after her and the two of them had a kick fest! I pushed the baby as fast as I could out of the way, but I was already far enough away from them that we were out of range anyway, or at least I hoped we were!
Sam chased Indy off so I picked up a big stick and threatened her with it and yelled at her and she circled around me trying to get at the baby. I hit her on the chest with the stick and she backed off a bit but then tried to circle around me again so I yelled some more and tossed the stick at her as hard as I could, and she finally gave way and trotted off. I had fed the other mares so she figured she would go check out the food. Indy came over and started sniffing the baby and trying to shove me a bit, she probably figured I was now trying to steal her baby. This is of course a maiden mare and my biggest mare at 15.3HH. I switched sides on the baby so she was between us and just kept shoving baby forward. Indy followed me for about 100 feet and then Sam came back with a friend, her sister. What was it a double team effort now??

I hollered some more and tried tossing manure clumps while hanging onto the foal(no way was I letting go of baby to get back into more trouble) all the while pushing her forward and hoping that I wouldn't get accidentally kicked by either mare! Indy stayed in front I was right behind and then Sam and Jasper behind me! We made it to the open gate and Indy stopped and didn't want to go in. I didn't want to walk up beside her as she could have ducked around the back of the building and gone back to the field. I stood there for a while tyring to figure it out while waving and yelling at Sam and Jasper and finally just let go of the baby and when she stepped up to mom I swatted mom on the butt to make her go. She took a couple of steps into the pen and so I turned and tossed another stick at the other girls to hold them off. Mom went into the pen and Sam almost ran me over trying to get past me but that wasn't happening! I got the gate slammed in her face and she stopped.
What a morning. Both mom and foal are doing great now.
What a bizarre year so far.

Sandy

Black Foals are having fun

2008-04-27T05:31:00.000-07:00

I put Shady out with the other mares this am and her filly sure is striking. I really am pleased with this cross. I like this filly much better than her last year filly by dreamcatcher. This filly is going to be tall and is very well put together.

Bobby McGee is doing a good job with his foals so far, nice curvy bodies and pretty heads. He has the same quiet temperament as his dad and granddad and that seems to be coming down.

Kisper is really bagged up this am and is just huge! I expect she will have it today or tomorrow.

Sandy

Snow Snow Snow!

2008-04-26T05:10:00.000-07:00

The snow started falling last night and I went out around 9pm to check the new foals and they were all fine. The 3 day old black filly was huddled next to mom but not shivering or cold.

I woke up to a winter wonderland! The snow must have been falling all night. I got up at 5am and headed out to check the foals and hope I didn't have another newborn. The way my luck has been going this year it would not have surprised me.

All the foals were fine, a little damp but frisky and not cold. The snow was about 6 inches deep all over and the trees were heavy with the snow. The fog had rolled in, making everything across the fields misty and indistinct.

The mare preparing to foal (early I might add) was also fine and had not done given birth in the snow.

The 300 week old chicks were also doing well, some of them were a bit cold so I turned up the heater fan.

Life in Saskatchewan is never dull!

Sandy

Its a good morning today!

2008-04-25T05:30:00.000-07:00

I went out early to check the newborns and they are all just fine. The black filly is certainly a tall girl. Her sire is Sable Bobby McGee and dam is Small Acres Shady. She has no white anywhere and has those cute tipped in ears and cute face.

I will be offering her for sale so you can check out her new foal pics at Sablemorgans web page http://sablemorgans.com/page8.html I will be getting pics of her up today sometime.

The chestnut colt out of Small Acres Lacey and by JMF Royal Magic is a suprise as I thought his sire was a genetic black, however that is not the case. This colt will also be for sale and he will be very reasonably priced.

I have 6 black yearlings for sale, 5 fillies, I am open to offers on these young ones as I would like to place them in good homes. I am willing to sell them without papers if you just want a nice morgan to raise and love.

Sandy

I missed a few foals :)

2008-04-24T11:13:00.000-07:00

Last week I had 2 black foals born on Thursday, the same day as I had the new colt that was stolen. It kept me busy!

Then the "thief" mare had her colt on Monday of this week.

So I have 4 foals now and hopefully no more for at least a month!!

Sandy

Is there something in the air?

2008-04-24T11:08:00.000-07:00

Today I went out to feed in the am and found another newborn foal, this time a black filly. Her mother should not have even thought about foaling for at least 3 more weeks but such is the way it goes.

This filly slid under the fence and was on top of the dugout. I am so lucky she didn't break a leg or go through the ice but she was a lucky gal and after sliding her to the edge of the ice she stood up and I got her back with mom.

It is certainly a funny year for foals!

Sandy

Mare Steals Foal

2008-04-19T06:09:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Well on Thursday morning a black colt was born. He was stuck in a mudhole so I brought him to the barn and the mare who I thought was his mom followed. I put them in and had to rush off for a couple of hours. I got back and it didn't look like he had fed and that was when I discovered he was not with his mom!

I found his mom and now she didn't want him. I spent most of the day fighting with her and she finally took him back. She would stand for me milking her out but wouldn't let him nurse.

I thought all was going to be fine and was up most of the night helping him up and then when I came out in the morning I found she had stepped on him and injured his leg.
Another 24 hours of standing him up and also supplementing him but it was not to be and he died last night.

It is so hard when this happens :((

Sandy

Spring is in the Air

2008-03-02T05:46:00.001-08:00

Spring is Coming

Spring is in the air and the mares are heavy in foal. I don’t have any really early foals expected this year which is a good thing, last year I had two foals the first week of April and they had to stay indoors for almost three weeks as there was just no dry place to put them. My pens were under snow, water or mud!

The horses are starting to shed their winter hair but we still have so much snow that it is not muddy yet.

Hello!

2008-02-22T06:12:00.000-08:00

Well, welcome to anyone who has found this page,
I don't know what to write but being a reporter should figure out something.
I own and breed Morgan horses - http://sablemorgans.com and I would like to use this blog to talk about them.

Sandy