I chose this title because i will be telling you a little about my life (very original huh?).
First, i will show you all of our animals. yes, i told you all that we have, but i only told you their name's....
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Midnight
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This is Midnight. (I won't tell you their registered names for protection purposes.) she's an about 16 year old quarter horse. she's 15'2 hands*. my sister got her when she (my sister) was about 10. Midnight was about 4 i think. (i wasn't born yet.)
anyways, my sister and i showed her up until about 4 years ago, because she was becoming stiff in the one leg and so she is now partially retired. we are trying to get her back "up and running" so we start showing her again, since she's a champion show horse. if not, we are going to try to breed her hoping she passes down her champion bloodlines.
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| Onyx |
This beautiful baby is Onyx. she is the one i show and i love her to death! i've won many classes with her and i hope to win many more. she is 16'1 hands and also a quarter horse. she's about 13. in September of last year, she became fatally ill (sounds so professional don'tcha think? ;p) with colic*. we went to as many vets as we knew in the area to see what they thought we should do. the amazing vets made the right call and Onyx is as healthy as a...uh...horse, i guess. even though she is one! we recently went to a show and we placed in all of my classes and even got a couple of blues!
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| Glimmer |
Glimmer is probably the oldest animal in our barn at the moment. He's atound 32 which is a pretty decent age for a horse, although ponies and mini's* usually live longer than normal horses. He's a miniature horse, and he's about 9 hands. i'm not actually sure how tall or how old he is.
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| Charlie |
Charlie, or "Charles" or "Char" as i like to call him, is a...ummm...shetland pony, i think. wow, i don't even know what breed my horses are. hehe anywhoo, Charlie is about 18ish, i don't exactly know because his story is interesting. no, he wasn't a neglected pony rescued by the ASPCA, he was a.....pony ride pony! yep! that's probably why he gets kind of ornery sometimes. he was the first horse i ever rode. they have this cute kind of class called "lead line," which is when one older person leads a younger one (usually under the age of 8) around in a circle. it's just a safety thing i think because the kid riding is supposed to do the work, the person leading does just that...leads.
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| Timothy |
This extremely cute miniature donkey is Timothy, but i warn you, don't be fooled by his cuteness, he's SUPER annoying. he brays* like no other! "Timmy" is about 8 years old, and he's our second donkey. our first one's name was Zebedee or "Zebbie" as in the Zebedee from the Bible. so we named our second donkey, Timothy. so we had an "Old Testament" donkey and a "New Testament" donkey. whenever you walk into our barn, he always knows when someone enters and he starts braying away!
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| Shelley |
Shelley is 3 year old miniature horse, though she's a little bigger than a mini is supposed to be. she's 9'3 hands which is 3 inches taller than a normal mini. she, too, has an interesting history. she was at a sale in some town and our seamstress bought her for us because my mom said that if she (our seamstress, cheryl) found a mini to text her. but Cheryl had the wrong number when she tried contacting us so she just bought her and brought her home. the people she was originally owned by had a kid named Martin who's my age and he taught her how to pull a cart, but his dad said he had no need for Shelley and Martin was to take her to the sale and sell her. so Cheryl bought Shelley and she is happy in her new home. except for one thing: she's scared to death of men. i know that sounds funny, but it's true, so there's no way we'd be able to show her because we wouldn't be able to get her near the judge.
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| C.C. |
C.C. or Carbon Copy which is his "full name" is our fat and happy 12 year old pygmy goat. and when i say "fat" i mean "FAT". he's a big roly-poly goat that if you put outside to graze would blow up like a balloon. (blow up as in get really really round). we've had him since i was about 3 or 4, i don't remember exactly.
so these were all our barn animals. well, except all of our cats which we have about 15ish or so. no mice problems for us! ;p then we have our three dogs: Mopsee, Belle, and Brody. I will post pictures of them later.
and as you can see our all our animals are VERY photogenic, although these pictures were especially hard to do....
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* 1. a hand is the measurement of equines. it's four inches across which is about the width of your hand if you stretch it and measure it from your pinky to your thumb.
2. colic is a stomachache in an equine, but since they cannot regurgitate, it can be deadly. this is because they start to roll to try to relieve the pain and instead twist their intestines, cutting the circulation off to the rest of their digestive tract. the only way to cure this is either surgery or euthanasia. most the time, people chose to put their horse down when colic occurs because its so agonizing to the horse. but sometimes (like in Onyx's case), the twist in the intestine wasn't extremely bad so they could do surgery successfully. doing surgery can also cause colic to recur in some cases.
3. a miniature or mini or miniature horse is just that. a horse but smaller than both a pony and a regular sized horse. they are no more than 9 hands (36 inches), if they are, they are considered ponies
