Yippee - I have foals to photograph for a few weeks! A few years ago, a couple who have been breeding horses all their lives, mainly working QHs, brought a nice little QH mare to get in foal to Days Of Gold. They were so pleased with their buckskin foal that, last year, they brought back two working bred QH mares to breed to him. This morning, they dropped off the same two mares with their Buckskin and Palomino foals at foot to go back in foal. The Bucky filly is a few weeks old, the Pally colt is about a week old - and they really are gorgeous. Theyre virtually unhandled but, typical of Duffy foals, are very quiet to do anything with. If they wanted their smaller mare to have a small foal, well, she was born small out in the paddock without assistance, but shes going to be a very tall horse, certainly a LOT taller than her dam. (The mares are straight out of their big cattle paddocks and, with the recent rain, are a bit insect bitten, but Ill spray them later and theyll be fine. They like foaling around December because it gives the mares the best chance to foal on to green grass in Qld, and theyre not breeding for showing, just for work... but they really are so lovely that Id love to see them get shown. Apparently the bucky filly chooses to jump logs and creeks at home while the other horses go around them and they said she is just the most athletic horse. As far as I know they dont have them for sale, but if anyone falls in love with them, well, theres a limit to how many Duffy foals one couple can have for working their cattle, so I could ask if they were interested in selling.)
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 01:21:03 +0000
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