For horse lovers, this is such a great story.
This woman has a horse farm about 75 miles from me, and she does such an awesome job with her herd of 10. I've been following her channel for about a year. She bought Mama Belle at an auction in February and had no idea that Belle was pregnant. It's the most adorable BOGO ever. This story captivated me and she has such a way with horses. The baby is a filly named Esmeralda (Ezzy for short), and she's darling. It never ceases to amaze me how mobile the little foals are, but I guess they have to if they want to keep up with their herd. I think she's going to be a big girl like her mama. This is her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@freespiritequestrian
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I suspect this was not Mama's first rodeo either. She's a sweet mare. Two for the price of one!
A number of years ago, there were a bunch of these draft/cross mares on the market when the pharma companies stopping using pregnant mare's urine to make the estrogen supplement, Premarin. They finally figured out how to synthesize it-- a good thing, because those mare's quality of life was pretty terrible. They were kept pregnant all the time, and the foals were taken away from them and sold just to get rid of them. There were a bunch of farms in Canada. I knew someone who adopted one of the foals.
This lady looks like she's going to have a good time! This video kind of struck me because my last mare was a gray, named Belle. I bought her when she was five, and she passed on at 35. She was my girl, and we had many adventures.
This Belle was so lucky to be found when she was. She was an Amish horse so she had heavy metal shoes when Shae bought her. Belle's reaction to having them removed was priceless. It must've been a real relief to her. Check out her reaction at the 15:23 mark:
They will usually only have dark colored horses with few markings. We have a lot of them in this area, and most stores have hitching posts in the parking lot. There are a number of breeders of Standardbreds here to sell to the Amish, because they are always dark colors, and have that natural trotting action.
I couldn't tell on the shoe the farrier pulled, but Amish often put borium studs on the shoes to give better grip on the roads. That may have been part of her relief, because the studs tend to, "grab on," to a surface.
enough of a horse expert to know that. Belle came with a note written in pencil that said that she was used as a broodmare but was "driven and ridden" and they were selling her because they were low on hay. She had the address to the farm she came from and wrote them to ask about her and the possible sire but they never wrote back.
Thanks for the info!
I did see that she acted like an old hand at the baby business.