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Hey baby, what’s your name?

The time arrives each fall when after months of talking about the members of a given year’s birth class as “so-and-so’s cria,” we actually get down to the nitty gritty of naming these little buggers for real. For the most part that task falls to yours truly with Jen and Kim chiming in now and…
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Ian

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a good time today wherever you may be! We’re headed off to Jen’s folks’ place in East Barnard, VT, about a 45 minute drive from here to eat and hang with her extended family. Have scalloped potatoes, can travel. While I truly am into the reflective and gratitude giving nature of the…
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Ian

Mop-up duty

The cria-making season is quickly winding down here. I can tell you with some assurance that the final scheduled breeding of 2011 will be on December 1st. There are however a couple of females we may end up having to make exceptions for beyond that date because of some special circumstances. All things being equal…
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Ian

It’s black gold I tell ya!

Fall and winter prep has continued at full pace here over the past week. Not even the shearing off of the PTO shaft on our large manure spreader could slow our crew down for long. In fact as I write this, the pastures immediately around the Main Barn have been almost completely top-dressed with the…
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Ian

A closer look at the Avenger girls

I finally got a chance yesterday to snap several shots of Avenger’s two daughters while up at the Arena facilitating (vs. doing which would mean something else entirely) some late season breeding. The cool thing about these two little girls is that though their dams are both Ring of Fire kids, they come from completely unrelated…
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Ian

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