Baby photos for your enjoyment

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Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:27 am

This little firecracker is two weeks old today.

1/4 Holsteiner, 1/4 TB, 1/4 Dutch WB (Holsteiner on the sire line) and 1/4 stationbred (crossbred).

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:29 am

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:30 am

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:31 am

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Josette » Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:54 pm

Oh my what TALL legs she has!!! Super pretty firecracker! She looks like a firecracker too with those airs above the ground!

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Kirby's Keeper » Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:24 pm

What a happy baby! I love to watch the foals frolic and learn to use those long legs. Cheers to you and yours, Silk :-)
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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Sue B » Thu Dec 24, 2015 6:08 pm

Oh Silk, those are wonderful pictures. Thank you for sharing!

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu Dec 24, 2015 7:31 pm

Sire and dam are both 16.1hh but we think she will eclipse them (gulp - I think I need to grow longer legs!). Her hocks are higher than her dam's knees!
She has her sire's refined face.

I decided to name her Confetti (Stiletto x Campion) but haven't worked out her 'paddock' name yet. Coco (as in Chanel, not cocoa) is closest to Confetti, but I'm not sure she's a Coco. I really like Lucia, but it doesn't relate to Confetti (though I started that, I named her dam Indy but chose Stiletto as her reg. name, as she is out of Stella and by Ramazotti... and came to me because of her high heels ;) ).

This is Campion:

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Josette » Fri Dec 25, 2015 4:22 am

Actually Chanel is a very pretty nickname. Sounds elegant.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby M&M » Sat Dec 26, 2015 7:28 pm

That top photo of Campion? <swoon>
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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sat Dec 26, 2015 10:22 pm

M&M wrote:That top photo of Campion? <swoon>


That was the day I went to meet him. *swoon* indeed! He was a really cool character, cutie patootie pocket pony type of horse.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Code3 » Sun Jan 03, 2016 12:43 am

Oh my, looking at those photos brings a smile. She's lovely!

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:54 am

I DEFINITELY need to take more photos... She's growing like a weed :D

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:41 pm

Growing like a weed! Three and a half weeks old now.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby bailey » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:55 am

She looks smart! Love the last pic. What do you think her job will be??

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:38 am

She is super smart, and super bold. It's going to be a tough job for me not to overhandle her, as she's such a delight.

My horses are lifers... I bought her dam as a project horse to flick on... yeah, right - 6 years later she's still with me. My other mare has been with me 16 years. I mostly hack, farm ride, and enjoy jumping (non-competitively) and occasionally hunt in the winter. All things going to plan, junior is destined to be an all-rounder... I'd love it if she's got a bit of speed and oomph, rather than being a kick-along. We may enter the odd dressage arena if she enjoys that (I don't, as a rule, and neither does my older mare - I refuse to do things we don't enjoy!). Her sire show jumps to 1m25 - 4'1" or so - competes Level 5 dressage, and has 3-day evented to 1* level, IIRC.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sat Jan 09, 2016 12:31 am

Some from today...

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Spotted at X » Sat Jan 09, 2016 5:15 am

I luff her!

And if you do ever decide to move that mare keep me in mind! She's fabulous! <3
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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sat Jan 09, 2016 7:13 am

Spotted at X wrote:I luff her!

And if you do ever decide to move that mare keep me in mind! She's fabulous! <3


If you want her, she's available... But there is the small problem of logistics. I am in NZ which is quite some distance from the States :lol:

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby LesleyDraper » Thu May 19, 2016 7:23 am

Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Thu May 19, 2016 9:13 am

I must post updated fluffball pics! She has got a really thick winter coat. 6 months old now, has worn a halter and regularly has her feet done but hasn't started any other handling/training/leading.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Canyon » Thu May 19, 2016 3:33 pm

Please do post more pics! I'd love to see her in her winter fuzzies and see how much she's grown.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:55 am

Can you see today's updates via facies?

Confetti is 10 months old and *STILL* GROWING LIKE A WEED. MAKE IT STOP.

https://www.facebook.com/helen.eschenbr ... nref=story

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sun Sep 18, 2016 5:56 am

For reference, her butt is as tall as my older mare's... Scarlett is 15.2hh. Confetti is still lower at the wither, and smaller/daintier overall, but that butt has done a lot of shooting up in the past couple of months.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby Chisamba » Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:34 am

She has most certainly grown. Love them grooming each other

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby silk » Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:05 pm

Chisamba wrote:She has most certainly grown. Love them grooming each other


Holy moly, has she ever! I've been joking about needing a stepladder, but I think I need to revise that to one of those extendable ladders firefighters use.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I did the knee-coronet string test a few weeks ago, and while she was a little wiggly and unsure of what I was trying to achieve, the number was between 16.2 and 17.1. For my own sake I hope smaller but suspect she'll be 16.3-17hh. I could probably repeat that now she's had a bit more halter training and leg handling.

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Re: Baby photos for your enjoyment

Postby bailey » Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:36 am

Thanks for the pics, beautiful horses, so lucky to have you to care for them!

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