Look who actually got a bath:
And he was very well-behaved for it - a little wiggly, and I could have done without the, "I don't want to circle right, so I'm going to step sideways into you over and over again," game, but for just shy of 2 years old and his first bath, I'll take it. He even got his head wet, via spraying up in the air and letting it 'rain' on him, and was exceptionally good even when I accidentally managed to spray him full in the face. (Oops!)
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| With his half-sisters. |
His shoulders are whitening out now. And hilariously, so is his butt!
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| Not gonna lie - I thought really hard about whether to share this picture. But honestly - the 'ribs' are actually drying winter hair curling; he looked like a Curly when I bathed him! And he's at least trying to look a little less... Franken-baby. |
I also bit the bullet and cut probably a foot and a bit off his tail. I generally don't like cutting hair off of horses, but... uh... the 1980s called and wanted the rat-tail look back. So when my BOs suggested taking the scissors to hair that was probably going to break off soon anyway... well. Two snips at the bottom of the white that's grown in, and then I banded it up and brought it home, because it amused me.
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| They say you start to look like your animals after a while... |
In other news, the BOs have a new baby!
She was right around 24 hours old in these pictures, so she's a little contracted and folded up still. Hair's been sent off for genetic testing on her; both parents have LP and while mom there is a chestnut, dad is black, so it's... it's really anyone's guess what the hell color she is.
I'm curious to see what color that baby turns out to be! What a cutie. I love seeing foal pictures starting to pop up on my feed :) I was dying laughing at "you start to look like your animals after a while". Hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, baby's color is such a mystery. Mom was exposed to 3 different stallions; it's a long story, but we THINK Dad is one of the two junior stallions - well, now one junior stallion and one gelding. Both are black, both are LP (all 3 boys are); the now-gelding also has silver. So our best guesses, in order of likeliness based on what she looks like, are: silver black, black, and liver chestnut as the wild outside chance. I think we're all voting for silver black! :)
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