So, uh. I'm still here? lol
It's been an interesting couple of months. I kind of dived head-first into pedigree analysis, to a level that... erm. Well. I am an adult and I know when I'm hyperfocusing because I'm stressed out and dealing with it by doing random shit.
And about the time I got done with that, we had a strangles outbreak at the farm. That's finally cleared up now, but it's taken... god, six weeks? Two months? There's a whole wacky chain of how it got on the farm in the first place and how it kept coming back up that involves the neighbors of our vet, breeding season, and two sneaky-ass cases of bastard strangles, so it feels like it was forever to even figure out what the fuck was going on. I can't say everyone's fine, because the BOs lost a horse, but Cessa and Bishop are fine despite contracting it and Dragon either never got it or had such a mild case that nobody noticed.
But y'all. Why did no one warn me how fucking gross strangles is? Seriously. Walter Farley and Marguerite Henry did not prepare me for this aspect of horse ownership.
I'm going to do some sort of post about some of the stuff I found in various pedigrees, but for tonight... Here, have a baby pony video:
And a yearling picture:
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| Dragon, why are you as tall as your dam? You're 18 months old and ribby because you just grew again! Stop it! |
And a fed-up mareface photo with her lovely strangles bowl cut:
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| She is so done with humans poking at her. So done. |
