Since I do not name any of my sales foals I call Pye’s colt JR. If I name them I get to attached and that would be a bad thing. Last years Pye’s colt was called Little man even though he was not little;)
Jr was born live via the net on my cam. It was a little tence there for a bit he was huge and I was having a hard time getting him out. Pye foals like I would if i had a child. Ok I pushed it didn’t come out now you get it out. He was a straping colt. Great bone ect. He looked like a week old foal when he came out.
Now this colt is headed to the Oct sale at OBS. So his prepping will begin 60 days prior to the sale date. He is a Feb foal and will be weaned middle of July. That way I can get him over the omg where is my boob. If he looses any weight I can put it back on slowly. He is a smart foal. Learns quickly and has no problem trusting me. So he has been great to train so far. He loves to get fly sprayed, groom ect.. Baths we just started. His dam is a water junkie so she just stands there while i teach her foals what is going on. He is growing like a weed now. I look at him and he is just got that look in his eye. Not to mention he has the body to go with it;) i love when the foals are not nut cases and they can learn everything from me with ease. When my foals get to the sales they are well behaved not DRUGED and just act very professional. That takes some time for them to learn. I never use any type of drugs to prep my horses. They are what they are. I know of some people who will pump there weanlings and yearlings full of steriods to make them look like a halter Quater horse. Umm hello people there Tb’s. They were not built or should not look like they are built like that. It dose not make them sell any better. People are going to buy your horse if they like it. Simple as that. Real horseman or woman can see what there looking at. OK I’m ranting need to get off that subject and save that for another topic;)
Here is Jr at 3 weeks old. Not to shabby if I may say myself.
So I will update on his page so you can follow the process to a sale. This will be fun!
Good looking boy
Can’t wait to see him as he gets a little older! I don’t know how you do it, I’d have the toughest time selling a baby (I’m a HUGE softy, which is probably why it’s best I’m only a part time amateur horseperson, LOL)
My wife always gets far too attatched to the ones we plan on selling. I’ll tell her not to name them from now on!