The girls love their new home!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A blessed arrival!

We have a cria!  Ruby delivered her first baby this morning around 6 am.  I'm guessing at the arrival time.  I woke up and looked out the window at the barn around 7:20 and saw a brown blob and with a closer look via binoculars I could tell that it was a cria.  I dressed very quickly and ran out to the barn and into the dry lot to bring the baby in to dry it.  In the cleanup process I was able to find out that it was a boy!  His birth weight is 15.6 lbs. I think we're going to name him Fiddler.  He appears to be a bay black right now.  His daddy is a silver grey.


He's doing great. He's already been nursing and Ruby is a great mom already!  Here are some photos.

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