Day 1 For The New Mustangs!

We got more mustangs today! These are the first of the batch of 30+ horses we will be getting in the next week or so. They were the ones who we helped process when we went up to Bloomfield last week, so we got to "meet" them there.

We were supposed to get 9 geldings, 3 mares, and a foal, but one of the geldings was kept behind since he was sore and had some swelling after his castration last Friday that he is still recovering from. So we ended up getting 12 horses today. They are all coming along great -- all but one of the horses has already started eating out of our hands. And they're all named! This batch is cartoon character themed. Unfortunately my camera started acting up and didn't want to be functional in the evening, so I don't have pictures of all the horses yet... So I've found some replacements.

Geldings

Batman -- the bully of the group. We thought he would be pretty wild but he is actually one of the boldest horses. He's covered in scars, which we thought meant he was the omega animal... turns out it's most likely because he's been picking too many fights!

Robin -- the only horse Batman doesn't try to attack 24/7. He's the pretty sorrel. We thought he would be one of the easiest to tame since he didn't seem super flighty at the holding facility and the he was a staff favorite, but he's the only one who hasn't eaten out of our hands yet.

Batman and Robin. Batman has a star on his forehead that looks like a bat, but you can't see it very well in the picture :(

Alvin, Theodore, and Simon -- 3 yearlings who are best friends, so they had to get named after the chipmunks :) Alvin has a crooked blaze and one white (Edit 8/23: did I write white?? I meant BLUE!) eye, Theodore also has a blaze but it runs straight down his face and white stockings, and Simon has a star that's shaped like a shield.

L to R: Alvin, Simon, and Theodore's butt behind a pole...

Sylvester -- a pretty black yearling. He's still pretty timid but willing to eat from my hand after he's had some time to think it over.

Archie -- named Archie because his star is rounded at the top like an arch...and Archie is also a cartoon character.

Quick Draw McGraw -- this boy is 4 years old, and we thought he would be a bit wilder since he was quite a mess when we handled him up in Bloomfield. He's given us a great surprise though. He's one of the first to walk right up to you and grab a big bite from the hay in your hand. He was a little upset that there were fingers in his food, but he's getting over it...

Sorry, no picture of Sylvester yet,
but this will do for now.

And Quick Draw McGraw.

Same for Archie.

Mares + Foal

Here are the girls and the baby.

Daisy -- she's the one on the far right in the picture. "Daisy" fits her, since it's often a cow name and she is quite the chunky monkey...

Wilma and Bamm-Bamm -- Momma and baby are named after the Flintstones characters. Though I just looked it up and apparently Bamm-Bamm is the adopted child of the other two adult characters (not Fred and Wilma Flintstone) so who knows, maybe Wilma is getting renamed Betty to be more correct - or maybe she's staying Wilma because the name fits her better than Betty...(that's too much of another cow name but she's much more feminine!)

(Edit 8/23: Wilma is keeping her name!)

Mary (Edit 8/23: Mary is getting renamed Pebbles, since she's part of the Flintstones family) - she's actually the one closer to baby in the picture. We think she might be Wilma's older daughter, since they look so much alike and baby Bamm-Bamm spends a lot of time hanging out with Mary  Pebbles too.

Of course, to get the horses to start coming up to the fences for food, we needed a decoy horse to show them there was nothing to worry about. Who better for the job than sweet Fremont, who can always use a bit more hay :)