I do a ton of imprinting, so by day two she has already had a bath, had a saddlepad with jingle bells on her, halter, leadropes all around her, sits on a beanbag, lays down with you, picks up all hooves etc. Her mother, a maiden, is completely ok with everything--just enough concern to be a wonderful mother without being too possessive. Even when Tiki was walking around the stall with a towel, jingle bell necklace, saddlepad, and more jingle bells draped over her back, Mona just looked on. As for Tiki, so far she puts up with everything we do to her!
Mona's legs were incredibly dirty and crusted from the foaling. We took her and Tiki into the wash stall to hose Mona's legs off. The temperature was in the mid 90's, and when Tiki was born it was 105 heat index two days prior. While washing Mona, we decided to spray Tiki off a little, and it grew from there. Well, we got her wet, why don't we try some soap and see if she'll stand well for that?? Well, she's handling that, let's see if we can spray her off? Short of not liking the water spraying on her back legs and kicking out at the wall a little, she handled the experience like a champ. Anne-Marie was taking the pic of Tiki and I started laughing and said "Wait a minute!" I took a big glob of suds and stuck them right on Tiki's nose. Had to laugh, she didn't care one bit, but it made for a hilarious picture and we were laughing hard at how chagrined she looked standing there with soap on her face!
On Day 1, I was showing her how to "sit" on the beanbag and she's been living with it in her stall ever since. The photo below was her first attempt. The photo above is one of my favorites! One of the points of teaching the "sit down" to a foal is to have the ability to quietly lie them down for the vet or farrier if you need to for any reason. The bonus is having a little foal that will sleep on you and curl up and nap with you whenever you want!
Our fun with Tiki--we put a rainbow colored jingle necklace on her, tied a towel around her neck, threw a saddlepad on her, put little rainbow-colored bands in her mane, and draped large jingle bells over her back. We tried all this on Mona first while she watched with interest, and then put one thing on her at a time. Anne-Marie and I then played "pass the football" with her to turn her around and have her walk towards the next person to "catch" her so she could experience movement with all these things draped around her and making noise. She took it all in in her typical "college try" way. Almost like she shrugs her shoulders and says "well, this is weird, but okaaaayyyyyy...." She thinks we're great fun to play with, and I guess by these pictures you can see the feeling is mutual!
Mona's legs were incredibly dirty and crusted from the foaling. We took her and Tiki into the wash stall to hose Mona's legs off. The temperature was in the mid 90's, and when Tiki was born it was 105 heat index two days prior. While washing Mona, we decided to spray Tiki off a little, and it grew from there. Well, we got her wet, why don't we try some soap and see if she'll stand well for that?? Well, she's handling that, let's see if we can spray her off? Short of not liking the water spraying on her back legs and kicking out at the wall a little, she handled the experience like a champ. Anne-Marie was taking the pic of Tiki and I started laughing and said "Wait a minute!" I took a big glob of suds and stuck them right on Tiki's nose. Had to laugh, she didn't care one bit, but it made for a hilarious picture and we were laughing hard at how chagrined she looked standing there with soap on her face!
On Day 1, I was showing her how to "sit" on the beanbag and she's been living with it in her stall ever since. The photo below was her first attempt. The photo above is one of my favorites! One of the points of teaching the "sit down" to a foal is to have the ability to quietly lie them down for the vet or farrier if you need to for any reason. The bonus is having a little foal that will sleep on you and curl up and nap with you whenever you want!
Our fun with Tiki--we put a rainbow colored jingle necklace on her, tied a towel around her neck, threw a saddlepad on her, put little rainbow-colored bands in her mane, and draped large jingle bells over her back. We tried all this on Mona first while she watched with interest, and then put one thing on her at a time. Anne-Marie and I then played "pass the football" with her to turn her around and have her walk towards the next person to "catch" her so she could experience movement with all these things draped around her and making noise. She took it all in in her typical "college try" way. Almost like she shrugs her shoulders and says "well, this is weird, but okaaaayyyyyy...." She thinks we're great fun to play with, and I guess by these pictures you can see the feeling is mutual!
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