#BOE Kaki Golden

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BOYS WILL BE BOYS

Boys will indeed be boys. Barely a week ago we was allowed the opportunity to buy a horse we breed some time ago back. Small boy BOE Kismet's Keener aka Kismet was released into the pasture with his mother shortly after arrival, as he had been gelded at new owner, and today was the time for Kaki - his father/sire - to join them.

It was no 'big happy family' though. Not that they fought for real exactly, but both geldings reared up, and kicked at each other with their front legs. This picture is taken just moments before Sunny interviened and told the boys to calm down and behave xD

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WINTER HAS COME TO BOE

Winter has indeed come to BOE. It's wonderful to see all the white stuff cover everything outside. It's such a beautiful sight, and we have been looking forward to this after all the rain we have endured for the last month or so. The white snow is definitely prefered over all the mud, and the kids loves it!

The shetlandsponies will be going outside soon, but the kids wanted some pictures with them, so I complied and let Calypso snap some pictures. She has evolved an interest for photography, and that might come in handy soon I hope.

Kaki Golden has been gelded, and has become much calmer after that, which seems to sooth Ares' anxiety around horses. He still hasn't ridden Barmur much, if at all, so his sister Athena keeps him in shape, if he should want to ride the gelding at some point. He seems to enjoy grooming the shetlandsponies though, so for now that's good enough for me. He doesn't have to love horses, just because he has been born into this family.

Athena is as horse crazy as ever, and even tried to jump onto Loco's back the other day. Good thing she couldn't reach, as Loco hasn't been broken in yet, and probably would have thrown her off right away. Feline and I had a stern talk with her about just jumping on horses in the pastures, and I think she understands that - at least for a little wild. Nothing can contain that wild child xD

Loco hasn't been gelded yet, so he currently shares pasture with the Icelandic boys, but I hope to get him gelded soon, so he and all the ponies can share the pasture together.

The warmbloods seems to like the snow, and Commodor and Jet spends a lot of time running around and enjoying to stretch their muscles in the cool air.

Smarties seems to like scraping at the snow with high knee lifts every time, which I guess is good. He has never seen snow before and was quite puzzled by it to begin with, but with the calm mood from the other stallions he just went right in!

These days Sailor and Obaldo seems to argue a lot. They have a hard time to agree on anything it seems, so we might want to split the stallion herd in two soon. Sailor will probably stay with Jet and Commodor, while Obaldo will go with Smarties, as Sailor has always been a good influence on the younger stallions and takes the leader role well. Smarties is such a calm boy, and probably won't argue with Obaldo, but he is big enough to not be pushed around like a ragdoll.

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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING BLUE, SOMETHING NEW

Two new horses has arrived at Black Onyx Equestrian today! First one is our new boarder, which coincidently also is a woman from our staff, Nicolette Anderson. The new horse is her own private horse, recently bought from Patchwork Rescue Farm before it closed down. Her name is Solvei, and she is an Iceland Horse.

As the horse already know some of our other boarders (Old Man and PRF Patches) I predict it to be easy to make her a part of the boarding herd.

The other horse that has arrived is a still young gelding with the name of BOE Kismet's Keener. He is an offspring of ours from years ago. As Luna BlueLake couldn't keep him anymore due to downsizing - and she has been his owner since he was a foal - we accepted to take him back to our stable.

Sunny was the first one to meet him. She is also the gelding's mother. As they met they seemed to kinda recognize each other. I am looking forward to let our other Shetlandspony, Kaki Golden, into the pasture too. But even if he is the sire of Keener, he is so very spicy, and not easy to introduce to new pasture mates, so that will be a job for later.

FEATURING: BOE Sunny Day, BOE Kismet's Keener, BOE Solvei & Nicolette Anderson

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SECOND BATCH OF BABIES (ONE IS VERY TINY)

The last two babies has been born! First one up is a foal whose dam is one of Narcisa's favorite mares, GE Rosebank, covered by RM Altair (owned by Jean Pierre Durant). The fillie's name is kinda work in progress, but right now she is BOE Alternative Lilypad. Lilypad is kinda stuck with me, while I am not completely satisfied with the "Alternative" part. If you have any suggestions though, they are VERY welcome!

She is a beautiful Bay (EE AA) Oldenburg and this one will definitely not grey out, which fact I am very satisfied with. His Grandsire is RM Jordão, and her great-grandsire is RM Ambassador, which means she has Lusitano blood in her veins from the point of her grandsire.

The other baby is a very tiny one! This is BOE Kissed by Dawn, and she is a Black Tobiano (Ee aa nT) Shetlandspony. She is after our own boy BOE Kismet's Keener and SBS Whisper Dawn from Abigail Rose, and has our own boy BOE Kaki Golden as grandsire and BOE Sunny Day as granddam. This is a second generation homebred, as her sire Kismet's Keener was also bred by us!

(Luna BlueLake might wanna see Kismet's baby!)

And then just a picture of Lily and her dam Rosebank chilling.