NEW LITTLE NEIGHBORS AT THE EQUESTRIAN CENTER
New residents, Brice and Tay Yoder, have brought their miniture horses, Freda and Gypsy, to the Equestrian Center. The horses are a lofty 33 and 35 inches tall and come from champion Falabella (Argentine) and American Miniture bloodlines. Both of these little mares are pregnant with Gypsy due to deliver last week and Freda in about 6 weeks.
The Falabella miniature horse is one of the smallest breeds of horse in the world, 28 t0 34 inches in height. The Falabella is a rare breed, with only a few thousand existing worldwide. Falabella foals are very small, standing eight inches tall at birth.
While owners, Brice and Tay, can be found anxiously waiting the new arrival of Gypsy's four-legged bundle of joy, mother Gypsy seems to be basking in the attention with no concerns for due dates and no immediate intention of having a new little miniture miniture horse at which time the attention, of course will shift to her little darling. Gypsy knows these things because this will be her seventh foal. (You would never know by looking at her . . . perhaps a benefit of being miniture!)
Needless to say the entire barn is waiting and every morning the barn regulars go there with one question in mind, "Did it happen?" Of course, when it does come, we will post a full report with pictures. We can only hope it happens soon since Brice and Tay are diligently working on adding a barn to their backyard where the minis can finally come home!
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