http://shatormararabians.com/blog What's up at Shatormar Arabians! Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:14:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Along with foal watch, the whole family has been busy mowing fields and working with the new colts.  Every year we come across at least one praying mantis and today was the day.  Shawn had a close encounter with a gorgeous lady mantis while mowing.  Don’t worry, we moved the ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/08/11/farm-life-praying-mantis/ July was a very busy month!  We had another 3 foals.  On July 25th the spanish related Arabian mare, Bourbons Caprice, presented us with another outstanding filly by MMM.  STM Sable Star is a black minimal sabino purebred Arabian filly.  She is very minimal sabino with just a star and small ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/08/11/july-foals/ June and July have been very busy here at the farm.  Our Haflinger mare, Dunrovin Freya presented us with a lovely Sport pony filly on June 7th, by our Arabian stallion, Moonlight Money Maker.  STM Blue Valkyrie is a chunky little girl with tons of white and lovely blue eyes.  Since ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/07/24/new-foals/ The BAD NEWS:  On May 8th we had a horrendous thunder & lightning storm and our baby Fancy was  struck by lightning and died.  We were devestated and I haven't posted about it before now as I can't think of her with out crying.  We all loved that girl and ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/05/25/good-news-and-bad-news-or-a-month-in-the-life-of-a-farm/ The bachelor band On May 4, we reintroduced Lucky Dream Time back into our bachelor band. They behaved as expected, lots of posturing but no fights. I love watching them move when they are posturing. The older boys are in this video: Lucky Dream Time, Dashantic, Dunrovin Chase, Keyniption, The Magic ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/05/06/reintroducing-a-gelding-into-the-bachelor-band/ Our vet was out on Thursday and gelded Lucky Dream Time, finally! We love our vet, Dr. M. as he's fantastic with the horses but really hard to get to the farm for non-emergencies. He was only 6 hours late for the appointment due to emergencies. The ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/05/02/the-vets-visit/ Shatormar Arabians is a small, family owned horse farm in NW Pennsylvania.  We breed rare purebred pinto Arabians who are primarily Crabbet/Spanish and pinto Sport Ponies.  Standing at stud:   Rare black splash sabino with blue eyes purebred pinto Arabian, Moonlight Money Maker. Chestnut sabino/rabicano Back Street, *Bask and rare *Kismet Arabian bloodline, The ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/04/22/about/ Welcome to what's up at Shatormar Arabians!  Most of these posts will deal with our horses, but there may be a few random thoughts here too!   We've been enjoying the gorgeous weather this week, cold nights and sunny, cool days.  The winter was hard on the farm, so we've been spending our ... http://shatormararabians.com/blog/2010/04/22/update/