updated pics of my foals
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Re: updated pics of my foals
[quote="lipigirl"]The second chesnut one is the one I'd show, the first one has great colour but does not currently look leggy enough..things may change though.[/quote]
Do they need to be leggy to show?
I've taken foals to shows at nearly any age, so I'd show a 2 month old on the mare? Or do you mean what age to show as a weanling?
They are all very cute!! :-D
I'm not sure for showing but I like the last foal, and the first pinto is extra cute!
Re: updated pics of my foals
No, I didn't clip the foals. Mine are shetlands and mini ponies (not mini horses) so we aren't allowed to clip them anyway. All the pony shows I go to actually say no clipping of foals for all the breeds, but if they are usually clipped for mini horses you might have to?
Re: updated pics of my foals
I do not show foals.
I do not clip foals.
That is the start and the finish of it, for me.
Nowadays I would not even take a foal to a show on the mare...[i]especially[/i] not on the mare as you do not know what animals is carrying something nasty like flu and that can carry off a baby.
I honestly think a year old is plenty early enough to start.
Let them be babies and just grow and play that first year, if you clip that late they will be in all winter.
Re: updated pics of my foals
Is it uncommon to have mares with foals at foot shown where you are? I never thought much of it. The bigger shows here have classes for the brood mares and separate judging for the foal at foot and those classes seem well suppported? I must say we don't do it much, but if one of our good show mares is put in foal we keep showing her.
We have HUGE foal shows for the weanlings in autumn, I mean there are everywhere. Every district has at least one foal specific show. I never thought about that being a bad thing! All the foal show programs I've seen though do say no body clipping.
Re: updated pics of my foals
The second chesnut one is the one I'd show, the first one has great colour but does not currently look leggy enough..things may change though.