10/30/07

Hannah

Hannah is very pretty, very gentle, and very forward. She's usually the first one to greet you and check to see if you have a treat for her. Her coloring is quite distinctive and we're anxious to see what coloration her offspring will be with Moondancer as the sire. We "introduced" the two of them as soon as Hannah started showing heat, and she doesn't seem to have come into heat after that time, so we're hopeful that she'll be a mother again this summer. Deb, her former owner, advised she carried and foaled easily, so we'll hope she's as good as Mandy in that department.

My goodness, I didn't even notice that I devoted a new page to her new colt but never even mentioned poor Hannah in the story. She had her new foal on July 7th - a little colt we called Cinnamon. As with Mandy, Hannah did it all by herself ... by the time Carolyn got out to the barn in the morning, both Cinnamon and Hannah were dry and he was standing. Unlike Mandy, though, Hannah seems pretty indifferent to the baby. She stood still while he was nursing, but paid no mind to him otherwise. She got pretty chubby over the summer as she feasted on the lawn in the back yard until there was nothing left and then the side and front lawns. That helped keep the little guy away from the more rambunctious Dancer and Spicy until he was ready for a close encounter of the horse kind. And it also served to keep the lawn trim and Hannah happy.