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| R-C Bey Dazzler 2014 Filly No Alarm X KA Odysseus |
There is something Dazzling about Bey Dazzler. You can see a moment of it captured in this photo. Her movements are playful and lighter than air. You can't help but be captured by her grace.
Even after our distress over the new fence we are building, that is another disaster story I am sure you will hear about, just watching this girl and her momma is good medicine. It seemed like everything was against us getting them home. I was in a funk and just wanted to crawl in bed and hide but I had to get up and take grain out to the ranch where they currently reside. Standing by the stall door watching them, I caught myself grinning ear to ear. And that was before I stepped inside the stall, and Baby Dazz pushed her momma out of the way to come and see me.
If you ever need a pick me up, just go let a baby horse nuzzle you. It's magical.
So other than getting our place ready to bring Bey Dazzler home, there is not a whole lot to be done but watch her grow right now. There are a couple schools of thought on how much handling she should get. One thought is to not touch her at all until after she is weaned and the other extreme is to sack her out the day she is born. I have chosen kind of the middle ground. For the most part, I have left her alone. However, I have spent enough time in the stall with her to know I can touch her anywhere on her body and she is not worried about me at all. I love how she is so curious and loves the attention of people in her stall. I used that curiousity during our first few sessions of approach and retreat during the first few weeks in the stall with her and her momma. Now she just approaches and seems to enjoy the attention and a full body rub down.
What's next on this Dazzling Journey?
Baby Dazz and her momma, Lady should be home this weekend. They have a couple months left together as Baby begins eating more and more out of momma's grain bucket. We have delayed baby's first trimming in order to let her natural hooves form as she grows over the next several months. Beginning at four months, which will be around the first week of August we will be considering the optimal conditions for weaning. In the meantime, we will be giving baby and momma some short times of separation (although not out of sight), as momma reenters her training schedule. Shortly after weaning baby will begin halter training in preparation for her 2015 Yearling debut in the Scottsdale futurities.
