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Færslur: 2013 Maí

26.05.2013 09:31

Finally...

... the long waiting had an end and Aurelia's Freyja got her foal. Looks like she was really lucky and Farsæll did his best to give as much colour as possible. The foal is a yellow dun pinto with a huge star, a snip and a white chin. It looks nearly the same on both sides, such a cute little thing. As far as we could see yesterday, it's a little lady, but we are going to check that better today.

What else have we been doing... Well, guess what, we've been backing! Bread, a cake and another kransakaka. I like how different kransakaka can be and there's no limit to your creativity. And of course I like the taste!
In the afternoon we were in Hólmavað, where we took care of the sheep while Bensi and his family attended 2 celebrations. There was not too much to do, looks like the sheep waited for their owner to be back. At least 2 of them gave birth to 2 lambs each, all of them white and halfsibblings. We had to help one of them a bit as her little son had so big horns and it was difficult to get him out. The other one just did everything on her own.

Ingólfur used the time to go fishing and was lucky. He got a big (50cm) trout and was really proud. Looking forward to eat it.

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20.05.2013 23:04

Weekend...

...at least it's called that. We were very busy, baking for 3 confirmations and one baptism. As you can imagine, there was very little time left for doing what we wanted to do. Hjördís was invited to a Eurovisionparty Saturday evening and stayed overnight in Hólmavað. I think it would have been rather boring for her, to watch us baking and decorating. She was already really patient on Friday evening/Saturday morning when we started to bake. Alltogether it was 60 breadloafs, 2 chocolatecakes, 2 kransakaka, one big strawberrycake and one chocolatecreamcake. While Ingólfur was baking, I made chocolatehorses for Iðunn's cake and butterflies for Dagný Anna's, which worked out really well. This morning I tried to do some Winnie the Pooh pics with chocolate, but I have to admit, it was more difficult than I thought.

After baking and eating and more baking we both took part in a small competition, but none of us made it to the finals. In my opinion, the track was far too hard to go fast tölt or pace and a lot of horses didn't pace at all. My best pace was on the way home with completely loose rein.

Later we took a drive to Helluland, visited Sigtýr, who came straight away to get some treats, had a look at the colourful lambs, got coffee and ended our visit in the cowshed, where one of the cows is taking care of feeding 4 calves in a very big box. None of the calves is hers, but she has clearly a favourite, who gets a good, thorough cleaning with her huge tongue now and then. Not sure he enjoys it as much as she does.

Dagný Anna's kransakaka with butterflies

Iðunn's horsecake

Snilld just before she tried to eat my camera

"See what I can do with my tongue???"

3 calves and their living milkbar

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12.05.2013 22:13

Stallions...

In the morning we got a call from our friend Kiddi in Helluland, who was planning to get his 3year old stallion Dimmir (Kappi frá Kommu - Röst frá Hellulandi) inside and put his younger brother Mjölnir (Hófur frá Varmalæk - Röst) outside. I thought it was a good opportunity to take my camera along.

First we went to get Dimmir, which was easier than we expected. Sigtýr of course came to have a look and get some treats. It's amazing, how much he's changing now from visit to visit.

Dimmir went up into the trailer like a pro and off we went to Helluland.
We decided to take a few pics of Mjölnir before we release him into the herd. He did that quite well, but was not so keen on walking into the trailer. He managed to free himself and off he went, showing us his wonderful trott. Luckily it was not so difficult getting him again and after a short time, he went in the trailer. The plan was to drive into the field, take the halter off Mjölnir in the trailer and then open and release him. That part worked really fine and the other boys came to have a close look at the newcomer. Perfect to take a lot of pics! Sigtýr was showing Mjölnir who is the boss in the field, rearing and exercising Spanish Walk. Well, at least I don't have to teach him that. Have a look at the pics in the album, hope you enjoy them.

Mjölnir frá Hellulandi - 2 years old

Mjölnir on the run

Sigtýr

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10.05.2013 22:09

Sad news...

... we are not getting any foal this summer.
When we checked our horses today, Perla seemed so much thinner than yesterday. As she had a miscarriage last summer, we suspected the same this time and started to look for the foal. After a thorough search we didn't find anything and called our vet to check the mare. It soon was clear, that the foal was still inside, but dead. It was rather difficult to get it out as it was quite big and we hope, that Perla's womb wasn't injured during the procedure.
We are really sad as it would have been the first foal from our Sigtýr. As far as I could see, it would have been very much like him, big, long legs, thin neck and black. We found a good place for it and put it to rest there. This little stallion is now tölting over evergreen fields with his sibbling from last summer, his cousins Huginn and Muninn and their mother Hugsun. Run free!

First we had the vet already there, we asked him to check Vordís, too. The result was quite disappointing: no foal!
Looks like 2013 is not our best breeding year...

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01.05.2013 22:06

Holiday...

...but not a lazy day! So many things we managed to do today.

After feeding our horses, we went to fetch a lame horse from Bjarni's big field. It got somehow caught in some wire, which wrapped itself rather firmly around one of the hindlegs. We used Bjarni's huge Pick-up and trailer. Bjössi came with us and together we caught the poor mare and put her in the trailer. When we tried to enter the car, we had to realize, that the car had locked itself with the key inside. So, what could we do? After calling Bjarni and telling him about out missery, we called the Saltvík-guardianangel aka Villi, who found the extrakey to the car and came with it. Being rescued we could continue to rescue the mare in pain. She instantly felt better when we clipped the wire and was using her foot much more than before. Now we can just hope, the wire didn't damage anything important.

After lunch I helped preparing the location for our Ladies Circle-Round Table party on Friday. Lot of work, but I really liked how it looked, when we were finished.

At home, there was more work waiting. As we are spending quite much time at work and at the stable, there is very little time left for the regular housework. We tried to catch up on that today and I think we did quite a good job. I used the opportunity to clip our Dragontree, which was already huge, reaching almost the ceiling and taking quite much daylight. Now there's just a tiny trunk left, the rest was clipped in parts and put in water to try and get roots on it.

Now it was time to have fun and visit friends, so we went to Helluland, where we had a look at Nökkvi and Sigtýr. Both are doing well and we are really looking forward to getting Sigtýr home and work a bit on his basics.

Before I forget: we got a visitor a few days ago! Our friend Linnea brought 2 friends of hers along. One of them is a very good photographer and wanted to picture a bluedunpinto. Farsæll was very happy to help out and show off a bit for the camera. Here you can see a few pics: Click!