Itty Bitty Hooves

Itty Bitty Babies

February 12, 2007 on 7:25 pm | In Uncategorized |

Well first of all, I have finally gotten my sidebar to look pretty close to the way I want it. At the very least I have figured out how to add elements to it. I’d like to mess around with changing the header, and may do that in the days to come.

I find it strange that it takes hours, sometimes overnight before a change actually appears on my blog. That makes it difficult to know if something I’ve done has worked or not, and makes all adjustments take days rather than hours since I have to wait for each movement before I try to change something I’ve done if it didn’t work.

 

On a happier note, I have two guppies about to drop fry. One is in the baby tank. She’s the mom of the current bunch of fry in there and they’re big enough that she won’t eat them. I like doing it that way when possible because it gives the mom more room to move rather than being confined in a breeder box.

 The second female is in the brooder box though because by the time she drops, probably a few days from now, the first female should have already dropped. I’ll take her out immediately so she doesn’t eat her new babies, but the second female would if she were in there. She seems to be adjusting to the confinment of the brooder box fairly well. I’ll try to post pictures over the next few days. First of the very pregnant females, then of the new babies and shots as they grow. It’s really amazing. They start out no bigger than swimming fleas, turn into swimming tadpoles, then begin to look more and more like itty bitty versions of itty bitty fishies.

I have several foals due this spring as well, but later than usual. I decided last summer that early in the year foaling just isn’t any fun, so I held off putting the mares with the stallions until a bit later. Of the three mares bred, one is due in late March, the other two in June. That will be much nicer weather, and the babies can go right out into the pasture rather than out into the snow for their first days out.