New Zealand foal born now, planned 1992

Pure Colonial Arabian colt KD Nitro has just been born at KD Stud in New Zealand. He's the result of several generations of planning. His sire is my former Arabian racehorse and Kikkuli Experiment stallion Cudglebar Rasuli*, and his dam is the double Santiago granddaughter Hyksos Nysa. The photo here of KD Nitro is taken when he was less than 24 hours old, and the photo of Santiago taken when he was 21 y.o.
Santiago was by the Malik by the Rakib* son NEMO who was out of the famous endurance progneitor SHALAMAR (bred by Cudglebar in the days before their prefix). Santiago's dam Loleta was by Baz, a full brother to Bahri, both sons of Rakib*. Loleta's dam Leto was by Sala* from the Jelbart mare Buraida who was intensely Shahzada* bred.
I bred my endurance mare Rose Park Lady Rakai (who also did the Kikkuli Experiment and was by Bahri himself) to Santiago to produce a filly to breed to Cudglebar Rasuli*, and after getting two fillies, Hyksos Trysting and Hyksos Red Rum (both exported to New Zealand), bred Cudglebar Symphony to Santiago in the hope of producing a colt (that happened, his name... Hyksos Vangelis) to put to Trysting when he grew up, with the hope that they would produce a filly (that happened, her name... Hyksos Nysa*) that could eventually be put to Cudglebar Rasuli* to produce a colt. Whew!! Well, that long-term plan has just been brought to fruition, in the form of KD Nitro.

Hand the vet my credit card?

I think I should hand over my credit card to the vet. Cudglebar Jasmine had another relapse. (If you haven't read past blogs, she ate Pattersons Curse when she lived at Cudglebar which caused liver damage, and so Les Ellery sold her to me to get her out of the area asap. Otherwise nothing could have enticed him ever to part with her.) Jasmine had just started on the liver drug but it hadn't had time to kick in, and she suddenly went downhill again. She is doing hugely better today and last night finished a 5 day course of antiobiotics. As of last night, she was only eating grass, and not drinking water or eating her feed or hay - and only drinking water in the form of warm molasses drinks. The first few days of her relapse she wasn't even drinking that, so I had to syringe molasses and water into her mouth, countless syringes of it went into her mouth.
Last night I started her on shots of B complex, and B12 and folic acid. This morning brought about a marked difference - she had eaten most of a biscuit of lucerne hay, and drunk the remaining (now cold) molasses water and quite an amount of normal water.
She is living on the front lawn at the moment, which, thankfully as I am on town water, I had been watering (no water restrictions here) and fertilising as a pick for the horses. She has been grazing the last few days but not greedily.
Nowe that the liver drug is starting to kick in, her coat has become incredibly shiny for the first time ever, and lies flat - a huge improvement. She has no more needles for another 2 days, which will make her happy.
Here's a photo of her - the view from my office window - when we had a cold snap the other day. Now it's back to hot and dry. There is rain on the horizon but nothing doing as yet.

Improving

Here's his wound now. It's not as good as it looks in the photo, as there is still a lot missing - you can put half your fist inside the wound so the photo is a bit deceptive, but at least you can tell how much it has healed in just 2 weeks. His neck has almost healed over completely. He is trotting and cantering around normally now.

The Good News of Goodie

My much loved 23 month old Quarab colt has safely arrived in South Tasmania for his new owners Mandy Yorke and David King after a 4 day trip - Tasmanian Horse Transport looked after him really well.
The kids were sad to see him go (there's my 14 y.o. son hugging him goodbye), but happy that he's gone to a lovely home.

Catch Up

Well, I don't know where to start! The last couple of months have been a ghastly blur. I have an investment house in my home town that I renovated then rented out some years ago - a recent change of tenant proved to be quite a disaster, I had to go to court to have them evicted, it was traumatic - they have gone now, but I am flat out with the enormous clean up, the insurance co, you name it. I'm going to sell it once I restore it to its former glory, so am working full-on so I can put it on the market asap.
I also had yearling colt attacked by a dog. Part of his throat was torn open, and the whole of his chest, and a lot of muscle was missing. It is unclear what was from the dog, and what was from injuries sustained as he ran away from the dog, as he was chased a couple of kilometres away. He couldn't walk on that leg - it was a ghastly injury. It is healing up well and now he can walk on it, although still looks a sight. The photo is on the left is 3 days after it happened - quite an improvement on the first day! The photo on the right is the first day (after the vet had treated it), but you can't tell from the photo just how bad it was, there was a lot of muscle and flesh missing.
My 3 y.o. buckskin Quarter Horse mare Brandys Precious Pass has adopted him, which is quite cute.
Oh, and the day I had to get the court order to have them evicted was the day the colt was attacked - the vet left at 8 am, and I had to be in court in another town at 9.30 am. That night I felt I was going completely mad and just lay on the lounge staring into space.