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Just Born Brute

Posted on: July 21, 2023

In April, I visited That Herd quite early in the mornings. For three straight weeks, it was gray, overcast, and misty in the earliest hours of morning. On […]

Herd Life Images / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images

Ineffable Longing

Posted on: January 9, 2023

I may have had more relationships with horses than people. I do miss them when they go. ” … so delicate, but potent. It makes us a bit […]

Behavior / Foal / Herd Life Images / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images / Uncategorized

A Little Behind

Posted on: November 19, 2022December 31, 2022

It seems we are both a little behind. Myself behind in sharing new posts, and this mare behind her striding colt. Born in August, late for That Herd, […]

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A Better Horse

Posted on: October 3, 2022

Without the noise and control of a domestic lifestyle, horses manage to get along just fine. This first-time mother had an early fall foal. Born practically on the […]

Foal / Landscape

Two of a Kind

Posted on: August 27, 2022August 26, 2022

They look alike and share the same birthday. I often see these two browsing, grooming, and roughing each other up. I could not resist an image of their […]

Behavior / Landscape / Older Horse Images / Weanling and Yearling

Dance Like No One is Watching

Posted on: August 12, 2022

Well, look who’s fancy today! He has craters, lumps, scars, a survivor story to tell, and a heart as big as the whole-wide-world. He can’t help it; he […]

Behavior / Mare and Foal Images / Older Horse Images

The Shortness of Time

Posted on: August 5, 2022

Carpe Diem – an exclamation used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. Roman poet Horace used […]

Behavior / Mares / Older Horse Images

Ten Miles of Bad Road

Posted on: June 24, 2022December 31, 2022

In a more polished moment she looks rather delicate, nonetheless, she can be a real wack job. Not only does she take after her independent mother but she […]

Behavior / Foal

Hiding in Plain Sight

Posted on: June 16, 2022June 25, 2022

In an open meadow, with no place to hide, one does the best one can.  

Behavior / Foal / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images

Meeting the Day

Posted on: May 13, 2022

It is common for the foals, from their first day, to traverse all of the rolling countryside where That Herd roams, even steep ascents and descents. This duo […]

Behavior / Herd Life Images / Mares / Older Horse Images

Gift Horse

Posted on: April 9, 2022

This gelding thinks his been gifted a band of mares for his very own. Sadly, these beauties are heavy in foal and this is as close as he […]

Behavior / Older Horse Images / Stallion

Boyish Today

Posted on: March 6, 2022March 9, 2022

I’ve been putting some thought into aggression verses violence in wild animals. Looking at horses in particular, there is limited research available on violence in feral, free-range, and […]

Landscape / Older Horse Images

Watching Me Like TV

Posted on: February 2, 2022February 1, 2022

There is a foal portrait on the Home page of this blog. I call him the whiskers foal. Well, the big horse in this image is the whiskers […]

Behavior / Landscape / Older Horse Images

Cantering Out of the Sky

Posted on: January 31, 2022January 30, 2022

” … and suppose that a wild little Horse of Magic came cantering out of the sky, … ” –Walter De La Mare  

Behavior / Older Horse Images / Weanling and Yearling

Cactus Garden

Posted on: January 28, 2022

I think they would rather run me over than the cactus if it came to that.

Behavior / Older Horse Images / Weanling and Yearling

On Your Toes

Posted on: January 26, 2022January 28, 2022

When the young horses come in with open expressions of interest, you know you have to be on your toes. I don’t mean that in a bad way, […]

Behavior / Landscape / Weanling and Yearling

Picnic

Posted on: December 25, 2021

For years now, I have shared important emotional bonds with That Herd members. Present at a large number of their births and early foal-life days, I have become […]

Foal / Older Horse Images

The Beginning and the Now

Posted on: December 20, 2021

  We do love to watch the foals grow and blossom into maturity!

Foal / Mare and Foal Images

Fifteen Minutes

Posted on: August 10, 2021August 10, 2021

I owe this colt his introduction and fifteen minutes of fame. Born mid April he has a little over eight weeks “on the outside” at the time this […]

Behavior / Landscape / Mare and Foal Images

All in a Days’ Travels

Posted on: July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

  Ah, the vitality of youth! The young foal easily lopes up this steep hill while her young mother digs in. (Now that I’m posting this, I think […]

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Tropical storm Hilary brought gentle summer rain to That Herd. The colors and aromas were next level. This is Valor, can see her as a newborn on thatherd.com.

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I call him Gem, because he reminds me of an uncut gem. He’s rough and clunky looking but his brilliant sparkle shines through. He’s ugly-cute and irresistible.

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Hoping for a new sea of oats this spring.

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The sun sets on the first day of terrestrial life and motherhood. #that_herd

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Every year I post about horses eating thistle as a first choice when spring grass is abundant. I am constantly amazed they eat these spiked, tough, nettle-haired plants. This is Ruby scoring blooms.
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