Well, let me start from the beginning.
When I was given Jaxxon, both my vet an the vet his then-owners used said he was a gelding because he hadn't dropped (at two years old) and had never acted 'studly'.
After he became mine, I pastured him our big pasture (50 acres) with my mare Gypsie, my gelding Dakota, my great uncle's two mares Buttercup and Nugget, and my cousin's mare Patch.
Jax showed no signs of studly behavior at all.
About a year after I got him, we witnessed him mount my cousin's mare, Patch. I checked him and he looked like a gelding, so we figured he may have been proud-cut. However, after that, I felt like something didn't seem right and kept checking him on a regular basis after that.
Around mid-December of last year, during one of my checks on him, I found a plum. Just one. He was removed from our 50 acre pasture and placed across the road onto my other great uncle's 15 acre pasture with a few cows for company.
Around the middle of January, I brought him down to the house for a grooming session and just to hang out and work with him for a while. During that session, my cousin's mare Patch (who, by the way, is a little floozy and flirts with Jaxxon constantly over the fences...) came down to hang over the fenceline and broke through the fence and got in with him.
I had to make a snap decision... I could either get her out f the fence with him and back in the other pasture (and either let all the other mares in through the broken fence or let Jaxxon out in the othrpasture with the other mares while I was getting Patch out of the pen), or I could spend ten minutes fixing the fence and then get Patch out.
I chose to fix the fence first, as one pregnant horse is a lot better than four pregnant horses. It took about ten minutes to get the fence fixed, but in that time Jaxxon mouted and serviced Patch twice.
When I took him to the vets in February, the vet mentioned that because Jax dropped so late, there's a 95% chance that he's infertile.
... So, the mare may or may not be bred. She does look like she's gotten fatter to me, but she's always been a pretty fat horse... if she was bred back last summer, then she'll foal out sometime in the next few months... (I don't really remember just when Jax mounted her last year, but it was late summer sometime, because it was really hot and humid)... and if she was bred back in January, then she should foal out sometime in November or December...
But hopefully she's not bred...
Here's pics of the 'maybe' sire and dam...
Possible momma
Patch (my cousin's horse... she's actually got pretty good conformation... she's about 12 years old and is a Racking Horse, but is unregistered and her bloodlines are unknown)
Possble daddy
Jaxxon (my cryptorchid stallion... he's not the best conformation-wise, but he's pretty decent... he's almost four years old and is a Quarterhorse, but is unregistered and his bloodlines are unknown... also, that is not me riding, that's my 15 year old cousin)
I'll be the first to admit that this was not a planned breeding and I would not have bred Jaxxon at all. I plan on gelding him this year as soon as I get the money for the surgery.
So here's hoping that she's not bred. Also, the mare's pictures are not recent at all. I don't have any recent pictures of her from this year. The first picture of the mare is the most recent one I have and it is from December, last year.
When I was given Jaxxon, both my vet an the vet his then-owners used said he was a gelding because he hadn't dropped (at two years old) and had never acted 'studly'.
After he became mine, I pastured him our big pasture (50 acres) with my mare Gypsie, my gelding Dakota, my great uncle's two mares Buttercup and Nugget, and my cousin's mare Patch.
Jax showed no signs of studly behavior at all.
About a year after I got him, we witnessed him mount my cousin's mare, Patch. I checked him and he looked like a gelding, so we figured he may have been proud-cut. However, after that, I felt like something didn't seem right and kept checking him on a regular basis after that.
Around mid-December of last year, during one of my checks on him, I found a plum. Just one. He was removed from our 50 acre pasture and placed across the road onto my other great uncle's 15 acre pasture with a few cows for company.
Around the middle of January, I brought him down to the house for a grooming session and just to hang out and work with him for a while. During that session, my cousin's mare Patch (who, by the way, is a little floozy and flirts with Jaxxon constantly over the fences...) came down to hang over the fenceline and broke through the fence and got in with him.
I had to make a snap decision... I could either get her out f the fence with him and back in the other pasture (and either let all the other mares in through the broken fence or let Jaxxon out in the othrpasture with the other mares while I was getting Patch out of the pen), or I could spend ten minutes fixing the fence and then get Patch out.
I chose to fix the fence first, as one pregnant horse is a lot better than four pregnant horses. It took about ten minutes to get the fence fixed, but in that time Jaxxon mouted and serviced Patch twice.
When I took him to the vets in February, the vet mentioned that because Jax dropped so late, there's a 95% chance that he's infertile.
... So, the mare may or may not be bred. She does look like she's gotten fatter to me, but she's always been a pretty fat horse... if she was bred back last summer, then she'll foal out sometime in the next few months... (I don't really remember just when Jax mounted her last year, but it was late summer sometime, because it was really hot and humid)... and if she was bred back in January, then she should foal out sometime in November or December...
But hopefully she's not bred...
Here's pics of the 'maybe' sire and dam...
Possible momma
Patch (my cousin's horse... she's actually got pretty good conformation... she's about 12 years old and is a Racking Horse, but is unregistered and her bloodlines are unknown)
Possble daddy
Jaxxon (my cryptorchid stallion... he's not the best conformation-wise, but he's pretty decent... he's almost four years old and is a Quarterhorse, but is unregistered and his bloodlines are unknown... also, that is not me riding, that's my 15 year old cousin)
I'll be the first to admit that this was not a planned breeding and I would not have bred Jaxxon at all. I plan on gelding him this year as soon as I get the money for the surgery.
So here's hoping that she's not bred. Also, the mare's pictures are not recent at all. I don't have any recent pictures of her from this year. The first picture of the mare is the most recent one I have and it is from December, last year.