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The Friesian stud colt Lestat

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I finally got my dream stud baby from the sire I've been drooling over since I was 13. Nanning374! He's 9 months old and registered Leroy but I chose his barn name to be Lestat after my favorite author Anne Rice. Here's some pictures of him. My mom did some energy work on him today to help with his healing from his traumatic trailer experience but he's expected to make a full recovery! For a thorough story on his hauling accident this link explains it. He's doing great considering what he went through.
http://www.horseforum.com/horse-health/traumatic-entry-into-new-home-109001/
 

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#2 ·
I can very rarely see the pictures at work, but I'm glad I can see these.. he's beautiful.

Sorry to hear he had such an awful journey down to you.. would have scared the living daylights out of me, but hopefully he's well on his way to being fixed.

Sending healing hugs your way- he's a handsome one!
 
#4 ·
He's settling in now and he's walking with barely a limp. He's swollen through his armpit and pectorals but he's not as sore as he was! I walked him in the arena today and we practiced personal space and "whoa". He did really well but being a baby keeping his attention on me is a chore outside of his stall. He's very eager to please though which is great! The vet comes out on Friday to start the first of three laser light treatments to help tighten the muscles.
 
#9 ·
I'm excited to build him into a gentleman! I decided against breeding Caleigh since it's just not worth the risk to possibly loose her and decided on bringing Lestat home instead as the new baby. This way I can start him and finish him how I want to and I don't have to wait 11 months! He should be out and moving around on his own in a few weeks hopefully. We'll see what the vet thinks on Friday!
 
#11 ·
Thank you! I'm going to take more today hopefully. I think the stress shut down my immune system and I woke up coughing today so I'm trying to make it out there for just a little.
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#12 ·
I finally got my dream stud baby from the sire I've been drooling over since I was 13. Nanning374! He's 9 months old and registered Leroy but I chose his barn name to be Lestat after my favorite author Anne Rice. Here's some pictures of him. My mom did some energy work on him today to help with his healing from his traumatic trailer experience but he's expected to make a full recovery! For a thorough story on his hauling accident this link explains it. He's doing great considering what he went through.
http://www.horseforum.com/horse-health/traumatic-entry-into-new-home-109001/
Very handsome horse
 
#18 ·
The only breeding he's going to be allowed to do is to a very few select purebred mares to promote the breed. And his only intimate relationship in that respect will be with a plastic pony and a cup. He's already turning into a good boy! He explored trot poles today. Sniffed at them, attempted to eat them, walked over them. Then we met a green Jolly ball and nosed it a couple times before moving on. We're practicing stopping when mom says stop. Whoa isn't familiar so we're working on that and he has no idea how to back up but of course that'll come with time. He and the goats took a look at each other without incident so that's good and he's already familiar with dogs. He's not allowed to meet mares nose to nose but he's welcome to look at them across the aisle way. He's met the geldings for the most part just walking up and down and introducing him nose to nose. He just wants to play and ends up nuzzling their neck or liping at their face talking quietly. I can't wait until he's allowed to run around so I can get some pictures of him in motion!
I even have a photo shoot with him on Saturday. Just standing portraits and snuggle hugs but he gets his first bath tomorrow so I can clean him up a bit for it. He's a pretty pretty boy.
 
#20 ·
We just did a couple pictures with him today since his foot was bothering him from the swelling where he had it jammed. Later on we found a gash that didn't look very nice so that's wrapped with goopy good stuff on it and dealt with now. We took some outside in his run though that he's been sectioned off of. The photographer said he'll try to have pictures available for me sometime this coming week.
 
#22 ·
He's gorgeous!

On a positive note, we had a horrific incident with a 3 year old pony who ended up getting a front leg tangled in a hay net (you'll never find another haynet in our possession), flipped himself and get wedged underneath a divided in our trailer, while hanging from being tied. We had to cut the rope, keep him calm and have people help us get the divider out so he could stand. He never associated it with a bad trailer experience, and the next time we tried to load him, he marched right in with zero issues (and to this day has never had issues).

We also had a bad incident with Shay-las Clyde/TB cross mare as a yearling when we tried to tie her and she FREAKED out, got her legs slung over the divider and fell down. We also had no problems with her the next time we had to haul her as a baby.

So just stay positive and you'd be amazed, as babies, a lot of them bounce back both physically and mentally!
 
#23 ·
I'm pretty sure he'll figure out it's not that scary. It was his first time loading in a trailer so he had a little issue anyway. Once he gets used to it I'm not seeing it as a problem I hope.
 
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