Phantom was out zooming around the pasture today! He is such a pretty guy and a real sweetheart!

Cyclone (blanketed) loves sharing a fence line with his son Mac. While most of there winter days consist of eating hay, I will occasionally see them playing over the fence.

I have been preparing for Winter here on the farm and that has included moving a few ponies around. Because we didn’t breed Thistle this year she got moved to one of the mare pens while Mac moved into her old pen that shares a fence line with Cyclone. While Cyclone wasn’t to happy that Thistle left, he did enjoy roughhousing with Mac over the fence and they seemed to become fast friends. It was rather entertaining to watch and I was amazed to see how close Mac is to Cyclone’s height at just 18 months. It will be fun to see how tall he is as a two year old.

I have mentioned this before but in case you missed it, in the last year and a half I have done some fairly extensive DNA testing on my herd. This has been for fun and to learn more about the Chincoteague pony breed as there aren't a ton of Chincoteague's that are color tested much less have health or ancestry testing done on them.

​The results have been invaluable and will no doubt strengthen my breeding program and how I manage my herd going forward. Not to mention it feels like Christmas when you get the results back.