Registration

So today the boys had their papers done for passport registration and to become fully paid up members of Club Lusitano. Well most of them anyway - reading through the breed society paperwork last night I realised that we hadn't received a covering certificate from the breeder which includes the third (!) outline diagram to be completed by vitnery. Why there always has to be something noticed only at the last gasp defeats me, but there it is. Certificates en route from stud sec and we'll get those done asap.

We decided to put Golfinho's headcollar on this morning before I left for work, so he wouldn't associate it with being jabbed with a large and scary needle (microchip) and a smaller one (tetanus). And just as well. Gualter of course was the uber colt, standing for his doings like the fabulous little big man that he is, while little Nom was having none of it! Knickers had to call in reinforcements (Sid) and the two of them kept him still long enough for the jabs to be done and his whorls and markings appropriately inspected. Vitnery reckons he will stay that colour, which I am delighted about. He is such a little swine :)

Meanwhile the girls have been scanned, and we've just missed Xacra's season. Even surrounded by stallions, she shows no signs of heat whatsoever *sigh* so we are faced with the choicce of a PG injection to bring her forward again, with the increased risk of a haemorrhagic follicle, or wait and be really quite late in the season. Argh. Alfama is due in about 10 days, and we have two doses of frozen semen from each of the boys on standby at the vet clinic.

Yesterday Sid had occasion to call in the AA to take his poorly car to a specialist garage, and it turned out that said AA man was a keen breeder himself and dedicated stallion owner, so rather randomly the two of them spent the best part of an hour exchanging notes and ideas about stallion handling, breeding and general horse management. Who'd have thought?

Also yesterday we took delivery of some 15 tonnes of rubber, which will be used in the all weather turnout areas for everyone. The next step is for young Pheel to come round with his giant tool and spread it all over the hardcore.

In other news, Frankie is settling in very well; we took them out for an hour tonight and played hide & seek in the long grass. I thoroughly recommend this as a de-stressing exercise after a busy day, but caution fellow hay fever sufferers that it's probably better to take your antihistamines beforehand than afterwards, when your eyes have puffed up and and you nose is simultaneously blocked and running.

Looking forward to the weekend and the Bento clinic - report to follow. I stopped in at Frogpool on the way home tonight and availed myself of a new black saddle cloth with gold piping - s'nice.