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Family Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 Percival ⚔️ Blossom 🌸
29/10/2026

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Phoenix 🐦‍🔥 Percival ⚔️ Blossom 🌸

28/10/2026

Nap time in the sun. Its been a rainy few days but the horses all laid down to take a nap in the brief amount of sun we had yesterday. love watching them nap. Since they are prey animals, they won't lay down unless they feel safe and secure and they all feel that here.

Momma Blossom is the only horse that gets breakfast (and everyone else is jealous). She's actually our only horse that g...
27/10/2026

Momma Blossom is the only horse that gets breakfast (and everyone else is jealous). She's actually our only horse that gets grain since everyone else is on the chunky side.

Blossom is a hard keeper, at least while she's pregnant and/or nursing. Since I've never known her not in one of those conditions, it remains to be seen if that will be the case when she's not pregnant or nursing. Perci is her last baby, so we'll know next year when he is weaned.

It costs about $500 a month in grain and weight gainer to attempt to keep up with the calorie demands of a nursing Perci. This doesn't include her 24/7 hay. Perci is about 4.5 months old, which is too young to wean IMO.

One of these days I will get around to writing up "So you want to own a draft horse" which will show the cost difference between a draft and a "normal" horse. As an accountant, I know exactly how much it costs to keep our horses fed and healthy. Draft everything costs more. It's more expensive for farrier work (almost double), that work is more expensive as sedation etc is based on weight. Their tack and equipment is more expensive. And that doesn't even take into consideration that not all trainers, and not all farriers will work with draft horses. And of course they eat a lot more hay.

I'm not complaining, I would never trade the life I have. But I feel like sometimes people with their first draft horse just don't understand how much more expensive and difficult they are to own.

26/10/2026

Brotherly love

Lovely morning sunrise. Checking the herd. Phoenix seems to have something attached to that left hock 🤣
26/10/2026

Lovely morning sunrise. Checking the herd. Phoenix seems to have something attached to that left hock 🤣

Scritches from Dad
26/10/2026

Scritches from Dad

Oodles of Noodles
24/10/2026

Oodles of Noodles

I love fall, it's my favorite season
24/10/2026

I love fall, it's my favorite season

21/10/2026

Good morning Perci

I think the pinned ears is just a Percheron thing....because ears back is Jonah's default position too...much like Bloss...
21/10/2026

I think the pinned ears is just a Percheron thing....because ears back is Jonah's default position too...much like Blossom's Eeyore ears. Jonah is the chilliest guy, so his default position is not indicative of being pissy. Jonah doesn't have a pissy bone in his body.

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