Guess What!
She was 30 inches around, 36 inches tall and 28 inches long and weighs (approximately) about 76 pounds. She was born around 10pm last night and Chris and I didn't get to bed until about 1:30am. Had to make sure she got up, nursed, pooped, and all was well.
Chris updated the website too.
And since one image isn't enough have another dozen.
Panda's serene, motherly face.
The baby's little baby face. She has a bit of a dish like Panda but I don't know if she'll grow out of it or not. I went back and looked at some pictures of Cinnamon Strudel when she was a newborn and I think all babies have some sort of a dish, but it seems Panda's baby has a little bit more which makes me think she'll have a bit of the Percheron face that Panda has.
She has a little white dot in front of and slightly above her left eye. It's tiny and I don't know if there's any pink skin under it, which means she might grow out of it. So no, it isn't from dust on my lens, that's her little white face marking.
She's still getting used to those legs, but keep in mind she's been on them for less than twelve hours at this point!
Panda and baby taking a walk around the corral for the first time.
Look at her go!
Panda's keeping her in her sights!
Taking a nap. She has two little back spots in her mane that are nearly hidden and a little black freckle to the right of her spine, which you can see here.
She has a little triangle on her butt, it kindof mirror's Panda's marking, but it is completely isolated unlike Panda's which is open to the rest of her back and her right leg. Marty suggested the name "Zelda" (tri-force but-not-really!), which was nixed.
You might suffer from cuteness overload. Panda being motherly. She wasn't so sure about this baby thing when she first foaled. It took Panda several minutes to come around and start talking to it and showing interest. We spent a lot of time just sitting back and watching to allow them to bond properly. My biggest fear was us being in there and Panda saying something along the lines of "well fine, you can have it!" and that being the end of that.
Panda's tail nub and yes, we're keeping the baby's tail intact! No docking!
Lunch!
So Panda and baby are doing great. We're trying to come up with a barn name because she's being registered as Verhängnis because that's been long-decided. We had been hoping for a colt to help balance out our herd of four mares and a gelding, but hey! She's healthy, sound and despite the baby gangliness seems pretty well put together, what more could you ask for! I suggested Zenith (zehn-ith, not zEE-nith), Zen for short. Chris thinks that everyone will pronounce it wrong. He suggested Zetara, "Zee" for short and we're chewing on that. One of my students and her family came over to see it and suggested "Oreo" (how many black-and-white horses do YOU know named "Oreo?") "Cookie," and a few others that I nixed. We'll see what other suggestions we get and if we come up with something spectacular (hint: you can suggest something!). We're going for unique and it can't end in the "EE" sound or begin with the "K" sound because we have a Hershey, Sunny, Toby, Chewy and Ruby and the sound gets redundant, plus we have a Kash and Kitt, though I guess another "K" sound wouldn't be too bad.
Pardon me if all the images don't show up right away because I have slow internet and sometimes have to beat it into submission to upload larger files (and by large I mean over 150kb ... tragic I know).
This is what a Fjord looks like when she's thirsty, hungry, and hasn't had her mane trimmed in over a year. I need to take some hours and shampoo it up real good so I can think of using clippers or scissors on it. I think I'll end up roaching it to get the traditional Fjord trim back, but we'll see what I can do. I DO know that if I don't wash it the filth will destroy both clippers and scissors alike without discrimination!
You can tell where Kitt can reach under the fence because the weeds are always well-trimmed!
