Wintery Appaloosas…..
Couldn’t resist the first scenes of Winter here at the stud…..Enjoy!
Winter Appaloosas…..
Autumn Appaloosas……
When time and daylight hours allow, one thing I enjoy, photography.
A rich season made beautiful by Autumn Appaloosas……
The Past Is Now The Future…..
PEYRES CATORI CAT
PRINCESSE PASCALE
HEVANS EV CATORRIUS / REDHEART CATORRIUS
REDHEART PASCALIUS
REDHEART ROYALE
REDHEART REGAL
DFR PATAHAS REDHEART
CARICKS REDHEART
The past is now the future…
Pedigree’s and hypothetical mating’s…….
Redheart pedigree’s and hypothetical matings.
All Breed Database:
Broodmares:
Stallions:
HEVANS EV CATORRIUS / REDHEART CATORRIUS
2017 foals for sale
PRINCESSE PASCALE x HEVANS EV CATORRIUS
PEYRES CATORI CAT x KISS MY FINEST HEART
Hypothetical 2018 foals for sale
REDHEART PASCALIUS x DFR PATAHAS REDHEART *
CARICKS REDHEART x DFR PATAHAS REDHEART *
*Subject to Stallion Licensing
Keeping Calm, Nothing Stay’s The Same……
If you have moved house you know the stress levels, if you have moved farms, you know moving house is easy!
The Mares Paddock
Princesse Pascale and her daughter Redheart Pascalius
Peyres Catori Cat and her daughter Redheart Regal
The Colts Paddock
Redheart Royal 
The Stallion Paddock
Redheart Catorrius / Hevans EV Catorrius
along with the “lawn mowers”, Catkin & Evan
Back up….
Ruby & Grace, “the security”.
Ink, the “hunter”.
Each paddock has at least two sides if not three surrounded by mature hedging and trees for shelter, the land has a slight gradient which should allow for adequate drainage and hopefully minimize poaching? See what the winter brings?
Just need to Keep Calm as nothing stay’s the same….
Riding Reus….
Anyone who has bred their own horse will know the feeling when you’re eventually in the saddle!
PRICELESS……
Reus has a great range of motion.
Very much looking forward to Riding Reus in 2017.
Colts or Fillies – 60 Day Sex Scans…….
Knowing the gender of a foal before it is born will help us manage several different aspects of our breeding program. In particular, we would like two non-characteristic (NC negative for the LP (Leopard Complex gene)) fillies to continue our breeding programme.
NC fillies will be perfect for our recent imported Stallion DFR Patahas Redheart (Blu) who is homozygous (LP/LP) for the Leopard Complex gene. Thus giving us a characteristic foal (LP/lp) 100% of the time with the advantage of his pedigree and statue.
The mares had their 60 day scans…..
Peyres Catori Cat (Catori) has been inseminated with Kiss My Finest Heart’s (Heart) semen.
Catori and Heart are both LP/lp for the Leopard Complex gene, therefore we have 50% chance of a characteristic foal (LP/lp), 25% chance of few spot or snow cap foal (LP/LP) and 25% chance of a non-characteristic (lp/lp).
Princess Pascale (PP) has been inseminated with Hevans EV Catorrius’s (Reus) semen.
PP is LP/lp and Reus is lp/lp for the Leopard Complex gene, therefore we have 50% chance of a non-characteristic foal (lp/lp) and 50% chance of a characteristic foal (LP/lp).
We have purposely increased our chances of non-characteristic foals this year by not using an LP/LP stallion but we have no control over the gender, it will always be 50 / 50!
The 60-day ultrasound identified both mares are carrying single live fetus which is obviously fantastic news. Eventually, the genital tubercle was located (both mares fetus were quite lively and it took a while to find the view required) didn’t help that both mare’s bladders were full either. The genital tubercle (which eventually will become the penis in a colt and the clitoris in a filly) develops on the midline of the fetus, between the hind legs. At around 55 days, the structure moves toward the umbilicus in a colt and toward the anus in a filly.
So, our wonderful Vet John Campbell (JC) gave us the news we didn’t want to hear….COLT’S!
On a serious note, we are grateful both mares are in foal, we are very grateful both fetus are “single” and “alive” and we only pray the gestation and births follow suit!
The advantage of knowing we might have colts (nothing is 100% guaranteed) is we can prepare to advertise and sell our Stallion (Reus) full brother and his first 100% FPD progeny out of PP. We also are able to either make plans for our NC filly foals in 2018 with the same mating’s or use Blu to create a GAP 6 with 100% success for characteristic foals to sell? Mmmmmm…..
Both mares were inseminated on the 6th May 2016 (“normal” gestation is 335 – 360 days, 342 days average) due date being April 16th 2017.
Let’s hope our news is wrong and those fetus were too quick for JC to accurately identify?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Reus, may our journey through life continue together……
13th June 2012 Reus was born, the shock of a non characteristic foal took a while to sink in!
As a late weanling he proved to have an enormous amount of intelligence and was very bold and independent.
As a yearling he proved that confirmation over ruled “colour” as he won his first Appaloosa Horse Club UK Supreme Championship.
As a two-year old, he not only won his first British Appaloosa Society Supreme Championship but gained a 5th place on the Appaloosa Club International points table.
As a three-year old he proved to be healthy, fit, correct and fertile, passing a five stage vetting and obtaining his stallion licences and then successfully storing frozen semen for the UK & Europe.
If he was a human we would be celebrating 20 years but today he is four and I wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY and thank him for the happiness he has brought us at Redheart Appaloosas!
May our journey through life continue together and continue to exceed all our expectations……