Whew! (?)

Well, the last couple of days, i have been alittle bit concerned about Kobb, my 32 year old Arab gelding. His girlfriend of choice is Honey, my 10 year old Paint mare who is blind and wild. But Kobb always comes into the barn to get his morning grain. The last 3 days he has not. So what is up? I actually took it outside for him and he ate it,so he wasnt sick. But i also noticed that Honey has been aggitated for the same number of days. Oh man! There is a possibility that Honey is pregnant. last year, we got Breeze back from his adopters- NOT gelded. We got him back December 2008. So we couldnt get him gelded at the time because of the cold. He was only about 8 months old, but certainly CAN breed if he chooses to. So for 4 months until we could get him gelded, he was with a couple of mares. After he got gelded, we gave the abortion shots to 2 mares. The 3rd mare, Honey, will not allow anyone to touch her, so i had to just take my chances on her. Last month i could have sworn that she was bigger on one side and getting quite beefy! Oh man! no! I just kept thinking that well, if she is pregnant, dont give birth in the real cold! So i have been watching her. Now, Kobb is watching her. Well i got my answer this morning to both situations! Honey is in heat! Kobb is just watching to make sure no other gelding in their group gets over to her while she is in heat! she is HIS girlfriend! Here I thought he knew that Honey was pregnant and going to give birth! Nope! If he cant have her, then nobody will! hA! Well I like that answer better than poor Honey giving birth to an Oops baby! What kind of foal would that have been?? Part Paint, Mustang and Welsh pony. yikes!! Could be cute, but what about conformation?? HA!! Anyhow, hopefully she isnt pregnant because she is in heat. But i wont breath easier until April! Get past April and that will be the latest she will go if she is pregnant.
Yesterday- I was asked to go to the UW Vet School to talk about my rescue! Boy was that fun! i do like talking about horses! I have spoke to a few groups and some 4-H kids. But that was more informal. Yesterday, I had made up a powerpoint presentation and actually presented this talk. Much more organized. I think i did ok and the people there had excellent questions. It looks like about 6-7 of this group of 20 (who were there) are going to be equine vets! Hopefully they will stay in Wisconsin! We need more here. Plenty of horses in Wisconsin! Lots of good ideas and hopefully i can help them get some experience with geldings, floatings and other things. They really dont have a good part in the program that deals with horses. Well - that might be why not many of them get into large animal or equine! A few of them are also looking for horses and i hopefully can help them find what they need when they are ready! anyhow, thank you for letting me talk and rant yesterday. Was very nice to be there!
Dont forget the Arena (At the Sandbar) tack sale on Sunday, Feb 21 at 10 am! I will be there with my stuff!
Hug your horses everyone!