Tell-Tale Hearts Farm

29/06/2024

We're making it through the heat, so thankful for a forecast of rain this weekend and hopeful for a break in that heat. Baby Chappell is coming into her own, which means fully terrorizing her mother everyday, playing in the water trough, and doing laps. She's so curious and easy going. there's well and truly no doubt about who her parents are, and she seems to have gotten the best from both of them. I'm continually impressed by what they put out.

I'm still continuing with my consent based approach to foal training, as I'm still very happy with the outcome I had with Creed and Nevermore as foals, and where they are now as 2yr olds. The difference in their mindsets vs my last set of foals, because of how I trained them, I truly believe it made a difference.

14/06/2024

Chappell is growing like a little w**d! I can't believe she's 2.5 weeks old already 😭

It's been so busy over here, summer, baby, summer cleaning, trying to find time with friends and family between chores and good knows what Else. I'll try to be better about posting,I always have time to go sit with the baby, but sometimes you just want to enjoy it, without taking pictures.

14/06/2024

Foal number 3, rounding out the foals from Cicero this year, is another filly! Baby Spree is a beautiful bay sabino out of Angel's Black Satin B. Owned and loved by Tiara Lee in Arkansas. I'm sure there will be lots of updates of her and not so little Nimue. Tiara and I are VERY happy with our baby girls from this season by Cicero. He had an outstanding season producing some beautiful little ladies.

05/06/2024

Mr. Good Looking, a few days out from his 5th birthday. It's always so nice to have a reliable horse you can go out and grab, jump on, and ride. And it's especially nice when you can do that with your 4/5 year old stallion. I got back from helping out at the versatility arena at the Spring Show and Futurity today, and hopped on his back for a little ride, needed my horse fix after a busy weekend, that's continued into what's going to stay a busy week. He's always just loved to go for a walk and see what's out there, going on trail rides, even when it was just being ponied as a yearling/2 yr old. He's consistently passing on his stable mindset, and go getter attitude to his foals. I can't wait to see what his newest baby, Chappell, turns out to be like.

05/06/2024

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05/06/2024

1005 likes, 17 comments. “long time, no post. we have a lot to catch up on. this is a half sibling, and niece to the last foal we posted. we are so happy to introduce baby Chappell. ready to join the pink Pony club in no time 🩷✨💖”

04/06/2024

More pictures of miss Chappell from Saturday. She continues to grow, and fill out. She is probably the most obnoxious baby I've ever had. Constantly wants to be in my lap, which makes pictures very hard lol. There is no don't in my mind how big this girl is going to be.

28/05/2024

She's finally here! Our only 2024 baby hit the ground at 5 am after a long time waiting. Calico and Cicero gave us a stunning max white chestnut sabino filly. I'm so very happy to introduce Chappell.

I know all babies are all leg, but man she really has em! She is going to be a handful. She checked all her boxes, and quickly with no help needed. Mama and baby are doing great.

06/05/2024

Calico is getting miserable, being big and pregnant, and getting annoyed with my multiple daily check ins. Being poked and prodded, tummy rubs, asked when the baby is gonna come out. Cicero isn't helping, with his unsolicited fatherly advice. I can't wait to see what these two have brought into the world.

05/05/2024

It's officially that time of year. Took a much happier visit to our friends at the Animal Clinic or Ava for coggins test renewals. Cicero and Wonder Pony were superstars. Big man is always laying it on thick with the staff, just trying to let them know how sweet and handsome he is.

05/05/2024

It's with the utmost sadness I announce the passing of my mare Cricket, Spinner's Country Princess, and her unborn foal.

Cricket colicked at the end of March, and we did absolutely everything we could to save her, and her baby.

You prepare for every outcome with foaling. But there are still things you cannot possibly prepare for. Colic is one of those things. And one of those things you have so little control over when it does happen. I'm so grateful for the vet who was with us who did everything she could and helped us through it. And let me do what I needed to be sure every decision was correct, and we did absolutely everything.

This mare was special. Every horse is, of course. I knew her for a very very long time. And was so looking forward to meeting this baby.

My heart is still heavy, and so wary as I go forward awaiting baby number 2 here at the farm.

19/03/2024

Speaking of babies, Cicero's first foal of the year is on the ground! Meet Nimue! Loved and owned by Tiara Lee in Arkansas, of CozbekCollies photo credits the same. This filly is gonna be a stunner.

18/03/2024

Speaking of updates, I've been busy. Really busy. But now I'll have a lot more free time. Which is good. It gives me time to focus on the things that are important. Cicero's training has been on the back burner, but you wouldn't know it riding him. He rides like a seasoned trail horse. And so far his babies are just like him. Speaking of babies 🤔

18/03/2024

18/03/2024

Happy first birthday to the Stevie Knicks litter! Yes that was a week ago, yes I know I'm terrible at updates 🤦 my new years resolution is to be better.

05/01/2024

My handsome boys 🥰🥰 you just love to see the resemblance.

13/11/2023

That is a wrap on the kiddos first show! It was wonderful having more than half the litter together again and seeing how they've all grown and changed, and how they haven't. It's still so surreal that these kids turned 8 months yesterday. It feels like *yesterday* that they fit in the palm of my hand. They all did amazing in the show ring this weekend. Made so many friends, and it is sufficient to say we are all EXHAUSTED. I wish everyone safe drives home.

11/11/2023

We got set up today at Ozark Empire Fairgrounds for the next two days of showing. Dreams and Landslide have two early mornings and long days ahead of them! Half the litter will be on the grounds. How exciting it is for this reunion and to see how they've all grown 🥰

04/11/2023

Landslide and Dreams will be at the Springfield cluster the 11th and 12th for their showing debut. While I expect it to go something akin to showing worms on strings, we will be there. And so will approximately half the litter.

03/04/2023

The Stevie Knicks litter went on their first field trip outside today! And we finally got a long awaited group photo. (Thanks in part to a chicken making some noise behind us.) It's so hard to believe they are 3 weeks old already! The time is really flying by. Their little personalities are really starting to come through.

29/03/2023

So happy to announce these babies and happy to have co-bred this litter with Cherann's and Cozbek! Welcome the Stevie Knicks litter!

15/02/2023

My whole life I have very much been a mare person. Never really gotten along with geldings, I liked the fire, and strong personality of a mare. It was a built in challenge, you had to earn her trust and respect, and that was harder to do than it was with a gelding. And this preference followed me into dogs. Until Cicero was born. He changed everything in my life. A stallion is a unique challenge, and it has given me a new love for these goofy boy animals I didn't really appreciate before. Boys are so goofy, and loving, boisterous and velcro. And I'm so grateful to have this beautiful stallion, and Korben, my boy Collie from Cherann's. A day late for valentines day but here they are anyways 🧡

13/02/2023

Exciting news! Our LGD Chihiro is expecting puppies this weekend! We just got back from our puppy count vet visit and we are having a singleton. This will be a purebred karakachan puppy. Chihiro works mostly with our poultry here on the farm, but is also excellent with the horses and we are so excited to welcome the newest little member to the team here at TTH!

22/01/2023

So I would like to announce that I have had my toes in the dog world for a while now and would like to announce the launching of my own program with collies. It's more of a tandem program with CozbekCollies to be clear. I could never do this on my own without Tiara's help, as with so many other things in life 😹 so keep an eye on her page and her website as well for info on genetic testing and our personal pages for shows and litters and such.
So as far as dogs go, I do have a couple other personal dogs, but these are the ones of import. Up first is
Arabella N Zandria's A Daydream Away aka Omen, she is not a breeding dog, she is my intro to everything dog and made me absolutely fall in love with this breed. We do conformation, and are training in agility, herding, nosework, rally, dock, and barnhunt. Omen is PRA normal via parentage, CEA affected, and I plan to test her for DM and MDR1 regardless of breeding plans, the same goes for her OFA testing. All data is useful data and her breeders can use that data regardless of her being bred or not.

Second is
"Korben"
He is a Co-Own with the ever so amazing Cherann's collies. She has been an amazing mentor and wonderful friend. I cannot thank her enough for everything she's done for me, least of all giving me him. He is by an amazing dog I've had the pleasure of working with extensively GCH Cherann's Kaboom. He's getting a late start but lookout for this boy in the show ring very soon. I'll be posting all his testing the second I get it done, and I plan on getting it done this year.

Third is a rather sad mention.
Glasgowhill's Fast Fashion aka Inara.

Inara was meant to be our foundation bitch. We had shown her a handful of times and she had done splendid. Racking up OHBOV wins and dazzling people with her quirky personality. We had plans to breed her on her next heat, as she was fully Chic certified and we had gotten good and normal results on her OFA x-rays. She was due in heat in December. We lost inara at the beginning of December to bloat in the night. Wasn't anything out of the ordinary in diet or routine. Was just one of those things. Our hearts remain tender. And we keep thinking of what could have been, while looking towards the future.

22/01/2023

Took these pics end of December as well. She's such a lovely girl.

22/01/2023

Okay so it's technically 2023 now but I never uploaded 2022 pics of the horses and there were some really nice moments. Some of these are gonna be a lil out of order so I apologize.

22/01/2023

Pictures of the wee lads over the break. Hard to believe how big they've gotten.