At eMDee Mountain Horses, every year, we eagerly anticipate the births of our new foals.
Each foal's bloodlines reflect careful consideration of their dam's and sire's temperament, conformation and abilities. Our breeding's are planned to preserve the most desired characteristics of mountain horses.
No two horses are alike, but they share the beauty, willingness, and intelligence of their ancestor's.
Mountain horse breeders have focused for years on developing a companion horse, for sharing the lives of the families who own them. These horses were bred for strength, willingness, gentleness and versatility. Over the years, the beauty of the horse emerged as a valued inheritable trait. Some breeders liked a faster or slower horse, a horse with more or less animation, a horse with certain markings...so they began to breed for those traits. We breed to maintain the companion horse traits, but appreciate the wide variation in athletic abilities of the horses who have emerged from those simple beginnings. Our lifestyle is different than that of breeders of years gone by. Our horses are bred, just as their's were, to share in that lifestyle.
We maintain a small herd of mountain horse brood mares, who are kept together throughout their pregnancies.
They are allowed to foal at pasture, unless the weather is too severe for the newborn foal's safety. Foals are handled within hours of their birth and daily until weaning. Their natural curiosity is encouraged, but they are taught respect by their mothers and by us. (Gently by us and sometimes not so gently by their mothers.) Check frequently here to join us in our annual foal watch.
eMDee's Silk Flashback
DOB 4/5/08
Bay Colt
Fair Silk x Venture's Black Fury
eMDee's Legendary Fury
DOB 4/23/08
Black Colt
Legendary Lady x Venture's Black Fury
Fury's very first foal (2007) eMDee's Play Freebird 2007 UMH World Champion Weanling Colt 2007 RMHA Reserve International Champion Weanling 2007 UMH High Point Weanling Colt
Thank you to Van Bert Farms and handler Stacie Tipton!! Freebird and Stacie will be back in Yearling Colt classes in 2008! PLAY Freebird!!!! Reserve Yearling Colt Al Prewitt Memorial 2008
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