2024-Appaloosa-Foals-Arriving

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Welcome! We have 14 colorful Palisades Appaloosa mares due to foal in 2024 This year the foals are due in early February, March, April, May and a couple due in the fall. They are sired by our two Stallions that you can find on our Stallion pages. I will be working in the barn round the clock to attend each birth and to give each foal the proper time and attention that brings out the best in them. Spring and summer will be spent teaching them to be gentle and well mannered for their new owners.

Below I will post each mare as her time grows near and detail her development and delivery. The foals will be posted within a day or two of their birth. They can be reserved until weaning time with a 33% non refundable deposit. Click here to see our full Policy on foal sales.

I hope you enjoy the foaling season as much as I do.

I love sharing this experience with my visitors, especially those not lucky enough to have horses of their own. Last year was a difficult one with many losses. I am hopeful for a better foaling season in 2024.

Each of the mares' photos are linked to their personal page for photos and pedigrees and past foals.. just click!

We also have a facebook page, Palisades Appaloosas

Cookie!

Ds Drift Charge X Mighty Bright Reward

Due January 29

February 11, 5:30 am Cookie delivered a big bay filly with a blanket ! She was two weeks past her due date and strong and healthy. Videos on our facebook page .. these photos are a day old.

Jasmine will be offered for sale at $3200

Jasmine is RESERVED

Cookie's labor was a long one. On Friday night she spent most of the night pressing her hind quarters against walls, pacing and slashing her tail vertically. Her udder had enlarged to full.. so i was paying close attention all night long. Saturday night was quiet.. she slept and I slept watching her on camera. But Sunday night.. i arrived at 10 pm to find her circling the stall over and over rapidly. This went on until 3 am.. with me telling Siri to count down 30 minutes and wake me over and over to check the monitor. I was ready to leap in, but nothing happened. At 4 am she decided to take a break and nap. What? i thought we were having this baby two weeks late! Finally at 5 am she started to have some contractions.. pausing , raising tail.. glancing back at her side. At 5:20 she lay down and in 5 or 6 pushes the entire tall baby girl was delivered. At first she looked solid brown and wet.. but as she dried i see quite a big blanket that creeps up her spine. I will call her bay, but she could be bay dun.

Earthlight Cowgirl (Mauzi) X Remaarkable Panda (Max)

Due March 12

Mauzi has earned her keep well with many colorful stocky built foals over the years. You can see them on her personal page in the mare index. This is her second max foal..

March 10th.. Mauzi and i managed to deliver this tall chestnut filly together at about 3:30 am. I am thrilled to have a healthy strong baby. Kitty appears "solid" in color, but a hair sample tested that she carries both the appaloosa color gene AND leopard pattern. LP/n and PATN1/h. It's very unusual to have the genetics of a leopard and not show it . There is some roaning around her eyes.. that maybe the beginning of future color. Kitty is Reserved

Milliondollarbaby X Samson

Due March 26

March 28 11:45 am....Babe delivered her bay leopard filly by herself with me waking about l0 minutes late to help her get on her feet, nursing and doing well.,

She will be priced at $3600

more pictures when i get a moment.. i had four foals arrive in four days!

Garnet it RESERVED!

Roselyns Smores X

Remaarkable Panda (max)

Due March 30th

Smores followed closely behind Babe in delivering her black leopard colt at 2:15 am march 29th.

I had just gotten Babe's filly nursing and was ready for a nap..

I noticed Smores looked mildly uncomfortable.. shifting her hips. I took a quick look at her udder and saw one tiny drop of wax.. so i moved her to a stall with a camera.

In FIVE MINUTES she was on the ground delivering her colt. I helped a little.. his legs go on forever. He will be tall.

Her colt is priced at $4,000

Smokin Bandit is RESERVED

WF Stella Dallas (CLeo) X Max

Due March 27

Cleo looked oh so ready to foal from friday night (the 29th) on and kept me totally on call thru Easter until 10:20 pm the 31st. I was watching as the second stage of labor began, and she needed quite a bit of help with her big snowcap colt. She is the MOST maternal mare of all, and was reaching her head around to talk to her baby when only one foot was showing!

This colt is priced at $3500 and should

be homozygous for LP and bay based.

This means all his children will inherit the LP color gene.

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Strictly Ballroom (Tango) X Mighty Bright Reward

Due March 31st

Tango had been getting ready for over a month slowly developing and udder and getting that pointy hammock look to her belly. She is 20.. and a seasoned broodmare.

I thought Cleo was going to foal first.. as she was dripping wax for two days.. but Tango jumped in and delivered her foal with only minimal help from me in the wee hours of Easter (april 31st her due date). What a surprise he was.. a dun colt with bold dorsal stripe and shoulder bars, and a hint of leg barring. Beautiful headed like his parents and will carry the appaloosa color gene (LP) because his father is homozygous for color. That may show up in the future causing roaning or spotting of some kind.. there's never any sure answer to when an appy might show his color. This colt will be priced at $3000

Skips Jazzy Blue X

Mighty Bright Reward

Due to foal, April 24th

Jazzy is approaching retirement and has done a super job for us. She's produced just about every pattern and color you can imagine from black leopard to red snowcap to bay with sprinkles of white.. and even a red leopard. She had a stunning dun with spotted blanket as well.

April 22nd...

Fashion Dreamer X Remaarkable Panda

Due to foal May 8

Fashion is a bold bay dun solid appaloosa mare. She was shown in halter as a young mare and had many babies after coming to me around age 11. I gave her this last year off and took a risk breeding to Max.. since a solid mare and colored stallion have only a 50% Chance of a colored foal. BUT her full stocky body and his lean elegance could make a really nice baby.. a dun ,a solid, a colored dun? We shall see.

KK the Dream Begins (peaches) x

WK Remaarkable Panda (max)

Due May 8th

Peaches is my FIRST appaloosa mare, purchased at a year old 24 years ago.

She is a fewspot with two genes for color, homozygous for black and she carries PATN1, leopard pattern. Thus, all her foals have been colorful no matter who sired them. On April 30th, I told Siri to wake me at 2 am, where I lay watching Peaches on my foal camera. At 2:l5 she began her labor and she and I brought this beautiful colt in the hay at 2:40 am.

Rolex is offered for sale at $3800

RESERVED!

iI arrived at the barn just shy of midnight to begin the april round of foal watching. Jazzy looked close to foaling to me, and i tested her udder and she had white milk. A good sign foaling is near. I took a quick look at the other 5 mares due soon.. and peaches has some drips of fluid on her udder.. Dang.. i had to move several horses and foals to get Peaches in a foaling stall with a camera.

Finally i settled into my cot in the tack room and told Siri to set an alarm for 2:30. Jazzy wasn't showing signs of labor , so i thought it safe to sleep two hours. At about 2:25 I woke and started looking at her on camera. She was lying down, but not clearly laboring. I studied her for awhile until i thought i had best get up and go take a look. Just then the alarm went off… and just then the baby began to appear behind her. 2:30.

Peaches never did do anything after all that shifting of horses, and i spent until 5 am getting jazzy's leopard colt thinking about nursing rather than just running around the stall. I decided to take a nap and let him work on it. I returned to the tack room , door open, to see a big BIG raccoon standing up facing me in the doorway! right at the foot of my cot. I said to him YOU NEED TO LEAVE.. and he did, and i took a nap.

Priced at $3,500 This fellow is already RESERVED!

Roselyns Smores

I've been sleeping in the barn for a week now, watching my mares on camera. Jazzy did a great job last Monday, but Peaches seemed to be on hold and Fashion too. They are early.. but have been bagging up (enlarging the udder) for 6 weeks or more.

I have just a few large 16 X 24 foaling stalls and all were in use.. so Fashion was in a 12 X 16 stall. Last night i put a baby monitor/video type on her stall front and had that next to me in the tack room as well as peaches on a big screen. At first I could see fashion well, shifting weight , stamping a foot.. but soon she came forward and pressed and rubbed her hind end against the front wall for so long.. over 20 minutes when i fell asleep… that the camera fell over! I checked on her at 3 am and set it back up.. nothing happening. At 7 am i got up, headed for the house for coffee… but stopped to check all 5 mares still due to foal by early may. Nothing going on. I took that camera off fashions stall. She was standing still.

Over the years, mares have foaled while i went for coffee, but i was never sure if it was planned. I am very methodical about my schedule, so it would not be hard to predict that the old lady was leaving the barn. This time though, i forgot my iPad..went back into the barn after leaving.. decided to toss the mares some orchard grass… and as i am doing so.. i hear fashion grunting . There she is on the floor not 4 minutes since i last looked at her.. with two white feed protruding from her special parts!!!

AH HA! You tried to sneak that in, and you are busted!!! And I was very glad because in a smaller stall, birth can be dicey. Foal born into a corner or too close to the wall, e tc. I covered the floor in fresh hay and waited to help a little. It did not take long, I think that baby was born by 7:20 am. She pushed three contractions on one side, got up and lay down on the other, as they do.. to reposition the foal.. and pushed him on out with just a bit of help from me.

This red dun colt with a blanket was a gift. Fashion X Max had only a 50% chance of color and a 50% chance of dun. The dice rolled well in my favor!

Cowboy is RESERVED!

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Peru! Lucky Lady Friday

Peru X Mighty Bright Reward

Due to foal, May 6

Peru has delivered very close to her due dates in her past two foals. This one is looking like she will do the same! Peru is my personal home grown riding mare, so Im a little more anxious that all goes well.

This is a fewspot X fewspot breeding , so the foal will be LP/LP for sure, could be black, bay or red based.. and carry PATN1 or be a snowcap.