Kansas City Dressage Society

Wild Adventure LMP

I will start by telling you the title of my story and my name are Wild Adventure, they call me “Addie“.  I am a Haflinger filly who was born early Sunday morning, May the 20^th, 2007.  Let me reference the weekend of May the 19^th and 20^th by letting you know that it was the week end of the Indiana Haflinger Sale in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 

I had started out the week in utero living in Tennessee.  I traveled via my mom’s belly to the sale in Fort Wayne Indiana.  Friday the 18^th there was talk of my entering the world, my mom was waxed and looking like she might deliver soon.  Well not so fast, I was waiting for the hoopla to be over.  A sale is a noisy hectic kind of place.  I thought I might be safer going through the sale while still inside my mom.

Well, mom’s lot number came up and mom was a trooper handling the crowd and noise while still keeping me safe, but also thinking about my up and coming delivery.  Of course the gavel dropped and that meant mom and I had new owners. Those new owners were the people from LMP farm Haflingers.  

Now, came the talk of how to get mom home and what about if she were to deliver while in route.  Come to find out we were on our way to Baldwin City, Kansas about a 12 hour drive away.

I am going to take the story back to Friday, before the sale started.  Larry Parkin and his grand daughter Radie Keller had spotted my mom while touring the barn on Friday the 18th.  They took note because my grandmother was a horse they had delivered on their farm several years ago and she held the LMP suffix after her name.  They quickly went over to Peggy Keller, who was prepping their sale horses, to share the exciting news about my mom.  I guess they had over looked my mom in the catalog.  Peggy went to see mom and spotted her waxing and then checked into the delivery date and found that it could be at any time.

I guess they were hoping I would be born before the sale, they figured mom and I could ride in a larger area separate from the other horses on the way back home.  I did not cooperate so in the trailer goes mom with brome hay for her bedding.  She rode very peacefully being checked on by the new LMP farm owners when they stopped for fuel or to eat.  They decided to call it a night and sleep a bit at a familiar hotel in the St. Louis Missouri area. 

They parked the trailer, watered mom and made sure she was comfortable.

  Surprise, surprise the next morning they were up and heading for home bright and early.  Their hopes and prayers had been answered.  Mother Nature had taken care of my birth.  I had arrived and they found me standing almost dry, I was nursing and had passed some of the micromium stuff that is so important to get rid of.  All Peggy had to do was to treat my umbilical cord

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They were prepared they had asked the vet at the sale to set them up with a foaling kit.  Not that they were rookies at this foaling business.  I guess they have raised a lot of foals.  Remember they raised my grandmother some 15 years ago.  But foaling one in the trailer in route was not something they had done or had ever expected to do.  They were used to foaling stalls and mare checks and late nights but this was a new approach! 

I made the rest of the trip, 4 ½ hours standing next to mom in the trailer.  Once at the new home we were unloaded and left to frolic and play in a nice grass paddock.  I was very happy when I was introduced to a stall nicely bedded in straw.  I went in and took a wonderful nap. 

My adventure into this life has left me no worse for the ware but certainly not the ideal way to come into life.  I guess most things will seem easy from now on. 

I hear that LMP farm has lots of performance haflingers; I guess I am destined to be one of their performers.  Keep an eye out for me in a few years Wild Adventure LMP.   That way all can see how I continue to grow following my ADVENTURE.