Sweet Baby Blitz

Posted at September 30, 2009 // Farm Life

Young Chesapeake Lightning "Blitz"

This weekend marks a lot of big milestones for me. October 4th is my one year wedding anniversary and October 5th is Ammo’s (my dachshund) first Birthday. As the week continues on I’ll share with you some great “look backs” into my wedding (which one of the trick ponies attended!) and Ammo’s first year with us. But while we are on the topic of looking back I thought it would be a great time to share some baby photos of one of the trick ponies.

Blitz and his mom, L'Eggs

Sadly its not Minnow – my only island born Chincoteague pony, because he was born in 1993, one year before they started keeping detailed records on all of the Chincoteague Ponies from the Island. But I am lucky enough to know exactly where Boomerang and Blitz were born. Which means I have their baby pictures too!!

A young Blitz, destined to be a trick pony

Boomer and Blitz were both born on a small breeding farm in North Carolina called 1000 Welcomes Farm. Boomer spend 5 years of his life living on the farm until I purchased him last summer. Blitz was auctioned off at a Sport Horse Auction as a yearling and spent 5 years of his life living on a small farm in Maryland. Lucky for Blitz (his name was actually Lucky ironically) he had a wonderful life on this small Maryland farm. When I purchased Blitz last summer as well I made a point to track down where he came from originally. After I located the farm I contacted the owners to let them know I now owned one of their offspring.

blitz Interestingly I found out that Blitz was actually the first foal that they had ever bred and they had always wondered what had happened to him. Thrilled to know that Blitz was happy and healthy I eventually received LOTS of baby pictures of him. So enjoy a look back at Blitz’s adorable baby pictures. He was teasingly known as the lap dog at his birth farm – because he’d crawl in your lap if you let him. I could definitely see him still doing that today.