Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
Those are amazing pictures! She looks so relaxed and peaceful! And you look radiant!

There's a home just around the corner from my house that has two beautiful horses in the pasture around their house. One is a really dark color...almost black, but you can see deep red/brown in the sunlight...not sure what its called...and the other is a gorgeous gray appaloosa. Anyhow...drove past one day on my way to an appointment and saw the dark one laying down on her side right beside the fence...the gray was chomping away at the grass nearby and didn't seem the least bit concerned. But it freaked me out a bit! If I hadn't been running late, I was seriously tempted to turn up their driveway and knock on the door. I looked for them on my way back, and both were up chomping away at the grass. Much relief!!

Now I know she was probably just enjoying a warm spot of sunlight on a cool day. It's a very peaceful area with very little traffic, so I guess she feels pretty comfortable there. Nice to know!!
The brown one might be a "dark bay" or a "liver chestnut", both very pretty colors !!

I totally understand, I've been through quite a few colics (2 were my horses) and a horse laying down always gives me a fright at first. But esp. in cooler weather they will do it more often, find a sunny spot and "sun bathe"

That is very nice of you to have noticed and wondered about it, horses tend to get themselfves into trouble a lot, and an extra pair of eyes on them is always appreciated

If they lay down and roll a lot, breathing hard and looking sweaty and "un-happy" its usually colic, and an emergency. Some colics seem to go away with a bit of pain meds and care, but then there are those that just keep getting worse and end badly. Scary thing is, you never know which one it is in the beginning.

There is that one horse next to Dymond, he is still a baby at 1 1/2 years old, he likes to lay down flat out and snore, LOL. I can do my chores and make a bunch of noise, or even sit down near him, he doesn't care. He is such a happy go lucky little clown