Oh baby!

One day old Lake Nowhere Cainan meets his 1/2 sister, 7 week old Lake Nowhere Eden

Two days after the flood in the office, I once again made my way before dawn up to the barn to check on my pregnant girl Delta. Before I could get behind the barn, I noticed that Dixie and her baby Eden were standing by the gate of our emergency baby nursery. That was odd as they usually are lying in the straw behind the barn. This was my first indication that I might, finally, have a new baby. As I turned the corner of the barn I saw Delta and the prettiest little black foal struggling to stand up. It was 17 degrees outside and though Delta had foaled in the straw (thank God!), the baby was covered in frost. A winter foal coat was put on him and he warmed up beautifully and was nursing within 45 minutes of being born. Since his father's name is AMJR PCF Genesis, I had been looking for male names from the Book of Genesis in the Bible for an appropriate name for this youngster. I told my farm crew the name choices and everyone decided that "Cainan" was a good name. Cainan was the great-grandson of Adam. Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel and Adam and Eve then had a son named Seth. Seth had a son named Enosh and Enosh in turn had a son named Cainan. I told you all of this to relate the following story about what happened when I finally got to the house at 5:00 pm that evening. Jim asked me what I had named the baby. I told him Cainan's name and the history behind it. Jim then asked me if Adam and Eve had any daughters. I told him that they must have but I didn't know their names as I had been looking in the book of Genesis for boy's names. He then said that if Adam and Eve had not had daughters, how did all these people have children? Now, I am a patient person, but I had been up since 4:00am, had spent the day taking care of Cainan, the farrier had come to trim the feet of the large mare group with their mule colts, I was still fighting with the computer repair shop over the repair of my computer and I had another water leak behind the barn. I told Jim that the Bible was on the kitchen counter and if he wanted to figure it out that "Cainan" shows up in the 5th chapter of Genesis and that he could read it for himself! Needless to say, he gave up:-)

Cainan is a quiet and sweet fellow, not rambunctious like his big half sister, 7 week old Eden. Cainan has his older brother Jubal's laid back personality and is going to be just like Jubal. As a matter of fact, Cainan was born on Jubal's second birthday! I do not know what the odds are of that, but given the difficulty of predicting foaling dates, I would say that Delta just wanted to show me that she could foal twice on January 13th, for whatever reason! Jubal is now living "La Vida Loca" in Puerto Rico, lucky little man! He is away from this cold weather and breeding with Jose Figueroa's beautiful Paso Fino mares. Let's hope that Cainan has just as bright a future. From the looks of him, there is no reason that he will not be a very happy herd sire one day.