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    "Well you can come over and borrow my pets anytime." Mo says with a little smile, looking over at him. She then moves over to Bud's stall and simply opens it up. Bud slowly moves out, limping a bit as he moves curiously towards Kade. River snorts at the sight of the huge gelding and pulls his head back into his stall and returns to eating happily.

    "Oh my god he's huge." Kade exclaimed, well blurted out, as he gazed at Bud. Once the horse was close enough he reached put a hand and gently stroked his velvety muzzle. "Why's he limping like that?" He questioned while tilting his head to the side slightly, now moving his hand up and running his fingertips through the tips of Bud's forelock.

    "He used to be a cart horse, pulling hay rides for carnivals and such, and then one day there was an accident that sliced up his back legs pretty bad, it permanantly damaged his muscles and tedons. Me and my family took him in them and we nursed him back to health, but he'll never be able to walk normally again due to the tightness of the muscled after they scarred over." She explains softly as she pats the big geldings thick neck. "So he's just the family puppy dog now. I've even taught him to play fetch." She says with a bright smile as she looks up at Kade. Bud snorts and watches the male calmly wth his big, kind brown eyes.

    "Poor Bud." Kade frowned, jumping slightly when the large house snorted. He looked at Mo with a small grin then rubbed Bud's ears, a small grin on his face. "You should teach me horse stuff." He said with a new light in his eyes. "Like, everything about them." He said while continuing to pet the gentle giant.

    Bud nudges the males chest lightly and then heaves a heavy sigh before slowly lumbering past him towards the door, nudging tmit open with his nose before walking out into the chilly yard, it's snowing quite a bit now. Mo smiles faintly at him and says, "That's quite a broad subj subject range." she comments softly as she moves a little closer to him again.

    "Oh." Kade said simply, thinking she was declining his request. He bit his lip quietly then looked over at Blue, who was still in her stall. He relaxed into the cool air and looked back down at Mo again, noticing how she moved closer, and he really didn't care right now.

    "Is there anything in particular you're interested in learning about? I've been riding since I was a wee little thing, so I know quite a bit, I can answr questions but I'm not not a good teacher." She says softly as she follows his gaze over to Blue straining to get her head over the stall door. She grins and walks over, letting the little int out of her stall to say hello. Blue hurries over towards Toby and sticks her little muzzle into his coat pocket in a frantic search for treats.

    Kade chuckled gleefully when Blue went on a mad search for treats, wishing that he had some to give to the energetic mare. "I think you'd be a good teacher." He said seriously as he started petting Blue, her small neck making him practically giggle.

    "Well I just never know what to say..." she murmurs as she rets a hand on the little mares back as she reaches her head upwards and gently lips Kade's chin before turning with an excited little whinny and bolting out the door. "I suppose I could start with telling you their breeds... Well, Bud is a Clydsdale, Blue is a Welsh Pony, River is an Irish Sport Horse, Harry is also an Irish Sport Horse and Anna is a Thoroughbred." She lists off as she moves over to Harry's stall and lets him out as well. Harry is a rather big boy, but he's mych leaner and more muscular than Bud and he moves with quite a bit more graze.

    "Isn't the Clydesdale the breed that does the Budweiser commercials? Isn't the general breeds called drafts or something like that?" Kade questioned as he wiped his chin, a small giggle coming from him as he watched Blue race off, and Harry come out of his stall. He was more subtle, not as nosy and in your business.

    "That's correct." Mo says with a warm smile and she watches Harry give Kade a simple sideways glance before he moves outside quietly, following after his stablemates calmly. "River and Anna can't just be left t roam around the yard because they're both higher jumpers and they have to much energy to be left free, so they're in the actual paddocks."

    Kade nodded at the information then yawned quietly, raising his hand to his mouth for a moment. "I feel like I have more questions to ask..." He trailed off, trying to think of questions to ask her. "What genders are there? Like, I know stallions." He said while looking down at her, tilting his head to the side slightly.

    "Well there's stallions, that's a fertile male, mares, that's a female, and geldings, males who no longer have their manhood." She says with a smile, watching him curiously. "Then there's colts, which are baby boys and fillies which are baby girls. Anna is pregnant with what we believe to be a filly." Mo says with an excited little clap of her hands. "She's due around Christmas... You can feel her baby already." She says and then motions for him to follow as she steps into the mares stall.

    Kade followed her cautiously, a small smile on his face. He watched her closely then looked at Anna, not wanting to give off that he was nervous but he couldn't help but be a little anxious, the horses had always come up to him. "What age can you stray riding them?" He questioned as he followed after Mo's lead.

    "Well the normal age is around three, but we're waitinf until five with this baby, because we always know that it's going to be mildly deformed from ultrasounds, he's going to be a wee little thing." She says softly a feels around the mares rounded belly for a moment before gently grabbing Kade's hand and guiding itto where you can feel movement from the unborn foal.

    "So he's going to be like you then?" Kade questioned teasingly, feeling the small foal made him shut right up though. "That's amazing." He whispered softly, looking at Anna with slight amazement before he looked back at where his hand was, like he could believe he was feeling the foal.

    Mo giggles softly and his amazement and smiles warmly at him. "Pretty cool, huh? Maybe when she foals you can come help out." She comments as she watches him stare at his hand with an utterly amazed expression on his face.

    "I can't handle blood." Kade said while shaking his head, reluctantly pulling his hand away from the unborn foal. "I'd love to though." He said with a small smile as he looked towards Mo. "So, how long can you ride a pregnant... Mare until it affects their pregnancy?" He questioned, hoping he used the right gender pronoun.

    "Well I can call you after he's born then and you can come watch him stand up for the first time with us... We're going to have to hand raise him, because according to Anna's last owner she has a nasty habit of killing her foals, on accident of course, she just plays too rough." Mo says and looks up at his question, "I'm not actually sure about that, we just haven't been riding her, she is to tired from lugging around all the extra weight." She says with a little shrug, patting the mares neck gently.

    Kade nodded quietly at that then gently patted the top of Anna's back. "That's kinda a horrible habit to have." He said honestly as he looked back at Mo, almost looking like a kid in a candy shop due to his new experience with horses.