Mustangs as of Tuesday, Mr. Mewton

Kitty enjoying some cuddle time

One week after arriving, the babies check out the board president as she cleans out their hay trough. If they look skinnier, it's because their worm bellies have gone down and they're starting to lose some of that fuzz, not because they're losing weight! Looking at their legs and backs, you can see the beginnings of putting weight on. The little white-faced colt is standing more comfortably and even showed off a tiny maybe buck when one of the dogs walked by! He's getting brave, too- I was chatting, leaning against the fence, and he came and sniffed my arm a few times, even mouthing it once!

The bay colt is still too shy to let anyone touch him and is very aware of his space. Where the white-faced guy will lightly rub against into people in his pen, the bay has his eye on you at all times. His skin is in worse shape, too, as you can see here from where he's rubbed the hair off the side of his face. They both are in desperate need of a medicated shampoo bath, but the vet's orders are to wait to handle them at all until they're put a bit more weight on. As they shed, it's getting clearer just how skeletal and weak they really are!

Vet also re-evaluated ages: The White-faced colt is 3-4 months old, and the bay is 9-12 months old. That's more the ages we were expecting, and it feels like we've been given back those many months before they "should" be able to do basic things. Not that we're expecting them to know the things a domestic handled-from-birth foal might be able to do at their ages, but by the time they're 2 we can have them handled enough to do the basics.