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I gave Sayler a bag of animal crackers and apparently rang the dinner bell for every unemployed animal on the property. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

She’s out there telling the goats to sit. Fern responds by climbing her like she’s the last tree on earth. The dogs hear a bag crinkle and show up for a meeting they were not invited to, have no qualifications for, and fully expect to be fed at. 😂

Then Fern tries to get in the house like she pays the mortgage. Sayler is hollering for me to call her, asking whether the goats still smell like p*e, and somehow still trying to run an obedience class in the middle of a barnyard riot.

This is not an unusual morning. This is every day, all day. The only thing that changes is who loses their personal space first. 🤣

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This filly came with a story no buyer should ever have to tell.

But we told it. And we helped get her out of there.

Two months later, Erica sent me these photos and I about fell out of my chair. That’s the same filly?! She’s filled out, she’s moving like she owns the pasture, and she’s headed to her first show this week. 😭❤️

Congratulations to Erica and Phil Wiethe on APHA Chrome Smokeshow. You gave this girl a chance to show us who she could become, and apparently she had some BIG plans. 😂

If you weren’t here for the beginning, we have a series about her rescue story on our page. Follow JS² Ranch for the next chapter, daily ranch adventures, and more glow ups that make me question whether somebody switched horses when I wasn’t looking. 🤣

The bride had a plan. The groom thought there’d be breakfast. Vlad thought he was legally allowed to perform marriages. 😂

Something old: Goldie.
Something new: the marriage he was not briefed on.
Something borrowed: Vlad’s officiant credentials, borrowed from absolutely nobody.
Something blue: Goldie when Gypsy informs him the feed pan is now marital property. 🤣

That man stood at the altar in a bow tie looking like he’d taken a wrong turn on the way to room service. When it came time for vows, Gypsy waited approximately zero seconds before answering for him:

“He does.”

And Vlad performed the ceremony with the confidence of a dog whose entire résumé is self-reported. Lord help us, he’ll be offering marriage counseling by Tuesday. 😂

We don’t usually use AI for ranch stories. The real animals keep us plenty busy. But after weeks of these two acting like an old married couple, we all needed to see the wedding we apparently missed. This is our completely fictional exception to the rule.

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I thought Chrome was passing down some fatherly wisdom.

Technically… he was. It just wasn’t the kind of lesson any horse owner wants taught. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

One of my favorite throwbacks: what looked like a sweet father-and-son bonding moment slowly turned into Chrome’s completely unauthorized masterclass in pasture delinquency.

His son watched every move.
Chrome made sure he understood the assignment.
And somewhere nearby, every fly mask we owned quietly accepted its fate. 🤣

Nobody asked this stallion to mentor the youth. He clocked in anyway.

Follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, foal-growing updates, pasture family drama and more lessons from Chrome’s School of Bad Decisions. Around here, the babies are adorable, the adults are questionable—and nobody respects the dress code. 😂

MOLLY IS ONLY ON DAY 301… AND HER BODY IS GIVING US CLUES THAT SHE MAY NOT CARE WHAT THE CALENDAR SAYS. 👀

A changing udder will make everybody start yelling, “She’s close!” But an udder is not a countdown clock—and Molly is a maiden mare, so we have no previous foaling pattern to compare.

That does not mean she is foaling tonight.

It means we pay attention.

We’re seeing a few early changes, so her stall is ready, the cameras are on and we’re watching the whole mare instead of trying to predict a foaling date from one body part.

At Day 301, every quiet, uneventful day matters. We’re praying she keeps this baby cooking to at least Day 320 and gives us the safe, healthy foal we’re all waiting for. 🤍

If you pray, we’d be grateful if you kept Molly and her baby in yours.

Follow JS² Ranch for daily foal-watch updates and the real-life ranch story as it unfolds. Tune in and see the closer real-time updates and live foaling cams when Night Watch begins—because maiden mares don’t read textbooks, and babies have absolutely no respect for anyone’s sleep schedule. 😂

Vlad has promoted himself again. 😂

Every morning, the girls come out for breakfast. And every morning, he clocks in for a job absolutely nobody gave him:

Head count.
Nose check.
And one extremely thorough background inspection. 🤣

Before anybody buys him a vest—Vlad is not a livestock guardian dog. These are familiar animals during a calm, supervised breakfast routine, and I am absolutely not recommending that anyone turn a Doberman loose with goats. I think he’s the exception to the rule. 🤣

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THE CAMERA HEARD IT BEFORE WE DID. 👀

With Molly’s foaling season creeping closer, I’ve been thinking about the moment Carmella reminded us exactly why those cameras stay on—and why somebody around here is always sleeping with one eye open. 😂

This is older footage from the night Carmella delivered Story.

One second, the barn was quiet.

The next, Carmella went down—and through the camera, we heard the unmistakable sound of her water breaking.

From that moment forward, every little movement mattered.

The pacing.
The contractions.
The waiting.
And the constant decision every breeder eventually faces: do we continue quietly watching nature work—or has the moment come to step in?

Whenever possible, we give our mares the space to do what they already know how to do. We stay close, watch carefully and remain ready—but we don’t interfere simply because waiting makes us nervous.

That night, Carmella handled her business beautifully.

And eventually, we walked into that pen and met the little filly who would become Story. 🤍

Now Molly’s turn is getting closer, the cameras are being prepared, and apparently I’m about to renew my seasonal subscription to insomnia. And you’re all invited to join me! 😂 Our night watch begins soon. The more eyes we have on them when it’s time, the better!

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HE WAS 90 MINUTES OLD… AND STILL HADN’T NURSED. 😳

Most people only see the cute part of a newborn foal—the wobbly first steps, that precious little face and the perfect newborn pictures.

They don’t see this part.

He was born at 2:30 a.m. By 4:00, he was still searching. The milk was inches from his nose, Mama was standing patiently, and this little man kept checking every address except the right one. 🤦‍♀️

A newborn foal can arrive with all the instinct in the world and still need help connecting the dots. There’s a fine line between giving Mama and baby time to figure each other out—and recognizing when the clock has been ticking long enough.

So we stayed with him.

We helped when he needed it. We watched every attempt. And we waited for the moment everything finally changed.

With Molly’s foaling season getting closer, I’m revisiting this night for everyone who joined us later. This is why our cameras stay on, why I lose sleep and why I want to be present—even when nature will probably handle everything beautifully on her own.

Because the pretty newborn pictures are wonderful.

But this part is why being there matters. 🤍

Follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, pasture negotiations, foal lessons and every questionable decision this deeply unqualified ranch staff makes next. Subscribers get the closer behind-the-scenes updates—and access to Molly’s live foaling cameras when her tiny tenant finally clocks in. 🤍