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@moonheart.bsky.social
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🌟 she/her
🎂 1994
💘 @pulsetzar
🐴 trial by fire horse trainer & breeder
🌾 species appropriate diet enthusiast
🧬 color genetic aficionado
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Little blue filly coming into some work (slowly)! She just had some misc tasks today with no real goal, but she did well with that!
Luna, a blue roan mare, being taken at a walk on the line. She is completely visible and moving clockwise. She doesn’t look terribly thrilled, but not terribly bothered either. Her croup is really starting to roan out but her neck, not so much. She wears a gray pad with a standard looking roping saddle that has a light tan pommel.
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The aliens have landed 👾
A photo of Strawberry, mostly her head, but she is walking towards me so a leg is visible, wearing a pink fly mask that has a nose cover. Strawberry is a young, graying red base made. She has a pretty wide blaze that goes all the way down her nose, thus the need for a nose cover fly mask. Her ears are up as she looks at me holding up the phone. Picture of Flame, a chestnut arabian, though it is hard to see the dishy snout with this fly mask on, wears a mask of the same brand to also cover his blaze. His is a reddish purple with ear covers as well as a nose cover.
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Lil prancey boy 🐴
Toast approaching a young mare who is standing at the fence off camera. He randomly gets very excited (since he is a stud colt) when mares just…exist. Toast is a grulla champagne, a light-colored horse with darker brown points. He is properly “trit-trotting” up to the iron fence, showing off his Spanish breed conformation proper. He would make such a nice little dressage pony, lol. His front left is extended forward, with the diagonal back following. The front leg is nice and straight out. His neck is up and arched. This is the kind of behavior slash movements that (in part) inspired dressage.
March 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Are they skid boots? If so, I believe they fashion on the back of the fetlock. Like this:
A photo of a horses back fetlocks wearing skid boots, a covering often used in reining to protect the fetlocks.
March 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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340 DAYS IN FOAL FOR WILDFIRE!!! 340 days is the average gestation length in horses; she really could have this baby very soon!
Wildfire, a red mare, stands in profile and is very pregnant. She has some ventral edema (swelling) on her belly which is pretty normal this far into pregnancy. She is a stout, reining bred mare. She has a relaxed expression despite the massive belly, this picture taken after just eating breakfast. She wears magenta fly boots here. You can kinda see Zira, a bay mare, also pregnant, peeking from behind Wildfire. Strawberry can also be seen on the bale at the left edge of the picture.
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The moon overseeing Luna in the pasture 🌙
A picture taken mostly of the sky with pastel clouds from gathering dusk. The moon hangs high, nearly full. A black horse grazes under a bare tree in a pasture. She’s actually blue roan, but her winter coat turns her black. There’s a donkey also on the very left edge of the picture.
March 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The carefree face of a stud colt who doesn’t know his 🥜 are leaving tomorrow.
A picture from directly in front of Toast apparently receiving the best scratches of his life on his chest. He is a grulla champagne colt, which gives him slightly darker fur on his face, making an almost lavender color on the nose. He is tilting his head and pulling his lips into a parrot mouth shape. The lense focuses heavily on his snoot as he gently writhes. Flame can be sort of seen behind him, a chestnut gelding. Toast reaches nirvana during scratchies. This is a photo of him sticking his head up straight into the air. The majesty of this stallion knows no bounds. The eye is squinted in thoughtful ecstasy as he giraffe necks.
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Mar 1st ▶️ today! Wildfire is gearing up slowly for foaling! Most of this is probably edema, but she’s definitely progressing.
An older pic of Wildfire’s udder. It’s definitely bigger than normal, but most is likely edema. The latest picture of Wildfire’s udder! Definitely more swollen, so probably more edema, but we’re getting closer to the foaling window with this progress.
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Haysmr, anyone? 🌾
March 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Wildfire is 320 days pregnant TODAY!! She is now free to foal at anytime after this date. She’s not giving anything close to imminent foaling signs, so she’ll probably cook it into March. 🫶
A portrait of Wildfire’s face and chest in the pasture facing right. She is a flaxen chestnut broodmare with straw-colored mane and a big blaze that is even visible in profile. She stares out at the other horses in pasture with ears forward and a soft expression.
February 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Strawberry, a greying red (roan?), reaches over the bars of the fence to pilfer what she believes to be food, but I was in fact empty-handed. She has a big blaze that covers her entire snoot, ans demands to be booped with its appearance. All you can see really is her nose and lips, her right eye and cheek, and her big ears poking up from behind.
February 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Thought I would repost this bittersweet memorial piece I did for one of my very good friends of the colt they had that passed. It'll be three years since his passing, and I know he is still greatly missed.

#horseart #horseartist #equineartist #memorialart
A memorial piece of a black tobiano (paint) horse. He is depicted as a pegasus here with wings that match his fur pattern. He flies above a still lake, his furthest hoof almost touching the water's surface and casting a reflection of his legs below. The sunset is brilliant and sets the sky full of fiery orange and whimsical purple to be this beloved colt's backdrop. There is some nondescript land visible across the horizon.
February 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day from our Blue Valentine filly! 💜
Luna, a young blue roan mare who looks solid black in her winter rags, loaves on the paddock in some old hay and grass. She looks with ears forward curiously at the camera with me crouched in front of her behind the phone. The sky is blue and littered with wispy clouds.
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A particularly round Wildfire on her 10 months and 1 day bumpdate 🫶
Wildfire, a flaxen chestnut mare, stands facing away from the camera at three quarters angle. Her tail is swept by the cool breeze, and her expression isn’t thrilled (lol). She’s getting quite round in her belly due to the growing foal.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Want to see some foal movement? 🥰
February 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Tari putting out the moves for Chica. She’s predictably unimpressed 😆
Tari, an aged, red dun stallion, prances up to Chica, a bay mare with two white socks. Tari’s neck is arched as he strikes a pose on his approach. Chica is hard to impress; her ears are back as she scowls at his advances.
February 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Mlem
Zira, a bay mare with a big white star and snip, licking after getting a drink. I caught her mid-tongue-out. Her forelock is in a messy braid (because it’s long AF, and I felt like it was getting in her eyes). There is a very full pond behind her. Ironically, she’s drinking from a trough off camera and not the big pond lol.
February 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I think I just found my new banner. I love my little blue mare. She really impressed me yesterday. 💜
Me riding Luna through our snowy paddock. I am wearing an orange hoodie and grey sweatpants; my helmet is blue and green (and very hard to make it out, but it has a T. rex decal on it). Luna looks like a regular ranch horse, she is a lithe blue roan mare, but the roan is less visible in her black winter coat. She walks out against the fence line with a big stride; the snow is up to her fetlocks. Her expression is alight with curiosity. She wears a hackamore with a purple and pink mecate. Shes donned in my medium brown barrel saddle and a gray pad. The woods beyond is steeped with bare trees covered in snow. The sky is somewhat more tinted blue than the snow but not by much. A large bird is flying overhead way in the distance.
January 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Just me and the best stallion all bundled up for the snow! ❄️
Tari and I standing together. I am looking at the camera at smiling. I’m wearing my signature cold weather outfit: mulberry coveralls and my orange Jurassic Park hoodie. I’m also wearing a ball cap and have a pink warmer around my neck. Most of Tari’s body is obscured, but I’m cradling his head in my hand with his face next to mine. Tari has his ears up and forward, and his eyes are bright. Snow covers the ground and still falls steadily. Tari is dusted in powdered snow. He is a red dun Quarter Horse stallion.
January 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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“It is a good life we lead, brother.”
“The best. May it never change.”
“And may it never change us.”

Hanging out with Tari during his hoof trim. 🫶
A picture taken on hoof trim day by my boyfriend, Ray. Ivory, our hoof trimmer and one of my best friends, and I are taking what looks to be a break from the hoof trimming extravaganza. In reality, we’re letting my senior stallion, Tari, a red dun in color, bask in the chilly wind and warm sun. We were one hoof in and, once Ivory finished it, we put the hoof down and he immediately relaxed. He sighed, licked and chewed, and his eyes got heavy; all signs that the nervous system was coming down. We let him have that moment and just watched, privileged to give this stallion the end of life care he deserves. Ivory is squatted ont he ground to the left, all bundled up in winter gear, though her hair pokes out in a bun on the top of her head. I am on the right and am laid down on my side in the grass, propped up by my elbow. I’m wearing an orange hoodie and mulberry coveralls. You can see one of Tari’s mares Chica, a bay, in the background eating hay.
January 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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👋 2024 and 🤗 2025! Let’s hope this year is a bit less emotionally demanding, and a bit more uplifting. Still, many experiences to be thankful for!
January 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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It's not too late to order a YCH smiling horse as a gift for someone (or yourself)! These make really good lock screens or icons. I can also easily make one Christmas-themed!

Enjoy these two of a couple of our personal horses. 💜💙

#ych #horse #horseartist #horseart
A blue roan horse in the Flehman's response gesture, using the template of my YCH I have posted before. Her eyes are brown and her mane and forelock are quite long. The background is a periwinkle gradient with white sparkles. There is a thin border that frames the horse. A silver bay horse in the same position, facing the opposite way. She has brown eyes and a star and snip. The background is sky blue with sunflowers sketched on top. There is a double border framing the horse.
December 20, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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My very round broodies! The foals were quite active in the bellies today. 🤗
Wildfire, a flaxen chestnut mare, sipping water from the trough, facing away from me at an angle the shows the rotund-ness. Her belly is growing pretty big now, not the biggest pregnant mare belly I’ve seen, but I feel like since I see her all the time, it’s harder to tell. It is quite round, however. Lol. The ground is saturated with puddles from the storm early this morning. Zira, a deep bay mare with tall back stockings, taking inventory on the free choice salt that was dissolved by the rain. She is much slighter in stature and smaller, making the pregnant belly stand out. She is about two months behind Wildfire in her pregnancy.
December 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Narrowly missed #NationalDayOfTheHorse, but I still can’t resist posting my beloved boy, Tari. 26 YO son of Hollywood Dun It. We love him so much!
A picture of Tari in the pasture. He is an aged red dun stallion, but in this picture you might not guess that! He has a single white sock on the front left and a tiny star. He is muscular and filled out, back when the grass was still green. His coat has a metallic sheen to it.
December 14, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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After ages of waiting, and a Black Friday sale to boot, I got Wildfire her new turnout blanket from Ponyo Horsewear. When this pattern was released, I knew it was made for HER! 😭 💐

#broodmare #cutehorse
A brightly edited portrait of Wildfire in her new turnout blanket (a hooded one, at that)! The colors of the blanket are blue, magenta, and yellow; a vibrant flower pattern covers most of the blanket. Wildfire herself is a flaxen chestnut mare, sporting a halter that, thought not by the same company, is magenta with a floral inlay. Wildfire has a decent-sized blaze that comes down her nose. Her expression is gentle, and her eye is soft. A full body side view of Wildfire in the blanket, facing right. She is standing almost square and also has magenta fly boots on (if you can’t tell, her theme is magenta/floral). The editing on the photo makes the colorful blanket pop!
December 12, 2024 at 6:48 PM