Foals For 2014 Anyone?

[Anna]

Eric... But I love Einstein!

We are on L next year! Lavender is top of the list in my head

[cadeby]

Martin quite fancies "Eric The Red" if his Fell mare has a colt foal. I refuse to let him have Eric Bloodaxe!!! Poor foal.

We're not restricted to 8 letters for the Fell foal as the breed is not recognised in France.

Anna - Lily Of The Valley? Pretty plant, and a pretty name for a filly

[jap]

nooooo, we have one lily and she is more than enough

[Fi]

Dec 15, 2013 21:31:48 GMT -1 cadeby said:

Dec 15, 2013 20:37:52 GMT -1 Fi said:

I didn't realise it was supposed to be bad luck to have someone name your foals? ...

I think it's more the thought of choosing a name before the foal is born which some people may be cautious about xx

ETA - no matches, lol.

ooh, yes, I can see that. I'd probably be a bit like that too.

Apparently a friend of a friend is planning on having a foal 'shower' before it's due. I definitely would be too superstitious to do that! (it's her first foalie)

[cassey1988]

Found some nice Cealic names:

Filly:
Eavan: beautiful
Edana: fire
Evlin: radiant, beautiful
Enya: the center, the core, the most important part
Erin: just means Ireland, but I think it's nice

Colt:
Eachann: horse lord (yeah!)
Eamon: prosperity, protection
Easal: waterfall
Egan: little fire
Eiros: bright, snow
Elemar: meaning is uncertain, but believed is it is connected to the term Noble
Emrys: immortal
Esras: empower
Evan: fair as gold


And the LOTR fan could go for Éowyn, Éomer, Ëar (meaning sea), Ëarwen (maiden of the sea) Elen (meaning star), Elena or Elda (both meaning: from the stars) or Eledhwen (maiden of the stars).

[Tynedale]

Helen you need an Eleanor of Aquitaine

[DalesLady]

I love the name Enya from Cassie's list

What about Esmerelda or Ermentrude? (only joking) Although there was an Ermentrude of Orléans in the 9th Century. She was Queen of the Franks

[cadeby]

There's a couple of matches from Cassie's list and Enya is one of them, possibly for Inca's baby if she has a filly, because I think Inca and Enya sounds nice together or for Gem's baby because it continues the celtic theme we chose for her previous daughters Celtic Myth and Breanna

Much as I love the Magic Roundabout (I am the proud owner of an Ermintrude hot water bottle) there are, thankfully, more than 8 letters in the name

Eleanor d'Aquitaine is buried in Fontevraud Abbey, not far from us, and she was the Queen of Anjou - our region - but again, too many letters.

You are making me feel all foalie, especially as I have been transferring due-dates onto my DPS calendar

[cassey1988]

Well, just Eleanor then :-)

[Tynedale]

Agree with cassey, just Eleanor!
We are now around 240 days so looking forwards to Spring and what it might bring us.
Think one of the things it might bring is sleepless nights, I am making up for this with lots of early nights at the moment.

[jap]

we start lambing next week, two weeks late for us, but sleepless nights ,huraah.

[Deleted]

Penny you beat me to it I though Ermintrude lol!
Just had my 2 mini shetland mares tested in foal so two for us this year eek!!!!

[cadeby]

Anybody on foal-watch yet? I have Gem and Tetley stabled at night now, but they're not due for another couple of weeks, so no sleep deprivation yet

[jap]

yep we are on foal watch. I have to say its hard straight on the heels of lambing.One due this week, the next two are in the maternity block already and clemmie and lottie are due in april so still outsides.We will be interested to see Victors foals escpecially as clemmie has only ever gone to Bobby.

[Debbie]

Awwhhh... I feel so broodie! I really can't wait for the first dales foalie to peek it's nose into the world