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Elphin Chickadee is Mick and *Scottsway Lullaby's third foal. She is a bright bay with two little white socks and a star. In keeping with the bird theme of Abby's foals, Chickadee is named after Parus atricapillus, the Black-capped Chickadee common in Eastern Ontario. She certainly resembles her name sake in personality: outgoing, curious and lively! She is owned by Sue Holland, Hollymead Farm, NC.
Above: Chickadee and rider Sophie Andersen, May 2010.
Above & Below: Chickadee and Sophie at the ACPS Region V show, June 2010.
Above & below: Chickadee being ridden by Sue's Danish exchange student
Sophie Andersen in 2009 and 2010
Hollymead farms aquired a Connemara stallion Loughrea's Seamus (Greystone Adirondack A'Herne x Loughrea's Lioch x Chiltern Colm) in the autumn of 2009. Below is Chickade giving the young man a run for his money!
As well as being an excellent broodmare, Chickadee
is ridden and enjoyed by Sue's grandchildren Aubrie and Culver. Sue says of
Chickadee:
"I adore Chick. She is so affectionate and loves being rubbed and
scratched. I could spend all day with her and the filly."
L: Striding out; C and R: Chickadee and her young rider Aubrie.
Vanessa Morgan of Foothills Farm Connemaras bought Chickadee in March 2006 and owned her for 2 years. During this time she was leased to Balmullo Farm and had the filly Balmullo's Dixie Chick (*Gunsmoke).
Chickadee in Tennessee!
Chickadee was owned by Rai Pullin of Castlewood Farm from 2001 to 2006. Rai said of her pony: "She is an outstanding filly with great bloodlines and I am proud to have her."
L: Chickadee with Rai after ariving
in Georgia.
C: Caraway Charlotte (Mick x *Wensum Plum), Wildwych Clio and Elphin Chickadee
at Castlewood Farm April 2003.
R: Chick under saddle 2004.
Spring 2003 update from Rai:
"I have been dying to brag to you about how good Chickadee looks
but knew that you would want to see some pics. I finally got a few good
ones today (with Kim Lander's help) and so I am sending them on to you.
Chickadee really has the whole package and I am so proud of her. Not only
does she have the breeding and confirmation but she is also such an athlete.
I hope to get an early foal or two from her and then I think I will have
to ride her for a few years. She is just too nice to be only a broodmare."
At the age of 9 months Chickadee took a trip from the snowy north down to Georgia. Her transportation arrived in the form of an 11 horse tractor trailer in the middle of a snow storm! Like any sensible Connemara she followed a bucket of food aboard and arrived in Hampton, GA, several days later.
Above: Chickadee age 4 months. Below: Chickadee
age 1 month.
Chickadee's Foals:
Balmullo's Dixie Chick: 2007 filly by *Gunsmoke
Hollymead's Blue Jay: 2008 gelding by *Gunsmoke
Hollymead's Meadow Lark: 2009 filly by Grey Haven Collin O'Patrick
Chickadee was leased to Donna Duckworth, Balmullo Farm, FL, and bred to *Gunsmoke for a 2007 foal.
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The result was Balmullo's Dixie Chick, a dun filly, left & below. |
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L Dixie Chick in 2010, and R: 2009
Dixie Chick, spring 2011
In 2008 Chickadee arrived at Sue Holland's Hollymead Farm in North Carolina and had an April colt by *Gunsmoke.
Chickadee and new friend Gately's Red Robin, spring 2008.
Chickadee's second foal is Hollymead Blue Jay, who found a new home in Texas in April 2009.
Chickadee and Hollymead Blue Jay
Chickadee's 2009 filly is Hollymead Meadow Lark, pictured below.
Chickadee and Hollymead Meadow Lark
Above: Lark at 18 months old.