Hello my name is Pete. I’ve decided to share my adventures with you as I grow up from little colt to a big black stallion.
<– This is me! Well this was me a year ago when I came to live at Dutch Hollow Acres and boy did I have to travel a long ways away from where I was born to get here.
I was born in the state of Missouri on a rural Amish farm so far away from civilization that the farm I called home didn’t even have a house or street number. Life was good there I lived in a small herd with my mom MVR Black Beauty and my dad was a big stallion named Fritz P and the people there called me Rocket!
I got to live there for a whole year until one day a big truck came and I was asked to climb aboard it rather reluctantly. At first I didn’t like the trailer much and it moved beneath my feet and was very scary! After a while it wasn’t so bad. Every few hours the trailer would stop moving giving me a chance to rest. People would bring me water and hay so I could keep my belly full. I was on the trailer a long long time and watched the sun set and rise again 2 times!
Then one night we stopped and I heard new voices. The back door opened and someone came for me. I wasn’t sure what was going on and didn’t want to get off the trailer which now felt safe. 2 new faces greeted me in the darkness and one of them took the lead rope from the man. She gave me a pat and the guy next to her did the same. They seemed calm and friendly but in the dark I couldn’t see very well and could hear the calls of horses in the distance.
The lady and man lead me down a very long and dark driveway which followed a fence line where lots of other horses came to investigate me. I was very unsure of where I was going and took each step slowly and deliberately until we got to the barn. The lady lead me to a stall with deep bedding, fresh hay and clean water. They stayed for a while giving me pets and eventually turned off the lights and let me rest.
When the sun rose so did the tall lady and she tended to all the mysterious voices of other animals I could hear but not see. She eventually came to me but I was still scared of this new place I was thrust into and so I tried to hide in the corner and get away. She was calm and brushed my coat with long slow strokes and gave me some grain to eat.
The man came in the barn a while later and he too came in and started brushing and stroking me until my coat shinned so brightly it almost looked blue not black. I still was unsure of the new place but the people eventually left leaving me alone to get some much needed rest after my long trip. I slowly drifted off to the sounds of an unfamiliar place……Zzzzz.