This is Touch O Honey of RiverPointe Farm.  We call her Honey.  

Like Benz, she was previously known by another name, Vines Touch of Honey, and was a product of Michael Vine.

I am to the finish as this is our final horse introduction (for now).

Honey is a solid buckskin mini Gypsy Vanner mare.

Honey was a horse that we would’ve liked to have purchased alongside Benz, but she was not for sale at that time.  

Fortunately, we were provided with the opportunity to purchase her earlier this year from RiverPointe Farm.  We were contemplating her purchase and there was some back and forth chit-chat with Vicki.  She popped her out on Facebook, and that was all it took for us to decide to pull the trigger.  No one else was going to beat us to Honey (that sales tactic worked on us in this instance and we have no regrets)!

Honey arrived on our farm just before the worst winter storm of the 2023-2024 season.  We had her with three of Naz’s offspring (who I call the munchkins (sometimes the fruit basket or fruit salad), Flo, Apple, Cherry) in one of our double-sized birthing stalls with an outside attached enclosure.  The -20 windchills were likely a shock for her system after coming up from Florida, and we stalled her with the others in the barn because we were very concerned about the abrupt climate change for her, and we wanted her out of the wind.  I had all the minis and weanlings in the barn for those frigid days, and the barn stayed surprisingly warm out of the wind with all that body heat in there.  I had small supplemental space heaters ready to fire up in the center aisle, but I didn’t need to use them in the end.

Honey has already had one foal, the tiniest little sweetheart of a palomino tobiano filly.  She’ll be five this year but is currently open.  As much as she really seems to like Mason across the fence-line, that’s not our plan for her (Mason really likes her, too, but he doesn’t seem to be choosy at all…he likes all the girls).  She and Benz will hopefully give us our first mini foal in 2025 unless one of our other mares bred by Benz beats her to it.

I had some worries about her first farrier session because she had moments where she didn’t like me messing with her feet, but that all evaporated when she was a perfect angel for our farrier.

She’s acclimated in our pastures now with Naz’s girls (offspring and pregnant mares) and a few of our other yearlings that share a space.  That’ll change soon when we re-shuffle horses for spring pasture assignments, especially when we have that one pasture completely rebuilt soon.

That’s all for Honey.  She’s new to us and our farm and we really like a lot about her.  Most of her story is still to be told.