The owner of Bugs giving him a try.
Mindy under saddle...I thought her head low, CA, said that is just her naturally, he has never asked her to put her head that low.
Becky
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
The owner of Bugs giving him a try.
Mindy under saddle...I thought her head low, CA, said that is just her naturally, he has never asked her to put her head that low.
Becky
We went down this afternoon to help move Bob's new horse home... He's a BIG Appaloosa... (no spots) named Barney...
Kat was very interested....
The alpacas didn't seem all that interested...
I have anywhere from 5-20 ducks that come running when I get out of the van in the evenings. My husband says that if I would quit feeding them, they would find a new momma. I kind of like how they follow me around though:’)
Horses, at first, were all wild animals like zebras are today. People hunted them for their meat and especially for their skins, to make into leather hides for clothes and for tents and tools. But around 3000 BC, people began to tame horses, to domesticate them, to eat them and to use them to carry things.
You dork.
I would like that, too. What are you feeding them?
Wow, that is one muscular horse!! 4 white socks...he is really nice looking:) When are you all going riding:).
His daughter rides Kat, right?
The alpacas are cute:). So is that one on the very left clipped, or a different type that doesn’t grow as much hair? I like the shaggy ones.
Becky
Really a good looking horse, and yeah, he looks really strong. Bob still can’t haul for a couple weeks.... Then I hope he’ll be able to go. Yes, hopefully Jesse will be riding Kat.
The alpaca on the left just got sheared... he’s the one I’m hauling to the fair on friday :~)
Lots of really nice pictures on here lately.
Becky, the clinic looks like it was very interesting. Thanks for the report. No, the laser was to make me "look" better, not see better. Very painful and I look like he!! right now.
Hair, I really like Bob's new horse. He's a big one!
Well, I hope you look better soon! What'd they do? Was it supposed to be really painful?
I would have said warmblood rather than App. Apps certainly have changed since the days of the little scrawny ewe-necked beasties with ratty tails, feet like soup plates, and big ugly heads with lop ears and pink-rimmed eyes with white sidewalls . . .
Hey - that’s a little harsh, don’t you think? We’ve got Appy lovers here.
He’s registered appy.... but I didn’t see any of the traits, except some striping on the feet. I agree, he looks warmblood. He’s very pretty, and has a lot of presence. He’s been used as a school horse most recently, and he’s just too big for most of her youth students... and I think, he can be a lot of horse when he’s on the muscle.
I was thinking of a particular mare at the barn where I used to ride . . . her name was Rotten Thing, which will give you an idea. Her looks were old-fashioned App, but her nasty temperament was all her own.
The lady he traded with is an old Arab show judge where Jessie's been taking lessons. She's got a barn full of Arabs and ended up with Barney when a boarder died or something. Didn't catch the whole story, but Barney was out of place in her lesson program, and Jihann was perfect. He's been there awhile now, on loan.
I guess Bob and my landlord took Barney out on trail and tested him pretty hard... he jigged and was full of energy the whole way, hadn't been on trail in a long time, but did everything, mud, water, rocks... etc that was asked of him.
Bob will still keep Kai... the big grey appy he's got... but he's getting repeated sarcoids, right in the cinch and breastcollar area, and Bob wasn't able to ride much last year because of them.... either because the sarcoid was in the way, or because he was healing from having them removed. I think Kai will be mostly retiring, if this new horse works out.
And some might say they've lost much that made them unique, and the breed now often resembles a quarter horse that only sometimes even has spots. I worked on an appy ranch 25 years ago, my first lessons were on them, and I'm quite fond of them, so I still think your post was a bit harsh.
Yikes... Are you better today?
Yes, much better, thanks.
But for a conformation hunter, an App's just not where it's at. It's not that I hate them, it's just that they don't look "right" for my purposes. If you put my tall, skinny, long-necked TB mare in a Western Pleasure class, with her springy (teeth-jarring) trot and big booming canter, she would be deservedly laughed at because she wouldn't be where she's supposed to be.
As I said, the show people have improved the looks - possibly at the cost of the characteristic qualities of the breed.
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