The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[BladeRider]

Heck, I was trimming Grace’s back feet a couple of days ago and all of a sudden this GOO comes splashing down on my foot and I had to get out from under there real quick because she was SQUIRTING on me...for no apparent reason...and then she just stood there in “the position”, winking.

Oh my, what have I unintentionally started!

[BladeRider]

Aw, he don’t have a moose nose! He’s cute!

You told me at the horse camp (the day it hailed) he had what they called a moose nose. I gre with you though, he is cute. Looks like a little red headed boy with that forelock. His nickname at home is Dennis (The Menace). He helped Gary build the loft in the barn last weekend. We now have a full loft instead of a half loft. Room for more hay.

[FrogInABlender]

Little did you know when you made that comment the twists and turns that this conversation would take! Oh well, it’s better than crabbiness.

[FrogInABlender]

Good deal about the loft! Now if you can just find some hay to fill it up.

[AnAmericanMother]

A VERY judicious application of a mild bleach solution (start very dilute and work up), followed by a thorough shampoo and cream rinse, does the trick.

I've only got one white foot to deal with, but it works pretty well and all the people in the barn with grey horses or bays with lots of white use it. I have the opposite problem -- I use Clairol extra dark Blue-Black for African-Americans on Grace's tail because it sun bleaches out at the top. (I get lots of funny looks in the drugstore when I'm buying 2-3 bottles of that stuff too!)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

A VERY judicious application of a mild bleach solution (start very dilute and work up), followed by a thorough shampoo and cream rinse, does the trick.

That's what I do with Harley's tail.

Becky

[BladeRider]

I use Clairol extra dark Blue-Black for African-Americans on Grace's tail because it sun bleaches out at the top.

Frog, You could use this on your blue roans.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'd be even more cautious with the black dye on a blue roan than I am with the Clorox on the white bits (it takes a while to get the exact dilution right).

That dye is REALLY black, no kidding! I wear 2 sets of gloves and I still get the occasional mark on my hands that has to WEAR off. It doesn't matter with my mare, because she is black (where she isn't sun bleached out), so if it takes more or takes less, it doesn't really matter.

But since roans are a mix of black and white and tan hairs, it would be awful if it turned EVERYTHING black - or if it stuck to the white hair more than the black and sort of got you a reverse negative roan . . .

At least experiment on an inconspicuous spot, first. I've found that the hair takes the dye up at different speeds - iow, the very coarse tail hair is slower to dye than a white mark over an old wound on the leg or body, which turns black almost instantly.

[BladeRider]

But since roans are a mix of black and white and tan hairs, it would be awful if it turned EVERYTHING black - or if it stuck to the white hair more than the black and sort of got you a reverse negative roan . .

THe mane and tail on blue roans is black. My neighbor shows horses and has a bay that she colors his sun bleached tail with some sort of spray made specifically for that. It comes in several colors. I will have to find out what it is called. With Blade being a red roan I don't have to worry much about sun bleaching.

[AnAmericanMother]

OK, that makes sense, just keep it off the body.

I wonder if that special spray costs a bundle, and in the back of the shop are 3-4 people pouring the Clairol out of the $6.99 bottle into the special spray bottle!

(just add "equine", "pilot", or "dog training" to ANY item, and mark it up 4-500% . . . )

[Maximus of Texas]

Just thought you might wanna be ejumacated on the horse history thing.

[Duchess47]

The appaloosas that were 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 were not the original appaloosas - if you ever see any old pictures of indians on appaloosas they were good looking horses. The horse you describe was the result of years of the military and the *white man* trying to get rid of the horses that made the run to Canada. The ones that weren't shot were outcrossed to anything and everything.

[Duchess47]

Hope you're feeling much better today.

See my post above :) - appaloosas were some outstanding horse flesh, the envy of the tribes that didn't have them.

[Duchess47]

I love you guys :)

A lot of people, me included are breeding the old time appys - they can and do do anything. It's hard sometimes to find the bloodlines but we snap them up whenever we run into them. By the way, the *foundation appaloosa* that the foundation breeders promote is not the old appy. The old appy was not a loud leopard, that came from circus horses imported from Germany. The old appy patterns were blankets, roans, snowcaps and few spots.

[Duchess47]

:) I love you too but you’re wrong. Sonny is very close to the old time app although he doesn’t throw it. So is BamBam and Dusty. Prez, Farah and Indy don’t have much quarter horse in them but more than the first three. Tyke and Friday are quarter horses in all but name though.

[Duchess47]

:) I am weighing in - finally. It’s been a very busy day so I’m way behind. AAM’s opinion is held by a lot of people and the government worked real hard to promote that. The original app was bred to do anything and do it well. Oh, by the way, I love Bob’s new horse. I got sidetracked here.

[Duchess47]

They were all great horses weren’t they? And app stallions were rode and shown by children, very well mannered and gentle horses. ~along with good looking~ :)

[Duchess47]

I thought the same thing today when I got the catalog. :)

[Duchess47]

Thank you for the pictures and the comments on the clinic. I did get sidetracked but I really enjoyed them. I’m going to have to find a clinic of his somewhere nearby.

[Duchess47]

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