The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE

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[HairOfTheDog]

Adrobable.... great pictures, she looks like a nice healthy foal too.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are all four feet white? They look to be in the pics... she's gonna be flashy.

[FrogInABlender]

Another cute little girl! Wow! Two in one day. You can't ask for much better. I'll bet her hooves darken up since she doesn't really appear to have any stockings. Thanks for posting!

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - I'll be she sheds out to little ankle stockings on all four. :~D

[FrogInABlender]

I see you're in a betting mood this morning. ;o) You may be right, but it sure doesn't look like it right now. Just looks like milky colored baby hair. But I'm not confidant enough about it to make a bet on it. She'll be a pretty one no matter what.

[Duchess47]

She is gorgeous - looks like momma. Thanks for the pictures.

[HairOfTheDog]

Duchess... I took the liberty of lightening your pics to see can see better what your foal looks like!

I know foals can change a LOT from foal coat to their permanent color, especially those that might roan, but is there sign you can see that she'll roan out? Because if I were to guess, I see no sign of white on this foal, 'cept that cute spot on her face. If she were any other breed I'd guess she'd shed out darker than she is now.

If she did roan out does that alone qualify as color in appy registration?

This scene is adorable. A classic shot of mom and babe.

I don't see a white hair on her, but she is a really rich bay color. I'd think she'd shed out to be like MissTarget's filly.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm stumped that she looks like she might stay sorrel! Sure looks like it to me! Her daddy is bay, and I thought bay was always dominant.

[HairOfTheDog]

meaning CS's foal... (we might get confused this morning)

[Duchess47]

Good morning, Bob is hobbling around with my knee brace on :) It's supporting his knee enough to walk so I think it's just twisted. He's trailer a mare to the vet this morning for a pregnancy check.

The foaling started with just the nose showing - no feet showing. We got Dusty up and Bob reached in and got one foot up beside the head. The other was bent back at the knee and she was born that way. Rough night for momma.

Everyone is fine this morning. I'm still waiting for a call from my vet - my DIL tells me he's moved to Sacramento and is working from there. When I reach him first question will be who's covering your patients here? If I had needed him last night I'd have been in big trouble.

TE Dusty Jax may have a barn name of Speed. She's been running circles around her mom in the stall since she got up. Her sire is a loud bay leopard horse but obviously he doesn't throw color. This little girl is his first foal. He's off a Doc O'Lena AQHA mare and she kinda looks like grandma.

Hair - more pictures later today :)

[Duchess47]

What a heartbreaking post. May God comfort her and her family.

[HairOfTheDog]

Her sire is a loud bay leopard horse

There is so much mystery in Appy color. It defies logic!

I like "Speed"... but you won't sell her has a child's mount with that name... 'cept to maybe a barrel racer ;~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I am gonna go clean stalls... I want to try, again, to get at stalls first thing in the morning again...

[FrogInABlender]

With foals that are going to be roan, you don't see any white hairs at first, and they actually appear to be born with a darker color than most solid color foals. The roan starts coming in a few weeks later, usually as a few white hairs widely scattered all over the body (down close to the skin) except for the face and legs. You'd never guess by looking at this picture of Hope that she was going to be a roan...

[HairOfTheDog]

Nope - you're right... I'd have never guessed! Is roaning pretty dominant so you'd expect it from any foal from this momma? or does her daddy also add to that?

[FrogInABlender]

I like Speed for a barn name! Very Cute!

[FrogInABlender]

I think I read on that website that Duchess posted some time back that the roan gene was fairly dominant. Bluebell has always thrown roan, but then she's always been bred to another roan or to a gray. Blade's sire was blue roan (go figure!). Bob's sire was gray. Hope's sire was blue roan. So I don't know what would happen if I bred her to a solid. I don't want to mess with something that's working, if you know what I mean. The foal she's carrying now is by Bob's sire. The foal Truly is carrying is by Hope's sire, so we'll see if he throws his roan when bred to a black mare. He has before, I'm just not sure of the percentage.

[Duchess47]

Based on her pedigree and her dam's ability - barrel racing or cutting :) Her dam, Dusty, moves quick enough that she can almost come out from under Bob - who rode cutting horses for years :)

[Duchess47]

Cute baby - get some more pictures dometime today and get an opinion from you. Speed is light around her eyes and on her muzzle like the picture shows of Hope. Dusty has roaned out to look more like a leopard every day - the roaning is leaving spots. She didn't start that until she was over two though.

Appaloosa genetics are so strange. Dusty's sire and dam were both leopards - no roaning. The sire of this little girl is a leopard, with a leopard sire and a solid quarter horse dam.

[Duchess47]

get some more pictures dometime = I will get some more pictures sometime

I need sleep or coffee.