Everything Horsies

[IrishEyes]

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My oldest son was 10 when we moved to Missouri. Out for a Sunday drive in the rural area, he begins yelling for us to stop the car, very upset.
DH stopped and I looked to where he was pointing out the back seat window. It was at a horse "airing it out" as this one is doing and my son
said "We have to help it Mom, it has a tree limb stuck in it's belly!!!!" This is why I loved taking my sons out of the city tp grow up country.

 

[katlupe]

Falabella horse (the little one)

 

[Medusa]

 

[Medusa]

This video a few years old now, but this is Phantom, a horse at the rescue I used to volunteer for, who is infamous for being eight feet tall!

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7068369357771967790

 

[Jazzy1]

 

[katlupe]

Wild Mustangs

 

[katlupe]

 

[Imogene]

My three circa 1963-64; the Palomino was the dam to the other two.

The white pony and the black pony were escapees from down the road

 

[katlupe]

My horses

 

[katlupe]

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[katlupe]

 

[Imogene]

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Is that one of yours? If it is too bad, you’re in New York because I’d ask you how well you liked that Farrier.

For those who don’t own horses, we are pickier about our Farriers than we are about who cuts our hair, and that is not a joke.

 

[katlupe]

Is that one of yours? If it is too bad, you’re in New York because I’d ask you how well you liked that Farrier.

For those who don’t own horses, we are pickier about our Farriers than we are about who cuts our hair, and that is not a joke.

No, it is just a random picture I found online.

You are correct about the Farriers though.

 

[katlupe]

 

[Imogene]

Ahhhh!!! My kinda riding! ^^^^^^. Looks like a pweed break

This was early1970’s. My son wasn’t born yet. It was the Beaver Creek ride which was a rough ride back then and not for the squeamish. (L-R) My Arab/Morgan, Arab/Saddlebred, my son’s father.

 

[katlupe]

 

[katlupe]

 

[katlupe]

 

[katlupe]

 

[Veronica]

https://www.lininco.com/products/ho...d=6de05eb4d8eaea6a43b15dd8db49b305&Q09ORklH=2

 

[katlupe]

Bamboo Harvester aka Mr. Ed (I am addicted to this show)

 

[Bretrick]

Black Beauty on the next-door property to where I am holidaying with fly mask.

 

[MoBeans]

Miniature horses, why are they so small?

 

[Imogene]

I’m

Miniature horses, why are they so small?k

The original miniature horses go back to the 17th century when they were bred as pit ponies to go down into the mines and pull carts of coal or whatever out of the mines.


Here in the states, someone got the bright idea to breed them down, even smaller, until they look dwarfed like the picture you posted. I am dead set against that sort of thing. I would never own one because the one Health issue that I am familiar with that they have is metabolic issues.


They are tiny animals with big health problems that can include genetic issues like dwarfism and other types of physical deformities that you won’t see on a normal sized horse.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to breed horses down this small should’ve been shot.

Sorry Mo Beans, but you asked —- this is a huge burr under my lifelong saddle of horse experience.