Horse Talk

He's definitely unique! I can't wait until he gets all his muscle back. When I first got him I thought he was so ugly because of the mottled skin around his eyes, but now I think he's beautiful.
I think June is actually my ugliest horse right now poor thing, that missing chunk of hair and lack of muscle on her back and neck does not do her justice.
But once this extreme heat is gone I'm gonna work every day to get her muscled back up, and I'm cutting her mane all one length this fall and letting it grow over the winter, she'll look amazing next spring!
Oh, and update, as soon as Reno gets a little more weight back on him, me and my grandpa are going to start riding together, him on Reno (they love each other) and me on June. And my grandpa is also gonna help me desensitize Indie since he's the spookiest horse on earth, that way I can start him this fall. Still have the same plan for Jasmine, reining training in a year. Aaaand, once I get every body riding I think I'm going to try and talk my grandpa into letting me get another horse. I just want one more horse, I want a grey BLM mustang, and then I will have the perfect herd.
And I'm still workin on talking him into that arena lol.
Anyways, June and Reno will be trail horses, Jasmine will be a show horse, and I haven't figured out what Indies purpose is yet, besides being a beautiful model

Nice pictures! Do love that tail!

Sounds like a good plan!

abigalerose said:

He's definitely unique! I can't wait until he gets all his muscle back. When I first got him I thought he was so ugly because of the mottled skin around his eyes, but now I think he's beautiful.
I think June is actually my ugliest horse right now poor thing, that missing chunk of hair and lack of muscle on her back and neck does not do her justice.
But once this extreme heat is gone I'm gonna work every day to get her muscled back up, and I'm cutting her mane all one length this fall and letting it grow over the winter, she'll look amazing next spring!
Oh, and update, as soon as Reno gets a little more weight back on him, me and my grandpa are going to start riding together, him on Reno (they love each other) and me on June. And my grandpa is also gonna help me desensitize Indie since he's the spookiest horse on earth, that way I can start him this fall. Still have the same plan for Jasmine, reining training in a year. Aaaand, once I get every body riding I think I'm going to try and talk my grandpa into letting me get another horse. I just want one more horse, I want a grey BLM mustang, and then I will have the perfect herd.
And I'm still workin on talking him into that arena lol.
Anyways, June and Reno will be trail horses, Jasmine will be a show horse, and I haven't figured out what Indies purpose is yet, besides being a beautiful model

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My plan to gfet a mustang would be a bay or black, maybe chestnut with a big blaze. Grays are SO popular. Everybody wants them and that leaves all the plain old sorrels wasting away in a pen. :/
But I'm sure you know all this already.

I do like sorrels now, but I like mine solid! Lol. And I think you might be a bit off, greys aren't that popular, I've never known grey horses to be popular (at least in my area) except for for a short time last year where everyone wanted a grey horse, but then that faded back out. I think the holding pens are mostly made up of bays, sorrels, and greys. But bays are by far probably the biggest percentage left in the holding pens, hardly anyone likes bays, myself included.
The most popular color mustangs are the paints, roans, buckskins, duns, and blacks.
But either way, I actually want a grey one for sentimental reasons, not so much because I just think it's pretty. And I do plan on getting a sale authority one instead of adopting, I feel so bad for the poor 3 strikers thatve been passed over! And you'd be surprised how many nice looking young ones end up in the holding facilities for good.
It makes me mad when I see a flashy mustang on the adoption page that has 500 bids when there's 50 other horses who have no bids! If everyone who's sitting around waiting on a flashy one would just look past color, all of the horses could get adopted.

abigalerose said:

I do like sorrels now, but I like mine solid! Lol. And I think you might be a bit off, greys aren't that popular, I've never known grey horses to be popular (at least in my area) except for for a short time last year where everyone wanted a grey horse, but then that faded back out. I think the holding pens are mostly made up of bays, sorrels, and greys. But bays are by far probably the biggest percentage left in the holding pens, hardly anyone likes bays, myself included.
The most popular color mustangs are the paints, roans, buckskins, duns, and blacks.
But either way, I actually want a grey one for sentimental reasons, not so much because I just think it's pretty. And I do plan on getting a sale authority one instead of adopting, I feel so bad for the poor 3 strikers thatve been passed over! And you'd be surprised how many nice looking young ones end up in the holding facilities for good.
It makes me mad when I see a flashy mustang on the adoption page that has 500 bids when there's 50 other horses who have no bids! If everyone who's sitting around waiting on a flashy one would just look past color, all of the horses could get adopted.

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Lol, I like a nice bay... I prefer them over chestnut. I'm not a fan of white, but I have a white grey, a true white, and 2 pintos.... sigh... lol

Bay use to be my favorite color, now it's my least, but if I look hard enough I can still find a bay I like haha. I just love all horses of all colors. And what's a true white? I thought there was no such thing as a white horse, only completely greyed out or max white overo (not sure if that's the right pattern but I'm sure you get what I'm saying) or lethal white. Idk all the white stuff still confuses me. And why am I having such a hard time picturing your horses? Have you posted pictures of all of them?

abigalerose said:

I do like sorrels now, but I like mine solid! Lol. And I think you might be a bit off, greys aren't that popular, I've never known grey horses to be popular (at least in my area) except for for a short time last year where everyone wanted a grey horse, but then that faded back out. I think the holding pens are mostly made up of bays, sorrels, and greys. But bays are by far probably the biggest percentage left in the holding pens, hardly anyone likes bays, myself included.
The most popular color mustangs are the paints, roans, buckskins, duns, and blacks.
But either way, I actually want a grey one for sentimental reasons, not so much because I just think it's pretty. And I do plan on getting a sale authority one instead of adopting, I feel so bad for the poor 3 strikers thatve been passed over! And you'd be surprised how many nice looking young ones end up in the holding facilities for good.
It makes me mad when I see a flashy mustang on the adoption page that has 500 bids when there's 50 other horses who have no bids! If everyone who's sitting around waiting on a flashy one would just look past color, all of the horses could get adopted.

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I think that generally the younger population likes getting "white" horses cuz they look cool - but yeah, who wouldn't kill for a run mustang!
UUUGH I KNOW RIGHT. California has some of the most PERFECT horses I've EVER seen. But they were all solid bays and sorrels, so "they aren't pretty" *glares at wannabe horse people*

PeepersMama said:

I think that generally the younger population likes getting "white" horses cuz they look cool - but yeah, who wouldn't kill for a run mustang!
UUUGH I KNOW RIGHT. California has some of the most PERFECT horses I've EVER seen. But they were all solid bays and sorrels, so "they aren't pretty" *glares at wannabe horse people*

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I don't think that 90% of the people in my area realize that eventually a grey horse will end up white they just see a nice dun or palomino or whatever color horse and then think "well it's gonna go grey and won't be pretty any more" so they pass on them. And everyone I know especially hates fleabitten greys (I don't really like them that well either). But yeah a lot of people do like white horses, I'm just amazed that so many don't understand that grey eventually turns to "white". And if the horse is built right, it can make any color pretty! So I don't discriminate. One of my favorite stallions is sorrel but in general I don't like that color. Just depends on the horse it's self.
I still get fired up about the blue roan thing though, it's still the most popular color in my area, and it is pretty, but I get so annoyed seeing scraggly bad conformation, sometimes completely untrained horses, selling for a higher price than well put together trained horses just because they're blue roan!
And everyone here hates palominos by the way, how weird is that?
Oh, and I think part of the reason why so many greys end up in the holding facilities at BLM, is because the really young grey horses are kind of an ugly brown color (like mine was when I got him) and the people who do the color stuff at BLM don't know how to tell if a young horse is gonna go grey so they litterly put "brown" as the description and I think people just see that and go ew.
After I had mine for a few years they came out to do an inspection, and I had to convince the lady it was the same horse because the papers said brown but he was grey, and she was just in awe that he "changed colors".

Wow that was a long rant, sorry