Any guesses on breed(s) of my colt?

[scbatz33]

Just looking at him I would have said saddlebred x. At 9 months most babies butts are higher than their fronts. they grow crooked like that....it's actually kind of funny to watch them develop in that see-saw pattern.......He probably will be a good sized boy. I don't think he's 100%. In your area he may be crossed with a twh or a rocky mountain horse.

 

[scbatz33]

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If he wasn't getting proper nutrition and being in that awkward growth stage, it will effect the coat. Poor nutrition or lack of nutrition will cause coarse, dry, dull hair.

 

[EweSheep]

I know, however the ASB I've entercountered are such baby skin soft, so soft that it feels like you are petting silk.

 

[itsjustjen]

His coat is super soft now that I have brushed most of the dead, dull, icky coat away. He just had a growth spurt after getting some much needed groceries.

The biggest reason I ask about breed is because I nor the rescue may ever know. Falcon, along with 4 other foals and their 5 mothers were sent to auction, only the mothers sold. Down one shoot went hte mothers, the other shoot, the babies. They were then taken to a house and put into a pen; no food, water or shelter. They were lucky to be rescued before it was too late. They had worm filled bellies and had never touched hay before the rescue came along. Falcon is the oldest at 9 approaching 10 months in about a week at my best guess given his teeth. He may already be 10 months old. They power packed him with wormer and gave him Omelene 300 slowly as to not shock his system. I contuined feeding the Omelene but start switching him to Seminole Grow Right with Seminole Equalizer mixed in until this week when I began weaning him off the Grow Right. He has free choice hay as well.

We have come a long road since bringing him home but still have far to go!

 

[EweSheep]

With the TLC you are giving him, he would be goreous by the time he is a year old or two years old. I am sure they are slow to mature but they are beautiful!

 

[patandchickens]

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Gotta be *at least* half ASB, quite possibly full blooded but, um, maybe kinda backyard-bred.

I do not honestly see much QH in him unless people mean Appendix-type QHs (lighter and more TB-y); but I suppose it could be, who knows <shrug>.

I think my money is on all-ASB though.

Who knows; he's a horse, that's what counts

(I tend to agree with EweSheep about the very fine-haired coat; you do get it in some other breeds too sometimes, and not all ASBs are like that, but now that you mention it it IS something I associate with the great majority of the ASBs I've known)

Pat

 

[itsjustjen]

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Gotta be *at least* half ASB, quite possibly full blooded but, um, maybe kinda backyard-bred.

I do not honestly see much QH in him unless people mean Appendix-type QHs (lighter and more TB-y); but I suppose it could be, who knows <shrug>.

I think my money is on all-ASB though.

Who knows; he's a horse, that's what counts

(I tend to agree with EweSheep about the very fine-haired coat; you do get it in some other breeds too sometimes, and not all ASBs are like that, but now that you mention it it IS something I associate with the great majority of the ASBs I've known)

Pat

He is for sure a backyard bred...that I have no doubt of. He is also a rescue as is our 3rd horse but Joaker is 100% Irish Sport Horse with a passport from when he was imported as a colt. What can I say? I love rescues!

 

[itsjustjen]

Just one last question for you Saddlebredies.....can a ASB be a Sabino? Falcon his the Sabino traits or so I have been told. He his white strands in his tail and mane, a half "pink" lip and a speckled....um......whoha? Trying to be polite.....

 

[welsummerchicks]

I love saddlebreds so much. 'A brain between those quivery ears' is a perfect description of a good many of them.

So is, 'Wanna go fast? No? How about now? No? How about now? No? How about now? Should I pick my feet up higher? No? How about now? No? How about now?'

 

[scbatz33]

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They are the ADHD of the horse wor.......SQUIRREL!