Arabian Horse Thread....picture heavy

[EweSheep]

Beautiful Khemo son!!!!!!

 

[arabianequine]

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You are very correct....this horse was stalled all winter when I got her. She was born late august and I got her in middle of the following feb. A totally different looking horse, size, color, and very scared but still just a baby. She did not even know how to lift her feet and the first time trimmed the trimmer said he does not think anyone ever lifted her feet before. It was a good fight to say the least. Fronts not as bad to do as the backs were.

I took her to the trainers for 2 months after being here only a week....she did not know how to load in a trailer, the trainer got her desensitized in the feet legs, she would not lift her feet before going, how to respect your space, or even do as asked but she was just a baby I understand that....after she came home much easier to handle.


Bossroo said......"She needs plenty of groceries to match her growth as evidnced in her yearling photos." Are you saying she looked under weight in the yearling photos....there is a few at a month old and then one when I got her at 5 1/2 months old. I am asking cause I did not think she looked underweight.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Back in the day, there were no 'quarter horses', all were thoroughbred or called 'blooded' or something like that. Later, heavier stockier ranch type horses were developed from thoroughbreds and others.

 

[Jasmine1998]

Thanks EweSheep! I don't own the dad, my friend owns him. He is such an awesome horse, you would never know he was a stud as well behaved as he is....and he still is looking good at 25.

Here is father & son playing together....

Khemo (sire) is in front, Khracker (colt) is in the back

This time Khracker is in front, Khemo is in the back...they could be twins..

 

[smoothmule]

Great thread here! I have gaited horses and mules, and there is my Macarena. She's my first Arabian and I've learned so much about Arabians from her. Her reg name is HF Macarena, she's SE AK and Pyramid list. She was foaled in 1995 by a breeder around St Louis area. She and her husband went through a bitter divorce and at one point, the soon to be exhusband sold the entire herd of Arabians to Slaughter behind her back. She found out and rescued them before they were shipped out and donated the entire herd, papers and all, to the Society for the Preservation of the Egyptian Arabian Horse. The society is in California and I don't know how many made it out there but Macarena was sold before she left St Louis to a breeder in my area as a young mare. This owner had Anchor Hill bloodlines and had been active in the breed but she started having health issues and ended up having a stroke so Macarena never got past ground work. She was later traded to another breeder to raise Friesian crosses, this maiden mare, over 10 yrs old that is hardly over 14 hands was bred to a nearly 17 hand stallion. Her first foal was rejected, big time and was bottle raised. Macarena was given a year off and bred back again. In that time, the owner was burning the candle at both ends and ended up selling the stallion and almost every mare, all but the best and they were boarded since they left the farm to move into town.

As luck would have it, for both Macarena and myself, I had known both of Macarena's previous 2 owners and had admired her for some time. I asked her owner for some help finding a small Arabian mare like Macarena for me. I have a fantastic pony stallion and wanted an Arabian type pony. The deal was I would lease her and foal her out, then without warning, she was offered to me and at a price I couldn't say no to and didn't Want to say no to.

So, I had an Arabian mare. NOTHING like my other mares. She didn't even associate with the other mares. I learned later that she had never bonded with another horse, or human. I learned even more recently that she had been sent to a trainer after being bred the second time and had been badly abused and they couldn't do anything with her. Much longer story but we worked through the foaling and motherhood issues, as well as the bonding and trust issues and she foaled a GORGEOUS!!! Sable Champagne Half Arabian pony filly this spring, just exactly what I was hoping for and topping it off, Macarena did it all on her own this time and has been the best mother ever. Her story goes far beyond all I have written, too much to put here but her life has been no less exciting, dangerous and wild than the desertbred horses from Egypt. I'm sure there is a lot more to her life than I was able to trace but she has a forever home here with me and you could not ask for a more bonded, loving mare and her trust has extended to anyone who comes here. She is frequently allowed free range on our place, no fences, nothing to keep her from leaving and she has been out for weeks without a single episode of leaving home. She follows my car up the drive to the house with tail flying and stands at the door to the car till I get out to give her a pat and we have a talk.

I have to stop myself here because I could just go on endlessly about her so I'll end with some photo's of Macarena and her 2010 filly, Layla Sparkles. She is registered HAHR and ICHR

Newborn filly, Layla, at about 4 hours old! She is still amazing

Macarena and Layla, loose in the yard.

"Sometimes" they get to be fenced in the pasture. I love the serenity of this photo

Curious Layla

Layla's big baby blues, I Love those big, gorgeous Arabian eyes and the champagne foal blues are perfect

Last one, my baby Layla is growing up too fast

 

[arabianequine]

I love the story. Really cute baby. I love the blue eyes. I would like to see more pics of the baby.

Thanks for sharing everyone!

 

[arabianequine]

@ jasmine1998 I think I missed your pictures. I like the chasing and rolling pictures. Thank you for sharing!

 

[smoothmule]

Thanks so much, I just get carried away when it comes to Macarena and Layla. I too tons of pics of her this summer then, as usual, I slack off when they start getting their winter coats.
Here are some of my favorites of Layla at different ages

Here she is with her sire, Lil Champagne Tease (ICHR reg Sable Champagne Appaloosa) and her half brother Deuce (Classic Champagne/Few Spot Appaloosa pony colt) in the background.

She has such a pretty head. Our stallion is Non-Prepotent so all of his foals are small clones of the mares they are out of.

I can't wait to see her grown up. Layla will mature about 13 hands.

Posing for me. Her champagne color looks different in different lights.

Last one, she's got such a beautiful profile, of course right now, she's a wooly bug

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

Arabians-My favoerite breed. That's what I want when and if I ever get a place big enough to keep them on.

 

[arabianequine]

@smoothmule that baby definitely has the arab features going on head, ears, tail.