EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Merry Merry Christmas, y'all
Wherever you are, wherever you're going, and whatever you're doing,my prayer for all of you is that you stay safe, healthy, and happy. Spend the day with family and friends if you can; you'll all be blessed. You may never have the chance again.

God bless you, one and all.

 

[mlm Mike]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Actually. I simply said falling off a horse hurts more than falling off a dux....I never said I ride DUX.... I know I have never fallen off a DUX...that would require touching a dux... I could never touch a dux...YUCKIE!!!!

If you never fallen from a dux you never could know that it hurts less then falling from a horse.

 

[Akrnaf2]

A grade horse is a combination of various breeds, many times unknown; a mutt, if you will.
A Paso is either a Paso Fino or a Peruvian Paso; both are bred to have a smooth gait, hence the term "gaited". Dax is the resident expert on both breeds.
MFT= Missouri Fox Trotter, another gaited breed, developed, strangely enough, in Missouri as a smooth-riding saddle horse.
American Saddlebred is yet another gaited breed. Gen. Robert E. Lee's favorite horse of the American Civil War, Traveller, was of this breed.
Finally, TW(H)=Tennessee Walking Horse; developed in Tennessee, also as a smooth-riding saddle horse.

Thanks
Another question: you said " smooth-riding saddle horse" are there rough riding saddle horses? If yes, way bother to raise them?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Merry Merry Christmas, y'all
Wherever you are, wherever you're going, and whatever you're doing,my prayer for all of you is that you stay safe, healthy, and happy. Spend the day with family and friends if you can; you'll all be blessed. You may never have the chance again.

God bless you, one and all.

Thanks for your kind words Grandpa time!

 

[duluthralphie]

If you never fallen from a dux you never could know that it hurts less then falling from a horse.

Actually, I could and do...My Spouse has a bunch of short people in her family. They can not get onto a horse without a ladder to help them. Most of them find it easier to ride a Dux because of their lack of stature.

Her late Uncle Frederick fell off a dux and broke his collar bone. I had to take him to the Emergency room and he said all the way to the ER how much it hurt.

He claimed the Dux bucked him off, I think he fell off because of his drinking problem and how much dandelion wine he had consumed...

 

[duluthralphie]

Thanks
Another question: you said " smooth-riding saddle horse" are there rough riding saddle horses? If yes, way bother to raise them?

Yes, and yes. The ride on a horse can vary immensely depending on the breed. They are breed for different purposes.

A horse for working cattle (Quarterhorse) is fast and and agile.
A Tennessee walker as I understand is a very smooth gaited horse, I believe they were breed for "transportation" of one person..I have not rode one of them.

I talked about "Dewey" my Belgian. He was very rough riding. Belgians were bred to pull plows. They are a true beast of burden. They weigh a tad over a ton (US).

They lumber when they walk.

You can cross train any horse to be ridden or pull a cart, or whatever, and most of us do. My Quarter horses pulled logs out of the woods, a couple could pull a sleigh. I rode my Belgian.

I am not a horse expert, I have only owned Quarterhorses, Belgians and a few mutts.

 

[duluthralphie]

Merry Christmas all!

I hope you have a grand day....

 

[kwhites634]

Thanks
Another question: you said " smooth-riding saddle horse" are there rough riding saddle horses? If yes, way bother to raise them?

Oh, yeah...there certainly are rough-riding saddle horses, however, as with any other type of breeding, not every breeding, even between better-than-average specimens, is going to produce offspring that live up to expectations; nature can & will still throw you a curve ball. Still others are the result of indescriminent (sp) breeding. Most riding stable horses fall into the latter category

 

[kwhites634]

Actually, I could and do...My Spouse has a bunch of short people in her family. They can not get onto a horse without a ladder to help them. Most of them find it easier to ride a Dux because of their lack of stature.

I know all about the vertically challenged ones; at 4'9", DW's legs are so short her feet barely reach the floor...when she's standing up!! I tease her all the time about being the last to know when it rains & the first to know when it floods.