New Horse!

[helmstead]

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It's really not an odd cross at all...it's very popular at the PMU farms, too.

Wooden - I LOVE Clyd/TB crosses! A good friend of mine 'back in the day' had a mare that looked very similar to yours which was shown in the jumpers at PSJ. Really cool horse!

Parker your other horses (and donkey LOL) are beautiful!

 

[s6bee]

Congrats on your new pending horse. I have a Perch./Paint cross. I'll put up a picture. She's a lot better looking now that we got her into shape. She sure is a mare though. Totally different from our Arab/QH cross. We named her Josie. She'll be my trial horse.

Hopeully the pic. came throuh, if not I'll send later got to run. I also wanted to mention that I have my in laws from Roanoke, VA. Where are you? They actually live in Salem.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh17/s6bee/Horses/Shadow.jpg

 

[Alleyoops25]

I say it is odd simply because I have never came acrossed them. A friend of mine who I practically call a sister hs a Dude ranch. They have 130 horses and I have sn alot of different x breeds. We spnd a lot of time on the backs of horses. I dont know if they just arent useful in thes areas, not popular, or no one has ever thought of mixing the two. But I am yet to run in to one here. My 1st horse was a Quater horse welch x. He was just a tad smaller than a Quater horse. Which was prefect for a little kid,.He wasnt broke to ride properly, my older brothers thought they were Horse trainers. instead of reining him like you would normally you had to steer him like a bike. But since I lived on a small farm in the middle of no where he made the prfect best friend. Some body who had a problem with the youngest out of my older brothers (hes 10 years older than myself) decided that thy would get revenge for what ever he did to them and came out one night and shot him when we werent home when i was 9. Thaqts the last cross breed that I owned. But by far he was the best horse ever. As I posted earilier I am vry curious about the size of this horse. I was wondering how my hands tall it is, (how much bigger she is than a quarter horse.)

 

[ParkerVA]

S6bee, I am actually in Bedford county, about 30 minutes east of Roanoke. Your mare is really pretty.

Most of the horses in my pictures are overweight, the main pictures are from the hot, hot part of the summer where we don't ride very much and they have unlimited grass. We've worked on creating several different pastures for the different groups and will be doing a lot of pasture rotations and such.

Thanks again Helmstead, I printed out the stuff on the links you sent to me. Your Percheron is a beautiful girl!

Alley, she is 16.1 or 16.2 right now, she might get a little taller, maybe up to 16.3, but that would be about as big as I would expect her to get. She is very wide though, the picture doesn't show it very well.

 

[s6bee]

My husband grew up in Roanoke, and his brother was married to someone who lived out there in Bedford ( New Castle to be exact ). I know there are still some family out there. My niece but we never see her. Long drawn out family crap..... It's beautiful country side. Driven up Catawba Mtn. many times.

 

[sweetshoplady]

Parker, your horses are beautiful. Good luck with your new girl.

WoodenPony - your horse is gorgeous too

Our sherriff posse has a beautiful black percheron that they use.

 

[nightshade]

Hi We have a connemara named Spirit, a pony mix ( no clue what she is we rescued her at auction) named Daisy May and a desert mustang named Gypsy

The last auction we went to I wanted to buy a beautiful percheron so badly. But Dh wouldn't have it. He said I could not buy anything that it's back was above his head.

So I bought the mustang instead. That will teach him lol.

Good luck with the new horse, and the rest are just beautiful.

 

[EggCentric]

Great looking horses and a beautiful farm too! We have a percheron/shire cross. He's almost 5 years old and I hope he's done growing! lol He's all muddy in the pic, it was raining that day.

 

[Morgaine]

Aww, loved seeing every one's horses. ParkerVa, she is a total cutie and she looks like a Maggie to me

Hope everything goes well with the vet check.

How much feed do the draft crosses eat? Is your feed bill higher with them? Our TB's have all been easy keepers and I wonder if a draft/TB cross would be too.

 

[ParkerVA]

Thanks everyone! The vet check is today.

Nightshade, sounds like you have a good assortment too. They had the BLM Mustangs here for adoption at the VA Horse Center back in the early 90s. We went to see them, I would have loved the opportunity to have one and work with it. I have heard such good things about them.

Holly is now a name possibility too, the people who had her called her Molly and she seems to recognize the sound of it.

EggCentric, he is a handsome fella! Diego, the gray Arabian, tends to look like a paint this time of year... mud and gray spotted!

I love seeing everyone's horses!