Prospect thread for a possible resale horse -done

[patandchickens]

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Because either they know a decent picture isn't gonna get you coming out to see the horse

or [more commonly] because the people who CAN get motivated to take proper sales pics don't HAVE to be offering horses at every craigslist ad that comes along, they have buyers coming to see THEM

It is just a sad fact of life that many backyard horse people (some of whom, mind you, may have *big* horse-filled backyards <g>) just do not "get" how to sell a horse. I have seen a lot of really nice horses come from really sad/scary looking ad photos, or ads with no photos at all. (Also of course the reverse, a lot of horses can be photographed very spiffily but are basically a forty-foot-pole disaster in person).

The problem is you have to kiss a LOT of frogs, and gas has become expensive.

(btw it is not just with horses, the bad-photo thing. Cruise Petfinder.com and see how many rescues and shelters don't bother taking an even marginally-representative minimally-appealing pic of their dogs, for some mystifying reason. My own dog Russell had a listing photo that quite frankly my husband and I are at an utter loss to figure out how on EARTH they made this dog look like that, although I am sure it really *is* a pic of him. Just a very, very bizarre and unappealing one. It is not like he was hard to photograph. Why would you do that? I don't know, I just don't know.)

Pat

 

[mom'sfolly]

You've got pictures of eight horses, but only label 7. What is with the horse between 6 and 7?

 

[Baybrio]

Don't forget to pick one YOU want to work with.

 

[pbjmaker]

mom'sfolly :

You've got pictures of eight horses, but only label 7. What is with the horse between 6 and 7?

I think it is a second picture of number 6.

Was just looking at them again and for a moment I was like - where is the 4th leg on number 7? What an optical illusion...​

 

[pbjmaker]

So I google the term hammer/posty head in horses - If I am understanding right it means they are stubborn or hard headed?

How can you tell that white one is like that from a picture? Just a look in his eyes kind of thing?

Just curious. Maybe the information I googled was wrong.

 

[RabbitMage]

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And the one that YOU would want to keep. Never bring home an animal you'd hate to have around forever, just in case.

 

[patandchickens]

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No -- hammerheaded in *people* means that

, but in *horses* it is addressing how the head is set onto the neck. If it is very right-angled, usually with the horse having a straight un-cresty neck and a thick throatlatch, that is hammer-headed. (As opposed to an arched upper neck and a clean curved set of the head onto the neck)

I have not run across "post" or "posty" as a term for a horse's headset (just hindleg conformation) but it probably means similar.

Pat

 

[mom'sfolly]

Its not a second picture of number six. Six has some white on it's legs, and the one in between 6 and 7 has solid dark legs. That is why I asked.....just curious...I suppose in the first picture there could be something on the feet. The blaze with the dark nostril certainly look the same.

 

[WIChookchick]

That could be my fault, I assumed it was the same horse. (actually it is, the second pic the colt has MUD on its legs, its hard to see, but it is the same horse)

Most people call a horse that has a Hammer head OR Posty head, have a thick throatlatch/to a head that is very coarse, with a straight profile, Most Standardbreds have what they consider hammer heads.

I am waiting for seconday pics of the Golden Dun, and the chestnut, the 3 appies, and the bald faced chestnut.

Carol

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Are the 2 horses marked #6 really the same horse? Either way I would not touch either one. He looks so narrow in the front to me that his 2 front legs look to be coming out of the same hole with no chest in between!!!

If you want one to "flip" AND if appys sell in your area, then the leopard is the way to go. Sadly, all the rest will make good dog food, as there's not a pretty one in the bunch. And I gotta say that "flipping" horses in THIS market is pretty much a fantasy, so be sure to buy one you won't mind feeding for awhile. People are paying good money for good riding, bomb-proof horses that somebody's put a lot of time into rather than something that is being quickly "flipped".

JMO of course.

Rusty