Regarding the Horses in our lives...

[seminolewind]

Kathy how many horses do you have at home now?

Last week I had traded a near new Kawasaki Mule for 18 months of board. My horse is kept at a place that has 28 horses in various pastures. I could have her at home but she'd be living on sand without company. So I love the fact that she has pasture buddies and gets grass all day aside from hay and grain. She has also developed into a "mare". At feed time she harasses the mares in the next pasture squealing and striking at the fence. It's just so cool to see her being a horse.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy how many horses do you have at home now?

4 retired horses and a bunch of Welsh Ponies.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Sorry... Three retired horses and one not retired 1/2 Welsh that's 15.2 hands.

-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

15.2 sounds like a good sized "pony". Are Welsh bigger?

 

[casportpony]

15.2 sounds like a good sized "pony". Are Welsh bigger?

Sire was 14.2 Section D Welsh Cob, dam was a 14.3 1/2 WB 1/2 TB by Hidla Gurney's stud Chrysos. Section D Welsh are no shorter than 13,2 hands and have no upper limit. Other sections are:

• Section A - up to 12.2 hands with Section A parents
• Section B - up to 14.2 hands with Section A or Section B parents
• Section c - up to 13.2 hands with parents that are section A, C or D

-kathy

 

[seminolewind]

Cob! That's the word I was looking for!

 

[Bunnylady]

Yeah, the Welsh pony and Welsh Cob are rather different in type; the section A 's are the one extreme, and the section D's are the other. A's are small and refined, D's a lot bigger and somewhat drafty, and the B's and C's are kinda transitional stages between the two.

 

[casportpony]

These sites have what I think are exceptional Section B Welsh:

• http://www.gayfieldswelshponies.com/
• http://welshponies.com/
• http://farmore.homestead.com/

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This one has both Section B and Section D (cob):
http://www.goldhillswelsh.com/

Very tuff to compete against!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Section A

• http://www.gaslightfarmwelshpony.com/home.html

Section A and B

• http://www.clarwoodwelshponies.com/index.html

-Kathy