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[chickadoodles]

Cynthia I sprouted some oats and boss thanks to your helpful advice last year. Thank you!

 

[bamadude]

I'm glad your son is ok and that your truck is not totaled. 

x2

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: x2 I'd be very surprised if that one wasn't LWO+, though he might have other patterns going on as well.

He could also be Homozygus.... breeds to his coloring every time. Paint though is a designation requiring they be Quarter horse.... Pinto can be any breed. Same colors.

deb
Unlikely.Having white sandwiched between color on the top and bottom the way he does is typical "frame" patterning; the hallmark of Lethal White Overo. Breeding two horses like that together would be asking for it.

@Peep_Show the pawmarks are a sign of a horse that is homozygous for Tobiano; this horse's markings are typical of a different spotting pattern, namely Frame (LWO). Ermine spots are those little black spots that occur on the lower leg, often just above a black stripe in the hoof.

(Sorry, guys; I know I can get really tiresome on the subject of horse color. I used to lurk on a forum that was dedicated to the subject.)

 

[Penny Hen]

differences come also because of BioMechanics..... Some horses have freer shoulders and springier fetlocks...

there are Five natural gaits
Walk Which is four beat
Trot Which is two beat... diagonal landing at the same time
Canter Which is three beat. I cant describe it
Gallop Which is again a four beat gait.
Backing up Which is like the trot only in revers... diagonal feet landing at the same time

Then there are what some call artificial gaits. The horse has a tendency toward it and it is incouraged to perform it. Some are better than others. This article has several videos on how these gaits work.

http://myhorseuniversity.com/resources/eTips/April_2011/Didyouknow

Since I am a Dressage person at heart I prefer the standard Five gaits. But thats me.

deb

Well the gaits aren't artificial in the sense that it is a genetic link that causes them. What is artificial is the long hooves and weighted shoes (especially in the TN Walking Horse shows) that exaggerate the gait. Personally I dislike the exaggeration. It looks unnatural. Big Blue Madness, the horse in the video I posted is a speed racker. Those are keg shoes (plain shoes right out of a barrel) that he is wearing not weighted shoes. That is his natural gait one hundred percent. This following video shows the difference well. It is a parade of winners at a TN Walking Horse Show. Look at the difference between the horses in the built up shoes and the one that takes the trail riding class in regular shoes.

 

[chickisoup]

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING EVERYONE!

Wisher- so glad your boy is ok. Trucks are much more fixable than children.

I loved my Tennessee Walker. He was huge. He was an ugly Strawberry Roan. He had an enormous lower lip (thus his totally inappropriate and politically incorrect name when I bought him

) I worked at the stable on weekends taking out trail groups to pay for his board. I worked as a car hop after school and he took about every dime of my pay. He stepped on me, took joy in dumping me off when I rode him into the spring pond for his bath, used the top of my head to scratch his chin. Ate my straw hat. And I truly loved him. He was gentle, intelligent and his "Walker" gait was like sitting in a rocking chair. No one ever called him pretty, but he had a very handsome soul.

 

[hennible]

chickens and color.... as you know Albinoism occurs in all species.... But there is an opposite.... Melanism This is a picture of an Ayam Cemini at Greenfirefarms.com Their skin is black.... even the inside of their mouths are black and so are their muscles. Silkys carry these traits to some degree. deb

All I know is I want some of those birds! Beautiful And I bet they look crazy cooked too.

 

[vehve]

Hiya folks.

Wisher, glad to hear he's okay. Hopefully he learned a lesson.

I just came home from my first chicken show.

I think the ones in the States are a bit less small scale than this was. Maybe a hundred birds being shown total. There was also a rabbit show in the same space. I saw proper bantams for the first time, my goodness those things are small. There was an adorable Dutch Bantam roo, it looked like you would have taken a normal roo and shrunken it to a quarter of the size. And there were Silkies too, and all kinds of other weird things.

 

[Highcotton]

I had oodles of fun with the Shetland from Hell. We used to pronounce the "e" in Shetland as an "i" when the parents weren't in ear shot.

I used to be able to reduce my father to tears of helpless laughter by reading the old Collier's Encyclopedia description of the Shetland pony, which included terms like, "willing", "gentle", etc.

I've been left tastefully arrayed on a three wire barbed wire fence by a Shetland pony who had figured out how to get under the bottom wire and leave his troubles behind.

I had oodles of fun with the Shetland from Hell. We used to pronounce the "e" in Shetland as an "i" when the parents weren't in ear shot.

I used to be able to reduce my father to tears of helpless laughter by reading the old Collier's Encyclopedia description of the Shetland pony, which included terms like, "willing", "gentle", etc.

I've been left tastefully arrayed on a three wire barbed wire fence by a Shetland pony who had figured out how to get under the bottom wire and leave his troubles behind.

I had a pinto pony stallion that was always doing those things. He was larger than a Shetland. I you were riding a trail through the woods you had to be alert at all times. He would find a low tree limb and run under it.

 

[ronott1]

Hiya folks.

Wisher, glad to hear he's okay. Hopefully he learned a lesson.

I just came home from my first chicken show.

I think the ones in the States are a bit less small scale than this was. Maybe a hundred birds being shown total. There was also a rabbit show in the same space. I saw proper bantams for the first time, my goodness those things are small. There was an adorable Dutch Bantam roo, it looked like you would have taken a normal roo and shrunken it to a quarter of the size. And there were Silkies too, and all kinds of other weird things.

There are big shows here. Hundreds to thousands of birds at the Stockton show.




http://kevinwarnock.com/2012/01/31/...-show-in-stockton-california-january-28-2012/

 

[Wisher1000]

Here's how it's done at the Ohio National! If you look closely, you can see the birds I bought......yeah, not really, they're on the back side of the first row of chickens. The white birds on the floor in the foreground are the geese, then the chickens start. This pic was last year and there were around 8,000 birds there. This year, it is the 100th anniversary of the American Bantam Association and they will have two buildings like this! I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10,000 birds this year. It is in November.