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[The Yakima Kid]

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.

Why do I suspect he could find a low branch whenever he wanted?

 

[The Yakima Kid]

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[The Yakima Kid]

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.)

Please, keep telling us stuff. I don't think I could tell Overo from LWO from Tobiano from Medicine Hat without a Field Guide to Spotted Horses.

 

[LindaB220]

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.

When I first saw this, my first thought was boy, I could put a BUNCH of chickens in there. Not looking back, one raising of CX's and a bunch of freezers and I'd never have to do it again.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Cyn, I spent many years in the horse show ring, and believe me, I know what you mean. Poultry showing is different. That is one of the things I love about poultry shows.

Yeah. My friends the Plunketts have, or at least had, Tennessee Walkers. They went to one show where literally *every* other horse in the ring was showing signs of lameness, which is a disqualifier. They took a ribbon, and the Blue went to a horse who had a limp AND open sores under his bell boots.

After that adventure they switched to the natural foot classes.

It can be pretty appalling.

Right up with the fall down and go boom Quarter Horses that the AQHA insists on letting into the studbook, along with horses that are really Thoroughbreds.

My big grin and giggle is watching the "Western" classes where the horses run around sniffing the ground. It seems someone decided to see how stupid horse fanciers could be and decided that the horses should carry their heads just off the ground because that was where they put their heads from time to time while cutting.

Of course, the other possibility is that the head on the ground is to get the horse as close to the ground as possible so if they fall over from HYPP the horse and rider will be less seriously injured.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I have seen those instructions before..... Oooh that starter is related to one of the first ever.....

deb

Is it a super sour starter like SF, or milder, like New England?

I make mine the old fashioned German way - I wet rye flour and let it sit, diluting and refreshing with more flour and water for several days. In some places town residents used the leftovers from beer making.

 

[LindaB220]

Karin just showed me a fun video. I like to visit this army surplus store every once in a while, and they've just made this video. Apparently, Arnold Schwarzenegger is coming to Finland at some point, and these guys would want him to visit the store, so they've started a slightly interestingly named campaign called "Make Arnold come" (Yes, they're probably aware of how that sounds), and here's the video they're hoping will attract him.

Felix, this has to be the BEST commercial ever. Everything was good. Loved it. I'd come if I were in Finland.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

You love pain, right?

Horses - the ultimate endorphin generators.

 

[ronott1]

Is it a super sour starter like SF, or milder, like New England?

I make mine the old fashioned German way - I wet rye flour and let it sit, diluting and refreshing with more flour and water for several days. In some places town residents used the leftovers from beer making.

Starter picks up yeast from where you live so it changes. My starter is now Woodland California starter. It will be different in other places. I did try gold rush San Francisco Starter once and it was not better.

This bread will get very sour if you do what you do to make your rye bread, let it go for a couple of days between sponge and bread. This sourdough has enough punch to raise the dough without yeast--that makes the bread sour but it takes two hours for the raise times so a long day of bread making.

Sourdough also changes the texture. It can be a challenge to work with because of the wild nature of the yeast.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Starter picks up yeast from where you live so it changes. My starter is now Woodland California starter. It will be different in other places. I did try gold rush San Francisco Starter once and it was not better.

This bread will get very sour if you do what you do to make your rye bread, let it go for a couple of days between sponge and bread. This sourdough has enough punch to raise the dough without yeast--that makes the bread sour but it takes two hours for the raise times so a long day of bread making.

Sourdough also changes the texture. It can be a challenge to work with because of the wild nature of the yeast.

I actually don't make rye bread as a rule; I make a starter using rye flour that I use for rising wheat bread. I let the first rise go overnight with only half the flour in, then I do one or two additional rising periods after I've added the rest of the flour, liquid, salt, and fat.

This is just an old Bessarabian German way of making starter.